White Oak is a nice, simple, wooded layout. It's a quick round as I spent more time trying to locate the course as I did playing it.
- You're playing here simply to bag a course. I can list two dozen short, 9-hole layouts that are comparable to this. Not that it's a bad course, just a very simple design.
- Course starts in the woods, with the first four holes heavily wooded. The last 5 are more open with, with the challenge being baskets strategically placed behind and/or near trees and branches.
- Mostly a mid-range course. All nine holes range in length from 128 to 255 feet. A positive for kids and beginners.
- The obstacles here are some of the hole designs. #3 is easily the best layout. It's a sharp dogleg right. It's only 128 feet, but that's almost not enough time to get your disc cutting the corner. I thought I threw a good shot, but it still wasn't a sharper enough bend while also being 40 feet long. It was an easy up and down, but still not an easy birdie hole, at least the way I approached it.
- #4, 5, 8, and 9 are the simpler layouts. Relatively open and relatively straight. I had short, gimmie-length putts on #4, 5 & 8, and hit the cage on #9 for a drop-in deuce.
- #1 is a challenge, although I'm not sure if its intentional. It's heavily wooded to the point there's not a defined fairway. I think this was a tight fairway to begin with, but it hasn't been touched in a couple years to the point it's become overgrown. It's a plinko-fairway so take your 3 and move on.

Besides the non-fairway on #1? See above.
- Signage could be better. From the parking lot, the baskets you see in order are #7, 6, 8, 9. I eventually followed a path behind a picnic shelter, saw a tee marker. And because #1's fairway is non-existent, it took a couple walks back and forth to figure out this indeed was the marker for #1. After #1, navigation is pretty much a breeze.
- Course is compacted. Fairways and baskets for #5 - 9 all play close together. You go left on any of those holes, you're in the fairway for another of those holes. This is a huge locale. Spread the holes out a tad.
- Along those lines, there's fantastic terrain for an excellent course. Looking at the water and wooded area beyond holes #1 - 3, it's easy to picture some great layouts here. Just saying.
- One of the longest, bumpiest rides to a course. Apparently turning right when you leave here gives you a 5-mile ride on a road that hasn't been paved in years. My phone showed it as a couple minutes faster. I'd rather take longer than the road less traveled.

White Oaks is a perfectly decent nine-hole layout. I would enjoy it a lot more if it were more convenient. The charm of Fewell Park, the pitch-n-putt 9-holer in Rock Hill, is that it's 5 minutes from Winthrop. This is 15 minutes from the Dairy Queen exit, the only exit anyone stops at between Rock Hill and Columbia.
- I only played here to check it off the list. It almost is worse that it's just close enough to Charlotte / Rock Hill and Columbia that you'd rather just drive another 30 - 40 minutes and play a good course. Shoot, I'd rather play Chester State Park's beginner course because I know that means I'm playing the good course too.
- If you were here for a retreat, you'll knock out 4 rounds in an hour. Otherwise, it's not close to anyone to treat it as a practice spot.
- This is either a retreat center or a school, or both. There's a hotel/dorms to the left of the main buildings. There was a cleaning crew there. There are also signs for school traffic. I guess that will limit when to play. I figured a rainy February Sunday afternoon was the least invasive time to be here.
- The most interesting thing here is that this is a evacuation meeting point. I kept seeing signs along 321 about a meeting center. I guess if it is a spot to be evacuated to, that's another reason one may be here to play. Sorry about the storm. Wanna toss a Buzz?