great course when i finished i could remember every hole. great course great conditions worth the price

Fast, well-kept greens; high level of difficulty means repeated plays give you many different looks and challenges.

Rangers get to play when they are not working. Sometimes they'll just drop themselves in front of paying customers!

Great track!

Customer Service

Excellent, very down to earth.

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Range, practice green excellent.

Very good layout - nice variety of holes and distances. Currently, it is not dottted with houses. Greens are usually in very good shape.

Novice golfer should bring a lot of balls.

As the name states, The Challenge is a very challenging course. I highly recommend the course be played from the blue tees (closest to 6500 yards) if you are a fair to good player (< 95). The landing areas are fairly wide, but missing them can be quite penal. I really like the layout. From the blues, the par 3s range in length from 130 to 195 yards with a nice mix. I find the par 5s among the most challenging around - none of them are easy.

Customer Service

Good.

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Practice areas are nice.

Very scenic (except when near I-40), friendly staff.

Overpriced, quirky design, pitch 'n putt par 3's.

As others have said, it's overpriced. The "Under $25" designation is misleading. Maybe if you walk at 6pm it's under $25. Otherwise it's quite a bit more. I played it 5 or 6 times before I finally decided it wasn't my favorite. The layout is just a little strange. Fairways are fairly generous and in good shape, but the penalty for missing them is far too severe. Not just trees, but what seems like old growth forest with 4 feet of undergrowth. Plan on taking a penalty drop almost every time you miss a fairway, even if by just a few feet. Greens are generally in good shape, although the par 3 greens show heavy pockmarking, because everyone is hitting wedges into them. They are too short for my liking. Practice facility is good, except that you can't chip on the putting green and there is no alternate green where you can ship. This annoys me, because I like to chip quite a few before a round.

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Greens, service, nice scenery

Close to highway, bunkers. Price way be steep to some.

The name says it all. The bunkers are deep and everywhere to be found. The greens are excellent. The service is great but the bussy highways are a minus.

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Fairway conditions are good. Relatively new but not routed through a housing developement.

Uneven tee boxes. Slow greens. Slow Play. Finishing hole is a short par 5 with a very shallow green and 2 seperate water hazards - unreachable in 2.

I've played this course 4 times - A good challange if you play from the correct tees! Otherwise you're in the woods and dead (mostly lateral hazards). 1 tee and 2 greens in view of I-40. Par 3s at 110, 150, 135 and 170 from the white tees. Short par 5's and a nice mix of par 4s. Previous experience is helpful - a few blind shots contain very penal hazards. Greens are in good shape but slow, tee boxes are often uneven. Accuracy is more valuable than length. Overall an enjoyable course kept in good condition.

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No frills pro-shop (come for golf, not shopping). Fresh cookies at the turn.

The layout and the pin placements. Very challenging, the course has an extremely promissing future for being only 4 years old. Yardages are well marked.

Mow the tee boxes and greens, they were a little long and slow.

The Challenge is just that! It is a very scenic and well layed out course. The course was in excellent shape, fairways are almost completely through transition. Bunkers consisted of the softest sand I have ever played in. The rough is still browned out, probably 3 weeks away from full green. Greens need to be mowed as do the tee boxes. All in all you need to play smart golf, no real need to take undo risks.

Customer Service

Customer service was exceptional, cart girl does drive like a maniac

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Proshop is under construction so they are currently in a trailer, probably 1 month away from completion

Decent fairways what I found of them. Don't dare miss one you'll be lucky to save triple bogey. Cement cart path all the way and at your car bag pickup.

Everything else you could imagine. I would expect this course to go for $20.00 tops with the condition its in. Actually, I think it should be closed and deemed a Superfund site until the rough, fringe, and dead trees are cleaned up. I found a Buick Lesabre in a greenside grass bunker. What is up with a bunker that has 6 inch grass growing in it pin high on a par 3?

TWO WORDS - Hated IT!!!!!!
Absolutely the most overhyped $50.00+ course in the country. The whole course looked like hurricane hugo arrived before our round. This was after the starter informed us the course was "in excellent shape". I'm not sure what he was taking but it wasn't over the counter! I think the course was designed by a timbering company who cleared some fairways to knock down the trees but then decided the wood wasn't any good and pulled out. The Double Wide club house sealed the deal.

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The starter was very informative and friendly. Told us the course was in great shape ( a lie ) or he was blind. Fairways were nice. Challenging greens. Cement cart paths with awesome EZ-GO carts.

Poor layout with crazy doglegs and short short par 3's. Hate the 4 foot 2nd cut of rough. Dead trees all over the course that need removed.

OVERPRICED to say the least. Cruddy little pro shop. Several holes 50 feet from the busiest interstate in NC! $54 to ride. Fans blowing on several greens is distracting. No ranger to pull the slow ass Tiger Wannabes off the course for holding up play. Beer cart girl drives like a maniac. 1/2 the Greens are under repair and you can't even chip onto them ! Can;t say enough about how bad this experience was. Right Doug ?

Customer Service

Easy to get a t time (ha ha) and friendly people/

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Hot girl in the resturant : )