Love all the wooded courses in Massachusetts!
This is what disc golf is about ! What fun this course is . This is an easy walk and well loved course . Highly recommended if in the area

Signage for crossing the road to where the holes were

Good layout, signage and tee pads. Very wooded, not much elevation so it\'s an easy walking course. Good mix of left, right shots

Changing water levels can be a challenge and the new layout is still being mapped, so can get a bit confusing if you\'re not used to it.

No bathrooms anymore.

Setting is darn close to perfect for disc golf.
Nice layout with great flow, covering just about every type of shot in the game.
Tee boxes are mint.
Lines are clean and fair.
Greens open up for fair shot to score.
Lots of perks. Benches or stumps on most holes.Trash bins around the course. Kiosk at first tee with info, community events, and score cards.
Course is in excellent condition. Grass is cut and not much debris on the fairways (even after all these winter storms).
Port a pot at first tee.

Baskets are old, little rusty, but seem to catch very well.
One basket was bent all out of shape (probably got destroyed from the ice over the winter). **THIS HAS BEEN FIXED. KUDOS TO THE DG COMMUNITY GETTING IT DONE!
Have to cross and walk along a busy public road to access some of the backside holes.

TULLY!!! This is a great place to play. You got your downhill bombs. You got your uphill shots. You got long demanding holes. You got short ace and birdie run holes too.There a bit of water. You play in the woods. You can air it out here and there. Tully really has it all. Go play this DAM course. You will love it!

- Gorgeous course
- Lots of elevation, used well
- Water is a factor, but not ridiculous
- Some shorter holes, some longer holes, some holes seemed to be impossible, but if you look closely, there is normally a line to hit. Loved the technical holes out there!
- lots of trees to penalize errant shots, as they should

- SIGNAGE - These signs were some of the worst I've seen for accuracy, and almost no guidance to get you to the next tee.
- Could use a couple more garbage cans, I was picking up lots of random trash left by idiots, and ended up carrying it for 3+ holes.

If they could get signage updated and some better guidance to the next holes, this is easily a 4.5 star course. Not a real big issue for locals, but for someone coming from out of town, it makes it a bit of a hassle.

-Fun for beginners/intermediate and advanced players
-Diverse shots
-Not a huge challenge but still keeps your attention
-Not as wooded as other Western Mass courses

-Tee pads are small and rough
-Lots of walking
-Tee signs can be more descriptive

-I like courses that do not utilize the same hyzer bomb ever hole
-This course i diverse and fun even after your 20th trip there

Tully Dam DG course was played by my brother and me in September, 2016, three days, three 18-hole rounds, in one week (plus a couple bonus tie-breaker holes). This review is based on observations during that time, and playing it again in September, 2017.

Pros: The free course is beautifully placed along Tully Lake (although only hole #1 takes advantage of the lake itself) and the woods surrounding it. There is plenty of parking in the lots atop the dam. The course is well-kept and fairly clean. It has benches at most all tee boxes, and the tee pads themselves are brick pavers in square wooden forms, raised (ankle twisters if you come off the pad); a couple holes, notably #6 and #10, have no tee pads (likely to allow vehicle access as one tees from the access road). The wooded fairways and "putting greens" around the Innova Discatcher baskets are cleared of weeds, poisonous plants, undergrowth, and leaves, making the location of an errant throw manageable with some dedicated hunting. There's a nice practice basket alongside hole 1 / 18. The holes are challenging, but fair (although, admittedly, if I had a chain saw in my golf bag, my score would be improved).

Cons: The largest con is that the course signage on nearly all holes is grotesquely inaccurate for distance and pin location. Reading the reviews here, it seems this has been an issue for years; the unwillingness of the Army Crops of Engineers to paint new signs is unconscionable (hand paint them during the long cold winters instead of just petting the cats and eating canned beans in the white administration buildings, for God's sakes! Have some pride! The cost would be little more than a can of paint, as you're already sitting there "on the company clock". Paint one sign a week and you'd have the entire course done by next spring!). So inaccurate are the signs--from having you select drivers when a mid-range would do, to suggesting the pin is on the deep right when it's actually on the deep left--that they cannot at all be relied upon for the new player of this course. Some have attempted to use magic marker to correct the signage, which, although helpful, only makes their derelict appearance point more squarely to the laziness of the Army Corps of Engineers. Add to the poor signage that there's nary a single arrow or painted basket rung to point to the next hole, and play can be significantly delayed for all using the course while the "new group" up ahead snakes around in the woods looking for baskets and the pads.

