Palmetto Bay, FL

Palmetto Bay Village Center

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MakeItMali
Experience: 9.9 years 209 played 11 reviews
1.00 star(s)

Skip for round play.. Great practice area

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 9, 2022 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

Nice area. Grounds are maintained due to it being a business park. It's pleasant walking around.

Seemingly a variety of shots (would not know for sure as some holes couldn't be located).

Cons:

Forget trying to navigate this place if you don't have a local you will never find several tees and baskets. It seems super easy "I'm walking in a circle around a lake"... Think again.

That said, there is no signage, missing tees, and the holes in the woods will mystify you that there is a difference between fairway and not the fairway. It is completely overgrown to the point that I found discs a couple feet away from the walking path where someone clearly just gave up.

The main paths will be covered in those giant spiders and their webs. It is a place of nightmares if you aren't a bug collector.

There are no amenities at all.
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The Valkyrie Kid
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Experience: 45.8 years 1563 played 1507 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Former Burger King Corporate Headquarters Is Cleaner Than Most Of It’s Restaurants 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 27, 2019 Played the course:once

Pros:

The grounds here are very impressive. The large buildings sit right on the edge of of a lovely man made lake complete with crocodiles and turtles and who knows what other Floridian creatures.

The disc golf course is not quite as impressive. As thrembo pointed out, there are zero amenities here and that includes the essential ones like tee pads, on-line and signs. Also absent are the less essential amenities such as benches, garbage cans, bag holders, course sign, next tee arrows, rest rooms and staging area. This absence of pads, signs and a map makes the experience here for the traveling player one frustrating round. The course does have Discatchers complete with numbers. They helped. And it was fairly windy.

I found the first tee and was able to play # 1 and 2. I never located the 3rd tee. I couldn't find # 8 tee or basket. Never found the # 9 tee. Couldn't find the # 10 tee but did like the basket placement. I screwed up and went the wrong way missing # 11. So obviously missed the # 12 tee but did play to the 12th basket. Found # 13 tee pad, I think but didn't find that basket. From here to 18, I located the baskets. And I still have no idea where the infamous 19, 20 and 21st holes are?

16-17 and 18 very pretty and also, fairly challenging, playing right along and across the lake.

Cons:

I couldn't find the # 15 tee which I really wanted to check out the short throw across that part of the lake.

No map.
No pads.
No tee signs.
No navigational aids.
Holes that play down tight paths.
Chance of lost plastic in crocodile infested waters. (My wife, the amphibious, submerged, hibernating, reptile expert, swears these were crocs and not gators). She quotes all kinds of facts she recently learned on our of our guided tours in the Everglades.
Phantom holes 19-20 and 21.

Other Thoughts:

I assume after proofing this review that I wasn't exactly enamored with this course. I would have been more impressed if they were handing out Whoppers or had maybe put up some tee signs. Maybe the course has been severely impacted by some recent hurricane activity? This is another course that I would have loved to find a local guide but the fact that I played on a beautiful Florida, Wednesday afternoon and had the entire course to myself, might just speak to it's popularity.
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thrembo
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Premium Member
Experience: 48.8 years 242 played 194 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Hot Mess 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 18, 2017 Played the course:once

Pros:

Very scenic course. Wildlife abounds on this pretty well maintained (grounds anyway) course. There were a lot of "look at that!" moments as we made our way around the large building and retention pond that the course circles around. The course as it sits now has holes of a mostly medium to long range. A fun round can be had here, provided the cons can be overcome.

Cons:

There are no amenities on this course at all. No tee signs, no navigation aids, no benches or anything else to sit on, no garbage cans. etc. The hard to find tees are grass marked with concrete balls or spray painted on the paved sidewalk. We found most of them, and it appears that there is only one tee per hole now.

Other Thoughts:

I would strongly encourage people who want play this course for the first time to get a guide or play with some locals. I would say that this course is not a good one for new throwers and that rec level golfers might find the course to be long and frustrating. The course comes off as being unfinished and I'm sure that hurricane Irma didn't help matters any. The potential is here for a much better course and hopefully, the needed improvements will be made.
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armiller
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 8.9 years 273 played 60 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Beautiful part of south Florida... plus disc golf! 2+ years

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jun 30, 2016 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

