Cameron Yards is a neighborhood course that has three DISCatcher baskets and natural tees marked by painted pavers/stones on the ground. The course is a "nine" hole course, but each hole has short and long tees. Allowing players to play a full 18 if they wish. It's worth noting that the course is not meant to be a heavily trafficked disc golf course, and is really meant for the residents of Cameron Woods.

A lot of thought seems to have gone into designing a course full of variety despite the lack of space available for use. The elevation that is in play is actually pretty surprising, and definitely caught me off guard. This is probably the best aspect of the course for me.

The short course has decent flow, with the basket for the hole just played being near the tee for your next hole.

There are a couple of water carries if played from the Long tees.

There are some lights that can allow for some putting practice after dark.

Located in a mixed use area, the area is very well maintained.

This course is packed into an insanely tight space. Even at dusk on a Friday, I had to wait for a few people walking the trails to pass by before throwing a disc. I imagine this place gets swamped on a sunny summer day.

Navigation was definitely tricky, even using uDisc. Highly recommend to take a picture of the Course Map.

I didn't get a chance to play the Long Tees, but I could already tell the flow was a bit wonky since you play 5 across the pond, then walk back to the same tee area to throw across the pond again to a different basket. I think playing the Longs in the order of 1, 5, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 would have a bit more flow.

Hole 9 tees off from and the fairway follows the road.

I'll be honest, I had incredibly low expectations when I set out to play Cameron Yards, but was pleasantly surprised. While I still felt like the course felt more like a practice area with an incredibly well designed safari layout available for play - I still enjoyed myself. And despite only having time to play short tees and walk the long tees on my visit, but I would actually be interested in coming back to play the Longs. For now I am going to give the course a 0.5 rating and most of that comes down to the limited space and various safety concerns on a busy day. If I were judging the course simply on how well the holes were designed within the space given, it would definitely warrant a higher rating. I just have a hard time separating the crammed in nature of the course, and throwing over/down the neighborhood road.

I do think this would be a great introduction to the sport for residents of the neighborhood and was likely designed for that purpose.

Favorite Short Hole: 7

Three baskets in an acre and there's a nine hole layout. A great place to practice, or get creative with your round.
- Cameron Yards is located at the clubhouse for the Cameron Wood neighborhood. The course is for residents and guests only, but I (and many others before me) have had no problem showing up for a quick round.
- The three baskets are all located around a small field. The field is set up as a neighborhood baseball/kickball or soccer field. Your obstacles involve throwing around the corner of a tennis court, throwing over a wood fence, around trees, or up a hill.
- I'd prefer the layout as a practice area. Trying to find the tee markers was a little more annoying than just choosing where to throw from myself. It also led to odd looks from one resident who must have wondered why I was staring intently at the ground, randomly stopping, then throwing.
- The nine 'holes' do provide several different looks. Even with nine holes there's a lot of overlap. I can't imagine playing this as a 18-hole setup. Sorry Dave & Stack.
- The most enjoyable portion of the course is the basket on top of the hill. Throwing approach upshots is fun. Throwing back down the hill is equally as fun. What's not fun is teeing off from under a tree as the tee is set up on #9.
- Good for a quick round. I had three discs in hand. I threw multiple tee shots for fun on several holes. I was done in under 20 minutes.
- Excellent place to practice putting or approach shots. From the area where the three baskets are located, you only have approx. 325 - 350 feet to work with. If you get creative and throw from over the water (as they do in the 18-hole layout) you can unleash shots longer than 400 feet.
- Good course for beginners, kids, or casual players. There is no realistic way to lose a disc on the nine hole layout. And you can play this with one or two discs. In that regard, this course is a success.

Cramming nine 'holes' in this space is either impressive or insane. I'm not sure which is the correct thought.
- Having nine holes in a small space, you do have holes that look/play similar. There are only so many angles to each basket in this space.
- #2 & 8 both tee off between the tennis court and the walking path, and both play to the low basket (one closest to the creek). #3 & 6 both play to the basket on top of the hill, with both starting from the other end of the field.
- I didn't like how close the tee on #3 was to the fence, if that was indeed the correct locale. Your tee shot has to almost immediately clear a slight hill and a wooden split-rail fence. For many players that's a higher line than is natural. #1 also felt forced as you're throwing around the tennis court fence to the basket. An unnatural angle to the basket.
- Tee markers could use a fresh coat of paint and or new ones altogether.
- Natural tee pads. Also, the area around basket nearest the creek was extremely muddy nearly a week after the last rain. Granted, it was in December.

