Covington City Park reviews
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Growing the Sport! 2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:Mar 27, 2015
Played the course:once
Pros:
- Located in a nice, multi-purpose city park. Wonderful addition to an already bustling and active park.
- Great new baskets.
- Actually decent use of elevation available on the course, which I was not at all expecting.
- Decent variety in length, perfect for beginner/rec disc golf.
- Basic signage with Hole # and distance. All that's required.
- #3 plays up a 15' hill to a blind basket - good addition.
- #4 drives back down that same hill around a large tree. Good use (minus requiring a typical big hyzer)
- I liked how #9 tee is positioned to bring a large, low hanging branch from the nearby tree into play.
- Great new baskets.
- Actually decent use of elevation available on the course, which I was not at all expecting.
- Decent variety in length, perfect for beginner/rec disc golf.
- Basic signage with Hole # and distance. All that's required.
- #3 plays up a 15' hill to a blind basket - good addition.
- #4 drives back down that same hill around a large tree. Good use (minus requiring a typical big hyzer)
- I liked how #9 tee is positioned to bring a large, low hanging branch from the nearby tree into play.
Cons:
- Essentially no shot-shaping required on the course. Most drive shapes are available to you on each hole.
- Certainly a lot of possible traffic in and around the course. It mostly stays away, aside from #6 which crosses a few paths.
- The course itself doubles over and crosses up in many places. So long as the players are sparse, as I would imagine is mostly the case, no problem.
- The walk from 6 to 7 is quite long and confusing, even after studying the kiosk map (which only shows baskets, not tees). Map on DGCR shows more. There is a directional sign after 6's basket, but it only shows you which way to walk...you just don't know how far to go, or which side of the road to be looking.
- Certainly a lot of possible traffic in and around the course. It mostly stays away, aside from #6 which crosses a few paths.
- The course itself doubles over and crosses up in many places. So long as the players are sparse, as I would imagine is mostly the case, no problem.
- The walk from 6 to 7 is quite long and confusing, even after studying the kiosk map (which only shows baskets, not tees). Map on DGCR shows more. There is a directional sign after 6's basket, but it only shows you which way to walk...you just don't know how far to go, or which side of the road to be looking.
Other Thoughts:
- Grass tees are sufficient, probably no real need to install concrete pads unless the volume of play dictates as such. Money was spent on signage first, correctly.
- Decent city park 9-holers are how we grow knowledge of the sport. Even if kids just play a few times in their youth, it may always be something they come back to in High School or College, like so many of us!
- Decent city park 9-holers are how we grow knowledge of the sport. Even if kids just play a few times in their youth, it may always be something they come back to in High School or College, like so many of us!