-21 holes, currently (22 on some days when the league guys put up a temporary basket)
-fairly long course (four par 4s) plus long and short tees on many holes
-very few simple "air it out over wide open territory" shots; rewards distance but not as much as it rewards line shaping
-Animals! from birds to crocodiles to crabs to snakes, you can see a lot of south Florida wildlife here; it makes for a nice day out and it's in south Florida, so it's really available all year long (although during wet season the mosquitoes are really bad)
-not busy; many more walkers/bikers than disc golfers, but the walkers/bikers rarely get in the way of throws
-good variation; here are more than a few highlights:
1) relatively long hole with fence OB on left and some trees to get around (pretty much impossible for most to two, so it's par 4)
3) nice par 4 with a long open shot before OB street, then a basket nestled in among some trees on a little hill - good hole requiring a good drive and good upshot to have a birdie attempt (at least for my power level)
5) wooded par 4; woods are fairly thick, so it requires a good tunnel fairway shot to a decently defined layup zone, with another fairly tough shot to the basket
7) a 200' or so "carve the right line and don't hit the trees" shot
8) a pretty simple Buzzz type shot, but the gap is easy to miss and the basket location is up on a mound, so it's very tough to park
9) basket up behind some trees; some fairway trees also make it a tricky tee shot
10) basket nestled into a little cove with a tree ceiling; I still haven't birdied this one
12) basket behind some trees, but this one favors a forehand line
15) a nice short water shot to a basket up on a hill
16) basket only 10-15' from water's edge; makes drives/approaches/putts all a bit scary
17) a longer shot with water on the right (and a headwind, typically) which is perfect for a long RHBH drive that fades at the end, as long as you don't turn it over and splash it
18) another water shot - this time get around/over the water and fade right

Cons:

-navigation can be a bit hairy; some tees and baskets were hard to find the first time I played
-a couple of the holes just seem like they were crammed in to take advantage of some extra space (e.g. 5b, 6, & 7b); I actually do enjoy these, since they test some shots which I don't always use; nevertheless, 6 in particular is in the middle of a walkway
-holes 5, 5b, 6, 7, 7b, and 8 tend not to have the best fairways, and it's easy to find spiderwebs and ants if you get off said fairways - but that said, these really force good shots; and I always appreciate that in a course

Other Thoughts:

I think most courses grow on me when I play them more, unless they're simple pitch-and-putts. I would have rated this 2.0 or 2.5 the first couple times I played it, but now I consider it a solid 3.0. If some of the wooded holes were a little better cut out, and some signage was added, this has 3.5 to 4.0 potential for sure.

Rating: Even with the significant drawbacks of difficult navigation for first-timers, and being so rough around the edges, the golf puts it at a solid 3.0 "Good" in my book. I can't wait to get back and see how the course is.
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reposado
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Experience: 12.7 years 278 played 273 reviews
2.50 star(s)

2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 6, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

Potential. There is a lot here. A great variety of terrain. A plentitude of well-designed holes. Some real challenge. Shot shaping. Potential carries. Chances to bomb drives. The course really gets started on hole 5, which opens a series of wooded holes that feature great lines and tight but fair fairways. Going off the intended line will lead to serious trouble but the fairway itself will be clean. An entire course with holes like these four would be a really nice play. But then the course opens up. A lot of the next set of holes feature scattered trees, (of a variety I haven't seen but they are really nice looking and are great for creating protected greens as these monsters essentially shelter the basket) and minor elevation changes that allow the set of holes to produce a great variety of required lines, even if they are more forgiving than the previous holes. A pair of them play on either side of a ridge with a tree line separating the two fairways. Another plays off a hill, across a field and into a wooded alcove.
The final part of the course plays along the water. It looks like a man-made pond but it's possible that it was natural and retaining walls were just built to corral it. These are the open holes that allow a player to air out a disc and get some real distance on a drive as well as hang it over the lake and hyzer it back to shore. However, these are the holes where I couldn't find a few tees so I'm not entirely sure how well they truly play.
A player will have a chance to do it all here, if he can properly locate all of the tees and baskets. If that aspect of the course is ever finished, this will be a real gem, I think.

Cons:

The tees are natural and marked only by a pair of white domes. Not so easy to see from any distance and if you don't know which direction to look, tough to find. At least there is a small hand-drawn sign that indicates the number of the tee and most often the basket is in sight but be prepared to occasionally throw to the wrong basket, and be prepared to be fairly constantly lost. Navigation aids are non-existent, either from tee to basket or basket to tee. A player will be very frustrated on his first visit here.
The start of the course is a little rocky as the first four holes play around the entry way to the complex. 1 and 2 are essentially filler and 2 plays parallel to the road. 3 is actually a bit interesting as it plays up into a wooded knoll but that knoll is within the rotary. 4 does begin over the road and it does offer a big chance to air out a drive but it is a completely open field. The roads do come into play a bit more later on but I have no idea how much those are used or if only as certain parts of the day. This isn't a public park so some factors that would be worrisome at a park are not necessarily detriments here. They certainly aren't on weekends.

