• 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)

Tryon, NC

Harmon Field

2.135(based on 4 reviews)
Filter course reviews

Filter reviews

Filter reviews

Harmon Field reviews

Filter
6 0
Bennybennybenny
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Experience: 13.3 years 306 played 289 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Tryon Not to Hate It 2+ years

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Oct 13, 2017 Played the course:once

Pros:

-Well..................hmm. Some holes are average. I guess with the space they used they did an okay job on some holes. I like hole 4, and holes 7, 8, and 9 were good too.

-Dual sets of pads, so can be played as 18. If you play here, just play the reds except hole 2. The tee-signs are nice too.

-You get to see the Blue Ridge Mountains. And there's a concession stand with a good variety of food options.

-If you live in Tryon, you have options of playing Jackson Park in NC, or Holston Creek and Shoally Creek near Spartanburg. That's pretty cool.

Cons:

-Oh man, is this Ben punk going to throw another rant? Yep. If you don't like it, then don't read this. I did not enjoy this course, just like I don't enjoy most courses around the Asheville area. If you do, then great! But you can't deny that a designer should either give it all he's got to make a good course and attract other players, or he should say "This isn't a place for a good course." Seems like most designers say "Yes! There is land! So there shall be a disc golf course!" ...This course is so screwed up. And you will see further in this review how Harmon Field was so screwed up to where I would have rather read my CIS textbook.

-It's so repetitive and boring. Most holes are similar, but There is NO elevation. Like none at all. That to me is a con. Especially when it's in the freaking mountains.

-A few tee signs are placed STRAIGHT BEHIND the frickin' tee-pads. You can't have a straight run up from the pad, your run-up has to be weird and has to catch you off guard.

-#2 (the red pad) is a mediocre hyzer shot so whatyoumaycallit huge to where it's impossible to park this 325' hole. You'd have to throw the most overstable disc you have in order to have some sort of look at birdie. And the shot is forced too. There is a tree right in front of the tee-pad with maybe a 35' limbspan.

-#3/12 has you throwing over a designated plant area. Unique some may say, but if you want plants to be protected at all times, designing a hole over it is not a good idea. And while #4 (the red tee) may be a good hole. #13 (the long tee) is a bad design. The plant area is right in front of the tee. It's a par 4 that is reachable but it plays as an anhyzer crush over the road and through the trees.

-Hole 10 (gold pad) is where it gets bad. Course is okay but then you see this hole. It's a 427' par 4. But is just bad due to trees lined up in front of the pad. You have to throw a ridiculous roller anhyzer or test out your luck and try to get so lucky and go through one of the trees. Because you won't clear one of the gaps between them.

-#14. This hole is an ideal flick. Over a bridge this is. Least they didn't make a mando forcing you to throw through it.

-#17. Just don't play it. This hole is horrible. It's next to the road, so it's a left to right shot. But there are pine trees in front of you and behind you, so you can't really hyzer or anhyzer. Not to mention the American FLAGPOLE is in front of the pad. This hole is terrible. I think the designer had to drop a deuce when he pulled out his sketchpad and it gave him a crappy idea. "Let's make #17's tee shot a facade full of .............." (you know what.)

-Most holes play beside the jogging trail. Like right beside it. And when you play hole 2, you might shank an intended hyzer that it hits the 35 mph road.

Other Thoughts:

-I could do what some reviewers do and sugarcoat by giving reasons to come to a course that isn't great. I could ignore the bad and make you want to come here, and set myself up to get cussed out in a PM because I lied. Or, I could tell you the truth and say that this was yet another letdown in the WNC, just like most of the courses in the area. I don't know what it takes to get this through.

-Harmon Field is similar to candy corn. It has a bad and bland taste, and every hole is too similar to the others; there isn't any variety to this course.

-Harmon Field is not an ideal place for a disc golf course. It's crowded, it's really busy, and the course is a hindrance in some ways. I don't know if the county paid someone, or if locals got the green light from the county, but the baskets should go to another park. Locals: Not every park with excess space needs a course. Designers: If you don't think you can make a good course out of the land available, find somewhere else, or if the county paid you, then tell them it's not going to work. Give it all you've got! And to the county: Never pay someone to design a course, or pay for baskets if the place isn't ideal for a course, or accept ideas of holes being over bridges, plants, fences, etc. Do they realize they are practically on a parade float throwing money out of their pockets, spending money to design lame courses?

-The WNC has all the ingredients to make an awesome course. WNC has mountains, and is in the middle of nowhere in some parts of it. There are many parks that could have an awesome course. But instead (unless you play Jackson or Richmond), you have the option of playing something open and bland or something so wooded and mediocre. It's like a candy corn option or a black coffee with roots, acorns, sticks, and if you're lucky, cherry stems. It's time for a change. You would've thought it's getting better after the gem of a course Jackson Park, but there was a relapse. I go to Western Carolina, and I'd rather drive to Walhalla or Seneca than play most courses in the Asheville area. And Holston Creek, which is like 20 miles away is literally Idlewild in KY compared to this course.

-If you take offense, well I warned you. And besides, it's just disc golf. No shame in liking what you like.
Was this review helpful? Yes No

Latest posts

Top