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Brubaker Park reviews
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A bit disjointed but a lot of fun holes here
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Played on:May 9, 2024
Played the course:2-4 times
Pros:
1 tee and 18 basket are right next to each other, so no long walks to start or finish.
Lots of fun, wide open bombs
Lots of fun, narrow tunnels
Fair mix of left and right curving holes
Course gets progressively harder as you go along.
The middle part of the course is really good.
For a really tough course, there are a lot of holes you can still birdie. It's not an endless bogey factory.
Lots of fun, wide open bombs
Lots of fun, narrow tunnels
Fair mix of left and right curving holes
Course gets progressively harder as you go along.
The middle part of the course is really good.
For a really tough course, there are a lot of holes you can still birdie. It's not an endless bogey factory.
Cons:
Pretty dull start and finish
Last hole might give you heat stroke
The next tee on several holes can be tough to find on your first visit. Lots of 250-foot walks between holes.
Tees are asphalt, which are nice when it's dry and cool, but asphalt is made out of oil and it's going to be brutally hot and dirty in the dead of summer.
There is 1 tee and 1 basket per hole, and it's a really long course. Beginners might get annoyed.
Udisc has a layout that lets you start on hole 7. Please don't do that. Just go to hole 1. There is lots of parking there. The last thing people want is to start on 1, play 6 uninterrupted holes, then hit a wall of people starting on 7.
Last hole might give you heat stroke
The next tee on several holes can be tough to find on your first visit. Lots of 250-foot walks between holes.
Tees are asphalt, which are nice when it's dry and cool, but asphalt is made out of oil and it's going to be brutally hot and dirty in the dead of summer.
There is 1 tee and 1 basket per hole, and it's a really long course. Beginners might get annoyed.
Udisc has a layout that lets you start on hole 7. Please don't do that. Just go to hole 1. There is lots of parking there. The last thing people want is to start on 1, play 6 uninterrupted holes, then hit a wall of people starting on 7.
Other Thoughts:
This is a new course, less than 3 years old and there are a lot of fun, unusual holes here. It's worth a visit. However, the layout is sort of disjointed as the park does find places to put cool holes, but the next cool hole often isn't anywhere near the cool hole you just played.
The course doesn't get off to a great start. Both 1 and 2 are in an empty field with an arbitrary fairway mowed. I imagine the grass can get kind of high in the summer, if they are only mowing the fairways. They are both long par 3s, 350+. So the average player isn't going to reach them.
It takes a while to locate the tee to 3 and while that is another hole in a field, at least the second shot does have a few trees to contend with. It looks like the basket to 3 may originally have been farther back, and you were expected to hit your gap off the tee, not on the second shot, but due to safety reasons the entire hole was moved backwards about 200 feet.
Hole 4 is an interesting Frankenstein's monster of a par 4. Originally, this was an uphill par 3 through a tree-lined corridor. But where they have the original tee is way too close to #17 so I imagine there was a few close calls. Now the hole is a V-shaped par 4 where you throw a shot down a hill around a tree to about where the original tee was, and then back uphill through the woods. The basket is probably only 150 feet from the new tee, but you have to take the scenic route to get there.
After that there are a succession of really fun and interesting holes that are kind of scattered around the edges of the woods. Hole 5 forces you through a triple mando into a downhill field, and then your second shot is uphill and sort of blind and around a corner. Nice effort.
6 starts a trend of tunnel-shot left-to-right curving par 3s. 7 is another long downhill par 3 but it's bombs away into grove of pine trees near the basket. Maybe you're parked, maybe you're blocked. 8 is a cool par 4 that dares you to hyzer one from a big field into into a little gap in the woods, but soon you learn to just lay one out to the right in the open field. Then fire one up the gap. 9 is nowhere to be found but once you do eventually locate it, you have another left to right shot into the trees. It's your third one in four holes.
The trend continues on 10, which is a classic switchback par 4 that curves one way off the tee, then the other way to the green. It gives you a very fun tunnel shot along a creek, then a shot to the right up a hill around the corner of a tree line. Easy par, very tough birdie. Might be the best hole on the course, along with #5. By this point you've played 6 consecutive really fun and interesting holes after a slow start.
The course starts to coast for a while, 11-14 are all decent enough par 3s through the woods. They are all pretty much the same length and three of the four require a solid turnover shot to get close. The only problem is finding the next tee, because after you putt out it's not obvious where to go and your map says the next tee is 200 feet away.
When you get to 15 you're hoping for a birdie. Scorecard says it's a short par 4, and it is, but the gap 30 feet in front of you is uphill and about 5 feet wide. If you hit it, your reward is a 150-foot upshot in an empty field. If you miss it, the punishment is pretty severe. It's hard to even play safe, just go for it.
After this though, the course staggers to a finish in the empty fields where you started, except with hazards. 16 is a 390-foot uphill par 3, the fairway is reasonable but you might as well just play it as 2 shots to get there so you avoid the penalty high grass. 17 is a fun little downhill shot, to an artificial island green It's tilted left and away from you so yet another advantage to the lefty.
