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Anna Page Park - South

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prerube
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Experience: 16.9 years 275 played 236 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Best of the Anna Page trio 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 2, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

One of three 18 hole courses, and the strongest of the 18.
Visable Discatchers in great shape.

While they are unpopular to some, I enjoyed the turf pads. Tee signs were in good shape.

All of the mulberries and raspberries you can eat spread out through the course.

Some nice holes, #4 has a 7 foot elevated basket.

Nice level of challenge.

Cons:

under brush was getting too thick. Both of the other courses on site were being maintained the day I was playing, but this course needs an army of volunteers to thin the underbrush. Many holes required a lay up to prevent disc loss, rather than to set up for your next shot.
The rough was simply so rough that it brought this course down a full disc in my review.

Raspberries are delicious, but they also mean the rough is filled with thorns.

Other Thoughts:

The course starts out strong, then goes vanillia for a while with tunnel after tunnel. After the first 5 holes I was thinking this was a fabulous course, then the excitement wore off and redundancy set in.
I feel this course is between a 3-3.5 since my notes are missing I will give it the benefit of the doubt.
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wolfhaley
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Experience: 20 years 1008 played 579 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Most challenging on site. 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 2, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

This is the hardest of the 3 courses on site in my opinion. The majority of the course is thru a thickly wooded area of the park. There are tons of tight tricky tunnel shots that require great accuracy to score well on. There's a few more open park style holes similar to the east and west courses sprinkled in as well. These break up the monotony of the wooded sections nicely. The baskets are brand new discatchers that catch fine and are nice and easy to spot, especially in the woods. Decent tee signs with an overhead view of each hole with the hole number, distance/distances, and a next tee arrow on most. There are also numerous next tee signs throughout the woods to help with navigation which is good to have for new time players. I like the amount of distance variation and left, right and straight shots here. Most courses heavily favor RHBH throwers. This course does not. As a matter of fact, All 3 courses have a good amount of holes that really challenge RHBH throwers which is really rare and personally for me, refreshing. The course is free which is amazing in itself, but there is also ample parking, restrooms and a playground on site. This course like the others starts and ends near the parking lot which is always great. There was an elevated basket on hole 4 which is cool and apparently at least 1 other according to the pictures on this site which makes really think about laying up considering the ramifications of the rough.

Cons:

Quite a few of the fairways are extremely tight bordering on close your eyes and hope for the best kind of shots. The rough is also pretty brutal in a number of spots, making finding errant shots tricky and risky with poison ivy and prickly plants all over. The tees are made of an artificial green carpet normally used for mini golf courses. These are actually fine but over time they don't stand up to the wear and tear as I've seen at other courses. Hopefully they'll get concrete like the other 2 courses. I personally did NOT enjoy hole 7. It's a 700' plus 90 dogleg left with minimal trees. It doesn't flow with the rest of the course and seems out of place. It's just a way to get to hole 8 basically. This is forgivable though as the other 17 flow seamlessly. Just an awkward, random out of place feeling hole IMO. I hope the signs get upgraded eventually (I'm sure they will) since most pins are blind from the tee and many on the open holes are tucked into the woods and blind from the basket. Just a little hard to figure out for first timers like me, that's all.

Other Thoughts:

I'm used to shorter tight technical courses so this was more up my alley than the east, and especially the west courses. This is a cool park that's worth a trip out of your way to play. Plan on spending quite a while when you're here though as it's a very long, challenging and at times a confusing day of golf. This, the newest of the courses on site, is exactly what Anna Page needed. It rounds it out perfectly paired with the other 2 courses. I got humbled here playing all three. May be frustrating for beginners but seasoned players will love this place.
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MidwestZest
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Experience: 23.9 years 103 played 73 reviews
3.50 star(s)

The hardest and most technical of the 3. 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Oct 3, 2014 Played the course:once

Pros:

- Sprawling park setting, mostly cut through wooded areas.
- Great location with 2 other courses. Ample parking, bathroom/shelter/playground facilities.
- New Innova Discatchers, in great shape. The yellow band is fantastic at making pin locations stand out on dense, wooded holes.
- Some fun basket locations, to mix things up. A couple elevated pins, without being too gimmicky. I enjoyed them.
- A nice mix of a few open holes here and there, to mix it up and let you bomb it. The fact that they're spread out throughout all 18 is something I like.
- #6 is a standard tunnel shot in a pine grove, which was a nice surprise. Cool looking hole, solid risk/reward for going for the deuce without being overly punishing.
- #14 is a solid looking hole - but it really has the setup to be a good par 4, just doesn't have the distance. You want to get your first shot in the landing zone at the mouth of the woods, before having to throw into a narrowing green. But that ideal approach is like, 50 or 60 ft, which doesn't make it very deuce-able after a great drive, but also means it's a pretty easy 3 with any decent drive. Still, I like the feel of the hole.
- #15 has a great look from a wooded tee pad, out across the open field, with the pin up in the subsequent tree line. Nice hole.

Cons:

- No concrete tee boxes, and the while the faux grass pads are better than dirt, they do leave something to be desired.
- Permanent signage is not installed. Some leftover tournament signage was still there on a few holes, but not all.
- #4 is one of those dreaded, wooded, "L"-shaped holes. Hit the landing area at the apex, and then try to make a really long putt to the basket. Not a fan of holes designed like this. To gain strokes on this hole, you're hoping you par, while your partners bogie or worse. Cool elevated basket though.
- In general, the undergrowth here is pretty rough and thick in quite a few places.
- Not very much elevation change to speak of.

Other Thoughts:

- This certainly is a challenging course - and I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing. As the course matures and fairways open up and become more established, it will probably be a good thing.
- There are some really fun holes on this course, and then some that leave quite a bit to be desired. With concrete pads and good signage, this course could sneak up into a 4.0 for me pretty easily. Just not quite there for me.
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