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The Claytons reviews
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Treagan82
Experience:
9.1 years
34 played
3 reviews
Permanent 9 hole course? 2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Updated:
Played on:Apr 24, 2019
Played the course:5+ times
Pros:
This course has all the potential to be an incredible pro caliber course while playing to the long baskets, while still offering a fun experience for newer players with the short tees. There are a few holes with 2 tee pads which completely change the dynamic of the shot. Local parks and rec does an amazing job keeping up with maintenance and Smoky Mountain DGC cleans up what they miss. Benches on every hole and garbage cans throughout. Could literally be world class.
***Update***
At least they kept old hole 3 and old hole 6.
Driving Range?
***Update***
At least they kept old hole 3 and old hole 6.
Driving Range?
Cons:
Front 9 has been closed longer than it was open.
The Prodigy T1 baskets couldnt catch a cold
***Update***
The entire front 9 except hole 2 and 5.
Driving Range is comically small.
Bench on the only hole that needs one please (8)
Halved old 10 into 2 mediocre holes.
Spent 50 bazillion dollars on stairs and stone work in terrible places.
The Prodigy T1 baskets couldnt catch a cold
***Update***
The entire front 9 except hole 2 and 5.
Driving Range is comically small.
Bench on the only hole that needs one please (8)
Halved old 10 into 2 mediocre holes.
Spent 50 bazillion dollars on stairs and stone work in terrible places.
Other Thoughts:
Will update if the front 9 ever opens back up.
***Update***
Talk about a kick in the pants. We waited years for this thing to reopen and it just isnt good. There are some ultra funky lines, combined with bad decisions when it came to which trees to cut. If your max distance is 330' with a wraith, you might like this course, as none of the new holes have real disc flights in mind. Stairs and other stone work was put down on hole 3, 7, 8, 10, 17 and 18. All of it is in a landing zone and unnecessary. Simply upgrading the baskets to literally any other target would have been the biggest upgrade this course could have gotten, but was somehow overlooked. The driving range is a good idea, but the execution is a clown shoe. Any advanced level player can throw a putter all the way across and into the woods. Its really more upshot practice than anything else. Hole 3s tee is positioned in such a strange place that you are likely to get for face knocked in from an errant shot from hole 2. It should have been put across the creek to keep players out of danger.
Ask anyone who played this course before the front 9 closed and you will hear tales of a plus ultra fun course. Ask the same people about the redesign and you'll hear tales of slaw and disappointment. The back 10 are still fun enough (Except 11, slaw) but the things that made the course great like a great variety of wooded and open holes is tarnished by the awful woods holes that exist now.
***Update***
Talk about a kick in the pants. We waited years for this thing to reopen and it just isnt good. There are some ultra funky lines, combined with bad decisions when it came to which trees to cut. If your max distance is 330' with a wraith, you might like this course, as none of the new holes have real disc flights in mind. Stairs and other stone work was put down on hole 3, 7, 8, 10, 17 and 18. All of it is in a landing zone and unnecessary. Simply upgrading the baskets to literally any other target would have been the biggest upgrade this course could have gotten, but was somehow overlooked. The driving range is a good idea, but the execution is a clown shoe. Any advanced level player can throw a putter all the way across and into the woods. Its really more upshot practice than anything else. Hole 3s tee is positioned in such a strange place that you are likely to get for face knocked in from an errant shot from hole 2. It should have been put across the creek to keep players out of danger.
Ask anyone who played this course before the front 9 closed and you will hear tales of a plus ultra fun course. Ask the same people about the redesign and you'll hear tales of slaw and disappointment. The back 10 are still fun enough (Except 11, slaw) but the things that made the course great like a great variety of wooded and open holes is tarnished by the awful woods holes that exist now.
