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Slidell, LA

Fritchie Park

2.25(based on 5 reviews)
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Qikly
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Experience: 11.9 years 181 played 150 reviews
1.00 star(s)

2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Apr 5, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

Fritchie Park is a small 9-holer playing around and through a patch of woods bordering a small county park. Short, it offers an opportunity for a quick round of disc golf that isn't physically taxing. The short tees offer relatively undemanding play, while the long tees do provide some technical challenge through prevalent tight lanes (with a "but" forthcoming in the Cons). Line shaping is simple and straightforward if not necessarily easy, but there is some solid shot variety here relative to the course's overall simplicity.

Once you find the course, navigation is intuitive. The course does not come into conflict with other park activities.

Cons:

This is an exceedingly short course playing on dead flat land. With these constraints, the design emphasizes unrealistically tight windows and lanes. The challenge is nice, but there are a lot of plink-and-plunk shots with no options or recovery realistically available.

While fairways were more or less clear and rough not too bad when I played in early April, I can easily see this course getting overgrown in the summer. That could change the almost-surely impending Bad Tree Kick from a nuisance to a five-minute search for a disc on an altogether unrewarding hole.

Given such tight lanes, the short tees are often significantly so in order to balance difficulty: there are a few holes < / = 100 feet here.

The layout begins behind a utility building a bit of a ways away from where the course is first seen near the parking lot. After a bit of searching we just started on hole 5 and resumed our search after playing the holes that were more easily found. Flow from one hole to the next is great, but the location of the course's start is not intuitive and seemingly unsigned.

If visual aesthetics are important to you then this is not your course: it plays through scruffy woods bordering a small cluster of homes and tees are signed with PVC pipe.

Other Thoughts:

This course is more for casual locals than anyone else. It also occupies a nice position on I-10 in between New Orleans and a cluster of small Mississippi courses near Bay Saint Louis, and is relatively quick to get to off the highway. It's not worth inconveniencing yourself for, but a decent place to stretch your legs for 30-45 minutes if you avoid expectations.
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