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Greenfield, OH

Chainbreaker DGC

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Cerealman
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Experience: 15.8 years 588 played 179 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Freedom to break chains 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Oct 23, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

Some churches share spiritual encouragement by including Scripture on their teepad signs, but the Chainbreaker DGC goes one better by deriving its course name from a Bible verse (Psalm 107:14).

The markers to indicate tee areas are good with easily-seen colors and a little sign that indicates hole number and length. The layout has nine baskets, and there's the option of red or blue teepads. The red and blue layouts are similar in length (both options total just over 2,600 feet) and difficulty level, though strangely, the red teepads total par 28, while the blue teepads total par 29. I appreciate that they numbered both signs 1 through 9, instead of the weird "1/10, 2/11, 3/12 ..." format that some nine-hole courses use when desperately seeking to masquerade as an 18-hole course.

The most interesting hole might be Hole #3. Even though it's the shortest hole (165 or 178 feet), the basket is positioned under a tree with low branches, so you'll have to be strategic with your approach or you risk not having an open look at birdie.

The traversability is high as the entire course is a well-kept grassy area. The course navigation is really straight forward, literally, as all the fairways are basically straight lines.

The baskets are Dynamic Patriot and seemed to catch well. The chains didn't break, either.

Cons:

The Chainbreaker course isn't breaking any new ground with their design, however, as it's mostly flat and mostly open. Also, you'll feel like you're walking in someone's backyard a couple times, due to the course's proximity to buildings.

The teepads are natural and marked by a plank of wood or painted lines. For several holes, the teepad area is on a sidewalk or concrete road.

If you decide to play both blue and red, there's a couple-minute walk back to the first tee. Also, there's a short walk back to the Hole #9 teepad. Just be sure you're throwing to the correct basket as the basket on Hole #6 is hidden and the basket for Hole #9 can be tough to spot behind the bushes.

Other Thoughts:

The course name is genius, as it's appropriate for both disc golf and the message of the ministry and retreat center.

This is a decent course to introduce novices to disc golf if you're near Greenfield. The first four holes, which are located on the front part of the campus, are shorter than the remaining five, which are in a large field behind the buildings.
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sisyphus
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Experience: 12.7 years 398 played 383 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Good introductory course 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 4, 2020 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

This nice, friendly course on the Freedom Trail property in Greenfield features good, efficient PVC signage in red and blue, DD baskets and decent use of the terrain and foliage they had on the property. Nine baskets with two tees each provide variety in terms of tightness of line and distance. Tees are either painted on available hard surfaces or marked with toe boards. There are some challenging tees (gaps to hit on hole 8 come to mind), approaches (the trees guarding 6 & 7), and greens (1, nestled up against the pine, and 3 tucked under the low-hanging branches of a beautiful park tree).
The flow is mostly easy to follow, even for a first timer, but there is a good map available her on dgcr, as well. The loop(s) can be enjoyed fairly quickly, and overall, the course is a great 'intro' to the sport for the folks in Greenfield who haven't yet heard about Paint Creek :)

Cons:

The design definitely favors left to right lines and might use a bit too much of forced low ceilings for beginners (particularly on holes 3, 4 & 9). The weeping willow on hole 1 blue will have some folks risking a R to L line out on the street. Some of the tee areas felt cramped between the sign post and the bushes. Hole 5 blue felt a little dangerous for its combination of distance and the two buildings on either side (a misfire would be bad). And the land is flat, so there was no real opportunity to toy with elevations here. Oh, and on hole 6, the basket is kind of blind off the tee: don't throw across the side-by-side fairways to the visible basket #8 (like I did!)

Other Thoughts:

It wasn't really clear how they chose the red vs blue tees: they're not 'long' and 'short', nor are they technical vs 'easy'. They seem to have been chosen so the net distances between the two available loops are similar? Overall, this course seems to be geared to scoring as a 'par 3' course for the recreational to intermediate skill levels.
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kingery.14
Experience: 14.7 years 80 played 1 reviews
4.00 star(s)

2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 31, 2020 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

makes you think about your shot, variety of shots, well kept grounds, nice baskets, mix of natural tees and use of existing pavement, neat tee signs, even short holes present challenges

Cons:

course sometimes has other events so you need to play around that
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