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Central Park DGC reviews
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Perfect Beginner and Practice Spot 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Jul 17, 2021
Played the course:once
Pros:
+ Play a warm up round, introduce a beginner, or work on your short game here. This is a new, well-kept park layout that might be the best I've played for any of those three activities
BEGINNERS: Central Park's amenities give the sense of a "real" course: excellent signage with good maps and rules explanations, brand new DD baskets, good flat rubber tees. There are a few short (150 ish) holes, but most are around 200 - so beginners won't outgrow the course immediately. The "rough" is tall grasses cut to shape a few fairways, so beginners will learn about keeping it in the fairway, without suffering play-slowing or disc-losing consequences
SHORT GAME PRACTICE: The layout is built for fun mids and putter rounds. Starting with an excellent opening hole: it's only 160' but there's deep OB grass all the way up the left side, and trees guarding the basket. Perfect for RHBH practice a low controlled fade or dropping in a hyzer, or RHFH risking OB the entire flight.
Although none of the remaining holes are quite as much fun as the first one, the layout uses all the available elevation, so you're throwing soft shots up onto rises (watch out for rollaways) and down into a swale.
WARM UP ROUND: The layout finishes with its longest hole (only 300', but 100' more than any other hole except #4 - so it "feels" long). If you're putting from C1x or further on many of the holes, you'll be facing uphill, downhill or sidehill putts. And it's an open area, so you might have some wind to think about too.
BEGINNERS: Central Park's amenities give the sense of a "real" course: excellent signage with good maps and rules explanations, brand new DD baskets, good flat rubber tees. There are a few short (150 ish) holes, but most are around 200 - so beginners won't outgrow the course immediately. The "rough" is tall grasses cut to shape a few fairways, so beginners will learn about keeping it in the fairway, without suffering play-slowing or disc-losing consequences
SHORT GAME PRACTICE: The layout is built for fun mids and putter rounds. Starting with an excellent opening hole: it's only 160' but there's deep OB grass all the way up the left side, and trees guarding the basket. Perfect for RHBH practice a low controlled fade or dropping in a hyzer, or RHFH risking OB the entire flight.
Although none of the remaining holes are quite as much fun as the first one, the layout uses all the available elevation, so you're throwing soft shots up onto rises (watch out for rollaways) and down into a swale.
WARM UP ROUND: The layout finishes with its longest hole (only 300', but 100' more than any other hole except #4 - so it "feels" long). If you're putting from C1x or further on many of the holes, you'll be facing uphill, downhill or sidehill putts. And it's an open area, so you might have some wind to think about too.
Other Thoughts:
~ Another Eagle Scout project (love to see them!)
~ An example of a course that "does what it does" perfectly. If this were Disc Golf Practice Course Review or Disc Golf Beginner Course Review, it would probably be a "5." But this is DGCR, and it's a solid 2.5
RECOMMENDED COMBINATIONS:
Overall, easy scoring to build up your confidence before heading off to Tyler, Fort Washington or Sellersvile. But if you want to do a day of short nines, combine Central Park with Windlestrae-Henning Field (longer, mostly open) and Tamanend (short and wooded). You could play two rounds at each in an hour or less, and string together a fun day.
~ An example of a course that "does what it does" perfectly. If this were Disc Golf Practice Course Review or Disc Golf Beginner Course Review, it would probably be a "5." But this is DGCR, and it's a solid 2.5
RECOMMENDED COMBINATIONS:
Overall, easy scoring to build up your confidence before heading off to Tyler, Fort Washington or Sellersvile. But if you want to do a day of short nines, combine Central Park with Windlestrae-Henning Field (longer, mostly open) and Tamanend (short and wooded). You could play two rounds at each in an hour or less, and string together a fun day.
