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FENCE DGC reviews
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DiscGolfCraig
Diamond level trusted reviewer
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Experience:
19.9 years
597 played
544 reviews
Me No Likey
Reviewed:
Played on:Jul 28, 2022
Played the course:once
Pros:
FENCE has 9 baskets. They decided to mow the fairways on some of them. The others? Good luck.
- This is going to be a short review. About as much time and effort as the maintenance crews put into this course's upkeep.
- Holes #1, 8 (mostly), and 9 are the only holes with grass fairways. The others were set in the overgrowth/wild areas. Even good tee shots on those holes can be in waist high (or taller) growth. Better hope there aren't snakes or other growth here.
- The baskets were in good shape.
- Tees were all relatively easy to spot.
- #9 is a fun, throw multiple discs off the tee type of hole. Downhill, 210-ish range. The day I played there was a steady cross breeze adding an extra layer of challenge.
- I think horses and riders like it here.
- This is going to be a short review. About as much time and effort as the maintenance crews put into this course's upkeep.
- Holes #1, 8 (mostly), and 9 are the only holes with grass fairways. The others were set in the overgrowth/wild areas. Even good tee shots on those holes can be in waist high (or taller) growth. Better hope there aren't snakes or other growth here.
- The baskets were in good shape.
- Tees were all relatively easy to spot.
- #9 is a fun, throw multiple discs off the tee type of hole. Downhill, 210-ish range. The day I played there was a steady cross breeze adding an extra layer of challenge.
- I think horses and riders like it here.
Cons:
There shouldn't be a course here if these are the conditions players have to endure. I had to spend time hiking through / climbing over tall growth in search of discs in the middle of fairways. It's an experience spending time hunting for a disc that ends up 25 feet from the basket.
- Maybe the goal of this layout is simply ace or bust? It's a rustic ace race. If you're not good enough to nail shots from 150 feet, then you deserve scratched up legs walking the fairways. I guess?
- It seemed nobody at the park knows there is a course. I got odd looks from the people there I came in contact with.
- I guess I'll echo the idea that this should be a 15 – 20 minute leisurely round. Instead, it's a longer, bloodier, more anger-inducing round.
- I don't know who thought placing baskets in 3-4 foot tall growth was a good idea. Even if you know nothing about disc golf or 'frisbees', common sense is nobody wants to walk through that stuff.
- Maybe the goal of this layout is simply ace or bust? It's a rustic ace race. If you're not good enough to nail shots from 150 feet, then you deserve scratched up legs walking the fairways. I guess?
- It seemed nobody at the park knows there is a course. I got odd looks from the people there I came in contact with.
- I guess I'll echo the idea that this should be a 15 – 20 minute leisurely round. Instead, it's a longer, bloodier, more anger-inducing round.
- I don't know who thought placing baskets in 3-4 foot tall growth was a good idea. Even if you know nothing about disc golf or 'frisbees', common sense is nobody wants to walk through that stuff.
Other Thoughts:
FENCE could be a very nice, enjoyable round if there were simply fairways here. There are tremendous views of the mountains as your backdrop, yet, it's maddeningly frustrating.
- It's challenging enough to find the course. The park is alongside I-40, but you have 10 minutes of backroads to get here. Once in the park, there's zero signage for the course. So use UDisc or GPS to get you to the parking lot near the first tee.
- Seeing how there haven't been any more reviews for the course on UDisc in the 7 months since I played, maybe that answers why the course isn't getting attention from the groundcrew.
- All that means this course should be pulled. If this is what they're offering, yank it out of the ground until you're ready for a real layout.
- That said…..this space would be good for a temporary layout. Rolling hills, lots of space. Set up a tourney here in Spring and enjoy it. Otherwise, don't play here.
- It's challenging enough to find the course. The park is alongside I-40, but you have 10 minutes of backroads to get here. Once in the park, there's zero signage for the course. So use UDisc or GPS to get you to the parking lot near the first tee.
- Seeing how there haven't been any more reviews for the course on UDisc in the 7 months since I played, maybe that answers why the course isn't getting attention from the groundcrew.
- All that means this course should be pulled. If this is what they're offering, yank it out of the ground until you're ready for a real layout.
- That said…..this space would be good for a temporary layout. Rolling hills, lots of space. Set up a tourney here in Spring and enjoy it. Otherwise, don't play here.
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No Fence But There's A Gate 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Nov 2, 2021
Played the course:once
Pros:
-384 acre land. Meaning that an 18 holer is definitely within grasp in regards to design. There's a nature center and boardwalk that the Foothills Equestrian Nature Center has to offer. The purpose of this center seems to be more educational based toward nature since it offers horse shows, bird watching, and riding sessions. That being said, a disc golf course would likely be a supporting factor in a setting like this. And well, it is.
-The land is very hilly with extreme elevation change. Elevation is present here, nothing that quite meets the threshold for "extreme" on any of the holes (like 60' or greater) but one of the holes was still a huge uphill par four with some appeal to it. #2 is a great downhill shot that's instantly over some water and tucked past a tight wooded gap toward the end. I really liked this hole. #4 is a nice par four as well.
-Pink disc catcher baskets with the hole number. Course is marked on U disc so that it's easier to find each hole or fairway.
