White Marsh reviews
14
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WInd, water and athletic fields 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Apr 9, 2022
Played the course:once
Cons:
Nine baskets spread around the back of a (windy) athletic complex
- It's hard to know who this is designed for. Given the location at a large multisport facility, you'd think it might cater to newbies or people who want to try out the game because they see baskets or others playing. But the first four holes all feature water on the left side down a steep bank: a guarantee of lost discs as people learn how to throw. Experienced players will find little challenge in holes 5 -9, which are just baskets placed around the athletic fields
- It's hard to know who this is designed for. Given the location at a large multisport facility, you'd think it might cater to newbies or people who want to try out the game because they see baskets or others playing. But the first four holes all feature water on the left side down a steep bank: a guarantee of lost discs as people learn how to throw. Experienced players will find little challenge in holes 5 -9, which are just baskets placed around the athletic fields
Other Thoughts:
~ Even though it's great to see another new course at a public park, it looks like they found the budget to purchase nine baskets and just put them in a loop, then install nine tee signs (that still remain blank), and then … moved on to other things.There's nothing really "broken" here, but nothing really enjoyable either. Newbies should not play this layout - they are likely to lose their discs in the pond on 1-4. Experienced players will be bored by the wide open holes 5-9.
~ I don't know how White Marsh will be played by anyone more than once, except maybe using baskets for field work while your kids are at practice
~ I don't know how White Marsh will be played by anyone more than once, except maybe using baskets for field work while your kids are at practice
17
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Discs and thoughts they fade, fade away 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Jun 27, 2021
Played the course:once
Pros:
Easy navigation. Park just beyond the baseball fields, then you can easily start at #8, throwing towards the pond. Holes 9-4 play counterclockwise around the pond. Holes #5 (woods on right side), #6, (field somewhat heading toward parking lot), and #7 (back towards pond) leaves you with an easy walk across the field to tee=8, or past it and through the parking lot to your car near the baseball fields.
Red-winged blackbirds love the narrow strip of growth surrounding the pond.
Red-winged blackbirds love the narrow strip of growth surrounding the pond.
Cons:
Dead flat (it is the Eastern Shore).
Single tee (widely-spread gravel) / single basket (single-chained Prodigys)
Disc loss potential.
Some tees within circle 1.5 of previous basket.
Single tee (widely-spread gravel) / single basket (single-chained Prodigys)
Disc loss potential.
Some tees within circle 1.5 of previous basket.
Other Thoughts:
Course is at the back of a large public park near the town of Centreville, and frequently uses a pond and/or thick woods with its dense supporting undergrowth to define its wide fairways.
Holes are open, with minimal shot-shaping opportunities - or, when shot-shaping is needed, it is essentially avoidance of hard fade.
While the fairways are of decent width ...
Holes 7-8 have water to punish overthrowers.
Holes 9, 1-4 have water left to capture left-fading throws.
Holes 1-5 have jungle to obfuscate right-fading throws.
Hole-4 is the nastiest, as the basket is located just past the far edge of the pond, with thick growth along its banks
Hole-6 is about the only hole (wide open field) where too much turn/fade won't make one squeamish.
Distances range from 213' to 420', averaging 332', so there will be several opportunities to bomb away.
It's ... okay, but not appropriate for hyzer-newbs, despite what its relative openness might suggest.
Holes are open, with minimal shot-shaping opportunities - or, when shot-shaping is needed, it is essentially avoidance of hard fade.
While the fairways are of decent width ...
Holes 7-8 have water to punish overthrowers.
Holes 9, 1-4 have water left to capture left-fading throws.
Holes 1-5 have jungle to obfuscate right-fading throws.
Hole-4 is the nastiest, as the basket is located just past the far edge of the pond, with thick growth along its banks
Hole-6 is about the only hole (wide open field) where too much turn/fade won't make one squeamish.
Distances range from 213' to 420', averaging 332', so there will be several opportunities to bomb away.
It's ... okay, but not appropriate for hyzer-newbs, despite what its relative openness might suggest.
14
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Very nice countryside course 2+ years
Reviewed:
Updated:
Played on:Sep 25, 2020
Played the course:once
Pros:
It's still new, good-looking, and clean. Fairly easy to navigate from one hole to the next without need of a course map. However, you may want to first walk up to see a basket tucked around trees or down a slope (nos. 9, 4, 7).
There is a nice balance of short and long holes.
I like the gravel around the baskets to slow the roll of discs that want to stand up on their edges. This is especially necessary for the baskets near the sloping pond shoreline.
Some holes are not tremendously imaginative but not bad. Others are distinctly more creative: the boomerang no. 9, a sloped tee at no. 5 that requires you play a flat hole like an uphill one to start, no. 6 makes you contemplate where best to cross the ravine (early or late), no. 7 requires you to go up a ravine and then back down a slope.
There is a nice balance of short and long holes.
I like the gravel around the baskets to slow the roll of discs that want to stand up on their edges. This is especially necessary for the baskets near the sloping pond shoreline.
Some holes are not tremendously imaginative but not bad. Others are distinctly more creative: the boomerang no. 9, a sloped tee at no. 5 that requires you play a flat hole like an uphill one to start, no. 6 makes you contemplate where best to cross the ravine (early or late), no. 7 requires you to go up a ravine and then back down a slope.
Cons:
Seems the numbering of the holes (here on DGCR, nothing in the field yet) is odd, based on where you have to park. I played holes 8-9 and then 1-7. You could also play 7-9, 1-6.
I don't mind gravel tee pads or tee boxes, but these tee pads are irregular in shape and have the unnumbered sign right in the middle of the area. Makes them less useful. You may have to actually tee off aside the gravel pit to know you can swing your arm without hitting the sign.
No numbers on the signs nor the baskets. No yardage information either. Indeed, there is nothing at all on the signs. Perhaps it is coming with additional funding.
A lot of bugs including yellow jackets.
I don't mind gravel tee pads or tee boxes, but these tee pads are irregular in shape and have the unnumbered sign right in the middle of the area. Makes them less useful. You may have to actually tee off aside the gravel pit to know you can swing your arm without hitting the sign.
No numbers on the signs nor the baskets. No yardage information either. Indeed, there is nothing at all on the signs. Perhaps it is coming with additional funding.
A lot of bugs including yellow jackets.
Other Thoughts:
The routing is around a large, long pond as well as spur ravines in a largely open plain. There is real rough along the outer edges of the property. There is a "backwood" pond on the right of no. 1. The right rough along 1-5 is for real: thick, thorny, possibly sometimes wet. There seems to be something of a ditch or creek bed there.
Because there is plenty trouble on this mostly open course, I would recommend playing conservatively until you know the course. And save your discs. Plenty opportunity to lose them. You may want to layup to the shoreline baskets descending to the pond unless you are an outstanding long-range putter.
The course seems largely undiscovered. It is in the middle of farmland (true), but I was surprised (and pleased) to have the course to myself on a Friday morning. The park has several baseball and soccer fields. It seems to mostly support the local school teams and leagues.
Because there is plenty trouble on this mostly open course, I would recommend playing conservatively until you know the course. And save your discs. Plenty opportunity to lose them. You may want to layup to the shoreline baskets descending to the pond unless you are an outstanding long-range putter.
The course seems largely undiscovered. It is in the middle of farmland (true), but I was surprised (and pleased) to have the course to myself on a Friday morning. The park has several baseball and soccer fields. It seems to mostly support the local school teams and leagues.