Robbins Park, NC & Beatty's Ford Park

[Harpo1989]

I might have to take a trip to see the early development. It's truly awesome knowing I will have more courses very near the house to play!

I did a quick drive by today. Looks like there's still a long way to go before the park is ready.
On a plus note, there's going to be a lot of open space to hopefully have some non-wooded holes to mix it up a bit more than Beatty's Ford Park.

 

[Harpo1989]

Catawba Meadows in Morganton is really open and I still enjoyed it. Apparently they lost a lot of trees in a storm last year.

Wife and I played there today. I enjoyed it. My newbie self shot +13 from the pro tees.

We also played 2 rounds at the 9 hole course at Hildebran Community Park, which is exceptionally short. All I used was a putter and shot -2 the first round and -3 the second round. Took all of 40 minutes to play around twice.

 

[Harpo1989]

As the designer:

Beatty's Ford Park:
Don't be surprised if you see a redesign/upgrade/trimming here. The goal is 12-18 beginner holes total with teepads signage and removal of the overgrowth and ample poison ivy. This would be after or concurrent to the end of the Rotary park project that I previously mentioned.

Had my first ever even par round here tonight! :clap:

I can't wait until this park gets tee pads. Hole 9 is very frustrating as there is no place to step while teeing off with all the roots. UGH!

But I get a lot of good practice in at Beatty's Ford and look forward to the future improvements.

 

[1978]

I did a quick drive by today. Looks like there's still a long way to go before the park is ready.
On a plus note, there's going to be a lot of open space to hopefully have some non-wooded holes to mix it up a bit more than Beatty's Ford Park.

0% of the course will be in the field area. Well hole 1 will tee from it down into the abyss. Then you come out beat up and bruised 9 holes later, ready to play your second 9 holes.