Lake Meriwether Park
Woodbury, GA · 1 course · 18 holes
I played the course Saturday Oct 3, 2015. They are still getting it ready for a tournament in just 3 weeks. Overall I think this is going to be a good course--I enjoyed it even in its rough state and ...
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I played the course Saturday Oct 3, 2015. They are still getting it ready for a tournament in just 3 weeks. Overall I think this is going to be a good course--I enjoyed it even in its rough state and having to search for some tees. The hole layouts are varied, with different shots, elevations, and some in woods/some in fields. Holes 7 and 9 definitely have water in play--so have some floaters. 7 has lake along right entire distance and can straight line over part of lake for shorter throw and 9 brings the stream below dam into play and it is deep enough to lose a disc if you stray right--if long enough you can throw over the creek.
Hole 1 is directly across the entrance road from parking on the right at the stop sign. This is where if you drove straight you would come to office, left would take you on road across dam and right to parking. Look for a path at the corner of woods nearest lake.
It was a bit difficult to find some of the tees after several holes and some tees were not marked yet and the ones that are marked are with little flags like used for pipelines, etc a construction sites (mostly ones in open area where grass is probably to be cut). I had to backtrack two or three holes several times to find a tee (starting hole 12 was one that was hard to find). And I could not find Hole 16 or 18 at all--and I looked for 10 or more minutes.
No doubt this will be better course in the next month or so as courses tend to improve dramatically for a tournament. There is still quite a bit of work to clear our the debris lying in many fairways. And the initial direction to the next tee needs to be marked some way. Right now there are ribbons tied intermittently to trees off through the woods that are difficult to follow to say the least.
The county "caretaker" of the park would like folks to check in with him, just as a courtesy--I suggested a sign in sheet if he believes it is a problem--he feels like folks are just coming and walking all over the woods. Might go a long ways to get him on board with disc players to drop by and say hello before playing. My impression is he is a bit concerned with all the new folks coming in and just needs to find out we're not so bad after all. It's just new to him, but after we talked a bit he seemed to be a bit better--I told him disc golfer were good folks and he would be pleasantly surprised. I think he's just used to a quieter park with a few fishers and I think he is a bit concerned about what going to happen now--not to mention some dissatisfaction with spending county worker time on the course--but doesn't everyone have something to say about how their county taxes are spent. Information about the disc golf course, tourney, etc are not filtering down to him, so he was a bit frustrated with being in the dark about what is going on--he said several times "No one tells me what is going on with that disc golf." He is not a final decision maker, but it would good to smooth things with him as he could be a significant negative voice in the county meetings about the park otherwise. He also mentioned about the fact that fishers pay $2 and campers pay and asked me do disc golfers pay--I told him the courses were typically free at county parks and other places in GA.
I will play Lake Meriwether again, but probably wait until after the tournament weekend of Oct 24, 2015 in hopes it will be marked a bit better. Hopefully it remains free as a $2 fee would tend to discourage use.
BTW, use bug repellent, I did get bit on ankle by some small insects (not sure what they were), probably because I did not use enough repellent but more likely because I was wondering all over the woods searching for tees quite a few times.
Scott E
Oct 5, 2015
Hole 1 is directly across the entrance road from parking on the right at the stop sign. This is where if you drove straight you would come to office, left would take you on road across dam and right to parking. Look for a path at the corner of woods nearest lake.
It was a bit difficult to find some of the tees after several holes and some tees were not marked yet and the ones that are marked are with little flags like used for pipelines, etc a construction sites (mostly ones in open area where grass is probably to be cut). I had to backtrack two or three holes several times to find a tee (starting hole 12 was one that was hard to find). And I could not find Hole 16 or 18 at all--and I looked for 10 or more minutes.
No doubt this will be better course in the next month or so as courses tend to improve dramatically for a tournament. There is still quite a bit of work to clear our the debris lying in many fairways. And the initial direction to the next tee needs to be marked some way. Right now there are ribbons tied intermittently to trees off through the woods that are difficult to follow to say the least.
The county "caretaker" of the park would like folks to check in with him, just as a courtesy--I suggested a sign in sheet if he believes it is a problem--he feels like folks are just coming and walking all over the woods. Might go a long ways to get him on board with disc players to drop by and say hello before playing. My impression is he is a bit concerned with all the new folks coming in and just needs to find out we're not so bad after all. It's just new to him, but after we talked a bit he seemed to be a bit better--I told him disc golfer were good folks and he would be pleasantly surprised. I think he's just used to a quieter park with a few fishers and I think he is a bit concerned about what going to happen now--not to mention some dissatisfaction with spending county worker time on the course--but doesn't everyone have something to say about how their county taxes are spent. Information about the disc golf course, tourney, etc are not filtering down to him, so he was a bit frustrated with being in the dark about what is going on--he said several times "No one tells me what is going on with that disc golf." He is not a final decision maker, but it would good to smooth things with him as he could be a significant negative voice in the county meetings about the park otherwise. He also mentioned about the fact that fishers pay $2 and campers pay and asked me do disc golfers pay--I told him the courses were typically free at county parks and other places in GA.
I will play Lake Meriwether again, but probably wait until after the tournament weekend of Oct 24, 2015 in hopes it will be marked a bit better. Hopefully it remains free as a $2 fee would tend to discourage use.
BTW, use bug repellent, I did get bit on ankle by some small insects (not sure what they were), probably because I did not use enough repellent but more likely because I was wondering all over the woods searching for tees quite a few times.
Scott E
