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Petal, MS

Carterville Baptist Church

2.255(based on 2 reviews)
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Pizza God
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Experience: 36.3 years 1756 played 613 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Well, that was interesting

Reviewed: Played on:May 2, 2024 Played the course:once

Pros:

Has baskets
Some tee's are actually marked, even with a sign
Good mix of shots
Cool little Cemetery next to the course worth walking around and exploring.

Cons:

Mixture of different basket from good to super cheap
Many of the tee's are not marked
Baskets are used for more than one hole so you do have some shared and crossing fairways.
A couple of holes go over a playground, volley ball and basket ball court.

Other Thoughts:

Ok, this is a church course, not a public park. So it was probably built and cheap as possible scraping up what every they could.

So you have all types of baskets. The tee's are mostly just dirt, but a couple tee off from carpets. A few of the holes in the back section still have the tee's marked well. But the ones in the more open area are not marked well if at all and you mostly have to just guess.

The Tee signs that are still there are very informative, but they were temporary and are falling apart. Some where in good shape, others were rotting away.

As far as the holes. Most are short which is good for kids and newer players. There is one hole that is mostly wide open and it's almost 400ft.
There is a cleared out fairway in the thick woods that you play going both ways. This is the only heavy wooded hole and it's not a long hole.
The holes that are dangerous are hole 4 that throws around a fenced in Playground. I figured no problem, its fenced in and locked. however as I was playing hole 5, a class of little kids came out, they unlocked it and it was occupied. I was glad I had already played that hole.

It does come into play again on hole 5 as you across over hole 4's fairway. Then again on hole 7 as you play across hole 5's fairway.

You WILL have to use the map on the other app, this course is VERY confusing and there is no map uploaded here as of this writing.

Would I play here again? No, this is a one and done course. It would be good for working on your short game, skip the open holes 4 to 7 and you are mostly in the shade. This is a decent course for a youth group to play.

I rated this 2 stars because it does have a couple of decent, fun to play holes. but I can't rate it higher due to the danger.

oh, and take a quick walk though the cemetery. You got some CSA headstones including one in a little wooded structure.
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magictenor1
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Experience: 24.1 years 385 played 91 reviews
2.50 star(s)

hot mess

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 7, 2022 Played the course:once

Pros:

nice sign at beginning of course. good tee sign for each hole. individual holes are nice variety. likely not ever crowded

Cons:

only 8 baskets. no teepads to speak of (a few had mats and 1 threw from pavement of parking lot). major multi-use hazard. #4 throws over the edge of a playground (fenced but still) #5 throws across a basketball court and #14 and #18 throw over another basket lol. fairways crisscross each other a lot. baskets are not the same and some appear old and in not so good condition. navigation was a bit difficult and would have been very difficult without the map.

Other Thoughts:

This is an 18 hole course behind a small rural church. They crammed 18 holes into a fairly small area with only 8 baskets. I want to stress that I've seen courses that say 18 but it's really just a long and short tee basically throwing to the same basket. that's not what this is. the 18 holes are all unique and when taken individually are actually some nice holes. I enjoyed playing the course. However if more than 1 group was out there you would run into issues and if other users were there some holes would be unplayable. I played on a thursday morning and I was the only one there.No restroom there unless you could go inside the church. The tee signs had a red and a white par listed for each hole. I struggled with coming up with a rating for the course because of it's uniqueness. fun to play but lots of issues
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