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Collins, MS

Robertson Park DGC

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

Worth a stop

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

Pros:

Tee signs in for the front 9, back side was marked with polls
9 DGA Mach II baskets and 9 new DD Vet baskets
Decent use of the elevation and natural fairways

Cons:

Hole 12
Hole 17
Lack of cement tee boxes, I would rate this course a solid 4 if it had them.

Other Thoughts:

I played the OG 9 hole course. It was a mess with no tee's marked but the area had some potential. I think this redesign to 18 holes did just that. It's actually a course I would recommend now.

So now the first hole is located on the other side of the pond.

The course is a park style course for most of the holes. Lots of large trees and no rough with some elevation. The first 7 holes play around this going up and down and threw all the trees.

The tee for hole 8 can be hard to find if you don't look in the right spot, you have to cross a small creek into the rough, throw out towards the tennis courts. This area does not get mowed often as both times I have been here the grass was knee deep.

Hole 9 is tricky with the sidewalk coming into play.

Holes 10 and 11 are must get birdies with sidewalks coming into play.

Then you have hole 12. This is not a good hole, or might be a great hole depending how you look at it. Tight gap to throw though on your drive with an old Tennis court to the right. The basket is at a 90 degree turn after the tennis courts. There use to be a tree line in the back and this was a hanging basket. However the tree line has been destroyed and that back property built a storage unit place.

13 is a good shot down a natural tree lines fairway, this is a hold over from the old original course.

14 is your first water shot. This is a high risk reward shot. The green is larger than it looks. But come up too far right and your disc is gone. Throw too for left and your down the dam. On top of that you have to avoid hitting Jesus.

15 and 16 are run of the mill DG holes.

Hole 17, your 2nd water shot and the most difficult, at least for me. It's reachable, but the basket is on a narrow peninsula. I was just short and lost my driver in the pond. My upshot skipped off the rim of the basket and landed on the bank, but slipped into the pond to never be seen again. I had 5 aces on that disc...........

Hole 18 is a decent shot over the edge of the pond to a basket hidden behind an evergreen tree. You do have an OB road long.

So, I like this course other than holes 12 and 17, 12 because it was kind of boring and 17 because I lost 2 freaking discs. But I really enjoyed playing the rest of the course.

Would I play here again? Yes, this is a course I would stop at to play if I was driving though. This is a natural stop going from Jackson to Mobil AL. In fact I passed this course twice on my Florida trip a few weeks later and almost stopped to play it again.

So I gave this one 3 1/2 stars because its a decent course, but lacks tee pads to be a true 4 star for me. But if I was to ever play this course again, I am playing hole 17 totally different or just skipping it.
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Moose33
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Experience: 12.5 years 221 played 218 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Odd little gem of a course

Reviewed: Played on:Oct 24, 2023 Played the course:once

Pros:

I came to this one because I wanted to work on approaches and putts and it said "little course" in the description so I thought it might be a good spot to work on those things.

At first it seemed like it, the first few holes were all in the high 200ft range and winding through park style trees to Veteran baskets with white bands. Good visible basket choice for this type of course. Unfortunately the back 9 is less visible Mach 3s.

And then on hole 4 you have to break out a 400ft shot over some OB and it becomes clear that this is not the little one dimensional course it appeared at first.

There are some tricky mandos, a few very tight lines through the middle of the course and a demanding 570 ft par four that makes you throw around a disused tennis court to a basket that is hard to see from even after the dogleg right turn.

There is also some water in play on some of the finishing holes, one you have to throw it between the edge of the lake and an ENORMOUS Jesus carrying the cross statue. This is the second course I've played at where they try to make you throw at Jesus and I'm just not comfortable with it. Lost a disc there.

Then you have a peninsula green on 17 that's pretty narrow, almost like a more chill version of the one at the Rez, but the dropoff is so steep if you don't make it that disc is gone.

The final hole has OB water short in the form of a shallow creek and the road long so you need to check up quickly.

The baskets had next tee markers on them(nice metal brackets on the veteran baskets and cardboard arrows on the DGA ones) so while the flow isn't flawless it's pretty good.

Signs are only on the front, but they are very descriptive and nice. Hopefully the back will be added soon.

Cons:

The first con to me is the lack of pads. They are uneven tee area for the most part and rough on the knees to me. They were marked pretty well with the sign on one side and a small concrete piece on the other though.

The baskets in neither case were my favorite, Veterans are fine but the older all silver baskets are hard to see in the semi wooded setting.

One thing that was profoundly odd were on many holes there were large Christmas light arrays that came into play. Including on the peninsula green which is currently lined with angles on each side. In a ways it's fitting because if you if you go for it you will be praying not to lose your disc.

On a few holes you have to either walk through or around pretty big ditches, including to get to the #8 tee.

No benches throughout that I saw.

Tee signs on the back are just white posts with the basic info.

Other Thoughts:

Honesty the design and play here is pretty solid, if the guys who put it together had the money to get all veteran baskets, finish the signs and do concrete or turf pads this is probably a 3.5.

The course is pretty fun, and the lines are legit but it's not very polished right now. I hope these dudes get some more funding to make it as good as I see it can be.
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