Other Thoughts:

I feel like this is one of those course was developed to the point where the locals could play it and love it and further development stopped. There is a very good course here but it needs some basic amenities before I could recommend it to a travelling player. Even just a map would have been very helpful. I was lucky enough to encounter a group of locals on the 5 tee who gave me a quick rundown of what to look for but if I hadn't I would have a lot of difficulties. Even so there were a few tees that I gave up on finding and just shot from close to the previous basket. But when I finished, I knew what to look for and made sense of the first four holes.
This should be the best course in Miami. Hopefully it will be someday.
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Rando305
Experience: 11.8 years 4 played 1 reviews
3.50 star(s)

New and Improved 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 15, 2014 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

The course is constantly improving. It went through a period of neglect, but is worth revisiting. It has potential of becoming the best course in South Florida.

Cons:

Still no permanent Tee Pads. It's a work in progress.
Mosquitos and Deer Flies are a problem in the Summer. But not a problem from Fall through Spring.

Other Thoughts:

The most recent reviews are not indicative of the courses current condition. I played it last weekend. It's a long and challenging course.
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MiamiDGBryan
Experience: 2 played 2 reviews
0.50 star(s)

Course needs work 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 26, 2013 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

Some nice ideas in the design, the course was brand new the first time I played it so I was expecting it to have a few kinks, could be made better with some work but it has been neglected into bad shape

Cons:

The course has gotten worse over time. Someone stolen the baskets for holes 4-6, and most flags marking the tee spots have been removen by landscapers or someone. With no map, no signs, and unclearly marked tees, some baskets missing, and only spray paint on the floor to help you sometimes it could be extremely confusing if you don't know the layout. I guess it's because of the weather but the last time I went with summer and the rain the horseflys were unbearable, I literally was jogging back to my car by hole 14 to avoid the constant swarm around me after being frustrated by missing baskets and difficult to find tees. I won't visit again until at least the winter and hope improvements are made. All other local courses are much better

Other Thoughts:

First and foremost Ive played the course a couple times when it was new and the horseflies weren't so bad but the last time I went I couldn't get a shot off without 20 around me and 1 going in my ear. Any map developed would help new comers to the course and no signs or directions, or cleary marked tees and stolen baskets makes the course unplayable at this time in my opinion. It really is a shame since the grounds are beautiful, in a nice area and potential is high but right now it's in bad shape, standing water is also a problem. I sincerely hope it gets better cause potential is there
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jasonmcroy
Experience: 1 played 1 reviews
2.50 star(s)

New Course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Feb 26, 2013 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Nice layout with some water hazards. Grass is usually cut when I have gone out there. Some good open shots mixed with some technical shots.

Cons:

Lack of signs and tee pads would make it difficult to navigate for someone new on the course.
There is a problem with standing water, especially on hole #18 after rain. I have hit that several times when going out there.
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adevuyst
Experience: 10 played 5 reviews
1.00 star(s)

No good 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Dec 21, 2012 Played the course:once

Pros:

None.

Cons:

No tee pads. No signage. NO technicality.

Other Thoughts:

This "course" just looks like someone took some tax money, bought some baskets, and popped them into the ground around a strange timeshare office building thing. I was pretty bummed about the lack of signage since I spent most of my time there wandering around looking for the little orange landscaping flags that marked the tees. I understand it's a new course, but even some laminated paper signs or spray paint on the grass directing people would be passable.
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rww826
Experience: 22.8 years 25 played 3 reviews
3.00 star(s)

2+ years

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Mar 9, 2014 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

course is well maintained and clean always open to the public and has security on site the course was changed making it a challenging course and a fair course. the course is set up like it was when it was first installed hole three is back a par 4 and 4 tees off from other side of hole 3 across field to side walk holes 5 , 6, 7 , 8 are in the woods down sidewalk everything else is same holes 1 3 5 and 18 are par 4s rest are threes par 58

Cons:

needs signs marking holes or a map showing the layout.teepads would be nice tees are marked with stones and some are painted on sidewalks 2 3 5 6 12 14 16 17 are on sidewalks

Other Thoughts:

this would be a great course if ever finished we need more courses in south dade course has really improved turning out to a fun course to play
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