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Bassett Creek park reviews
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Fantastic Re-design
Reviewed:
Played on:Nov 5, 2023
Played the course:2-4 times
Pros:
New concrete tee boxes and Prodigy baskets
Free to play
Re-designed/re-constructed in 2023
Outstanding shot variety
Gorgeous in the fall
Lends itself well to beginners and bombers alike
Minneapolis skyline view if you like that sort of thing
Free to play
Re-designed/re-constructed in 2023
Outstanding shot variety
Gorgeous in the fall
Lends itself well to beginners and bombers alike
Minneapolis skyline view if you like that sort of thing
Cons:
1. Par three only
2. #7 and #15 are both works in progress at this point. Nothing that a bit of re-seeding in the spring of 2024 won't fix, but a bit of a muddy mess in spots.
2. #7 and #15 are both works in progress at this point. Nothing that a bit of re-seeding in the spring of 2024 won't fix, but a bit of a muddy mess in spots.
Other Thoughts:
How am I the first person to review this course?!!
Presumably, reviews of its former design have been set aside due to the recent rebuild, reportedly completed in July of 2023. I met Bassett Creek on a 55-degree November morning, less than one week after a snowy Halloween. The course was green and busy, given that neither the Minnesota grass nor the Minnesota disc golfers had given up on 2023.
Bassett Creek consists entirely of par threes with an average length of 300 feet. Most of the longer holes are thrown down significant slopes, with #18 being the only one both over 400 feet and uphill.
Holes 1-6 are played in the woods, which start fairly loose and tighten gradually until by #6 the chances of a clean pass to the basket are getting rather lean. Modest arms will be able to reach or get close to all of these with the exception of #2, which is a bit of a tweener that on many courses would be set as a par 4. Water guards the right side of the fairway down the length of #4, but won't be much of a factor again until the last couple of holes.
#7 is the transition hole--a straight forward, wide open 320-footer guarded in front by a ditch with a micro-stream probably only intermittently present at the bottom. #8 points you 260-feet straight up a hill that plays 400+. Hills then take over the course, rising and falling until they finally relent after a tempting little downhiller on #16.
On #17 you must cross Bassett Creek, which you will almost certainly do, but a stand of mature trees line the far side like Shaq, Kareem, Dikembe and Hakeem--ready to reject your shot back into the water. Most shots will land safely, but really good ones can still end up back in the drink. No worries. Barring flood conditions, you'll get this disc back.
You finish with a pond-crossing on 18. I'd guesstimate it at 180 feet to safety. This is probably as good of a time as any to mention that Bassett Creek has one tee box (and one basket) per hole. Taking the safe route around the left side is very indirect and will doom you to a double bogey or worse. Just do the thing if you can. I threw my Dragon over it twice today. The choice of the floating disc was mostly for morale. There's awful lot of pond that wouldn't have been accessible to a 16-foot retriever, and I'm sure there's more than a few discs submerged in that murky water.
I really can't say enough good things about this course. The designers made excellent use of the landscape and managed to pull off a course that neither discourages rookies or bores the experienced player. Those who can't reach from the tee will almost always have a scramble opportunity to save par. Two laps through this 18-hole offering were enough to vault Bassett Creek to the top of my favorite free courses in the area. An excellent (probable) finish to my season, and almost certainly one of my first plays in 2024.
Presumably, reviews of its former design have been set aside due to the recent rebuild, reportedly completed in July of 2023. I met Bassett Creek on a 55-degree November morning, less than one week after a snowy Halloween. The course was green and busy, given that neither the Minnesota grass nor the Minnesota disc golfers had given up on 2023.
Bassett Creek consists entirely of par threes with an average length of 300 feet. Most of the longer holes are thrown down significant slopes, with #18 being the only one both over 400 feet and uphill.
Holes 1-6 are played in the woods, which start fairly loose and tighten gradually until by #6 the chances of a clean pass to the basket are getting rather lean. Modest arms will be able to reach or get close to all of these with the exception of #2, which is a bit of a tweener that on many courses would be set as a par 4. Water guards the right side of the fairway down the length of #4, but won't be much of a factor again until the last couple of holes.
#7 is the transition hole--a straight forward, wide open 320-footer guarded in front by a ditch with a micro-stream probably only intermittently present at the bottom. #8 points you 260-feet straight up a hill that plays 400+. Hills then take over the course, rising and falling until they finally relent after a tempting little downhiller on #16.
On #17 you must cross Bassett Creek, which you will almost certainly do, but a stand of mature trees line the far side like Shaq, Kareem, Dikembe and Hakeem--ready to reject your shot back into the water. Most shots will land safely, but really good ones can still end up back in the drink. No worries. Barring flood conditions, you'll get this disc back.
You finish with a pond-crossing on 18. I'd guesstimate it at 180 feet to safety. This is probably as good of a time as any to mention that Bassett Creek has one tee box (and one basket) per hole. Taking the safe route around the left side is very indirect and will doom you to a double bogey or worse. Just do the thing if you can. I threw my Dragon over it twice today. The choice of the floating disc was mostly for morale. There's awful lot of pond that wouldn't have been accessible to a 16-foot retriever, and I'm sure there's more than a few discs submerged in that murky water.
I really can't say enough good things about this course. The designers made excellent use of the landscape and managed to pull off a course that neither discourages rookies or bores the experienced player. Those who can't reach from the tee will almost always have a scramble opportunity to save par. Two laps through this 18-hole offering were enough to vault Bassett Creek to the top of my favorite free courses in the area. An excellent (probable) finish to my season, and almost certainly one of my first plays in 2024.
