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Somerset, KY

Rocky Hollow Park

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2.945(based on 8 reviews)
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Junkyard_J
Experience: 11.9 years 8 played 3 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Mediocre at best 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 12, 2017 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

It's a challenging course with lots of dense trees. Signs are posted well and the course is layed out fairly well for as tight as the course is

Cons:

Very steep hillside for the entire course. The grounds aren't the best and some people may like courses like that but it's not for me
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goosefraba1
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Experience: 12.4 years 82 played 40 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Could have been the best 9 holer in the state... settled for a mediocre 18. 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 23, 2014 Played the course:once

Pros:

I had the chance today to play this course. After only seeing 2 reviews on here, I thought it would give me a chance to give an unbiased opinion. Let me start out by saying that this park has some pretty awesome terrain, and it looks like parks and rec, or the club takes great care of the area. This course is fair, if you know where the baskets are (I will go into that later in the cons). Seemed as though there were very few tweener holes on this course. All seemed like legit par 3s and 4s. The elevation change..... this course offers a variety of well planned elevation change. I was pretty impressed from the get go. The amenities are great here... a bench at every hole... plenty of trash cans... awesome gym area that you park beside.... great course map. The fun factor is definitely there as is difficulty in the front 9.

Cons:

The Front 9: Really not too much negative to say here. My only complaint is that we threw to the wrong basket on 3 different shots. Now 1 time I would say would be the throwers fault at an Intermediate level, 2 times might be coincidence, 3 times.... 3 times has to be a design fault. What is worse... is that those shots were actually better looking holes (for instance hole 3s pad to 5s basket).

I feel that this course might have been professionally setup for the first 9 or 10 holes by HB ... and then the rest were just an after thought. The course would be better without 7 of the last 9 holes... plain and simple. The shots often play near a walking path, or a mostly dry creek. They just don't flow with the front 9 holes. It really started feeling that I was crossing my steps back and forth, and that both the pads and the baskets were placed by the Parks and Rec instead of HB. It started looking like the pads were stacked side by side on every hole there on the back 9. Just a really weird flow.

Other Thoughts:

If I was rating the front 9 only... or if this was a 9 hole course, I would probably rate it as high as a 4. If I was rating the back 9 only, I would rate it as low as a 2. I am rating this course as a 2.5... that is how bad the back 9 is.... the course probably should rate at 2.75. If you are in the area, I would probably pass on this course and play its big brothers at PC Park.
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