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Long Lake, MN

Nelson Park

1.75(based on 5 reviews)
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Steve West
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Experience: 1 years 623 played 30 reviews
0.50 star(s)

All Risk, No Reward 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 22, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

New baskets, nice signs, mowed fairways, parking lot, bathrooms nearby, easy access.

Cons:

Really uninteresting. Many impossibly shaped right-turn throws (unless you can throw a circular arc segment) so the play is to lay up left into the other fairway on a 100-200 foot hole.

The course offers almost no chance of success for the level of player who would like a course this short. For example, if you find a 142 foot hole appropriately challenging, you probably can't land on an 11 foot wide isthmus. Bye-bye 10th birthday present.

Interference issues abound, as would be expected when 9-holes are crammed into two, count-'em - two(!) acres of land, along with a walking path and picnic shelter.

Sure, only a couple of the fairways technically cross - if you only count the straight line from the tee to the target - but you are almost always on two fairways at once, and there are spots on the course where you can be in the flight path of three or four holes. Some of these spots are tee pads and targets.

The first hole requires a blind throw toward a picnic shelter. The target would far enough away from the shelter if the thrower could see either the shelter or the target. However, many throws will land on the grass around the shelter where people let their dogs work their anal gland problems out.

The RHBH hzyer route would be over lose-your-disc-bushes, water, private property, a walking path and the picnic shelter. I'm sure the designers convinced themselves no one would ever attempt these throws. Ha!

Other Thoughts:

If the decision-makers at your city, club, or camp are so ignorant or cheap that they think they can get by without hiring a real designer, take them to this course. For the lack of an experienced designer - or even the maturity to consult with an experienced designer - all the money and effort that went into this course resulted in a basically unplayable course.
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