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A good course that shouldn't have been built 2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:May 6, 2022
Played the course:once
Pros:
Mix of throws with a good use of obstacles
Nice scenery
Nice scenery
Cons:
Navigation can be confusing in places
Busy park
Busy park
Other Thoughts:
This is a community course built in an established park with natural topography that works very well for disc golf. It's definitely a rec-level course, with many holes in the 250 foot range, up to a few in the 400 foot range.The holes take advantage of terrain, mature trees, and few holes work around a decent-sized lake. There's a nice variety of throws--a great place for rec-level players, but still interesting enough for experts. The course starts with the front nine winding along the back side of the pond, then throwing across until you reach the floodwall near the Scioto river, where several holes play up, down, and along the floodwall, before heading back to the main part of the park. I especially liked the floodwall holes.
And the scenery is pleasant, as well, and very well used. Over the last century and a half, the park has been used for a wide variety of things, starting with a floodwater pump house (now an art gallery), and armory, and more recently they've added in a mini water park, tennis and basketball courts, and there's the remnants of a rail terminus that was, I think, used for unloading grain cars or something along those lines--what's left of the rail line is suspended through the second level of a large building with lots of "private property, don't even think about stepping onto these premises" signs.
Or, in other words, the course is packed in around a lot of other stuff, and the layout was questionable in a few areas. They did mostly keep away from the larger buildings (and the private property), but you still, in addition to the usual city park issue of holes running near streets, have to watch out for pedestrians on walking paths, a small memorial area, telephone guy wires, dumpsters, port-a-potties, crossing fairways, baskets from other holes directly in your throwing path, parking lots with cars in them, and geese. Lots and lots of geese.
Thanks to a large number of locals here aggressively feeding them, they're essentially tame. To the point that when I accidentally hit one with a low drive, it only ruffled its feathers a bit, waddled ten feet away, and sat right back down in the grass. And when I went to retrieve said disk, a few of the gaggle slowly walked away from me, but most of them just watched me. Or ignored me. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, I'll leave to your own judgement.
Also in keeping with the crowded theme, tee pads are either astroturf in slightly raised boxes, or whatever sidewalk or parking lot they happened to start the hole at. If there was a sidewalk near where they wanted a tee, they just put up a tee sign nearby, painted a few stripes on the sidewalk to designate the tee box, and called it good. Which is practical and efficient, I suppose, but still a bit awkward when a large group of non-players is gathered around your next tee.
As a rec-level player, I enjoyed playing the course... but I think they shouldn't have built it where they did. The park is just too busy: I came on a quiet time, and I was still playing around lots of people. I can only picture what a busy Saturday morning is like. At the very least, they should have laid out the holes differently--if they had put in a couple fewer holes in the front of the course and added a few to the back part of the course, they could have avoided many of the odd features (crossing fairways, the busier pedestrian paths, the port-a-potties), as well as cut down on some of the longer walks between holes. And no matter what the course looked like, they needed to avoid any holes going across parking lots, because I don't care how empty they usually are, someone's going to be parked there just when you're getting into your groove.
The first time through, take a picture of the course map. There are a few holes where navigation isn't obvious, and that's the only way you're going to figure out where to go. Someone local should take an afternoon to make up some "next tee" signs for the course; it could really use them.
And the scenery is pleasant, as well, and very well used. Over the last century and a half, the park has been used for a wide variety of things, starting with a floodwater pump house (now an art gallery), and armory, and more recently they've added in a mini water park, tennis and basketball courts, and there's the remnants of a rail terminus that was, I think, used for unloading grain cars or something along those lines--what's left of the rail line is suspended through the second level of a large building with lots of "private property, don't even think about stepping onto these premises" signs.
Or, in other words, the course is packed in around a lot of other stuff, and the layout was questionable in a few areas. They did mostly keep away from the larger buildings (and the private property), but you still, in addition to the usual city park issue of holes running near streets, have to watch out for pedestrians on walking paths, a small memorial area, telephone guy wires, dumpsters, port-a-potties, crossing fairways, baskets from other holes directly in your throwing path, parking lots with cars in them, and geese. Lots and lots of geese.
Thanks to a large number of locals here aggressively feeding them, they're essentially tame. To the point that when I accidentally hit one with a low drive, it only ruffled its feathers a bit, waddled ten feet away, and sat right back down in the grass. And when I went to retrieve said disk, a few of the gaggle slowly walked away from me, but most of them just watched me. Or ignored me. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, I'll leave to your own judgement.
Also in keeping with the crowded theme, tee pads are either astroturf in slightly raised boxes, or whatever sidewalk or parking lot they happened to start the hole at. If there was a sidewalk near where they wanted a tee, they just put up a tee sign nearby, painted a few stripes on the sidewalk to designate the tee box, and called it good. Which is practical and efficient, I suppose, but still a bit awkward when a large group of non-players is gathered around your next tee.
As a rec-level player, I enjoyed playing the course... but I think they shouldn't have built it where they did. The park is just too busy: I came on a quiet time, and I was still playing around lots of people. I can only picture what a busy Saturday morning is like. At the very least, they should have laid out the holes differently--if they had put in a couple fewer holes in the front of the course and added a few to the back part of the course, they could have avoided many of the odd features (crossing fairways, the busier pedestrian paths, the port-a-potties), as well as cut down on some of the longer walks between holes. And no matter what the course looked like, they needed to avoid any holes going across parking lots, because I don't care how empty they usually are, someone's going to be parked there just when you're getting into your groove.
The first time through, take a picture of the course map. There are a few holes where navigation isn't obvious, and that's the only way you're going to figure out where to go. Someone local should take an afternoon to make up some "next tee" signs for the course; it could really use them.
