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Statesboro, GA

Statesboro-Bulloch DGC - 18

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Statesboro-Bulloch DGC - 18 reviews

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Reviewed: Played on:Dec 20, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

Advanced course with perfectly defined wooded fairways of generous width. When you are off course here, you will know it. The fairways are defined channels coated with pine needles. The rough is typically a brush wall that will swallow up a disc quickly. Taller, older trees periodically line the fairway to prevent throws from going high and off the fairway so discs will always need to be thrown on line. Those tall trees are frequently in the middle of the fairway as well and though a few times they obstruct lanes at the end of the fairway, they typically further restrict possible lines successfully.
While the fairways are typically generously wide, difficulty is provided by how long these holes are. These are fairways that would be appropriate for intermediate players at 200-300 feet, stretched to over 400 feet. There is length all over the place here. From the wooded holes to the open bombers upwards of 1000 feet. This course is made with the big arms in mind.
In the trees through, what this course is really going to test is your ability to throw straight and land without fading to either direction. Yeah, there are some shapes to the fairway but most of that turn will be in the approach. You need to throw straight on a line over and over again here. This isn't a course that is going to wow you with the design but the construction effort was tremendous and the challenge that it offers is superb. It will really test your ability to play within your ability and not reach for too much. You need to stay on the fairway and your furthest drive, while not far enough to reach the pin, is not going to be your best bet because going off fairway here is not an option.
Lastly, the tees are massive and basically perfect. The tee signs are quality, if sometimes inaccurate. (The course map available at the kiosk has the accurate distances) Next tee signs are huge and make navigation a breeze.

Cons:

Some of these holes seem lengthy just to be lengthy. Or maybe just cover ground. Two holes hover around the thousand foot mark and they are mostly uninteresting. The second has a basket tucked into the woods because reasons. I guess a great way to make a thousand foot hole interesting is not being able to see the basket until the last 50 feet? The first does have a cool approach across a marsh that requires a bridge to cross but why there needs to be 800 feet of open field to get there is beyond me. And again, the basket isn't on the other side of the marsh but around another corner and down a ways making the cool approach really just a forced layup.
The course is inappropriate for new players in other ways. The wooded holes have nice fairways but considering their width, quite a few are excessively long. I get the point that this is supposed to be a challenging course but sometimes, it is challenging just for the sake of making it so, and I feel this could be a turn off to new players in an area that has no other courses. The rough is rough and though pitch outs are rarely difficult, the search factor is high.
This is compounded by the amount of trees in the fairways. While an excellent job was done in clearing the little stuff and the fairways are immaculately defined, the large trees are left standing(and I would hate to take these beauties down) and they have a propensity to kick good drives into the rough. I wouldn't say any of the holes are plinko but a few lean in that direction.
While the conditions were great when I played, (middle of winter) I have a feeling that this course takes on water and badly. I'm judging mostly based upon the amount of boards and such placed on fairways to enable walking when the water is high. If there is water there, there is going to be water everywhere. I don't think I would play this course in spring or summer. Throw in the proximity of swamp land with standing water in winter and I imagine the bugs alone will drive people away.
And yeah, completely flat.
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