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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 501 played 76 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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