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Airborn Disc Golf - Lynx reviews
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Cale Leviska is a Legend drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:Apr 25, 2021
Played the course:2-4 times
Pros:
- Amazingly beautiful property!
- Turf tee pads in great condition.
- Baskets are fantastic.
- The views and vibes are perfect!
- Challenging enough yet not too crazy to scare away a beginner.
- Great use of the ponds, long grass, and trees on the golf course.
- Navigation is simple.
- Tee signs are well designed and in good condition.
- Turf tee pads in great condition.
- Baskets are fantastic.
- The views and vibes are perfect!
- Challenging enough yet not too crazy to scare away a beginner.
- Great use of the ponds, long grass, and trees on the golf course.
- Navigation is simple.
- Tee signs are well designed and in good condition.
Cons:
- Not a whole lot of elevation (although they did a great job with the elevation available).
- Not quite as challenging as Timberwolf.
- Not quite as challenging as Timberwolf.
Other Thoughts:
Cale Leviska you beautiful man! The Preserve is such an amazing place to be at! 3 courses to play, a pro shop on site, and just an amazing area to be in overall! The course(s) run throughout an abandoned golf course. Lynx is in the middle of the 3 as far as difficulty. There is a decent amount of distance but it is mostly open with some tree lines and ponds in play.
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Solid complement to the other course onsite 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:May 3, 2020
Played the course:once
Pros:
This course is part of a 2-course 36-hole complex built in a defunct ball golf course along the Mississippi River. The two courses have different color Prodigy baskets orange and yellow, to help navigation. Lynx uses the yellow baskets, and is the easier and shorter (by about 2000ft) of the two courses.
Although the holes are set among old ball golf fairways, they mostly avoid simply following the ball golf routes. There are 3 or 4 bombs to throw down the ball golf fairway, but the rest of the holes take advantage of the wooded edges of the fairways. Some play across from woodline to woodline, highlighted by hole 8 with a basket nestled about 100 feet into a glade with a creek just short of the basket. The rest play along fairways edge to create more defined lines, with one side wide open, or with tunnel shots highlighted by a great finishing hole 18 that is about 500ft through a moderately wooded tunnel that has a few sections that narrow down to 20-30ft width. Ponds come into play on holes 3 and 5 but they are relatively easy to avoid if you want to play safe. Creek is in play on 3 holes.
An interesting and unique design feature is that the two courses are interwoven, so that you can see parts of the other course from the course you're playing. If it's poorly designed there could be interference, and I didn't notice any problem like that at all.
Although the holes are set among old ball golf fairways, they mostly avoid simply following the ball golf routes. There are 3 or 4 bombs to throw down the ball golf fairway, but the rest of the holes take advantage of the wooded edges of the fairways. Some play across from woodline to woodline, highlighted by hole 8 with a basket nestled about 100 feet into a glade with a creek just short of the basket. The rest play along fairways edge to create more defined lines, with one side wide open, or with tunnel shots highlighted by a great finishing hole 18 that is about 500ft through a moderately wooded tunnel that has a few sections that narrow down to 20-30ft width. Ponds come into play on holes 3 and 5 but they are relatively easy to avoid if you want to play safe. Creek is in play on 3 holes.
An interesting and unique design feature is that the two courses are interwoven, so that you can see parts of the other course from the course you're playing. If it's poorly designed there could be interference, and I didn't notice any problem like that at all.
Cons:
A few too many wide open fairways for my taste but that's not really part of my numerical rating.
Non-uniform tees are not ideal. Some are using the old cart path concrete, but aren't necessarily lined up right with the hole. Some are natural and bare dirt...mud could be a problem.
Some holes have mandos to enforce a tunnel route. Without them, the hole designs could be defeated by playing out to the fairway, and could lead to some interference with other holes. So I understand why the mandos are there, and they make the holes better. But I view mandos as a correction to a design flaw, rather than a design feature.
Several holes of the Lynx course play alongside a wooded hillside that has significant potential for extra elevation in the hole design. That didn't seem to be utilized much, just barely touching the edge of the hillside. I don't know if that land is unavailable or restricted, and if it is, I obviously wouldn't knock the designers for it. If that space is available, it would be nice to see a couple future long tee and long pin locations set farther up that hillside to improve the variety and challenge of the course, in a way that is different from the Timberwolf course.
Non-uniform tees are not ideal. Some are using the old cart path concrete, but aren't necessarily lined up right with the hole. Some are natural and bare dirt...mud could be a problem.
Some holes have mandos to enforce a tunnel route. Without them, the hole designs could be defeated by playing out to the fairway, and could lead to some interference with other holes. So I understand why the mandos are there, and they make the holes better. But I view mandos as a correction to a design flaw, rather than a design feature.
Several holes of the Lynx course play alongside a wooded hillside that has significant potential for extra elevation in the hole design. That didn't seem to be utilized much, just barely touching the edge of the hillside. I don't know if that land is unavailable or restricted, and if it is, I obviously wouldn't knock the designers for it. If that space is available, it would be nice to see a couple future long tee and long pin locations set farther up that hillside to improve the variety and challenge of the course, in a way that is different from the Timberwolf course.
Other Thoughts:
The complex has a huge amount of space and could easily accommodate big festival-type tournaments. There is only a small parking lot and the overflow parking area is in a low grassy field that looks like it could retain water. It was dry when I was there, but I wonder how that overflow parking would fare in wet conditions.
Distance on signage was suspect in many cases. They are temp signs so it can be easily fixed.
Distance on signage was suspect in many cases. They are temp signs so it can be easily fixed.
