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Potosi, WI

Butch's Bunker

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wolfhaley
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Experience: 20.1 years 1010 played 580 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 13, 2023 Played the course:once

Pros:

Butch's Bunker DGC is a nice little niner located in Hickory Hill Park. The course features some decent elevation and enough trees to keep things interesting. Very small town that's not too close to anything so you'll probably have this one to yourself. There's not much else happening in the park either by the looks of it so you most likely won't even have to deal with other park goers.

The baskets are yellow banded and caged Latitude 64 pros. These are solid baskets. I had zero issues with these personally. I loved the yellow color of these. They really pop out from a distance. They catch good and were mounted properly. One basket and pin placement per hole. Very nice.

The tee signs here are pretty great. They're mounted on 4x4's and have all the important info on them. Hole #, par, distance, a nice looking hole map and a next tee arrow. There's even a QR code on them. I didn't scan one to see where it takes you since the signs got the job done perfectly fine anyway. Top of the line signage.

Natural tees, but none were muddy or rutted out. In fact all were in great shape. No complaints with these.

The course features a decent mix of different shot shapes needed for being only nine holes. Just a solid overall design in my opinion. They used some of the best features of the property, which is pretty small, to cut out a fun layout.

The course starts and ends by the parking area which is always nice. Free to play, permanent and very clean. This is just a really pretty part of WI in general.

Cons:

The rough on the last three holes can get pretty gnarly. Lots of prickly, sticky weeds off the sides of the fairways. The holes are shorter so you're probably not losing a disc or anything. You will be covered in burrs or other obnoxious things if you end up off the fairway.

There's three longer transitions on the course. Hole 2 to 3, 4 to 5 and 6 to 7. Even with the next tee arrows on the signs I'd advise having a map ready. Mildly annoying at most.

Hole 4 has a fence running the length of the right side. You don't want to end up over it or you're probably out a disc. It's private property over it.

Holes 5 and 6 play up and back down the entrance road. And I mean the road is part of the fairway kind of thing. Again, not a super busy park so if you're paying attention you should be good. Not ideal though.

Other Thoughts:

I enjoyed my round here. Pretty nice little course in a quiet little park. Very peaceful place to toss some plastic. Not worth any kind of trip out of the way to play, but definitely worth a stop if you happen to be near here. Great addition to the area. if I'm ever back down this way I'd play it again in a heartbeat.
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DeanMoriarty
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2.00 star(s)

Hickory Hill Park

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 28, 2022 Played the course:once

Pros:

- The course is located in the back of a well-maintained park. The area itself doesn't seem like it gets a whole lot of DG traffic so you'll more than likely have this one all to yourself.

- There's some actual decent distance here with some OK lines on most of the holes. I think there was maybe 1 or 2 holes that were easy birdies / ace runs.. although in theory, every hole is ace runable. All par 3's so your tee shot and approach are key on this one. This one might not be the best course for beginners. Intermediate players will definitely be challenged.

- Adequate parking for the course.

- Decent equipment. The baskets were Latitude 64 ProBaskets which caught decently even though they seem a little cheap.

Cons:

- The layout. I understand the designer was attempting to make this one a lot more challenging than your average 9er but the design of some of the holes was just awful. Hole 5 has absolutely no reason to exist. The field you walk across to get from 4 to 5 could've been 2 more holes throwing back and forth.

- Again, the layout. Without uDisc, I would've gotten lost more than a few times. I ended up walking the wrong way to hole 7 which is the start of the wooded holes and had to hop over a rusty barbed wire fence.

- The "teepad" placement was horrendous on a few, well most holes to be honest. I don't get why you'd place it literally half a foot in front of a tree or a bunch of bushes giving the thrower zero runup. As of right now, the teepads are just grass which was not very even on most of the holes so stand still tee shots are the only option.

- No bathrooms in the lot.. not even a porta-potty which will not be the greatest thing for the female DGers.

- No tee signs as of right now. Just posts with the numbers sharpie'd on them.

Other Thoughts:

Butch's Bunker located at Hickory Hill Park in Potosi WI is a reasonably OK 9er that wants to be more but comes up short on most of the course unfortunately. There was definitely some chances for this one to shine but the designer let it get away from them or just didn't have the right land to work with. The course plays around the edge of the park which is surrounded by private property barbed wire fencing. Perhaps with a redesign, teepads, and signage, this one could have some serious replay value.
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