Other Thoughts: The course's signature hole is, as others say, the first hole, which plays off the dam and requires a low, downhill throw to prevent a wind-driven hyzer that will fade your disc into the drink. It's a fair par 3 if one can simply get the thought of skinny-dipping in the cold water out of their consciousness. Many, like myself, lack the mental fortitude and strength of character to accomplish this; I lost a favorite red Discraft Nuke and still see it--in my mind, each and every time I close my eyes--splashing twenty feet offshore into the lake at that awkward angle that makes your guts churn. Replay image, try to sleep, replay image, give up on sleep.

Other memorable holes include hole 3, which is a pretty little, short downhill mid-range play across a brook and over a classic New England rock wall. It is quintessential western Massachusetts.

Hole 6 will stay in your head as not having a formal pad when played long (there is a recreational pad closer to the pin, but pros will tee off in the dirt just beyond the rocks in the road), having you drive straight up an access road to a left sided basket that is no more honestly located the listed 360 feet than is my honest ability to maintain an erection my professed 15 minutes. I'd estimate the basket at 250 feet, at best (but feels longer due to the uphill shot, so put your back into it just the same).

Hole 8 is a par 4, 663-foot doozy that will teach you how to play disc golf. The tee pad is far left of the road, giving you no look at all to the crumbled asphalt road fairway ahead. So, one tends to hyzer the shot and wind up on the forested banking to the left of the road. Having a spotter on the road to sight your disc is mandatory for anyone other than Paul McBeth; play alone and you might as well say "sayonara" to your driver as you'll not have a clue where it went into the woods. It's a great hole, nonetheless, with a challenging paved fairway opening up to the dry field bed of the coffer dam, and a basket placed right alongside it. Beautiful.

Hole 9 displays the lovely Route 32 arching bridge over the dry creek bed, and the twin shoulder rocky walls where a young high schooler by the name of Danny Murphy, about thirty years ago, jumped his muscle car off Route 32, from the east wall to the west wall, at nearly 100 mph, leaving little more than a windshield on the far rocks to show for it. I always say a respectful prayer for Mr. Murphy--with whom I studied freshman arithmetic merely two seats away (the irascible Larry Wheeler between us) under Mr. Donnie Ferrari, at Athol High School--when I play Tully Lake DGC hole 9. I call it his memorial hole. RIP Danny.

Hole 10 is, oddly, a favorite of many, and yet it's one of the jinkiest layouts in disc golf, as though planned by a man that had not in his life thrown a Frisbee. There's no tee pad, but the area one is expected to tee from is, literally, about 95 feet from a ninety degree, sharp dogleg left to a looong straight road. So, put any "arm" at all into your initial shot and you will either go straight into the far trees, or hyzer into the deep ditch on the left of the roadway; that is to say, there's no good way to play the tee shot other than a counterintuitive putter shot to lay up at the "joint" 95 feet away, and then have a stab at the 300 foot perfectly straight downhill to the pin on your second shot. Anything off the road on either side will force you to use the ropes to climb into the steep ditch, and will score you a triple bogey in less time than it takes to soil yourself when you spy what you're up against from the bottom of the roadside trench. I favor this hole about as much as I favor ants at my picnic.

Holes 11 and 12 are in the darkest hollows of the course, dim even in broad daylight due to the closeness of the trees, and the eeriness of these holes is intensified by a wolf (perhaps a dog, for those less imaginative) that seemed to be barking in the distance regardless of the day or time that we played these holes. The signage is so wrong for these holes that a new player will have to walk the fairway to get a gander at the baskets before tossing. Frankly, if playing alone at dusk, when your errant tee shot thunks a tree deep in the darkness--and that beast is howling off where you can't see him, and its at least ten degrees colder in those damp woods, and your skin feels like that of a refrigerated turkey--you'll wind up poking around the forest floor for your pretty pink Discraft Mantis when you seriously ought to be watching your back. It'll put hair on your chest. If the boogeyman exists, and he's intent on malice, these are the holes to unleash his mayhem. You may not get a memorable score on these short but difficult holes, but I guarantee you a memorable case of the "willies" that will have you telling your grandchildren about it around a campfire someday.

Hole 15 is a personal favorite as you once again come into the wide open, to the generous meadow below the dry coffer dam, and you can air it out for an unobstructed 500-footer that plays toward a guarded basket, deep left. In the far distance you can see the basket of hole 1 (if you squint, you'll typically make out the small figure of a disc golfer next to basket 1, shading his eyes and scanning directly into the lake about twenty feet offshore). 15 is a gorgeous hole.

