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Pine Island, MN

Collins DGC

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mndiscg
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Experience: 15.9 years 483 played 478 reviews
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Pull it and start over 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 15, 2021 Played the course:once

Pros:

+Nice park with adequate parking, shelter, playground, walking/biking path, bridge to other side of scenic creek. Big trees and well maintained grounds. It is a nice park and could house a small but reasonable disc golf course.
+There are baskets there.

Cons:

-The baskets are old homemade baskets made out of hose, plastic barrel, and wood. They are fading, falling apart, warping, and collecting leaves and other organic material that is rotting away in the bottom of the barrels. Baskets are not numbered as far as I could tell.
-There are no sign of any tees any where.
-There is no signage anywhere.
-Due to the aforementioned issues, it is basically impossible to play this course as anything but a safari round to whichever basket you see fit.
-If you play it as I think it should be played, you end up with a decent walk back out of the park.
-The course is pretty crammed into this small park. 7/8 holes play way too close to the bike/walking path. Be careful if you do decided to throw any discs here.
-Believe it or not but you could lose a disc here in the creek or in the rough bordering the last 4 holes. That would be an extreme waste of plastic. Don't do that.

Other Thoughts:

-Really don't come here unless you are the biggest of coursebaggers like myself. I'll gladly count it as a course played but I will never think about stopping here again. Nor would I recommend that you do. This course makes other bad courses look fine. I next played Caryl Cowden (1 disc rating) and rather enjoyed my round there.
-My recommendation is to pull the old baskets, buy some real baskets, create a new layout, at least mark the tees, and go from there. The park is a decent looking park with a bit of elevation, some big trees, and a creek flowing through it.
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