-The land is very hilly with extreme elevation change. Elevation is present here, nothing that quite meets the threshold for "extreme" on any of the holes (like 60' or greater) but one of the holes was still a huge uphill par four with some appeal to it. #2 is a great downhill shot that's instantly over some water and tucked past a tight wooded gap toward the end. I really liked this hole. #4 is a nice par four as well.
-Pink disc catcher baskets with the hole number. Course is marked on U disc so that it's easier to find each hole or fairway.
Cons:
-FENCE needs a makeover. I heard that it will possibly be expanded to eighteen holes. If so, then FENCE really needs a makeover. Either way, it's a bit of a hike and a rather boring one in the open. A very long walk for only nine holes. The walk from #8 to #9 is quite long and boring.
-The main problem is navigation. No tee pads. Well, there are some faded spots on the ground that clearly seemed to be tee pads since I used U disc the whole way through. There's one long walk from #8 to #9 and some other holes play dangerously close to the previous holes. #4 has you tee off just over the green on #3. #5 and #9 cross each other a little bit. #2's tee pad is just maybe 20' past the basket on #1. I never found the exact tee for #8 but I saw it's whereabouts. The tee is too close to #7's basket. It's a long walk for nine holes, yet somehow many holes are close together. Doesn't seem to make sense, so you'll see it for yourself or you'll know what I mean if you have played here.
-Holes #6 and #8 have terrible basket placements and are both badly designed holes. #6 has you playing along a ridge with tons of vegetation right beside you the entire way. The approach shot is especially hard because the basket is literally in the middle of the overgrowth. So you could land in the open and play it safe and then be left with a blind shot because the basket is not visible unless you are maybe 60' from it. #8's tee shot has you throwing directly next to #7's basket. The tee shot is bad from the get go. You throw through a corridor out of the woods. The low branches you have to throw below are entirely too low to reach a 350' hole. It gets even worse. There's a bunch of overgrowth straight ahead past the woods and the basket is right in the middle of it. This could easily be a great hole. With a little maintenance you could be throwing out of a clearer gap and then far down the left side and make a fun dogleg left par four. Instead, it's a failed attempt "corridor style" hole that's straight ahead in the knee high weeds and thorns.
-While we are at it. There is another hole with low branches you are almost forced to throw below. I'll call them "limbo shots". That other hole is #5 and the tee shot is supposedly by the parking area in the gravel and instantly facing an enormous tree with extremely low branches. The hole has an elevation increase probably over 25' so the 300' length plays more like 375'. You are forced to either throw an insane cut roller all the way up or somehow throw extremely low under the branches and not get up there.
-The main problem is navigation. No tee pads. Well, there are some faded spots on the ground that clearly seemed to be tee pads since I used U disc the whole way through. There's one long walk from #8 to #9 and some other holes play dangerously close to the previous holes. #4 has you tee off just over the green on #3. #5 and #9 cross each other a little bit. #2's tee pad is just maybe 20' past the basket on #1. I never found the exact tee for #8 but I saw it's whereabouts. The tee is too close to #7's basket. It's a long walk for nine holes, yet somehow many holes are close together. Doesn't seem to make sense, so you'll see it for yourself or you'll know what I mean if you have played here.
-Holes #6 and #8 have terrible basket placements and are both badly designed holes. #6 has you playing along a ridge with tons of vegetation right beside you the entire way. The approach shot is especially hard because the basket is literally in the middle of the overgrowth. So you could land in the open and play it safe and then be left with a blind shot because the basket is not visible unless you are maybe 60' from it. #8's tee shot has you throwing directly next to #7's basket. The tee shot is bad from the get go. You throw through a corridor out of the woods. The low branches you have to throw below are entirely too low to reach a 350' hole. It gets even worse. There's a bunch of overgrowth straight ahead past the woods and the basket is right in the middle of it. This could easily be a great hole. With a little maintenance you could be throwing out of a clearer gap and then far down the left side and make a fun dogleg left par four. Instead, it's a failed attempt "corridor style" hole that's straight ahead in the knee high weeds and thorns.
-While we are at it. There is another hole with low branches you are almost forced to throw below. I'll call them "limbo shots". That other hole is #5 and the tee shot is supposedly by the parking area in the gravel and instantly facing an enormous tree with extremely low branches. The hole has an elevation increase probably over 25' so the 300' length plays more like 375'. You are forced to either throw an insane cut roller all the way up or somehow throw extremely low under the branches and not get up there.
Other Thoughts:
-This course could be good. It would be nice to have an open eighteen hole course with lots of elevation change. Many parts of the property could have very well designed holes that would make you excited to play here. But there's only two holes here that are fun out of the nine here. Those holes are #2 and #4. #7 has potential as well (it's the big uphill par four with the basket under some trees) there's just no visible tee pad and it needs some weeds removed. Honestly, I think #2 would be better if holes #1 and #2 were condensed into one hole. It'd be a big downhill 650-700' par four that would be a real blast to play.
-This course can be so much better than this. Please! Let's try this again and start over! There's a lot of land this place covers. Even if all the space available was used, there are many opportunities that were squandered.
-This course can be so much better than this. Please! Let's try this again and start over! There's a lot of land this place covers. Even if all the space available was used, there are many opportunities that were squandered.
