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Weeks Park reviews
4
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Pathways and Fences and Roads, Oh My!! 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Apr 8, 2019
Played the course:once
Pros:
This park course features widely spaced trees, acres and acres of mowed grass, a large drainage ditch and several small ones. These are the natural features, and they don't provide an awful lot of challenge or interest. But the use of roads and fences, and especially a winding path as OB make this a challenging course overall.
This course requires some smart management in terms of reading the wind and deciding how to land your disc in bounds. The string of Holes 2 - 7 all rely on OB to fashion narrow or curved fairways with OB very much in play. Other holes use OB to punish long shots, or to define one side of the fairway.
Good variety of hole lengths from 208' out to 611'. A few holes offered a shorter tee, generally playing from a completely different angle.
Good concrete tee pads, signs with all of the necessary information, and excellent DisCatcher baskets provide great structure for the course. Navigation was easy, with most teepads being a short walk from the previous basket. A large parking lot is convenient to Holes 1 and 18.
This course requires some smart management in terms of reading the wind and deciding how to land your disc in bounds. The string of Holes 2 - 7 all rely on OB to fashion narrow or curved fairways with OB very much in play. Other holes use OB to punish long shots, or to define one side of the fairway.
Good variety of hole lengths from 208' out to 611'. A few holes offered a shorter tee, generally playing from a completely different angle.
Good concrete tee pads, signs with all of the necessary information, and excellent DisCatcher baskets provide great structure for the course. Navigation was easy, with most teepads being a short walk from the previous basket. A large parking lot is convenient to Holes 1 and 18.
Cons:
The course is dead flat and in a low-lying area, so casual water is a given after any type of rain. I played after a couple of days of rain and found plenty of standing water, with much of the grass standing in an inch of water. A very soggy round.
I'm not a big fan of relying on pathways/roads/fences to create challenge, and that is primarily what this course is about. Without the designated OB there are just a lot of throws across grass, but some of the fairways are gimmicky, with Hole 6 as a standout example. It's a 283' Par 3, with a pair of OB paths pinching in to a 10' width at about 250' and widening only slightly at the basket. You've pretty much got to throw to 230' and then pitch up to the basket.
The walking path really winds in and out of the course, and I had to wait several times for a lady who was walking her dog around and around. If there were several walkers I could see many more delays.
I'm not a big fan of relying on pathways/roads/fences to create challenge, and that is primarily what this course is about. Without the designated OB there are just a lot of throws across grass, but some of the fairways are gimmicky, with Hole 6 as a standout example. It's a 283' Par 3, with a pair of OB paths pinching in to a 10' width at about 250' and widening only slightly at the basket. You've pretty much got to throw to 230' and then pitch up to the basket.
The walking path really winds in and out of the course, and I had to wait several times for a lady who was walking her dog around and around. If there were several walkers I could see many more delays.
Other Thoughts:
If this were my home course I'd get very good at managing OB. But I find courses that use natural vegetation and terrain to accomplish challenge more satisfying.