I highly recommend Tully Lake Disc Golf Course, despite its shortcomings. It truly represents the woods and water, topography and trees, and the haunting beauty of north central Massachusetts. Play it with your brother, and a soft cooler full of beers, and it'll mean that much more. Enjoy!

-Easy parking.
-Easy to find the course.
-Free.
-The holes bring you in a perfect loop back to your car.
-Practice basket.
-There is some STUNNING beauty on this course. Hole 1 is a beauty. The bridge that you see on the walk from 8 to 9 is breathtaking.
-The two signature holes in my opinion were 1 and 10. 10 was one of my favorite holes in western MA.
-The first 10 holes are really beautiful in general, as you play near the lake and in the nearby woods. The woods are thin enough that you can see the lake through the towering trees. It's a really special spot.
-No poison ivy or thorns.
-Some wild raspberries and blackberries to nosh.
-Easy to find discs, except for 14, where I spent 10+ minutes looking for mine in the shrubs. And found someone else's disc.
-A lot of great disc golf. Holes that bend left and holes that bend right. Every hole is very fair and has a legit fairway. A wonderful mix of tight wooded shots and open fields to throw in.
-I met several nice folks on the course.
-Despite having only one set of tees and pins, this is a good course for beginners and advanced players alike.
-I get the sense that locals work hard at this course, picking up trash and making benches and such.

-While I was very impressed with the first 13 holes, the last handful were a disappointment. Blind pins that take some hunting to figure out where they are. Uninteresting holes without much going on. No exciting views or dynamic topography.

This is great disc golf and I will be excited to play here again. Super beautiful, exciting and fun disc golf. What a great community resource!!

very nice mix of long and technical holes, hole one is for lefties just amazing...
excellent signs, easy to find next tee

no cons, really, if you play the course the 1st time, like we did, go and see, where the basket really is, the drawings at the tees did not not always show, what we thought where the basket is

if you are in the area, stop by !

Great tee pads, all brick and well maintained.
Beautiful landscape, hole 1 is such an amazing site.
Clearly marked
Best of everything, long bombs, short straight, strategic, and just plain difficult.
Never gets old no matter how many times i play it
Good baskets
Friendly atmosphere
IT'S FREE

Hole 1 can be tough for beginners and even takes the occasional disc of good players.
Some of the signs don't match up with the new layout.
It's a free course so you get a lot of people who dont understand etiquette or play in really large groups.
Can get pretty soggy during a rainy season

This is my home course and play it regularly. I never get tired of it and love some of the stunning scenery during sunsets. It continues to challenge me.

Such a benefit to have so close to home!

Very well maintained, fun course for all abilities. Good mix of shots and use of terrain. Elevation and water come into play too

signage is dated and incorrect.

boating, swimming, hiking and a sweet campground too

This is the perfect course to bring new players, because it forces shot variety without being too tight and technical, and because the scenery is spectacular. There is a great variety of long and short, uphill and downhill, hyzer and anhyzer routes, etc.

My wife complains about the abundance of poison ivy, so watch out for that.

Advanced players might find this course too easy for repeated play, although it's perfect for me.

Need to update the signs on holes that have been moved.

If you're coming from the east (Boston/Metrowest), this course pairs very nicely with dinner at the Gardner Ale House.

Tully Lake was complete variety. You have up/downhill, open/wooded, right/left/straight shots, and distances ranging from 183-663 feet.

Other Pros:
- risk/reward with water
- shorter holes are more technical
- homemade benches
- clean and scenic
- several garbage cans
- most tee signs are adequate
- super easy to navigate
- porta-potty at 1st tee

You are playing next to a dam so it can get soggy.

My favorite hole was #1, a 400+ foot shot downhill, to the left is the water, straight ahead a big tree. I admit I played that hole about 5 times because I wanted to try a few different lines. I got quite a workout running back up that hill. Great course, check it out!

I highly recommend this course to a novice or more advanced player. Gorgeous setting, amidst backdrop of scenic reservoir. Thorough mix of baskets; Short, steep baskets over water, although primarily winding, shifting dog-leg bends in forest clearings. Sturdy, patio-style tees. Basket 1 and 3 are memorable for steep elevation changes and water threatening on left. Basket 9 can be nerve-racking, as just beyond the fence on the right of the fairway is a 50 foot drop to floodplain (a tedious recovery, but adds to the excitement). 4 and 5 play quickly and intuitively. Alcohol permitted, although course is very clean and players are respectful. Have made 2 hour trek to play here before, will continue to do so (enough said?).

