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Gonzales, LA

Lamar Dixon Expo Center DGC

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Doofenshmirtz
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Experience: 12 years 122 played 72 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Better than you will expect when you first see it. 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 26, 2019 Played the course:once

Pros:

This course isn't much to look at. But it holds surprising challenge in its 8 playable holes.

Most of the course is in a well kept part of the park behind the Lamar Dixon Expo Center. It starts, theoretically, near a green bathroom building near the two lakes. If you start there, the course can be navigated semi-intuitively, as long as you can see the baskets.

Whomever designed this course primarily used distance, but did a passable job of using one of the lakes and many of the large oak trees as obstacles.

Cons:

There are no tee boxes and no signs telling you where to tee off or which of the baskets to throw at, or in which order. There are no amenities save for the bathroom near what is supposed to be the start of the course. Start by the bathroom somewhere and throw to the closest basket to the southwest and go from there.

Still, you will spend some time looking for the next basket on almost every hole. After hole 3, you throw at a basket in an area that doesn't get mowed. And then from that unmown area to another basket that can be hard to find from the overgrown area.

Unfortunately, there were some really missed opportunities on this course. There were a number of features of the lakes and tree locations that could have contributed to 3-4 memorable and challenging holes with risk/reward. As is, you only get one such hole, hole 3, in which you must throw over the corner of one of the lakes (Or do you? Who knows - because there are no signs).

Finally, hole 9 is missing a basket (and maybe a tee, who knows). In any event, this is an 8 hole course. Still, this is not a horrible course for an 8 hole course. I've played much worse. And, I'm docking half a disc due to the missing basket.

Other Thoughts:

This could have been a much better course. It is obviously very neglected and seldom played. If you are bagging courses though, it is only a minute or two off the interstate and you could do a lot worse than play this course to add another notch in your course belt.
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