(3.191 Rating) A flat woods course with a few openish holes.
- TWO TEES TWO BASKETS - I love it when niners have two baskets and two tees and this is an 18 holer with two baskets and two tees! Thus, there are 4 easy to follow 18-hole layouts to throw. Long tee to basket A, Long tee to basket B, Short tee to Basket A and Short tee to basket B. For the Record, I threw the Short tee to basket A layout. The options here substantially add to the play variety which I'll touch on more below.
- HOLE VARIETY - For an almost glass flat course, the variety is about as good as it gets. The hole distance variation is great with several sub 200 footers and several plus 600 footers. There are technical chip-shot ace runs, open bombs and technical multi-play holes. Fairways break both left and right a few times each. There are baskets in protected pockets and there are lots of tunnel shots. Water comes into play along the right a few times and at least one basket is on a slight slope along the water's edge. The great variety here makes Lagoon worthy of many repeat visits.
- AMENITIES AND NAVIGATION - As noted above, 36 tees and 36 baskets. Concrete pads for all 36 tees. Baskets are MVP Black holes for placement A and old 24 chain DISCatchers for position B. Benches are present a few times and hopefully more are on the way. The tee signage was very good. All the required info was present on them. My only gripe was that both the back tee signs and front tee signs used the same image, making it difficult to distinguish which pad I was at, when both pad locations were not apparent. I appreciated all the navigational cues attached to the baskets. I had very little issue figuring it out even with all the options.
- NATURAL BEAUTY - Some parts of the course are serene, while other parts are not so much. The western edge of the layout is the best part. The west side has all the lake views and is more quiet. Sure they may be gators on this side of the course, but there is no chance of hitting a car. The eastern side of the course is far less appealing due to the highway. Overall I scored the beauty at 55 percentile.
- CHALLENGE - I played terrible and shot 1 over from the short tees. It was terribly windy with gusts exceeding 30 mph. On a normal day, I think MA3s are breaking par routinely from the shorts, but they aren't going well under. It'll be a great time and time again challenge for those at that level. I peaked at many of the back tees and they definitely amp the challenge up quite a bit. I could see MA1s being tickled by the demands from the longs.

Road Rage
- NOISE - To me, the biggest drawback in throwing here is the vehicular noise coming from US231. It's a super busy 4 lane highway with cars zipping by every couple seconds. I could see players accidentally grip locking one onto the highway on rare occasions on hole (14). The highway kinda kills much of the Zen-ness that otherwise would have been here, and it impacts the course beauty substantially.
- FLAT - Almost no elevation change. I don't think one hole had even 10 feet of grade change in it. I suspect drainage is an issue in spots. There is pallet bridge between (7) and (8) that lead to my suspicion despite not seeing standing water.
- SPACING - The fairway edges in the woods feel shared many times. Ricochets off trees will often find other fairways. (4) and (14), which are both openish par 4s that somewhat share an open field.
- LAYOUT GAP - Holes (4) and (14) also bridge the two distinct woods sections of the course. Not ideal in a perfect world, but I get why it had to be done.
- TIME PLAY - I guess if someone elects to throw short tees to short baskets, a round could fly. It took me 56 minutes from tee (1) to taping out on (18), and I'm a quick player.

Lagoon was recommended to me by my friend Joe who is also a fellow course bagger. It was a fantastic pit stop and I very much enjoyed the course. I am sure that residents of Montgomery are thrilled to finally have a second legit 18-hole course to throw and thankfully the style here compliments the more open gameplay over at AUM. In my opinion, I think this course is the new King of the metro area. It may not have the hills that AUM has, but it does just about everything else better than that track. So for players that find themselves in this neck of the woods, I would recommend here first if time only allows for one round. Even though I think the course is top dog for Montgomery, I don't think it's a destination course beyond an hour's drive. Regardless, still a solid 3.0 to 3.25 "good" course to me. It reminded me of courses like Cottage Hill in Mobile, North Water Tower in Sarasota minus the palms, Rainbow City in Gadsden Alabama and The Sinks in Chattanooga minus the sinkholes.