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Buhl, MN

Judson Mine DGC

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Horsman
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Experience: 17.8 years 222 played 100 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Good but needs work 2+ years

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:May 22, 2021 Played the course:once

Pros:

+ Beautiful course design, almost every hole feels like it was where is should be.

+ Teesigns give you about all the information you need

+ Prodigy baskets catch well but could be upgraded to Discatchers for a better catching basket.

+ Easy to navigate

+ Multiple tees and multiple pins coming

+ Very technical wooded course with its fair share of distance. Its wooded but no where near too wooded. Every hole but hole 8 is a fair hole.

+ Lots of elevation changes but I wouldnt consider this to be mountain golf. The elevation was used very well.

+ Hole 3 and 4 would be my favorite two holes. The contrast in those two holes made it super fun.

+ Tunnel shot on 14 was really cool and unexpected and was a good example of a fair tunnel shot. Not too wide but not too narrow.

Cons:

- Teepads. Some of the worst I have every played on. The turf tees are very worn and are very slick. I could not throw over 70%ish power because if I did my foot would slip and I would fall or possibly hurt myself. The tees are all not a uniform size. One tee was built up a bit on the side of a slope using a wooden platform and was super bouncy and not fun or safe to throw off of. More than half of the teepads were also not flat. They were lumpy and not a consistent lumpy that you can work around. Just random potholes. The fronts of most tees are also worn down so that they drop off and make the front foot of the teepad unusable. In the rain these teepads are extremely slick and not safe and should not be played on. A lot of the tees are also in the shade so they do not dry quickly.

- Hole 8 is the only headscratcher on the whole course. I couldn't find a fair line. Its about 400ish with the first 300 being pretty open and then leading to a 100' section with no clear path to the basket. It is a true poke and hope or luck shot.

- I wish the water would have come into play on more than just 1 hole. (Edit, I found the water on two more holes accidently, I had some bad shots)

- Parking lot is a bit small so I could see this being an issue come tournament time. (Edit, played a tournament here. The parking lot seemed almost big enough with just a few cars spilling over to the road and other parking lots.)

Other Thoughts:

Overall, I really enjoyed my time at this course and will be going back but the course needs an upgrade on the teepads asap. The course would be a 4.25 if it had concrete teepads and a 4 if it had no teepads, yes a higher rating in my eyes if it didnt have teepads (they are that bad imo). Its really a shame that there is this amazingly designed course on an amazing property and then they put in some of the worst teepads you can think of on it. I would personally donate my time to individually carrying every bag of concrete needed for the tees to each hole. Might take me a week or two but this course deserves it. You should 100% play this course and I would say you should drive out of your way to play it at least once.
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