Dover, NH
Bellamy Park Share
Uploaded By: solomon.trenton Hole #3 (Taken 1/2011)
3 / --   3 / 168ft.   3 / 245ft.   3 / -- Par / Distance:
Hole #3 Tee



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Bellamy Park Disc Golf

5+    5/13/2012   5/16/2012
Review By: jvaccaro
Played: 16  Reviewed: 2  Exp: 2.8 Years
0 Helpful / 3 Not
Pros: course is free to play, nice new concrete tee boxes, multiple pin locations that vary seasonally, very friendly locals, scenic area along the Bellamy River
Cons: signage is outdated and inconsistent, there are a couple fairways that lack definition
Other Thoughts: overall course design is tight and requires precision accuracy

0 of 3 people found this review helpful.

Bellamy

5+    1/28/2012   1/30/2012
Review By: Lemony
Played: 10  Reviewed: 4
2 Helpful / 0 Not
Pros: A smaller course with an excellent feel.
Happy to be left handed on specific holes.
Trash bins at every tee.
Concrete tee boxes.
Rewards technical shots.
Two turns off of the highway.
Free!
Cons: As other reviewers have noted - this course has a large amount of trees waiting to grab your drive and throw it far from the fairway.
Signage is not current, and can be hard to navigate if it is your first time playing.
Other Thoughts: In playing this course you will often have looks that you have never seen on certain holes before, which I prefer to look at as a form of added variety. Multiple pin locations can change the character of each hole. Overall a fun course to play.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

 

1    6/10/2011   6/11/2011
Review By: bradharris
Played: 60  Reviewed: 39  Exp: 10.1 Years
5 Helpful / 0 Not
Pros: Easy to navigate - It is very easy to find your way around this course. The next tee is usually very easy to find from each basket.

Nice baskets - The baskets are in very good shape.

Beautiful setting - Nice woodsy feel with a river running through makes for a very nice setting.

Relatively few bugs - I didn't even need bug spray and never got bit.

Trash cans and benches - Every tee had a seat of some sort and there were plenty of trash cans to keep the litter to a minimum.
Cons: Too condensed - A lot of holes on this course are very close to others. It's very easy to end up in the fairway or even in the putting area for a different hole. Definitely need to keep your head on a swivel on crowded days.

Limited signage - The fact that there are signs is a plus, but some are missing and the ones that are there aren't a particularly good illustration of the hole.

Too many trees - There are some fairways that have a few too many trees in the middle. Rather than being an interesting challenge to the hole, they end up being a guard that only lets the lucky shots through. A little bit of tree removal would be nice.
Other Thoughts: I really enjoyed my first time on this course. It's not a hugely daunting course which made for a nice relaxed afternoon round. It did get really crowded and we were stuck in a backup with groups in front and behind us, but from what I hear, that's very unusual.

There also seemed to be a lot of beginners on the course. I don't list this as a positive or negative. I don't mind playing behind a slower beginner group, especially on the nice day we had. But be aware that there a number of players out there still learning the basics.

5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

 Challenging

1    5/2/2011   5/2/2011
Review By: dugmar
Played: 12  Reviewed: 4  Exp: 7 Years
0 Helpful / 2 Not
Pros: Free. Plenty of parking. Easy to get to. Course in great shape. Nice concrete tee boxes. Very challenging course for a rec player like me. Not very crowded with non-players.
Cons: Not sure if this is a con, but there are lots of trees. May be frustrating for some players.
Other Thoughts: Great free course with some nice natural beauty to take in.

0 of 2 people found this review helpful.

 Awesomesauce

1    1/1/2011   2/19/2011
Review By: solomon.trenton
Played: 70  Reviewed: 66  Exp: 4.8 Years
12 Helpful / 1 Not
Pros: Right off the highway (less than 1 mile). There are three pin locations on every hole. A practice basket right near the parking lot and first hole. Tee signs and bag holders on almost every hole. There are some next tee signs, although more are needed. There are cement boxes on every hole (except 1 which has stone). Scattered trash cans, recycle bins and benches make this park almost completely free of trash. Hole ten ends up near one. There is also a basketball court and swim hole on the course.
There are a couple of ace runs to go with some long par 4's. Water comes into play on a couple of holes. The mix of holes is pretty incredible considering the land. Elevation comes into play and drastically plays with you on one of the holes. The signature hole is probably 11 which has a blind elevation drop and the basket several feet from the water's edge.
Cons: A decent amount of signage either isn't available or is missing (next tee signs primarily). Hole 1's tee box is a huge hazard. The stones are all uneven and the wall is low: there is a swim hole/stream right below. A lot of the holes and fairways are close to each other or in the middle of one another. There is a lot of dead fall in the fairways and even more in the rough. There are several very narrow steep paths in between holes. There are a couple of tee pads that are in other holes fairways.
Other Thoughts: Lefty friendly course.

