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Bluffton Village Park reviews
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Deeper than it looks
Reviewed:
Played on:May 20, 2023
Played the course:once
Pros:
Brand new DD Veterans baskets, nicely mulched.
Decent teepads.
Great signs, informative with a nice graphical depiction of hole.
Decent park setting, course is in areas not used much by others.
Couple nice water carries, including one of less than 200' that newbs can even take a shot at.
Couple well designed wooded holes (left, right, choose which way to get around an obstacle), though many had overly tight lines.
Good mix of wooded and open.
Plenty of parking, good course sign, and two port-a-johns.
Decent teepads.
Great signs, informative with a nice graphical depiction of hole.
Decent park setting, course is in areas not used much by others.
Couple nice water carries, including one of less than 200' that newbs can even take a shot at.
Couple well designed wooded holes (left, right, choose which way to get around an obstacle), though many had overly tight lines.
Good mix of wooded and open.
Plenty of parking, good course sign, and two port-a-johns.
Cons:
That creek is a deceptive monster. Do not dismiss it, even though you can jump over it in many places. It is deep, and extremely muddy. Any disc landing in it is likely lost.
The Bushnell distance on hole 3 was 30' longer than the posted sign, meaning throwing hard enough to get to the pin per the sign will land you in the pond.
Speaking of the pond, it too is VERY murky, hard to see more than 6-12 inches, so most discs landing there are gone too, even with a disc grabber.
The wooded holes have several poke and hope lines. Simply no fairway all the way to the circle, unless you can thread a 4' gap around the corner 150' away.
The first place on the back nine where you cross a road was extremely muddy, and seems to stay that way, and some of the wooded fairways appear to stay fairly muddy too.
The baskets, though new, did not seem to catch well. We had no fewer than 8 putts that hit at least 5-6 chains that did not grab.
The Bushnell distance on hole 3 was 30' longer than the posted sign, meaning throwing hard enough to get to the pin per the sign will land you in the pond.
Speaking of the pond, it too is VERY murky, hard to see more than 6-12 inches, so most discs landing there are gone too, even with a disc grabber.
The wooded holes have several poke and hope lines. Simply no fairway all the way to the circle, unless you can thread a 4' gap around the corner 150' away.
The first place on the back nine where you cross a road was extremely muddy, and seems to stay that way, and some of the wooded fairways appear to stay fairly muddy too.
The baskets, though new, did not seem to catch well. We had no fewer than 8 putts that hit at least 5-6 chains that did not grab.
Other Thoughts:
I really wanted to like this course more, but it was hard. With the water (pond and creek) being SO murky, there is an unnecessary disc loss risk here for a public park clearly aimed at beginners and rec players. We lost one we knew was no more than 3' from the shoreline. The pond gets deep very fast too. The creek runs along or behind 7 or 8 holes, and it is quite easy to find the creek, but not your disc.
Int-adv/pros will not likely find much challenge here, other than threading a few wooded needles and cleaning their shoes afterward.
Only one real grip and rip hole. A couple more are open, but have water in play (pond) which constrains full rips.
Int-adv/pros will not likely find much challenge here, other than threading a few wooded needles and cleaning their shoes afterward.
Only one real grip and rip hole. A couple more are open, but have water in play (pond) which constrains full rips.