Cameron Yards is a great setup if you live in the neighborhood. If you could walk here and play a quick round with buddies, that's great. If you're driving out of your way to play here, it's not worth the time.
- This course is along the lines of Fewell Park in Rock Hill, albeit in a more condensed space.
- Even if there was one more basket in this area, it would reduce the crammed feel and redundancy of some layouts.
- There's only one long walk on the course, the transition from #8 to #9's tee. Everything else is much shorter, cumulating in the tees for #4 & 7 only being several steps from the previous hole's basket.
- As a practice area, this is a nice spot to throw. I could easily see unloading a bag of mid-ranges & putters throwing upshots to the basket on the hill. I can also see throwing a bunch of discs from top of the hill to one of the other baskets. That's more enjoyable than throwing discs around the tennis court fence.
- It's too simplistic of a layout to expect much out of the course. If I lived here, or was on the HOA board, I may give an inflated rating as others have. As it is, it only took me a decade plus to decide to invest a half hour into this course. I had more fun on the greenway around the corner after I was done playing.

Cameron Yards introduced me to disc golf. I grew up in that part of Charlotte (80s and 90s) and went back there to visit my parents and stumbled on the course in the mid 2000s. My dad and I went out and bought starter discs and played there every day we could. (Our minds were blown when we played the Eager Beaver...a real 18-hole course!) While Cameron Yards holds a special place in my heart for infecting me with the disc golf bug, it obviously has its shortcomings. But first, the pros...

+ I love the concept of a small, beginner-friendly disc golf course in a neighborhood to expose people to the game (like me and my dad). Cameron Yards delivers on that goal. (Scottish Hills fits this mold in Cary, NC.) You'll quickly outgrow it or find the dozens of better options in Charlotte, but as a practice spot or a close, local option to introduce a newbie to the sport, it works. (Note: this is a private course and it's only supposed to be for residents of the neighborhood and their guests. The reality is, if you want to play the course, you can. Just be respectful and courteous if there are other people in the park. No one will care.)

+ With one of the three baskets perched on very steep hill, you learn about roll-aways, risk/reward, and committing to shots real quick!

+ There are lights around this little pool/clubhouse area, so you can play after dark. But the lights aren't centered around the disc golf area, so daylight play is still recommended.

+ A couple of the tees are from the top of the hill (same hill with the one treacherous pin location). While the holes are very short, for beginners this is a fun glance at a downhill "drive."

There's not much to Cameron Yards. It's more of a practice area than a course, but does a lot in a very small space.

- Only three baskets with natural tee areas (not always marked) playing to the baskets in different, crisscrossing layouts.

- Safety is a concern here. It's a very tight area. There aren't many other "park" goers here ("parkette?"), but if there's anyone walking around the pond or just passing by, don't even think about throwing. It's too small a space.

- Anyone higher than a brand new beginner will quickly want to advance to established courses, tougher challenges, and a full disc golf course experience.

- Navigation is always a little confusing here. You play to each of the 3 baskets from 3 different (not always marked) natural tees. Have a course map pulled up (or just play safari or as a practice area).

I've never understood some of the super-high ratings for this course. A 5.0?!?! The sub-2.0 ratings are more reasonable. I have it at 0.5, despite my warm feelings for it, after playing 140 more courses (and counting) *since* stumbling on Cameron Yards and seeing what the wider disc golf world has to offer. I've waited for almost a decade for this course to rise from the ashes and have baskets put back in so I can review it. Don't travel out of your way to play it, don't expect too much of it, but if the specs of Cameron Yards match what you're looking for, check it out!

1) A shorter course set in a neighborhood park is more conducive to beginner disc golf than any other course in the immediate metro area.

2) Tees are marked with painted concrete blocks.

3) The map at the first hole is nice, but it almost needs to be replicated throughout the course to remember which basket you are supposed to shoot at. It shows the 3 baskets and the location of the 9 different short tees, but it does not show the long tees, and if you do not have a good memory remembering which tee shoots at which basket might be tough.

3) There is some real variety on this course if you make it 18 holes playing the shorts first then the longs. The back 9 will be rough because of the water being way more in play.

4) The two discatcher baskets that were there are in decent condition and installed properly unlike many baskets I have seen in my disc golfing experience.

5) This course could be real fun for beginners to experts. It would need to be empty and nobody else should be in the park to truly enjoy the long tees. Advanced and pro players have a true duece or die course here on the front 9, but the back 9 might still challenge the best of the players.

6) Nice variety on the property. Elevation both up and down, nice shot shaping required, water in play on the longer tees. For a course just a couple acres it does a great job.

7) Course is apparently lit at night. This would offer a whole new perspective to night disc golf. It woul dbe very different than playing during the day but also very different to playing at night with glow discs.

UPDATED: Stolen basket on Hole #1 has been replaced.

