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Bonne Terre, MO

Bonne Terre City Park

2.175(based on 3 reviews)
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GO1962
Silver level trusted reviewer
Experience: 4.8 years 134 played 26 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Kaleb Politte Memorial Disc Golf Course

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Sep 19, 2020 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

This is a 9 hole course that is located in a city park. This park is popular among the locals because the city swimming pool is located here, along with tennis courts, playground equipment, and a building that used to be utilized as the community Senior Center, where meals for the Meals On Wheels were prepared. The Senior Center has since been moved to another location, but the building where the Senior Center used to be centered continues to be used by the community for various events and purposes. The park features several parking lots, but there will be times where some the parking lots will be full due to persons using the community building, the swimming pool, the pavilions, or the playgrounds. The park itself is clean and features beautiful scenery. This 9 hole course features concrete tee pads for every hole. Each tee features a sign for the number of the hole and the par. The number for each hole is displayed on each basket. Each hole has a sponsor and the name of the sponsor for each hole is displayed on the sign at each tee. The local high school is the sponsor of hole #6. Local businesses are the sponsors of the other 8 holes. This course does not have water hazards or brush hazards. It is highly unlikely that any player will lose a disc or waste time searching for a disc.

Cons:

The tees for #2 and #5, and the basket for #3 are located too close to city streets. In the event of errant throws or overthrows, players may have their discs land in the streets or on properties located on the opposite street side of the park. The soil is of a type that does not dry out from late autumn to mid-spring. During winter, even with several days in a row with no precipitation and several days in a row of temperatures in the 50s, the course remains muddy and much of the grass remains marshy.

Other Thoughts:

In June 2022, this course was renamed the Kaleb Politte Memorial Disc Golf Course. Kaleb was an employee of the City of Bonne Terre, and he was an avid disc golf player. Kaleb passed away at the age of 38 in August 2021 after being hospitalized for several weeks with the covid virus. This course features beautiful scenery for a game. The basket for hole #3 is located on the portion of the park which has the highest elevation in not only the park, but the town. The view at hole #3 is spectacular, especially during months when leaves are not on the trees. This course is one of four courses located in Saint Francois County. The other 3 courses in Saint Francois County feature 18 baskets and are only a 3 to 4 minute drive off of U.S. Highway 67, which will always make those other 3 courses more popular and busy with players. Yet, this 9 hole course remains worth a visit.
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Cujo
Silver level trusted reviewer
Experience: 30 years 254 played 31 reviews
2.50 star(s)

fun little 9 hole, often windy 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 16, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

Fun design. Good use of elevation. several birdie opportunities. excellent baskets. some good money was spent on this course between the signs, pads and nice baskets.

Cons:

Whatin the world is going on with these tee signs. They are literally centered right behind the pad. not like a foot or two...RIGHT behind. I've never seen it. Also, the tee signs face forward so the only way to see the tee sign is to be in front of the pad. If you are 50-100 feet away you have to walk all the way to the pad and then look back to see the hole number. It's bizarre

Other Thoughts:

The pads are nice, the signs are nice, the design is nice but the whole course is just missing something. Maybe its that hole one isn't evident from the parking lot, maybe it's the ridiculous tee signs being in the way...idk, it's just off.

A real shame bc if you moved the signs to a decent location and put a sign to Hole 1 then I'd probably bump it to 3 .5 stars as a 9 hole course and 3 star when compared to 18 hole courses.
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REDARMY
Silver level trusted reviewer
Experience: 15.9 years 53 played 35 reviews
1.00 star(s)

Swing and a miss. 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 12, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

Pretty and quiet park. Throwing with the water tower in the fore/background is kinda cool.

Hole 4 is a good one with an OB road on the right, downhill towards a undulating green. Missed putts will be punished.

Hole 6 is a cool downhill bomber, again with an OB road on the right and plenty of trees in the way directly in front of you. Smart money is on yanking a big hyzer over the road and past the trees to leave yourself an easy upshot.

Cons:

While I applaud whoever came up with the idea of putting a course in this park and the effort they put into the tee signs and pads, the execution is horrible. Any of you St. Louis area locals remember the course at SIUE? Yeah. Bonne Terre is a nicer locale, but SIUE was put together better.

The only obvious place to park is right by hole.... 2. Why this wasn't numbered hole 1 is beyond me, but whatever.

Whoever put the course together must have been doing it for the first time because most of the tee signs are RIGHT BEHIND the pads (I'll upload the one picture I took of this arrangement). It defeats the purpose of having a pad if you cant use 1/2 of it! The pads were well done and are of decent size (and the signs are fairly good as well), but putting the signs directly behind the pads makes them mostly useless. This ruined the course for me as soon as I walked up to hole 2's tee.

Not a lot of trash cans, no benches in sight. Tiny parking lot, but it is an out-of-the-way 9-holer that will probably not see a lot of traffic, so that point may be moot.

The holes at the bottom of the course (8,9, and maybe 6's pin) will get pretty soggy I bet with a decent rain.

Some bored youth has taken it upon himself to scrawl a bunch of racist/homophobic graffiti on hole 1's tee sign. It'd be nice if the park either cleaned it up or replaced it. Not a great way to start the course for those who will actually walk past hole 2 to get to hole 1...

Other Thoughts:

Again, it's great there's another golf course in the world and I hope this place does it's (small) part to expand the game.

The use of the topography of the land is actually pretty good. It's a zig-zag arrangement up and down and around the giant slope the course is on, not a bunch of downhill shots in a row followed by a bunch of uphill shots.

It's a nice location for a course for sure, but this place needs a bunch more amenities and the tee signs moved before it's worth a trip there.
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