• Discover new ways to elevate your game with the updated DGCourseReview app!
    It's entirely free and enhanced with features shaped by user feedback to ensure your best experience on the course. (App Store or Google Play)

Kansas City, MO

Oak Park High School

1.755(based on 2 reviews)
Filter course reviews

Filter reviews

Filter reviews

Oak Park High School reviews

Filter
9 0
Surge5
Gold level trusted reviewer
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.
Was this review helpful? Yes No

Latest posts

Top