whorley
Aug 03 2010, 06:58 PM
What an great course! Thank you Harold Duvall and thank you to everyone who is a part of this special golf course. Below is a copy and paste from another message board I was posting on. Is this course unreal or am I crazy? I want to hear from others that have played there.
PS I did shoot a 31/28=59 which I was very proud of. Playing PDGA rules with zero extra shots--which is how I always play. I destroyed the long holes for the most part and missed most of the deuce possibilities. I only had two deuces on hole 9 and 16. My highlights were trying a flick roller on hole 4 (don't ask), smacking a tree thirty feet out, and parking a 300' backhand upshot. I played hole 11 textbook with a forehand drive just shy of the maple and parking the backhand upshot. Hole 12 is an amazing hole--I flicked too far off the tees, pitched out of the gulley, and hit the pole with my 300' flick upshot for a four. I caught a big group in front of me on hole 15. Good thing I got to walk that hole before I threw it--It plays 550+feet and steadily hooks right in a complete horseshoe shape with a 15-20' fairways the whole way. Long story short--Perfect flick drive, perfect flick upshot to 25' and canned the putt to complete my best hole of the day (possibly of my life.) People that know that course know how insane yet fair that hole is.
I shot
334333462 on the front (I had a terrible roll away on hole 8's green-should have been a 5)
334333243 on the back (I missed a dinker on hole 13 for deuce)
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Castle Hayne park near wilmington is an amazing course. I got to play CH on the way home from the beach last week. What a good decision that was!!! I have played over 70 courses and Castle Hayne is the best woods course I've ever played hands down. It's also the best 18 hole course design I've ever seen--even though it only has one teepad per hole and only a couple of alternate pins. The pins were all in the long when I played it and the course was in really nice manicured condition. Very ample fairways ON EVERY HOLE usually 15-30 feet wide with no stupid trees in the middle of the fairway. You only have yourself to blame on a bad shot, and good drives were completely rewarded. Fairways were very defined mostly by huge beautiful pine trees that are common in the eastern Caronlinas. Though the fairways were ample, the rough was very thick with small trees if you got off the fairways. The rough was similar to the Grange Darkside woods holes--pretty easy to find your disc, but usually not having any route to the basket. Amazing variety in fairways--left, right, straight, long, lots of doglegs, double dogleg, horseshoe, etc... Nice huge concrete pads on each tee that were finished perfectly. Huge beautiful benches and handmade gorgeous signs. Even though the course was basically flat, it made good excellent use of the minimal elevation that there was. Good variety of holes lengths too, with a couple short ones, reachable par 3s, really tough par 3s, mild par 4s, tough par 4s, and two pretty legit par 5s. Good course flow, and two looping nines. Also a very nice park with restrooms right next to the 1st and 10th tees. I could go on and on about this place.
Hole 10 is across the parking lot from hole 9, and kind of hard to find. I had to try really hard to say something mildly negative about this course. I've also heard there can be some standing water after heavy rains and sometimes mosquitos, but I must have played it at the right time. Conditions were excellent.
PS I did shoot a 31/28=59 which I was very proud of. Playing PDGA rules with zero extra shots--which is how I always play. I destroyed the long holes for the most part and missed most of the deuce possibilities. I only had two deuces on hole 9 and 16. My highlights were trying a flick roller on hole 4 (don't ask), smacking a tree thirty feet out, and parking a 300' backhand upshot. I played hole 11 textbook with a forehand drive just shy of the maple and parking the backhand upshot. Hole 12 is an amazing hole--I flicked too far off the tees, pitched out of the gulley, and hit the pole with my 300' flick upshot for a four. I caught a big group in front of me on hole 15. Good thing I got to walk that hole before I threw it--It plays 550+feet and steadily hooks right in a complete horseshoe shape with a 15-20' fairways the whole way. Long story short--Perfect flick drive, perfect flick upshot to 25' and canned the putt to complete my best hole of the day (possibly of my life.) People that know that course know how insane yet fair that hole is.
I shot
334333462 on the front (I had a terrible roll away on hole 8's green-should have been a 5)
334333243 on the back (I missed a dinker on hole 13 for deuce)
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Castle Hayne park near wilmington is an amazing course. I got to play CH on the way home from the beach last week. What a good decision that was!!! I have played over 70 courses and Castle Hayne is the best woods course I've ever played hands down. It's also the best 18 hole course design I've ever seen--even though it only has one teepad per hole and only a couple of alternate pins. The pins were all in the long when I played it and the course was in really nice manicured condition. Very ample fairways ON EVERY HOLE usually 15-30 feet wide with no stupid trees in the middle of the fairway. You only have yourself to blame on a bad shot, and good drives were completely rewarded. Fairways were very defined mostly by huge beautiful pine trees that are common in the eastern Caronlinas. Though the fairways were ample, the rough was very thick with small trees if you got off the fairways. The rough was similar to the Grange Darkside woods holes--pretty easy to find your disc, but usually not having any route to the basket. Amazing variety in fairways--left, right, straight, long, lots of doglegs, double dogleg, horseshoe, etc... Nice huge concrete pads on each tee that were finished perfectly. Huge beautiful benches and handmade gorgeous signs. Even though the course was basically flat, it made good excellent use of the minimal elevation that there was. Good variety of holes lengths too, with a couple short ones, reachable par 3s, really tough par 3s, mild par 4s, tough par 4s, and two pretty legit par 5s. Good course flow, and two looping nines. Also a very nice park with restrooms right next to the 1st and 10th tees. I could go on and on about this place.
Hole 10 is across the parking lot from hole 9, and kind of hard to find. I had to try really hard to say something mildly negative about this course. I've also heard there can be some standing water after heavy rains and sometimes mosquitos, but I must have played it at the right time. Conditions were excellent.