• Discover new ways to elevate your game with the updated DGCourseReview app!
    It's entirely free and enhanced with features shaped by user feedback to ensure your best experience on the course. (App Store or Google Play)

Newport, NC

Fort Benjamin Park

Permanent course
1.65(based on 5 reviews)
Filter course reviews

Filter reviews

Filter reviews

Fort Benjamin Park reviews

Filter
8 0
Rastnav
Bronze level trusted reviewer
Experience: 55 played 12 reviews
1.00 star(s)

Improvement, but fundamental flaws remains 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 1, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

I'll basically echo what BrotherDave said in his review, but as some small improvements have been made, I thought a re-review made sense. There has clearly been some small effort to make changes to the course to make it play more like a disc golf course, and less like baskets in a field.

- Quick growing trees now guard the basket on #3.
- Quick growing trees have been planted to eventually make some visual changes to hole #4 eventually.
- Trees now minimally guard #7
- #8 now has a marsh and creek/runoff ditch now guarding the approach.
- For experienced players, I don't think these changes make much difference, although #3 now is challenging to access and #8 heavily punishes anything on line but short.

Based on previous reviews, I believe everything else remains as before.

Cons:

The fundamental problem with this course is that it on the grounds of a large multi-use municipal athletic facility. If I hadn't played during Covid, when the fields were not in use, I don't imagine I could have played at all. Every throw would put someone in danger if the facility was being fully utilized.

My guess is that this course will only be playable early mornings and week days before school let out.

The holes, being on the borders of ball fields, are fundamentally open. However, being on the edge of the park, if you pull a backhand, you are in sever danger of losing a disc on many holes. This course doesn't see the use to beat in the rough on the edge of the park. The marsh on hole #8 will readily gobble quite a few discs as well. Thus, you don't even get the advantage of having worry free pulls.

Other Thoughts:

With the length (and dangers of wayward shots) being fairly non-friendly for new players, but the challenge of the course not being sufficient for experienced players, it's hard to know who the course would best serve. It's a little bit of a course in search of a niche. If you live in town, and this is what you have, it's better than nothing, I imagine. But there are far better courses an easy drive away.

I believe the baskets are Lightning DB5s that have simply had their bases buried, rather than being mounted in concrete. This would account for their rather short height and some odd tilts to the baskets.
Was this review helpful? Yes No
Top