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Sugar Creek, MO

LaBenite Park

3.335(based on 3 reviews)
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wolfhaley
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3.00 star(s)

The tale of two halves

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 12, 2022 Played the course:once

Pros:

La Benite DGC is almost like two seperate 9's. The front half, minus holes 1 and 2, is tight technical woods golf. Tough but fair lines that reward accuracy over power. Placement and just generally staying on the fairway is paramount on these holes. The back 9 is the polar opposite. Basically wide open bomber holes with the wind being your main challenge.

The tees are concrete. One tee pad per hole for the front 9 and 3 of the back 9. Six of the back 9 have shorter tees which makes it less absurd for the lesser powered players to stay even. The tees were good sized, level and had good grip. No compaints with these and definitely appreciated the shorts on the back half.

The baskets are light blue banded DiscGolfPark baskets. These things are basically Innova Discatcher clones. I honestly don't know what the difference is between the two other than the next tee arrow on the bottom rung of the cage. Which, by the way, is an awesome touch. These baskets catch great though. One pin position per hole.

The flow of the course is generally pretty easy to follow. Gets a little iffy on the back 9, but the next tee arrows on the cages really help.

The tee signs are pretty basic but serviceable. They feature the hole #, par, distance(s) and a basic hole map. The tee sign is only located by the long tee on the back half. It does show the location of the short tee though. They also feature a next tee arrow on the signs, which I honestly stopped looking at once I realized they had the arrows on the baskets.

There's a few benches scattered about, which is appreciated on the more open holes on a hot day like today.

The course is permanent and free to play. Probably not going to be the busiest course around, though there was a couple other groups out there on a warm Monday afternoon.


Cons:

The back nine has some obnoxious walks between holes. It's not the worst I've ever seen by any means, but usually it's to get to a better area for a hole to be, not just another pretty much wide open hole with a tree or two. Probably a good 700' walk back to the parking lot too.

The old barn skeleton on hole 18 was the only "interesting" thing on the back half. The problem is that it kind of plays stupid. And is the reason for the long walk back to the lot.

The grass seems to not be mowed as well on the open field holes. It wasn't horrible, but there was a few times we were looking for shots for a minute or two only to have walked right past them.

The rough on some of the wooded holes is pretty gnarly. Not really lose a disc gnarly, but sharp and thorny kind of gnarly.

A few of the hole maps didn't really show the hole shape very accurately. The double dog log hole was the most aggregous in this regard. It shows the first dog leg being a 90 degree turn, which it was. It also shows the second one the same, just the opposite direction. It was more like a gradual turn, maybe 15 degree angle.


Other Thoughts:

This was a hard course to rate. While I really liked the front half, other's might hate those holes but love the open bombers. So I guess it has something for everyone. It's a good course though. There has been some trees planted on some of the more open holes. So in 20 years those holes should play a bit more challenging. That didn't do those holes any good today though.

It's suggest giving this one a shot though. I enjoyed my round there and would possibly check it out if I'm in the area again. Not as good as Bad Rock Creek imo, but a fun course in it's own right.
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