12 of 13 people found this review helpful.

 Trees!

5+    10/9/2010   10/18/2010
Review By: enlightenedhyzer
Played: 10  Reviewed: 2  Exp: 6.1 Years
1 Helpful / 4 Not
Pros: Challenging, good mix of shots, fun, easy disc retrieval from shallow river(except after rain), free
Cons: Lots of trees, some natural tee boxes are in very poor condition but they had added some new concrete tees
Other Thoughts: Fun and frustrating course but the best in the area (that is free). this course has made me increase my accuracy drastically. one huge minus is that when the league is playing, they play in HUGE groups. what happened to etiquette? no bigger groups that 4 and disperse the groups throughout the course. frustrating waiting on them to finally get to play through

1 of 5 people found this review helpful.

 Bellamy Park

5+    6/6/2009   7/1/2009
Review By: atonalruss
Played: 9  Reviewed: 5
4 Helpful / 0 Not
Pros: Good variety, challenging wooded holes, really nice use of elevation (both teeing off from high elevation or teeing off uphill), holes added in recent years are nice and challenging.
Cons: Difficult to navigate unless you know this course (but once you know it, it's great). Discs are often lost in overgrowth or the Bellamy river (I've lost more discs on this course than any other I've ever played - though I did cut my teeth here as a beginner)
Other Thoughts: This is my home course and one of the first I played on. Not the friendliest course for beginners, but it challenges you to learn a wide variety of shots to navigate the sometimes treacherous wooded areas. Hole 5 is an extremely challenging par 4 ever since they moved the tee box back over the creek. Many of the tees have narrow wooded paths to navigate. Hole 11 along the river is downright cruel, forcing anything but the longest, most perfect drives to land in a swamp or the river. That said, I love this course and play it regularly.

4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

 tough course

1    4/27/2009   4/27/2009
Review By: Jmac21
Played: 9  Reviewed: 3  Exp: 6.1 Years
0 Helpful / 3 Not
Pros: difficult course good one to help give yourself a wide variety of throws.
Cons: not well maintained looked like some had started recently so could get better soon.
Other Thoughts: love the rope to help me get down the hill to get my disc out of the river thanks to who left it.

0 of 3 people found this review helpful.

 Winterish Golf

5+    3/18/2009   3/19/2009
Review By: ShortBusDiscGolf
Played: 103  Reviewed: 7  Exp: 18.1 Years
0 Helpful / 7 Not
Pros: This is a great place to wrap your head around the game. You'll need quite a few different shots to make it through this one.
Cons: NATURAL TEE PADS. Need more trash cans. Some more benches and better tee signs would be in order.
Other Thoughts: Please carry out what you carry in. water in play on a few holes, careful.

0 of 7 people found this review helpful.

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3/25/2008   3/25/2008
Review By: gwillim
Played: 139  Reviewed: 40  Exp: 12.1 Years
4 Helpful / 0 Not
Pros: -Chainstar baskets (best in the business)
-Great variety of shots, short and long, tech, etc.
-Well defined fairways for the most part
-Dual tees
-Always fun to throw over water (hole 1)
-Good use of available elevation
-Good use of creek, throwing over and about and such
Cons: -Natural tee pads suck
-Couple holes were a little fluky
-Little difficult to find appropriate teepads/baskets
Other Thoughts: When I played Bellamy there was some road construction or something going through a few of the earlier holes, a couple of which were altered, and it was a little hard to figure out.

The course plays a little tough, which is great. The fairways are pretty tight in some areas, and pretty long in others. The overall course design is really well layed out in my opinion. With concrete tee pads, and a couple of design tweaks, this would be a stellar course.

4 of 4 people found this review helpful.


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