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Fair Park reviews
8
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Fair is too high of a rating for this park
Reviewed:
Played on:Jun 6, 2022
Played the course:once
Pros:
-- A couple of decent holes. No. 2 (233 feet) is the best hole with the basket sitting on a small mound and guarded by a tree near the corner of the tennis courts. No. 4 (302 feet) is a slight dogleg left around a big tree but is wide open to the right.
-- Plenty of parking.
-- Park appears to be well maintained.
-- Plenty of parking.
-- Park appears to be well maintained.
Cons:
-- Navigation. Hard to imagine on a 9-hole city park course in a small area. However, there is no map on site, and only two of the nine holes have tee signs. The tee signs don't have much information and don't even indicate which direction you are throwing. Baskets aren't numbered, so you really don't have any guidance in terms of navigation.
-- Safety issues. I have seen worse, but this course has too many baskets and tee pads in/near flight paths for other holes. Eight is the worse example with the No. 7 basket just right and in front of the tee pad, and the 9 tee pad in the path of a RHBH shot to the basket. Six tee pad is in the direct path from 5 tee to basket.
-- Tee pads are ridiculously small (3x8?). No. 5 is badly damaged and has gone unrepaired for seven years.
-- No. 4 basket has a bent center pole, and it is leaning badly.
-- Not the best land for disc golf. There are some trees, but they tend to be near the edges of the property, so using them as obstacles brings danger to other park users or cars on the road. The land is also flat, and the only water is standing in the fairways.
-- Course was mostly under water when I played. Since a previous review mentioned that the course tends to hold water, I assume the conditions I found were not unusual.
-- Other park amenities (RV parking, a stage) mean there will be times the course is not playable.
-- Safety issues. I have seen worse, but this course has too many baskets and tee pads in/near flight paths for other holes. Eight is the worse example with the No. 7 basket just right and in front of the tee pad, and the 9 tee pad in the path of a RHBH shot to the basket. Six tee pad is in the direct path from 5 tee to basket.
-- Tee pads are ridiculously small (3x8?). No. 5 is badly damaged and has gone unrepaired for seven years.
-- No. 4 basket has a bent center pole, and it is leaning badly.
-- Not the best land for disc golf. There are some trees, but they tend to be near the edges of the property, so using them as obstacles brings danger to other park users or cars on the road. The land is also flat, and the only water is standing in the fairways.
-- Course was mostly under water when I played. Since a previous review mentioned that the course tends to hold water, I assume the conditions I found were not unusual.
-- Other park amenities (RV parking, a stage) mean there will be times the course is not playable.
Other Thoughts:
-- Course plays mostly clockwise around the area. No. 1 tees from near the parking lot by the pool and plays away from the pool (toward the tennis courts).
-- This appears to be the course that everybody forgot. It was installed in 2014 and doesn't appear to have gotten any maintenance since. I mean, the grass gets cut because it's a multi-use park, but nothing appears to be done to support disc golf.
-- There is also no evidence of the championship level course across the street that was mentioned as coming soon in a review six years ago.
-- This appears to be the course that everybody forgot. It was installed in 2014 and doesn't appear to have gotten any maintenance since. I mean, the grass gets cut because it's a multi-use park, but nothing appears to be done to support disc golf.
-- There is also no evidence of the championship level course across the street that was mentioned as coming soon in a review six years ago.
