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Centreville, MD

White Marsh

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DumfriesLizzie
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Experience: 5.7 years 111 played 102 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Very nice countryside course 2+ years

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Sep 25, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

It's still new, good-looking, and clean. Fairly easy to navigate from one hole to the next without need of a course map. However, you may want to first walk up to see a basket tucked around trees or down a slope (nos. 9, 4, 7).

There is a nice balance of short and long holes.

I like the gravel around the baskets to slow the roll of discs that want to stand up on their edges. This is especially necessary for the baskets near the sloping pond shoreline.

Some holes are not tremendously imaginative but not bad. Others are distinctly more creative: the boomerang no. 9, a sloped tee at no. 5 that requires you play a flat hole like an uphill one to start, no. 6 makes you contemplate where best to cross the ravine (early or late), no. 7 requires you to go up a ravine and then back down a slope.

Cons:

Seems the numbering of the holes (here on DGCR, nothing in the field yet) is odd, based on where you have to park. I played holes 8-9 and then 1-7. You could also play 7-9, 1-6.

I don't mind gravel tee pads or tee boxes, but these tee pads are irregular in shape and have the unnumbered sign right in the middle of the area. Makes them less useful. You may have to actually tee off aside the gravel pit to know you can swing your arm without hitting the sign.

No numbers on the signs nor the baskets. No yardage information either. Indeed, there is nothing at all on the signs. Perhaps it is coming with additional funding.

A lot of bugs including yellow jackets.

Other Thoughts:

The routing is around a large, long pond as well as spur ravines in a largely open plain. There is real rough along the outer edges of the property. There is a "backwood" pond on the right of no. 1. The right rough along 1-5 is for real: thick, thorny, possibly sometimes wet. There seems to be something of a ditch or creek bed there.

Because there is plenty trouble on this mostly open course, I would recommend playing conservatively until you know the course. And save your discs. Plenty opportunity to lose them. You may want to layup to the shoreline baskets descending to the pond unless you are an outstanding long-range putter.

The course seems largely undiscovered. It is in the middle of farmland (true), but I was surprised (and pleased) to have the course to myself on a Friday morning. The park has several baseball and soccer fields. It seems to mostly support the local school teams and leagues.
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