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FENCE DGC reviews
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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.
