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Bonne Terre City Park reviews
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Swing and a miss. 2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:Apr 12, 2020
Played the course:once
Pros:
Pretty and quiet park. Throwing with the water tower in the fore/background is kinda cool.
Hole 4 is a good one with an OB road on the right, downhill towards a undulating green. Missed putts will be punished.
Hole 6 is a cool downhill bomber, again with an OB road on the right and plenty of trees in the way directly in front of you. Smart money is on yanking a big hyzer over the road and past the trees to leave yourself an easy upshot.
Hole 4 is a good one with an OB road on the right, downhill towards a undulating green. Missed putts will be punished.
Hole 6 is a cool downhill bomber, again with an OB road on the right and plenty of trees in the way directly in front of you. Smart money is on yanking a big hyzer over the road and past the trees to leave yourself an easy upshot.
Cons:
While I applaud whoever came up with the idea of putting a course in this park and the effort they put into the tee signs and pads, the execution is horrible. Any of you St. Louis area locals remember the course at SIUE? Yeah. Bonne Terre is a nicer locale, but SIUE was put together better.
The only obvious place to park is right by hole.... 2. Why this wasn't numbered hole 1 is beyond me, but whatever.
Whoever put the course together must have been doing it for the first time because most of the tee signs are RIGHT BEHIND the pads (I'll upload the one picture I took of this arrangement). It defeats the purpose of having a pad if you cant use 1/2 of it! The pads were well done and are of decent size (and the signs are fairly good as well), but putting the signs directly behind the pads makes them mostly useless. This ruined the course for me as soon as I walked up to hole 2's tee.
Not a lot of trash cans, no benches in sight. Tiny parking lot, but it is an out-of-the-way 9-holer that will probably not see a lot of traffic, so that point may be moot.
The holes at the bottom of the course (8,9, and maybe 6's pin) will get pretty soggy I bet with a decent rain.
Some bored youth has taken it upon himself to scrawl a bunch of racist/homophobic graffiti on hole 1's tee sign. It'd be nice if the park either cleaned it up or replaced it. Not a great way to start the course for those who will actually walk past hole 2 to get to hole 1...
The only obvious place to park is right by hole.... 2. Why this wasn't numbered hole 1 is beyond me, but whatever.
Whoever put the course together must have been doing it for the first time because most of the tee signs are RIGHT BEHIND the pads (I'll upload the one picture I took of this arrangement). It defeats the purpose of having a pad if you cant use 1/2 of it! The pads were well done and are of decent size (and the signs are fairly good as well), but putting the signs directly behind the pads makes them mostly useless. This ruined the course for me as soon as I walked up to hole 2's tee.
Not a lot of trash cans, no benches in sight. Tiny parking lot, but it is an out-of-the-way 9-holer that will probably not see a lot of traffic, so that point may be moot.
The holes at the bottom of the course (8,9, and maybe 6's pin) will get pretty soggy I bet with a decent rain.
Some bored youth has taken it upon himself to scrawl a bunch of racist/homophobic graffiti on hole 1's tee sign. It'd be nice if the park either cleaned it up or replaced it. Not a great way to start the course for those who will actually walk past hole 2 to get to hole 1...
Other Thoughts:
Again, it's great there's another golf course in the world and I hope this place does it's (small) part to expand the game.
The use of the topography of the land is actually pretty good. It's a zig-zag arrangement up and down and around the giant slope the course is on, not a bunch of downhill shots in a row followed by a bunch of uphill shots.
It's a nice location for a course for sure, but this place needs a bunch more amenities and the tee signs moved before it's worth a trip there.
The use of the topography of the land is actually pretty good. It's a zig-zag arrangement up and down and around the giant slope the course is on, not a bunch of downhill shots in a row followed by a bunch of uphill shots.
It's a nice location for a course for sure, but this place needs a bunch more amenities and the tee signs moved before it's worth a trip there.
