While Southern Living magazine refers to Dahlonega, Ga., as the "Perfect Christmas Town," the north Georgia city has earned that moniker based on its holiday gatherings and festive events, not on the town's only disc golf course. In fact, Yahoola Creek Park is the only disc golf course in about a 20-mile radius.

The course includes several holes near the lovely Yahoola Creek, which are some of the more picturesque holes on the course. The opening hole goes over the creek and is a potential ace run. Several of the more interesting holes are near the water, including the partly wooded Hole #10, which has a mando left, but a ricochet off a tree could bring the stream on the right side into play. And Hole #17 is the longest hole on the course and winds around the bank precariously close to a shallow part of the stream.

The teepads are natural and marked by parallel two-by-two wooden beams. Also, the ground in between the markers is rutted and well-worn in spots.

Navigation is a little confusing due to several broken tee signs and directional signs. Also, the current course map on DGCR does not reflect the current layout and numbering, though some of the holes indicated still exist. Thankfully, the photos uploaded by lazrman778 are accurate.

As well-documented, Yahoola Creek Park DGC features 15 baskets … and three poles adorned with a few shreds of broken plastic chains. This provides a novelty but not the good kind.

Despite all the mountainous terrain around Dahlonega, this course is fairly flat and its design is mostly mundane. Several of the holes are typical of wide-open park courses, which bring obstacles into play, including chain-link fences, high-rise scoreboards, picnic tables, walking paths, pedestrians, utility wires and vehicles.

There are several holes with peculiar designs.

OK, I'm being kind. The designs are poor. The basket for Hole #2 is guarded by several plastic-covered utility wires in the front. Hole #6 involves throwing over a garden of tall flowers on its most-direct route. Hole #7 includes a group of trees right in front of the teepad, likely forcing a sharp dogleg-right drive near the walking path. Hole #8 has almost no fairway from the long teepad and forces a drive over the outfield fence of the baseball field. The teepad for Hole #15 is next to a tall chain-link fence and fairway obstacles include metal poles and possible vehicles in a parking area with the basket just feet from the deeper part of the creek. This course definitely feels like it was squeezed into limited real estate.

The course would ideally end at Hole #17, since it's near the parking area and the first teepad. However, Hole #18 requires throwing back over the creek and then walking a few hundred feet to a bridge to complete the last hole.

There's too much wrong with the Yahoola Creek Park course. There are too many holes in areas where flying discs could endanger park visitors. The course is flat, mostly open and not very interesting. Several bad holes exist.

Unless you're a course bagger or in the area, there's no reason to make a special trip to the Yahoola Creek Park DGC. The DGCR information doesn't include a course designer; perhaps the "yahoo" who created this course didn't want their name attached to it.