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Centennial Park reviews
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My New Favorite Canadian Course! 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Sep 30, 2014
Played the course:once
Pros:
Centennial Park in Mission, BC is a fairly large multi-purpose park containing a hockey rink, tennis courts, a children's playground and a dog park. The park's terrain is excellent for disc golf with lots of mature trees and rolling hills all throughout the course. The park's grass is green and well maintained.
There is ample parking near the first hole (by the hockey rink). The tee signs are nice metal ones with a map and showing the next tee. The baskets are Mach II models. The tee pads are natural with a yellow concrete parking barrier sunk as the front marker. These natural pads will get muddy with use and winter rains.
The prevailing theme on this course seems to be tunnel shots as most every hole requires the player to keep your tee off low, below the tree branches. Only # 9 allows a open throw to the basket where you can actually attain a little height to your tee off.
There's not many places to get into trouble here except on the left of # 1 is an especially deep nasty gorge.
Nice variety of hole distances (ranges from 200' to 402') and challenges.
My favorite hole: # 2. It's a 253' downhill, fairly tight shot to an open basket which sits just across a small ditch/creek. As with almost all of the holes here, you must keep your tee off low to avoid the branches.
With all these low tunnel shots and my weak arm, I found myself using my roller on a number of holes. # 4 and 7 are both long enough, and are set on sloping hillsides which are perfect for laying your roller where you want it to go. Unfortunately, the roller never worked for me on # 7. That hole flat out kicked my tail!
There is ample parking near the first hole (by the hockey rink). The tee signs are nice metal ones with a map and showing the next tee. The baskets are Mach II models. The tee pads are natural with a yellow concrete parking barrier sunk as the front marker. These natural pads will get muddy with use and winter rains.
The prevailing theme on this course seems to be tunnel shots as most every hole requires the player to keep your tee off low, below the tree branches. Only # 9 allows a open throw to the basket where you can actually attain a little height to your tee off.
There's not many places to get into trouble here except on the left of # 1 is an especially deep nasty gorge.
Nice variety of hole distances (ranges from 200' to 402') and challenges.
My favorite hole: # 2. It's a 253' downhill, fairly tight shot to an open basket which sits just across a small ditch/creek. As with almost all of the holes here, you must keep your tee off low to avoid the branches.
With all these low tunnel shots and my weak arm, I found myself using my roller on a number of holes. # 4 and 7 are both long enough, and are set on sloping hillsides which are perfect for laying your roller where you want it to go. Unfortunately, the roller never worked for me on # 7. That hole flat out kicked my tail!
Cons:
The natural pads will get muddy and slippery and soon become an eyesore. I'd love to see patio blocks installed here like they have in Cornwall Park just south of the border in Bellingham, Washington.
Only 9 holes.
Lots of tunnel shots off the tee.
Only 9 holes.
Lots of tunnel shots off the tee.
Other Thoughts:
This is a very enjoyable, competitive course. It's too bad there wasn't room for 18 but the designers did a masterful job of sticking to 9 interesting, challenging holes rather than trying to cram more into this space. It's a great park for disc golf with the trees and elevation changes. This is the 11th course I've played in Canada and this is my favorite!
