Anna Page Park - South reviews
7
0
The Rake
Experience:
3 played
3 reviews
Good, bad, and ugly 2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:Sep 18, 2016
Played the course:once
Pros:
Good mix of open and wooded.
Good flow.
Discatchers are the best baskets by far at Anna Page. Good putts hit the chains and stay in.
This course will teach you how to scramble.
Except for a handful of holes you can put your high speed drivers away. It's nice to bring out some discs that I don't normally use a lot at other Anna Page courses.
Try driving with a putter on the really narrow fairways. You'll be glad you did.
Best holes: 5 (nice wooded driving lane with a gang of guardian trees). 7 (nice long distance downslope approach). 9 ( best of the tight fairway holes. Requires a tight midrange S-turn). 10 (needs fewer trees in approach lane, but solid dogleg left) 11 (except for the leaning trees that block the driving lane, a nice short downhill drive for RHBH). 13 (will frustrate beginners, but with the right overstable driver or mid very playable). 15 (requires a soft turning glidey drive. Pretty.)
Good flow.
Discatchers are the best baskets by far at Anna Page. Good putts hit the chains and stay in.
This course will teach you how to scramble.
Except for a handful of holes you can put your high speed drivers away. It's nice to bring out some discs that I don't normally use a lot at other Anna Page courses.
Try driving with a putter on the really narrow fairways. You'll be glad you did.
Best holes: 5 (nice wooded driving lane with a gang of guardian trees). 7 (nice long distance downslope approach). 9 ( best of the tight fairway holes. Requires a tight midrange S-turn). 10 (needs fewer trees in approach lane, but solid dogleg left) 11 (except for the leaning trees that block the driving lane, a nice short downhill drive for RHBH). 13 (will frustrate beginners, but with the right overstable driver or mid very playable). 15 (requires a soft turning glidey drive. Pretty.)
Cons:
No one is maintaining the course. Drowning in weeds. The rough is very rough.
The bad holes are really bad.
Four holes (4, 8, 12 and 16) have essentially the same design: short putter drive, and then take a hard right turn to approach the basket. On 3 of these it is practically impossible to get near the basket for a putt because the turn is 90 degrees. These are relatively short holes, so it's bizarre that they don't give you a realistic shot at birdie.
Tree pinball on a few fairways. The 6 or 7 foot gap on 6 is a bit severe. 11 would be a great hole except for two trees leaning diagonally across the driving lane. They knock down a lot of solid drives and deflect them into deep schule. 17 is an abomination.
The bad holes are really bad.
Four holes (4, 8, 12 and 16) have essentially the same design: short putter drive, and then take a hard right turn to approach the basket. On 3 of these it is practically impossible to get near the basket for a putt because the turn is 90 degrees. These are relatively short holes, so it's bizarre that they don't give you a realistic shot at birdie.
Tree pinball on a few fairways. The 6 or 7 foot gap on 6 is a bit severe. 11 would be a great hole except for two trees leaning diagonally across the driving lane. They knock down a lot of solid drives and deflect them into deep schule. 17 is an abomination.
Other Thoughts:
I've heard there are some design tweaks in the works, with 4 and 17 getting major overhauls. If the course we're maintained it would score a lot higher. It's a mess, and eats discs for lunch. But it's got a lot of potential.
4
0
Will be better in the future 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Jun 25, 2015
Played the course:5+ times
Pros:
- Easy to find starting location, and easy ending location for getting back to the parking lot
- Good mix of short/long, open/ wooden holes
- A few par 4's out there, so playing some smart golf is needed at times
- Hardest of the three courses on the complex
- Fairly easy to navigate for the most part
- Good mix of short/long, open/ wooden holes
- A few par 4's out there, so playing some smart golf is needed at times
- Hardest of the three courses on the complex
- Fairly easy to navigate for the most part
Cons:
- TEEPADS, this course needs real teepads. The two other courses here have nice concrete tees but this course has astroturf teepads and man do they get slick.
- In a few years this course is going to be a lot more enjoyable to play. Right now it is a little rough and it needs some good walking over in all parts to make it better and more playable. There are a few holes where this is really needed.
- No real good teesigns but its really not too much of a con.
- Ive been told that the course was designed by a lefty and a righty forehander. Weather that is the case or not, it definately plays to those thypes of throws more often. Where as the other two courses are very fair for every shot.
- In a few years this course is going to be a lot more enjoyable to play. Right now it is a little rough and it needs some good walking over in all parts to make it better and more playable. There are a few holes where this is really needed.
- No real good teesigns but its really not too much of a con.
- Ive been told that the course was designed by a lefty and a righty forehander. Weather that is the case or not, it definately plays to those thypes of throws more often. Where as the other two courses are very fair for every shot.
Other Thoughts:
I have a love/hate for this course. i really like a lot of the shots that you have to throw on this course and enjoy that it makes you use every shot in your bag but the lack of teepads and how rough it is makes me never want to play it. I think in a few years when the course opens up a bit it will be a lot better, and if they ever install real teepads it will be a top notch course.
