I think I have written a decent number of reviews, but I don't review every single course I play. There are a few reasons for I might have for not writing a review:
- If the course has quite a number of reviews and they all say roughly the same thing, I'm not likely to review it. You can already get a good sense of the course by reading the existing reviews.
- Sometimes I'm not sure I'm the right person to review the course. The expectation for a review here is that it should adhere to a certain standard, and it feels to me that (hyperbolically) you need to know what it's like to play 1000 rated golf in order to properly review a course. In order for my review to be valuable to the people who tend to frequent these parts, I at least need to be able to have a sense of what someone who could get to the circle on most of the holes, with regularity, would think of the course.
I haven't played a lot of disc golf with players rated more than rec level. So, when my reaction to a hole is something like "Man, this doesn't seem well designed", my first thought is to think that maybe I'm missing something.
When I had less than a year under my disc golf belt, I could provide a valuable insight from the perspective of a new player. Not that many new players write reviews here. Now, with more experience and significantly more distance and shot shaping ability, my perspective isn't unique, and it's also perhaps not well enough informed.
- If I think my experience on a course might change dramatically if I replayed it. Some courses really don't present themselves in the best light if you haven't already thrown them. Sometimes I get the sense, after playing, that scouting the holes wasn't nearly adequate to understand how to play them.
That said, I do try and make sure to review certain courses:
- If they haven't received a review in several years.
- If they seem to have been updated since the last review.
- If I have a solid opinion on the course that doesn't seem to be well represented in the reviews already here.
