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Just five years ago, my area of SE PA was littered with many 9ers (or sometimes even lower, some 4/5ers) established mainly from 2003 to 2012, a real mixed grab bag running a gauntlet of well-done to miserably compromised and fully neglected after conception, usually a weak perimeter course or shoved into a corner somewhere. Usually 2/3s were the worse sort.
In just the last two years, several of the worst went extinct for one reason or another while many of the better previous 9ers grew up into 18ers. Most of the courses now springing up -- at a truly mind-boggling pace the last year or two I'm guessing due a bit to Covid -- tend to be 18ers and far higher quality than most conceived just 7 years back -- at least on a community park level. Most the State Parks already had upper level courses.
Courses have been so improved that's it's getting to be that I have to re-evaluate my review scores baselines for "Decent/Typical" ie 2.5 stars.
In just the last two years, several of the worst went extinct for one reason or another while many of the better previous 9ers grew up into 18ers. Most of the courses now springing up -- at a truly mind-boggling pace the last year or two I'm guessing due a bit to Covid -- tend to be 18ers and far higher quality than most conceived just 7 years back -- at least on a community park level. Most the State Parks already had upper level courses.
Courses have been so improved that's it's getting to be that I have to re-evaluate my review scores baselines for "Decent/Typical" ie 2.5 stars.
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