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Kansas City, MO

Oak Park High School

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Surge5
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Experience: 9.8 years 167 played 167 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Park the Oak

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Oct 18, 2023 Played the course:once

Pros:

A quick loop around a corner of the school grounds, Oak Park is well appointed with nine brand new blue Veteran baskets, and well as two drain covers to mark the front edges of each teeing area.

You can start at hole 1, 6, or 8, and loop right back to where you started.

Lines through the trees are shown strongest on 5, 7, and 8. Fair ceilings combined with multiple gaps to hit down the hallway.

Some fun elevation. 2 is a stark uphill, and 4 less so. Longer downhills on 3 and 6 keep things interesting

For being wedged into such a small area, the course stays away from roads and other activities (besides hole 3) due to it being set down a slope from the parking lot.

Cons:

Lack of vision. The only well-set pin position is hole 4, tucked behind a tree. While not making the course too much more difficult, the baskets could have been set in much more interesting places than just slapped on the hillsides (while adding some difficulty, it gets very repetitive) It feels like the baskets were set, then they said "put the tees in the best spots you can." The uninteresting greens are the main con of this course, unless it's just supposed to be this bland and easy.

Hole 6's difficulty doesn't fit with the rest of the course. The best route is a difficult left-finisher over the fairway of 7, since the other option is a super hard right-finishing shot with a skip that must get under a nigh-on unfair tree ceiling.

The dirt tees are unfortunate, and while the tee markings are nice, their flatness makes some hole to hole transitions semi-difficult.

Some fairways play very close to each other. This course will probably never be busy enough for it to matter, but 5-8 all play quite close to each other.

Other Thoughts:

Roots throughout the fairways make groundplay nearly impossible to predict.

This is an extremely quick play. Easy to add onto Hobby Hill, K-Town, or Zone 6. If I lived closer it would be fun to speedrun and try to go sub-9 minutes. It's not flashy, it's not very challenging, but it's fine.
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Pevio
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Experience: 12 years 189 played 120 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Great Spot

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Aug 26, 2023 Played the course:once

Pros:

This is a school course with everything you would expect from a school course - except it's actually decent. There are scattered trees throughout the entire 4 acres this course is set on, making for a fun, but easy course. The first few holes are in the open, and then there is a nice variety of moderately wooded shots.

There are several "tunnel shots" that make sure to not punish you too hard. Holes 5 and 8 give you a couple of trees to beat, and hitting one of them and falling down won't keep you parked. Several holes also have some crazy around the outside lines, which is a little cheesy, but is fun at the same time.

Hole 6 is fantastic. It's a proper low ceiling where an early tree kick can land you with a tough upshot. You have to commit to whatever shot you take (and you can throw over 7's fairway), but a good shot is super rewarding.

Cons:

A lot of holes are just really short and fairly uninteresting. Even a bad shot on some leaves you with a birdie putt. Holes 1, 7, and 9 are the worst, mostly because they are so short, but several others don't have much unique about them, especially if you throw a 200-foot hyzer. Holes 5 and 6 remain as being the only fairly difficult holes on the course.

Navigation is fairly poor. The tees are just a couple of stones in the ground, and are hard to find, even the first tee. There are several baskets in the middle of the field close together, and it can be a little hard to tell where you're throwing. Hole 6 is the toughest of those navigation-wise. And speaking of tees, they look like they could get muddy easily.

Also, several holes play close to one another, and hitting a tree can put you in another fairway, but not actually in a tough spot. This course wasn't meant to have 36 players on it at the same time, but lack of scramble potential is an issue.

Other Thoughts:

This is a great spot for a short course. It has enough trees to be keep things interesting and unique from hole to hole, and offers a lot of safari potential as well. Moving some tees around would be an easy way to spice up the course, but I like the existing tee spots pretty good anyway (some up the hill by the parking lot).

Otherwise, this is a pretty good warmup course, with a decent amount of variety, no lost disc potential, and at least a little reason to try and shot shape your discs.
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