Dundee Lake

A very beautiful course. Kevin McCoy artwork. Lovely scenery almost every hole. A combination of distance and technical difficulties with lots of elevation (a couple of pretty serious climbs). The longest throws have real technical difficulties like low canopies. All of the holes are very very fair, and very satisfying to hit. Plenty of holes over three hundred feet or so; the one short hole (?225 feet?) is actually pretty hard to hit properly. Need to be very precise. Not really much w ...
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A very beautiful course. Kevin McCoy artwork. Lovely scenery almost every hole. A combination of distance and technical difficulties with lots of elevation (a couple of pretty serious climbs).

The longest throws have real technical difficulties like low canopies. All of the holes are very very fair, and very satisfying to hit. Plenty of holes over three hundred feet or so; the one short hole (?225 feet?) is actually pretty hard to hit properly. Need to be very precise.

Not really much water danger, over an expanse of shallow rapids on 2 and back across on 4, and then across the lake maybe 220 feet on 16. Lots of elevation (not as insane as Heritage Point in Dalton) and beautiful beautiful scenery. Look for the very tastefully designed "next tee"signs on almost all the holes. You have to look , but they're always there except for one hole.

Also a word of caution: it is a work in progress. As of today there are all nice green outdoor carpet tees nicely boxed in with wood framing, but no numbering, just "next tee" signs, except after hole 4 where as uou look for signage you'll see a "4" with an arrow showing a 45 degree turn, white spray-painted onto a tree (ignore it; you just FINISHED the current basket number 4) That's a sign for an earlier arrangement using what is now hole six as the back-then hole number four, I believe. At that point you're actually looking for signs leading to number five. Before that and to the right is a wooden sign with yellow lettering to tees 2 & 5. --- ......Also, after hole 18 you'll see another basket that looks like it should be the next hole, but there's no tee for it. That is the practice basket I hear. It too has no identification on it. It's no good to throw to because a lot of the fishing people like to hang out there in their lawn chairs, but far enough away that you can practice putting.

I parrticularly like the hole that has a big pile of gnarly logs to the left and deeper left behind it and a magnolia tree blocking the right side of the it is an optical illusion and is actually dead straight. A lot of fun to climb around in, and throw from the piles of logs and surprisingly enough, so far not that hard to find the disc in that complicated mess. There's talk of safetying iit up, maybe pile dirt over it or something. I would prefer a sign up there saying "be careful when you climb here, climb at your own risk. It's just too much fun to hide or lose under a dirt pile.

To me, the scenery is very Thoreau; different from but just as lovely as, or lovelier than, Hobbs Farm. It is also a trifle easier. There are a few holes that are around 300 to 350 feet, that are readily reached with right hand backhand heisers, or anheisers. For those who like sidearms or left-handed heisers, it's probably even split between the regular right hand heisers and the sidearm slash left hand heisers, definitely technical. Lots of fun and only 3 miles from Olympus wyomia, and yet quite different. I give it an A, possibly A+, remembering that I can barely throw 300-plus feet, and therefore don't know how to rate it at the distances that they have. Just beautiful and lots of fun; in solitude in the forested sunshine, flat-rock rapids and grassy fields. Makes me glad to be alive, active and throwing!
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