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Phoenix, AZ

Sun Ray Park DGC

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3.175(based on 3 reviews)
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Monocacy
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Experience: 24 years 493 played 75 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Pleasant, park-style niner

Reviewed: Played on:Jan 8, 2024 Played the course:once

Pros:

This is a pleasant, grassy, park-style course suitable for beginners and more experienced players. Designers made good use of existing trees and minor elevation changes to extract the most interesting course possible from a relatively flat and mostly open site. Grass was well-tended and the course was clean and trash-free when I played.

Course infrastructure was well done. Post-mounted tee signs include a hole map, distance to each basket position, and any mandatories or OB areas. Good concrete pads on all holes. Yellow Latitude 64 baskets were easy to spot, mounted level, and caught well. Bathrooms by the parking lot. Brooms and bag hooks on many tee posts.

Short and long baskets on most holes provided a little distance variation and occasionally required different shot shapes. Nice mix of straight, right, and left-turning holes, frequently with tighter and more open options. A couple of holes left me wishing I had a better sidearm.

Designers also used a few tricks to add interest, with a double mando on #3, a raised basket on #7, and concrete landscape borders as OB on a few holes. Transitions between holes were short and navigation was fairly straightforward, although I did check the map app a few times.

Cons:

Potential safety hazards abound, with baseball fields and walking paths bordering several holes. On a weekday morning the sports fields were empty but quite a few pedestrians and dog walkers strolled within range of a poorly thrown drive. Mandos and OB have been established as mitigation but potential hazards remain. The most egregious safety hazard was a picnic table and trash cans about 5 feet from a mando on #5.

Remarkably little variation in hole lengths. Out of 18 possible basket-tee combinations, all but two ranged from 260 to 330 feet. Especially on the more open holes I felt like I was throwing the same shot over and over.

The course is nearly flat and more open than I prefer.

Other Thoughts:

This is a nice 9-hole course and I enjoyed playing here. The course is a quick spin just a few minutes off I-10, so the location is excellent for traveling players.

I played the 9-hole layout, mixing and matching short and long baskets. There is also an 18 "hole" layout that re-uses the 9 tees, which could add replay value while also potentially generating conflicts. I only saw a couple of other players on a weekday morning, but I do not know whether the course gets crowded at other times.
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pianocomposer
Experience: 27 years 21 played 21 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Great Little Ahwatukee Course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 10, 2022 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Cleverly designed lefty 9-hole course in public park with some alternative basket positions and challenging pin positions. Beautiful setting near Ahwatukee foothills never seems to flood. Mandos is place to prevent interactions with regular park users. Concrete pads, signs and arrows. Some benches.

Cons:

Inevitable issues with park users sometimes getting in the way. Nothing serious. There probably needs to be a Mando near the sidewalk on #5. But there have been no issues reported to date.

Other Thoughts:

One of the most clever uses of space I've ever seen for a small course. While none of the holes are super long, there's only one easy deuce hole.
They've been running leagues here on 1st and 3rd Saturday mornings since January 1st. Stunningly beautiful area. Very nice people seem fascinated with this "new" sport they've never seen. Lots of new players.
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chillis
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Experience: 24 years 103 played 29 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Solid, shared-use 9er 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jan 11, 2022 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Freshly installed course with new Lat64 baskets, concrete teepads, and signage including arrows for next tee location. Fantastic usage of the available space in this grassy park with the few "hills" around used to spice up the layout. The mature trees are used effectively as basket guardians and, alongside a couple ball field light post mandos, shape fairways and add difficulty to a short/medium layout with a couple Ace runs sprinkled in for good measure. A few of the holes have alternate basket placements which adds good variety of lines to hit.

There is one practice basket near the tee for #1.

The park has public restrooms and water fountain.

Cons:

The usual gripes about a busy, shared-use park: oblivious meandering park users, pedestrians on the paved path which boarders almost every hole. Patience is important here.

No real "bomb" hole but you'll need to keep your releases snappy in order to reach the baskets on holes with low ceilings (#1, 3, 6, 8).

Might just be because it's new and has a lot of eyes on it but the course can get busy fast and is often slow-going after 4pm.

Other Thoughts:

Although it is cramped in places and disc golfers will have to yield to other park users and remain courteous, I can't imagine a better layout for this space. Designers did a superb job with limited space in creating a fun and challenging layout.

An Ahwatukee course was long overdue and I'm stoked this is in the ground! Hopefully all goes well here and Desert Foothills Park (larger park W down Chandler Blvd) will see an 18 in the near future!
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