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Sawmills, NC

Sawmills Veterans Park - Original

3.55(based on 23 reviews)
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4 6
lammersk
Experience: 10.9 years 37 played 12 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Spray & Pray 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 12, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

Really good tees.

Cons:

I really started to dislike this course at pin 5. Shooting over a ravine with no real fairway and praying that your disc bounces off a tree in the right direction does not make a good pin.

Then we came to 7 and realized that we were supposed to throw over the tees for 16. Predictably, two of our discs came down around the blue tee. When we got to 16 ourselves, the guy throwing from 7's tee came down a little past the red tee.

By the end of the course one of the guys with me just quit out of frustration. I played to the end, but would not go back unless I heard there were major improvements.

Other Thoughts:

By chance, I met two people at the course who had never played it before. They were about my level, so we played the round together. One of them quit before the round was over. Me and the other guy were too stubborn to walk away. And, lest you think this is just grumbling from low level players, on 7 a couple of serious players (with backpacks carrying 50 discs and 350'+ shots from the tee) played through and they were griping about the course too.

Look, it's obvious that someone put a lot of TLC into building this course. There were really nice, roughed cement tees in places where someone had to carry in the cement. However, it feels very much like a work in progress and it really needs the work.

5 and 7 should be signature pins. If you want to know what 5 should be like go to Asheville and play Richmond Hill. At least cut enough trees so that there is a viable fairway. 7 would be a great pin if 16's tees were moved somewhere else.

There's a lot of potential here and if I lived close enough I'd probably swing by once or twice a year to see if the potential had been acted upon, but I would not make this a regular part of my course rotation.
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