1) No tee signs available except for the map at Hole #1. The painted blocks in the ground are more helpful than nothing, but the paint is peeling making it pretty difficult to read some of the distances.

2) Most of the challenge on this course comes from throwing around foul poles, over fences, avoiding walkers, and other manmade issues. This is a real negative in my opinion because it will leave a bad taste in many peoples mouths, but beginners might also dislike the fact they are throwing through sports fields around poles over fences etc etc etc. It does not truly represent the game of disc golf, this course is more like throwing discs around objects. I much prefer the Appalachian beauty (EDIT: I FOUND OUT THIS WAS DAVE242's DESIGN AFTER I wrote this I swear). I wasn't mocking him just using a reference that I know he would understand) of using natural obstacles like trees, shrubs, soil berms etc etc etc. This is the biggest flaw of this course in my opinion.

3) Safety is a real issue here because of the crossing baseball field, tennis courts, walking path, and in general other park users. Many of he fairways cross other fairways also and if there happended to be 3 groups here at the same time, good luck not hurting someone or throwing into other peoples paths cause it coul dbe a long round.

4) Course may not always be playable because of the other activities. I highly recommend that if anyone is in the park you do not play disc golf.

This is not a true disc golf course. It is 3 baskets in a park with randomly laid out tees, throwing over too many manmade obstacles. Sure you can play the whole course and call it 18 holes, but it just cannot be very enjoyable in my opinion. I have only NOT played Sugaw and Veterans Park, and I surely hope those courses are not like this because it is not a good representation of disc golf. Sure it is well designed for a tiny tny park with no room, but it just feels cheap to me. I know many of the others inside the bypass loop are tough and challenging to players of all ability but beginners need good courses too. This is a good design for the property sure, and without the manmade obstacles there would be nothing here except a practice basket, so it is a positive that it is here, I just do not think it represents the sport well. But it does give access to people who may not have access or ability to play the other metro courses.

I am sure the locals will hate me for my 1.5 (upgraded to 2) rating, it just simply is more irritating than it is fun, but there are still some positives, just too many negatives IMO.

UPDATE: I had to update my review and after looking back at it, I realized I was pretty harsh. Sure I was irritated about the missing basket, and that I did not truly understand the layout. I didnt know about tees across the water. I still feel it is well designed for the property but it simply cannot be used all of the time from other activities so it is still irritating to me. If noone was there and I was able to throw from all tees to all baskets I hae to think my feeling would be better than the 1.5 I gave it. I am however disappointed still in that it is not available all the time, but to call it not a disc golf course 3 times in a review may have been a little harsh. There are plusses and negative here, and the only thing that will bring me back is if it is a crappy day and I know noone will be there so I can play all the holes. I just hate having people around not knowing what I am doing. I want to be in and out quiickly from this course next time I play it.

3 baskets are there.They have maps in 2 places.Safe neighborhood.Unique to any "public course" I have ever seen.

Baskets are useful for putting and not much else.You can drive from some of the tees but safety is a vital concern.I could see someone getting hurt here.There is more space in front, why not use it?

Would be a great place to practice putting if I didn't have a basket.Object golf with minis and you could play the whole area.HEY, it would be a great place for a mini course.Play Elon, Cam was a near waste of time.

A creative design, given what they have to work with (three baskets).

The layout is impossible to follow without a map, and the neighborhood is technically private (but not really - visitors are welcome), so the general atmopshere isn't the most inviting for visitors. Quality disc golf is abundant in Charlotte, so it's hard to justify giving this course priority over the others in the area. Using the same 3 targets for the entire round, you don't get the feeling that you're playing a "real" disc golf course.

Yes, there are lights, but the course isn't specifically lit for disc golf; the lights are just there anyway as part of the neighborhood. Playing at night is rather difficult, especially if you're not familiar with the layout. Play the course at least once during the day and get familiar with the layout before trying it at night.

- Lighted
- Lots of unique holes with unique throws required.
- Interesting obstacles and elevation variations that force those unique throws.
- Innovative layout making use of a very interesting albeit small piece of land
- 2 maps on course - but only of the short hole locations. The really good holes can be found on the online map.

- Confusing for first timers (bring a map!)
- Crossing fairways
- Natural tee pads

There needs to be more neigborhood courses like this. It introduces the game to tons of new players that would otherwise never discover the fun of disc golf.

-Night Golf
-Over the H20 shots (only ones in Charlotte)
-Well maintained
-Hilly/varied terrain

-Dirt tee pads
-Kids are sometimes on the softball/football field that this course uses as some fairways but not a major issue.

-Have played quite a few courses all over now and this one still is among my top favorites (and not just because I live 2 houses away!)
-A MUST PLAY for anyone swinging through Charlotte (along w/ Renny & some others of course!)