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Harbour Village Resort DGC reviews
7
0
wolfhaley
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Premium Member
Experience:
20.1 years
1023 played
597 reviews
Reviewed:
Played on:May 19, 2024
Played the course:once
Pros:
Harbour Village Resort features a 9 hole disc golf course that is open to the public and may or may not be pay to play depending on who's at the office. If they don't charge you it's definitely worth a quick round or two.
The course is located all the way in the back of the property in a section all by itself. This was nice as i didn't see another person out there. The campground is pretty big and clearly popular but you'd never even know it was there. The terrain is well suited for disc golf. Rolling hills and enough trees to keep things interesting.
The course flow is easy to follow once you actually locate hole 1. The course plays counter clockwise and there's little white arrows on the bottom of each cage pointing you toward the next tee.
The baskets are older Mach III's. These catch ok for the most part and each has a large white sign attached to the top with the hole number. One basket and pin position per hole.
Very basic wood tee signs. These have a crude hole map, hole #, par and distance painted on them. Basic but functional enough.
The course is located all the way in the back of the property in a section all by itself. This was nice as i didn't see another person out there. The campground is pretty big and clearly popular but you'd never even know it was there. The terrain is well suited for disc golf. Rolling hills and enough trees to keep things interesting.
The course flow is easy to follow once you actually locate hole 1. The course plays counter clockwise and there's little white arrows on the bottom of each cage pointing you toward the next tee.
The baskets are older Mach III's. These catch ok for the most part and each has a large white sign attached to the top with the hole number. One basket and pin position per hole.
Very basic wood tee signs. These have a crude hole map, hole #, par and distance painted on them. Basic but functional enough.
Cons:
The baskets aren't all mounted level. A couple were leaning at damn near a 45 degree angle which, obviously, isn't ideal. Hole 3's basket was laying on it's side too.
The tee pads, in theory, are ok. They're framed in gravel pads. On the smaller side but not a huge issue in that regard. The problem is most of them have large weeds growing out of them. Some of the weeds are a foot tall or more. These clearly don't get maintained much.
The course doesn't start and end by the same area. I ended up parking at the north lot and wondered around until I got to hole 1. There's also a lot by hole 1 but you'd end up doing the same thing just after your round. Definitely recommend having a map available for this aspect alone.
I'd assume that the grass off the fairways gets really tall in the summer. It wasn't too bad in mid May but I did still spend a little time searching. Luckily nothing was lost.
My biggest con is that I had to purchase a day pass to play the course. $20 for a day pass is ridiculous to end up encountering all these cons. I'd be nice if they sold a separate pass for disc golf only. I mean, $5 is still way too much for this but it's much more tolerable than $20.
The tee pads, in theory, are ok. They're framed in gravel pads. On the smaller side but not a huge issue in that regard. The problem is most of them have large weeds growing out of them. Some of the weeds are a foot tall or more. These clearly don't get maintained much.
The course doesn't start and end by the same area. I ended up parking at the north lot and wondered around until I got to hole 1. There's also a lot by hole 1 but you'd end up doing the same thing just after your round. Definitely recommend having a map available for this aspect alone.
I'd assume that the grass off the fairways gets really tall in the summer. It wasn't too bad in mid May but I did still spend a little time searching. Luckily nothing was lost.
My biggest con is that I had to purchase a day pass to play the course. $20 for a day pass is ridiculous to end up encountering all these cons. I'd be nice if they sold a separate pass for disc golf only. I mean, $5 is still way too much for this but it's much more tolerable than $20.
Other Thoughts:
I'd only ever play this one again if I was camping here. Even then it'd only be a round, maybe two. There's potential for a nice course here. In fact, I bet when it was brand new it was a nice course. Clearly this last on the priority list here though. I'd call ahead to inquire before forking over the money for a day pass. At least I don't have to look at it on my course map anymore.
7
0
Could Be Good
Reviewed:
Played on:Aug 3, 2023
Played the course:once
Pros:
- Very cool campground that seems like a fun place to be during the summer.
- Course is in it's own secluded (sorta) area of the campgrounds. Although, some kids were riding golf carts on the 4 wheeler trails that snake throughout the first part of the course.
- Baskets were Mach 3's which caught pretty decently.
- Initially when this course was added, it appeared to say that it was $5 to play but when I walked into the office to hand over my money, they told me to go to the building across the way and just show my ID to check in. And even then, the girl at the desk told me the ID check wasn't really even required (lol) and asked me if I knew how to find the course.
- Course is in it's own secluded (sorta) area of the campgrounds. Although, some kids were riding golf carts on the 4 wheeler trails that snake throughout the first part of the course.
- Baskets were Mach 3's which caught pretty decently.
- Initially when this course was added, it appeared to say that it was $5 to play but when I walked into the office to hand over my money, they told me to go to the building across the way and just show my ID to check in. And even then, the girl at the desk told me the ID check wasn't really even required (lol) and asked me if I knew how to find the course.
Cons:
- Course is not easy to find. From the office, you have to drive to the north end of the camping area then drive east till you see this small gravel "road" that leads to hole 1's teepad.
- Signs were not the most helpful but I guess with most of the holes being pretty short, it didn't really matter.
- Teepads are pretty bad. They are too small, not flush to the ground and that gravel is already starting to get uneven.
- Hole design is pretty wonky on a majority of the holes. Hole 5 I believe was the one where it was a blind uphill shot where you're throwing up a trail with a "fairway" that is only about 5 feet wide with extremely bad rough on both sides. Hole 9 I didn't even bother throwing because of having no spotter and how bad the rough was and the fact the fairway had grass almost up to my knees. It sucks too because hole 9 was the funnest looking one and the longest hole of the course.
- Signs were not the most helpful but I guess with most of the holes being pretty short, it didn't really matter.
- Teepads are pretty bad. They are too small, not flush to the ground and that gravel is already starting to get uneven.
- Hole design is pretty wonky on a majority of the holes. Hole 5 I believe was the one where it was a blind uphill shot where you're throwing up a trail with a "fairway" that is only about 5 feet wide with extremely bad rough on both sides. Hole 9 I didn't even bother throwing because of having no spotter and how bad the rough was and the fact the fairway had grass almost up to my knees. It sucks too because hole 9 was the funnest looking one and the longest hole of the course.
Other Thoughts:
I don't really know what I was expecting for this course based on what I read on uDisc which isn't exactly an accurate place for information on how good a course actually is.
Well, it turns out this one isn't very good and honestly, I don't really know what else they could do to fix this one aside from the usual upgrade signs/teepads. And even then it'd only bump this one up to a 2.5 at best. Unless they start to take care of the rough and actually maintain fairways, this course will just fall into disrepair. It's a good thing it was free to play because I definitely would've had a case of buyer's regret afterwards.
Side note, a huge storm came in right when I got to hole 9. A huge bolt of lightning and boom of thunder clapped extremely close to where I was so after noting that hole 9 was a complete waste of plastic to attempt to throw, I proceeded to power walk/run back to my car lol.
Well, it turns out this one isn't very good and honestly, I don't really know what else they could do to fix this one aside from the usual upgrade signs/teepads. And even then it'd only bump this one up to a 2.5 at best. Unless they start to take care of the rough and actually maintain fairways, this course will just fall into disrepair. It's a good thing it was free to play because I definitely would've had a case of buyer's regret afterwards.
Side note, a huge storm came in right when I got to hole 9. A huge bolt of lightning and boom of thunder clapped extremely close to where I was so after noting that hole 9 was a complete waste of plastic to attempt to throw, I proceeded to power walk/run back to my car lol.