I have no major gripes with this course, although I would probably have done a few things differently had it been my design.

First and foremost, the maps at each of the tees are misleading. Tee 8 reads a distance of 373 feet, outdated and inconsistent with distance on scorecard (670+). Tee 17 has misleading map; one really needs to go right harder and earlier (nearly lost a disc on this one because I put too much faith on the map). 8 and 10, while favorable to big arms, can seem tedious at times. The first half of the back nine are unremarkable; I would get into detail, but frankly, I can't remember anything interesting about 11-14.

While not perfect, Tully Lake is very, very, very good. The front nine are slightly more scenic and interesting than the back nine, but this is nit picky. Great course for all styles of play, although a nice contrast is to head into town to Flat Rock after a round at Tully for something more technical and woodsy. Should host a tournament someday.

Terrific mix of long drives and also some real woody sections not to busy on weekdays and good mix of holes

can be busy on weekends, trees can cause some anger, can be pretty wet depending on when you go

Overall great course and one i really enjoy

Beautiful setting, good variety includes elevation up/down, water, open holes for driving, tight lanes, very tight wooded holes, long and short, enough length to make it a challenge but not ridiculous, almost all holes are fair (even the tight ones that challenge your ability to hit narrow lanes).

Front nine and back nine don't both end at parking area so you can't play just 9 easily (though there is a 10 hole "loop"), kinda in the middle of nowhere (and not near me), no practice basket but 18 is right by the parking area

For where my game is right now this course offered me a great challenge but was totally reasonable. Many holes in the 300-400ft range are great because they let me test my range in a real-world situation, plus a few longer holes that are par 4s and make you exercise course management skills. Well worth the 1 hour drive for me, wish it was closer.

This course has it all. Its great for the novice and expert players. #1 Alot of water on the first, very dangerous!! #8 is alot longer now, at times i love it and others I cant stand it. Id have to say the worst hole has to be either #10 or #12. #10 is just a long dirt road that favors the right handed throwers but has major drops into the woods if you cant stay on the road. #12 you just close your eyes and throw as hard as you can and pray you dont hit a tree. Overall TDG is a great course with very friendly rangers and alot of volunteers help out thanks to the Adopt-A-Hole thing we have going on.

PEOPLE THAT LITTER!!!!! I love the scenery!!! Just imagine this: Your walking on a beatiful morning, no wind, birds chirpping, sun shining and then you see this wonderful ALUMINUM CAN, BOTTLE OR CIGARETTE BUTTS. Dudes come on IF YOU CARRY IN PLEASE CARRY OUT!!!!!! I know alot of people love this course but if this litter trend continues the dam will have no choice but to close it down...(the rangers and volunteers do a good job picking up) but we all need to do our part to be able to keep this FREE course and continue doing something we love.

All of the holes, except for one, have paver tee pads and are the best in MA. Tees have colored signs depicting where the basket is located(although some aren't accurate right now). Very easy to navigate; paths between holes are open and precise. Great array of different holes and shots. The land is used to maximum efficiency. Holes vary from having a large water hazard on your left (lake on hole 1) to having a mando through a very tight alley of trees (several different holes). There are next tee signs on holes that don't have a clearly defined path. You might have to look for them as they are on cardboard on some holes while they make wooden ones. There are trash cans on holes 1, 7, 9, 14 and 18 as well as coffee cans for butts right next to the tee signs on each most of the holes. There is a porta potty at the beginning of the course near basket 18 on the way to hole 1(it is kept there throughout winter and quite clean). Hand-made benches are on a good majority of the holes as well. There is also a playground for the kids across the lake from hole one with a boat ramp, payphone and full indoor bathrooms(unsure if they are kept unlocked). There are also walking trails and a small swimming hole.

Some fairways are overly woody and tight. (this is only bad due to the amount of foliage in the summer) The course is played through a lake/dam that they are draining so it is very soggy on some of the first few holes. On hole 15 off to the right hand side there is a large marshy area so be prepared to get wet if you have an errant throw. For the not very athletic type there are quite a few elevation changes which can tire you out quickly. The recent redesign in process has left multiple tee signs inaccurate. Some tee pads are slightly not aimed at the hole due to the re-alignment.

Overall a good course and not one you have to look for the tees. Not a good course for beginners but intermediate players would love it. There is pretty decent parking by the 1st tee and the 18th tee has overflow. They are only about 1/10 mile away so no long hikes! Basket 8 has been moved about 200' further up the course and changed to a par 4. Tee box 9 has been moved up about 100' up to the top of the hill and been changed to a par 3.