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Crown Point, IN

Hidden Creek DGC

1.255(based on 8 reviews)
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EspressoPatronum
Gold level trusted reviewer
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Experience: 18.8 years 256 played 243 reviews
0.50 star(s)

The Creek Must Be Really Hidden

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 17, 2023 Played the course:once

Pros:

- a few rolling hills are about the only notable terrain
- older but serviceable Innova DISCatchers
- some decent hole length variety

Cons:

- wide open and completely flat
- doesn't feel like the safest area
- no obstacles, ridiculously easy with no challenge/shot shaping
- natural tees
- some tee signs missing
- navigation is very unclear
- decent wooded area right next to course is not incorporated
- poor design which uses tennis court as an obstacle
- course has not been maintained over time
- hole 1 throws over parking lot drive; safety hazard

Other Thoughts:

It was hard to find many pros for this course. Jukeshoe had it right - not hidden enough! First, you have to find the start of the course in a decent size apartment complex. This honestly did not feel like the safest area but I found visitor parking near the course and started to play. Most of the tee signs are missing and navigation was very unclear. For the most part I followed the online map and just played basket to basket. This course clearly doesn't get much traffic so exact positions of the natural tees wasn't always obvious.

I get the impression this course may have been better maintained when it was new and maybe warranted a 1-1.5. In the current state, it's pretty bad. The tennis court was used as an obstacle, which I guess is ok now since this has become a fenced gravel lot. When the court was actually in existence and being used, this was not a good design, just asking for discs to end up on the court. This is about it for obstacles, with the rest of the course almost entirely open, devoid of trees, and flat. A couple of the later holes incorporate some light rolling hills which I guess is something.

I admittedly don't know if the wooded area right next to the course is the apartment complex's property, but it appears to be unused and if so it's a travesty they didn't design some holes into that area. I don't think anyone is really taking ownership of this course but it could have been halfway decent if it used some of this wooded area.

Hole 1 throws over one of the "roads" between the parking lots and the last couple of holes play pretty close to the parking lot. The layout here is not ideal. Honestly, as much as I bag just about everything, I was almost annoyed I came here. It's not much of a way to end the day. Not sure who named this apartment complex but there is certainly no creek I could see here. Unless you want to come here to bag every course, I would not walk, but run, in whatever direction gets you away from this awful course.
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Jukeshoe
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Experience: 14.7 years 316 played 268 reviews
0.50 star(s)

Not Hidden Enough 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 23, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

- Nice new, non-rusty, easy-to-see baskets.
- Two nice boulders. Seriously, other than the tennis fences, these are the only real obstacles.
- Some nice use of the rolling terrain. Grassy hills, while not amazing, keep it from being entirely one dimensional.
- Some short shots, but one or two holes long enough to break out a driver. Seems to be a windy course due to the openness, so plan accordingly.

Cons:

- Where to begin? No tees, just tee signs. Missing tee signs on #'s 1 and 4. So throw from wherever, it doesn't matter.
- Crazy unsafe layout. Criss-crossing fairways, throwing over the tennis courts (twice, no less!), etc. One hole (#2) throws over another hole's basket, tee pad, AND the tennis courts. Impressive. Check out the pictures, words can't do it justice.
- Benches smack in the middle of #8's fairway.
- Wide open shots without a tree in sight...unless you go down the wooded slope to the left of one of the early holes (#3...)...in which case there's no recovery shot to be had, but lots of broken glass.

Other Thoughts:

- Tucked in a little unused area behind an apartment complex where there used to be a baseball field and tennis courts, there's not anything going on here that makes me want to recommend Hidden Creek to anyone ever under any circumstances.
- If I lived in this apartment complex, I don't know if I'd even play this course other than for putter practice. It's that bad.
- There are some random ankle breakers (including one on hole #8!!!) in the forms of random holes, and the weird "sod trenches" in squares around the baskets. No idea what those are but they're annoying, as I almost twisted an ankle just getting my disc out of the basket (and then again at another spot).
- Still super impressed I got to play #2 today...all-time worst design for a hole. Except for maybe #7?
- I actually got to throw my disc UNDER a fence here. That was a highlight. I also threw a roller around a fence, and saw another person's disc go behind the baseball backstop's fence. This should be an Olympic fencing course, not a disc golf pitch n' putt.
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joedunc
Experience: 81 played 1 reviews
0.50 star(s)

Not good, even for a beginner course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 28, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

New, Nice Baskets. Very visable

Cons:

Layout replaced a home plate on a usable baseball field just to add a hole. What about baseball?
Bad Layout playing needlessly around obstacles
little consideration for safety of others using the park
Throw over street, danger to cars and players

Other Thoughts:

I love playing disc golf. This course is the closest course to where I live. When I first passed by and saw the baskets I was so excited, I couldn't contain myself. I made it to the course the next day and was disappointed. Tennis course were locked, and course made you play around the tennis courts.
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