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Coralville, IA

Coralville DGC

3.355(based on 10 reviews)
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Money_Shot
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Experience: 19.9 years 127 played 39 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Its Okay For Beginners 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Oct 5, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

-The property as a whole is all brand new, clean and nicely manicured. Clearly a fair amount of money was put into quickly putting this course into place and has a "ball golf" feel to the premises.

-There were nice new signs that are easy to understand.

-Each hole has a brand new basket. No need to get your tetanus shot before coming out here.

-This family farm looks to have other things to do, including but not limited to a permanent bean bag area made from concrete, something unlike anything I have ever seen.

-The property as a whole is very nice.

-1 long down-hill bomber hole that will make anyone want to step up to see how far they can bomb a disc. Fun for anyone on at least 1 hole always.

-River is in play on 2 holes but would require a shank of a shot as it only runs beside the hole and the fairway of the hole is wide open giving you plenty of wiggle room to throw on the other side of the fairway.

-Although they have quickly put a lot of work, time and money into this course with landscaping, they have still made the course FREE to play which is always great.

Cons:

-General course design leaves a lot to be desired and is without a doubt the major limitation of this course.
A. Unless you prefer to throw straight, reachable distance holes over and over again for most the course, this course is going to disappoint. It's fair to say that somewhat close to 75% of these holes are fairly wide open, straight shots about 200-300 ft out. There is 1 other hole that goes to the right (hole 5 I believe and i think it was 2 holes that require you to throw a shot to the left (16 & 17). Other than that, an arrow straight shot thrown down an unobstructed alley will get you to each basket fairly easily.

-There are tons of freshly planted trees
-the trees will grow up and add to this course for sure, however, all these trees were planted on about 10 of the fairways strictly to line a straight fairway, giving you about a 100-150ft wide fairway to throw straight down. I don't believe I saw 1 tree planted that required you to throw a disc around it. I also assessed whether the trees created a fairway that bent left or right and none did. They simply put the trees in as straight as a line towards each basket, basically making a ton of holes that are all identical in their shot requirement.

-No garbages on the course when I was there but I would expect they will be putting some in soon and I am not dinging the course's rating for this, more or less wanted to make a note for those looking to play it

Other Thoughts:

I always hate giving an average rating to a course that clearly the intent was to create something new and great with a lot of upfront money. Unfortunately, new and pristine only buys so much of my favor in a course and I definitely put more stock in great hole design, hole-type variety, course fun-factor (function of design and variety), and to some extent some technical requirements that make it so a guy throwing a tennis ball can't score the same as the guy throwing a disc. I admit I do prefer technical courses, but this course really does have the same straight, open shot on 75% of the course.

-This, in my opinion, is a great course for a beginner to really get an entry level feel of a decent disc golf course. I would be very skeptical to assume many seasoned throwers will come out here and feel challenged at all. I would never drive out of my way again to play this course. If it was within about 30 miles of my home Id maybe come back but not even that is a guarantee as I prefer more challenge and shot shaping requirements than this course will ever offer.
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