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Mt. Pleasant, TX

Heritage Park DGC

2.585(based on 6 reviews)
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aclay
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Heritage Park

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jul 24, 2023 Played the course:once

Pros:

-- Land is good for disc golf, and it's pretty well used. You've got a beautiful lake/pond. While there is no water carry, the water borders holes 1 and 3, although it would take a bad shot to reach it either time. You've got a small creek as well. Add some minor elevation, and you're in good shape. There aren't a lot of trees, and they are mostly on the edge of the park.
-- Distance variation is excellent, leaning toward the longer end compared to most 9-hole courses. Three holes are longer than 450 feet, and two are shorter than 300.
-- DISCatcher baskets.
-- Concrete tee pads.
-- Excellent tee signs, with detailed map, distance and par.
-- Restrooms. One set each near the two sets of ballfields. That means one near the parking lot before you reach hole 1, and another near holes 5/6. At least one of them was open on a summer weekday when the fields were not being used, so I assume they are open all of the time.
-- Map at parking lot.
-- Navigation is good. The course plays counter clockwise around the park. Most tees are visible from the previous basket, and there aren't any long walks between holes.

Cons:

-- Multi-use park, and those other activities often encroach on the disc golf course. Or is that the other way around? Two sets of ballfields don't interfere much, but the walking path certainly does. Hole 3 has a mando to try to keep you from throwing at/over the walking path and water, but that brings the soccer field into play. It's a good looking hole, 408 feet downhill, RHBH anny to a basket with bushes within 10 feet of the basket on three sides. The walking path comes into play on the first three holes. Mid-morning on a July weekday, I had to wait several times to throw.
-- No practice basket.

Other Thoughts:

-- Hole 4 tries to make up for the general lack of trees on other holes. It's 341 feet, slight RHBH anny through hundreds of trees. The line is tight but fair early on, but closer to the basket, you've got trees that leave you no realistic path. The basket sits just outside of the trees.
-- With maintenance, holes 7-9 would be a good finishing stretch. Seven (453 feet) is open most of the way, but the basket sits on ground that slopes down toward a small creek about 20 feet past the basket. Eight (255 feet) is a RHBH anny throw with bushes about six feet right and back of the basket. Nine (451 feet) is slightly uphill with several trees to work around early on. However, a playground sits about 100-150 feet just left of the fairway. A fallen trees now sit directly in front of the tee, and general overgrowth blocks much of the early line.
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wellsbranch250
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2.00 star(s)

A Typical Course Name For A Typical Course

Reviewed: Played on:May 22, 2022 Played the course:once

Pros:

(2.136 Rating) A park style niner with some modest length.
- HOLE VARIETY - The one thing that Heritage does well compared to the typical niner is most definitely the diversity in hole styles and terrain elements. Some of variety is absurd and i'll get to this later. First off, a total length over 3,000 feet. That's a rare milestone feat among niners. There are 3 listed par 4s and one of them is a 90 degree dog leg. Mostly park style shots where having a cannon will be a big help to score well. There are a couple wooded holes, but unfortunately, they both got issues, (4) and (9).
- CHALLENGING - Normally the niners I have been typically seeing offer somewhere between cup cake beginner level challenges, up through and to lower Rec level. I would say Heritage is at the higher end of Rec level. As already noted, there is some length here and also some par 4 plays. Players that shoot below par out here on a regular basis likely have a good all-round game and are above a player rating of 875. The difficulty level presented is at an ideal level to please the widest swath of skill levels in my opinion.
- BASIC AMENITIES - DISCatcher baskets. Woot woot. Also big concrete tee pads and nice tee signage. Beyond the basics the amenities are limited to off the course items, such as shelters, playgrounds and restrooms. No alt tees, alt basket placements or benches.
- NAVIGATION - There's a nice course map posted between the parking lot and tees. Tee signs have next tee direction indicated on them. Some of the transitions are not intuitive, but all one has to do is pull up a photo of the map, and they'll get right back on track. It would be nice to have some directional indicators on or by the baskets though.
- LOCATION - The course is only 5 minutes from the I30 exit.
- TIME PLAY - It took me just 27 minutes to bag this one solo on an empty course.

Cons:

A couple of weird holes.
- HOLE 4 - This hole is terrible. First off, I want to know who's wisdom concluded that the hardest hole on the course is a par 3, yet all three listed par 4s are easier. Hole (4) is a heavily wooded hole with no line and it's listed at almost 350 feet long. Any deuces on this hole are likely chiming in from beyond 100 feet and were preceded by a luck tee shot throw that somehow missed 100 trees before being swatted down. This hole needs a clean-out and a par re-labeling.
- HOLE 9 - This was perhaps once a really great par 4. It's a dogleg right that's moderately wooded and has lots of thicket along the right for the first leg of the hole. The issue here is the big playground directly along the left. The window to be safe from the overgrowth and playground on this hole is literally the size of a window 100 feet down fairway.
- MULTI USE HAZARDS - In addition to the conflicts on (9), either walking paths, parking lots and playing fields are in play on eight holes. The tee shot on (8) needs a scout to do safely as part of the path is blind.
- LOST DISC POTENTIAL - A decent size lake comes into play on (3) and partially on hole (1) with a terrible throw. The overgrowth was pretty bad on my May visit on holes (4), (8) and (9). I'd say the disc loss potential is a touch higher than the average course.
- NATURAL BEAUTY - I slotted the course at 40 percentile on my course beauty ledger. The lake element was nice. It even had a fountain going. There are some nice wooded areas and some fun mild elevation changes. Things that hold this course back a bit were the unpolished wooded areas, the views of manmade features the entire time and the erosion scars on a few holes.

Other Thoughts:

The eleventh course I've played with the word Heritage in the course name. Apparently, there are 33 in the United States as of this review post. This is an ok course overall. Among the niners I've played, I'd say this one is slightly above average among that grouping. As alluded to in my cons, a couple holes here didn't sit well with me, but there were enough positive elements to make for a fun time. Definitely not a destination course, but for course baggers passing along I30, this is going to be an easy and pleasant hit. For locals, this will be a fine everyday course and I could see them logging multiple rounds a day. For their sake, I hope they have some unmarked alt tees. Nine of the same, time and time again, would get stale.
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