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Tuscaloosa, AL

Palmore Park

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3.35(based on 10 reviews)
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bpartrid
Experience: 12.8 years 81 played 27 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Open spaces 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 15, 2013 Played the course:once

Pros:

The park is easy to find and holes 1 and 10 are right beside the parking lot. There is a practice basket near 1st tee (don't mistake it for the second basket). The course is on a very large park with multiple tee pads and pin positions. New and great baskets that mark hole # . The best thing about this course is that you get to work on your long drives on nearly every hole. 3rd hole gives you ample opportunities at an ace. The final hole ends along a small creek/stream to an elevated basket right back to your car.

Cons:

I know this is a new course in progress so I will say that it will benefit by adding distances and hole layout signs. Also, fix the signs on the baskets and put more up so players can more easily find the next hole. Unfortunately, because of the extremely open park, most holes haven't any obstacles to avoid. So, this course does not challenge you in making different types of throws (u will just use your primary distance throw for nearly all throws). Just about all holes are around 335' or further in length. Only some holes have a concrete tee pad (others are grass or carpet). Since the course is wide open, u can get very hot and sunburned in the summer due to the very long holes and very long walks between holes. Even though this is a very large park holes/baskets seem intersect oddly (this could also be because of the poor signs pointing u where to walk and throw.

Other Thoughts:

This is just a wide open, long course with nothing interesting to really offer. Tee pads and signs will better the flow for players but that's about it. I think the design course layout could be better but again what else can u do in open land?

Until the signs are updated, here are my helpful hints to walking this course:
-take ur smartphone to have this website's hole lengths
-don't trust the signs on baskets pointing to next hole (only some are right currently)
-look for posts and use hole # s on baskets to find ur way

Course layout:
2nd tee is left of 1st basket along the woodline.
Follow woodline towards the back of the park/old driving range for next 4 holes.
The next 5-9 holes come back to the middle of the park (hole 8 is right by rundown pool).
The back 9 holes go along the left side of the park working along the left perimeter going towards the back of the park and ending by returning close to the middle of the park and to ur car.

Ultimately this is not a course u need to go out of ur way to play but it is a complete change of pace compared to nearby Bowers park.
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