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De Soto, KS

De Soto Wildcat DGC

1.15(based on 5 reviews)
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Pizza God
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Experience: 36.2 years 1729 played 580 reviews
1.50 star(s)

What could have been

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 20, 2023 Played the course:once

Pros:

Still has 7 baskets
Still has 6 tee signs
Nice elevation, decent layout and good course flow

Cons:

Overgrown when I played it. Hole 2 was almost unplayable. The rest of the course wasn't too bad.
Construction of the sports area took out holes 8 and 9 and they have not been replaced.

Other Thoughts:

For a school course, this was a good one at one time.

not so much now. Neglected and partially destroyed.

Very nice course sign/map at hole 1. The tee signs are nice too. Baskets were off brand/home made and are showing their age.

The first 5 holes are actually pretty good. Nice warm up hole, go though the trees to hole 2, that is a nice right to left shot along the tree line. Hole 3 is hidden behind some brush you don't want to land in the middle of. Hole 4 has some distance and is tucked into the tree's. I actually had a hard time finding this one. Hole 5 throws though a break in the trees to a basket down in a gully, ace run here.

Then you walk over and throw the longest hole on the course up the side of a field to a basket at the top of the hill. Hole 7 throws from the top of that hill back down to the edge of the field. Holes 8 and 9 use to throw along a tree row back to the parking lot, however construction took these holes out.

IF this course had been maintained and all in place, I would have rated it about a 3, it's a decent layout for a school course. But because of the neglect, I can't rate it better than a 1.5.

Would I play here again? Nope.
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bigreddog
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Experience: 12.2 years 196 played 63 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Not bad for a school course 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 6, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

Elevation 8/10. A couple holes near the soccer fields are pretty flat, but most holes have pretty good elevation changes and a good variety of up/down/side hill.

Finding discs 8/10 For the most part discs will be easy to find. The tree line near 2 and 6 is pretty thick and tall grass in places means you might have to search for a bit.

Navigation between holes 6/10. There's a map at the start of the course that helps. A couple tees still take some wandering to find and I never found Hole 6's.

Navigation on holes themselves 6/10. There are tee signs on most holes. They aren't great and a couple holes have blind shots you may need to walk up to first, but they're servicable.

Variety of distances 6/10. 2 and 6 are on the longer side, 3, 5, and 8 are shorter. The rest are right around 300'

Cons:

No Alternate hole positions 0/10

Decisionmaking required 1/10. Most of the holes are wide open at least on one side so you never really have risk/reward choices to make.

Challenging All Levels 2/10. Advanced or intermediate players won't have much fun here. It wouldn't be a bad place for beginners to learn how their discs fly but that's about it.

Variety of shot paths 2/10. Hole 2 is slightly right to left and hole 4 favors a left to right.

Quality of tees/baskets 2/10. The tees are just grass with a marker. A few of them are pretty lumpy. A couple of them overlap with a path so you can use that. Some of the baskets are weird and appear custom made, and they are all different.

Variety of Openness 2/10. Many holes are wide open (3, 5, 7, 8, 9) or have trees down the left side (1, 2, 6). Hole 4 is the only one with any significant obstacles near the basket.

Course Maintenance 3/10. The middle holes are in pretty rough shape right now with grass nearly knee high. I'm not sure if this is just because of school being out at the moment. No benches, a couple tee signs are missing. Hole 6 doesn't have a tee marker at all.

Use of Obstacles 4/10. They didn't have a lot to work with here, with 5 holes essentially playing around a soccer field. The wooded area was well utilized with holes 2 and 4 but I felt like they could have done more with it to make more holes interesting.

Other Thoughts:

Overall Challenge 2/10

The elevation and changing distances is about all that keeps this course mildly interesting outside of hole 4. Wind will definitely be a factor as well as it is so open and will probably be the biggest challenge. If the hole 6 tee is replaced and the course were mowed it would help but the course would probably still be a 1.5 for me.

This course is better than several other school courses I have played (California Trail, Basehor-Linwood) but is by no means good. It's always good to see courses at schools because it introduced more people to the game, but it would be nice if more of them were better like Fox Hill Fliers or Blue Valley of Kansas
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Mr. Pole Jangles
Experience: 4 played 4 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Has potential needs some love 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 25, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

There was some good use of space. The signs are really good when they are available. A couple of the holes are interesting with some definite potential. I liked the shots going in and out of the woods.

Cons:

It is just a 9 hole course. There are no tee pads. Hole 6 didn't have a tee pad or sign of any kind.

Other Thoughts:

I did a podcast on it which can be found here: https://anchor.fm/mrpolejangl...course-e17updif you are interested in any of my other thoughts.
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