18 though.....this has to the the most hated hole in the area. 1077 feet, uphill the entire way, and in an empty field except for one row of trees 450 feet off the tee where you have to negotiate a shot through the row. If you do, your reward is a 600-foot march up hill, with no shade at all. It's a par 5 and I suppose it is if you have 400-foot power, but the average golfer is going to take at 5 to get anywhere near the basket. 5 good 200-foot pulls up the hill and a 70-footer for bogey.
Overall, it's a good effort with a lot of enjoyable shots but they need a second tee or basket or both on a lot of the holes to make it more beginner friendly. Still, an average golfer who can only get it out there 250 feet can have fun here. There are a lot of downhill shots, shortish par 4s, reasonable par 3s. Half the holes are birdie possibilities. The other 9 though are very long and par is a good score.
Plus 4 was rated 191 on Udisc so it's a tough place to shoot par. The last few holes can really shred a good start.
The two other reviews on here are from when this was a 9-hole course. Based on the photos and descriptions, here's how it has changed:
#1 is a new hole
#2 was previously #1
#3 was previously #2
#4 is a combination of the previous #3 and #4.
#5 is the same
#6 is a new hole
#7 is the original #6
#8 is a new hole
#9 is old #7
#10 is old #8
#11 is old #9
After that...it's all new!
The course doesn't get off to a great start. Both 1 and 2 are in an empty field with an arbitrary fairway mowed. I imagine the grass can get kind of high in the summer, if they are only mowing the fairways. They are both long par 3s, 350+. So the average player isn't going to reach them.
It takes a while to locate the tee to 3 and while that is another hole in a field, at least the second shot does have a few trees to contend with. It looks like the basket to 3 may originally have been farther back, and you were expected to hit your gap off the tee, not on the second shot, but due to safety reasons the entire hole was moved backwards about 200 feet.
Hole 4 is an interesting Frankenstein's monster of a par 4. Originally, this was an uphill par 3 through a tree-lined corridor. But where they have the original tee is way too close to #17 so I imagine there was a few close calls. Now the hole is a V-shaped par 4 where you throw a shot down a hill around a tree to about where the original tee was, and then back uphill through the woods. The basket is probably only 150 feet from the new tee, but you have to take the scenic route to get there.
After that there are a succession of really fun and interesting holes that are kind of scattered around the edges of the woods. Hole 5 forces you through a triple mando into a downhill field, and then your second shot is uphill and sort of blind and around a corner. Nice effort.
6 starts a trend of tunnel-shot left-to-right curving par 3s. 7 is another long downhill par 3 but it's bombs away into grove of pine trees near the basket. Maybe you're parked, maybe you're blocked. 8 is a cool par 4 that dares you to hyzer one from a big field into into a little gap in the woods, but soon you learn to just lay one out to the right in the open field. Then fire one up the gap. 9 is nowhere to be found but once you do eventually locate it, you have another left to right shot into the trees. It's your third one in four holes.
The trend continues on 10, which is a classic switchback par 4 that curves one way off the tee, then the other way to the green. It gives you a very fun tunnel shot along a creek, then a shot to the right up a hill around the corner of a tree line. Easy par, very tough birdie. Might be the best hole on the course, along with #5. By this point you've played 6 consecutive really fun and interesting holes after a slow start.
The course starts to coast for a while, 11-14 are all decent enough par 3s through the woods. They are all pretty much the same length and three of the four require a solid turnover shot to get close. The only problem is finding the next tee, because after you putt out it's not obvious where to go and your map says the next tee is 200 feet away.
When you get to 15 you're hoping for a birdie. Scorecard says it's a short par 4, and it is, but the gap 30 feet in front of you is uphill and about 5 feet wide. If you hit it, your reward is a 150-foot upshot in an empty field. If you miss it, the punishment is pretty severe. It's hard to even play safe, just go for it.
After this though, the course staggers to a finish in the empty fields where you started, except with hazards. 16 is a 390-foot uphill par 3, the fairway is reasonable but you might as well just play it as 2 shots to get there so you avoid the penalty high grass. 17 is a fun little downhill shot, to an artificial island green It's tilted left and away from you so yet another advantage to the lefty.
18 though.....this has to the the most hated hole in the area. 1077 feet, uphill the entire way, and in an empty field except for one row of trees 450 feet off the tee where you have to negotiate a shot through the row. If you do, your reward is a 600-foot march up hill, with no shade at all. It's a par 5 and I suppose it is if you have 400-foot power, but the average golfer is going to take at 5 to get anywhere near the basket. 5 good 200-foot pulls up the hill and a 70-footer for bogey.
Overall, it's a good effort with a lot of enjoyable shots but they need a second tee or basket or both on a lot of the holes to make it more beginner friendly. Still, an average golfer who can only get it out there 250 feet can have fun here. There are a lot of downhill shots, shortish par 4s, reasonable par 3s. Half the holes are birdie possibilities. The other 9 though are very long and par is a good score.
Plus 4 was rated 191 on Udisc so it's a tough place to shoot par. The last few holes can really shred a good start.
The two other reviews on here are from when this was a 9-hole course. Based on the photos and descriptions, here's how it has changed:
#1 is a new hole
#2 was previously #1
#3 was previously #2
#4 is a combination of the previous #3 and #4.
#5 is the same
#6 is a new hole
#7 is the original #6
#8 is a new hole
#9 is old #7
#10 is old #8
#11 is old #9
After that...it's all new!
