• 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)

Prosper, TX

Honey Locust

2.55(based on 2 reviews)
Filter course reviews

Filter reviews

Filter reviews

Honey Locust reviews

Filter
12 0
aclay
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 39.6 years 309 played 236 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Honey Locust

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 29, 2023 Played the course:once

Pros:

-- Land is decent for disc golf but not great. The course is mostly open; there are a few trees and some water but no elevation.
-- Mowed paths make navigation easy. The only potential issue is getting from 3 to 4. Take the path right, then go left over the bridge.
-- Beautiful tee signs with everything you need … except the hole number. It appears that the original intent was for the course to start near Fish Trap Road. However, there is no parking, and road work on Fish Trap Road makes it nearly impassable. Your best bet is to park at the dead-end on the north end of Legacy Drive. Follow a path left about 150 feet, and you'll reach a tee and a course map. Seems like Hole 1. However, the tee sign has no hole number, and the map has no hole numbers. According to the online map that I saw 9 days ago but is now not available, this is hole 7. Some baskets are numbered, and those numbers agree with the online map. I am using the hole numbers that make sense based on the location of the map on site.
-- Best holes: Three is 382 feet with a big tree in the middle of the fairway, so you can go right or left. A guardian tree sits 20 feet in front of the basket, and a creek is 15 feet behind the basket. Eight is 311 feet mostly straight and open. There is a gentle right turn the final 30 feet, and the basket sits on top of a small hill behind a guardian tree. Murky water is 15 feet past the basket. Nine (323 feet) is a water carry. You've got about 55 feet off the tee before you reach tall grass and/or water, so there's not much of a layup option, and there are no real bailout options right or left. Water levels will vary significantly, but to clear the tall grass on the far edge of the water requires a 250-foot drive.

Cons:

-- Heavily favors RHBH throwing style. Five holes clearly require or heavily favor RHBH with a hyzer shot; a sixth hole offers RHBH or RHFH paths. Two holes are close to straight. One favors RHFH.
-- Course is mostly open, but the rough is so bad that disc loss potential is high.
-- Almost no shade.
-- No restrooms.
-- Long concrete tee pads, but some are almost overgrown.
-- No water on site.

Other Thoughts:

-- All holes are listed as par 3 on the map at the course, including the 560 foot opening hole. Our site lists that one as Par 4.
-- Fairways are mowed (somewhat high), but the rough is minimum of waist-high; some of it is more than 8 feet tall. Fairways are mostly a uniform 20-feet wide.
-- Somewhat long holes for a 9-hole course. Seven are longer than 300 feet, and no holes are shorter than 275.
Was this review helpful? Yes No
15 0
Pizza God
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Premium Member
Experience: 36.1 years 1728 played 580 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Its very new, very rough

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 19, 2022 Played the course:once

Pros:

New baskets, new tee pads

Decent use of natural fairways

Water shots

Course is about 20 min north of my house

Cons:

This will change eventually, but at the time of this writing, the course is very rough and the city does not have the park on a mowing schedule.

Creek crossings, more bridges will eventually be put in, right now there is only one bridge on hole 4.

Other Thoughts:

This course was JUST put in. No parking yet, that will eventually be built off Legacy. Right now you park in the grass off Fishtrap RD near tee for hole 2.

Hole 1 is a nice natural fairway with a creek behind the basket, don't overthrow this one.

Hole 2 is currently a very blind shot crossing the creek and in a nice area for a green. The natural flow is a slight turnover.

Hole 3 is a very hard right turn with hole 4's tee box on the left side of the fairway.

Hole 4 is a nice natural fairway with the basket tucked in behind some brush just before the creek. You can see the basket for hole 1 from the tee, throw short of it and you are good.

Then a longer walk though aa fence line over to hole 5. It's an uphill shot with some tree's taking out a hyzer shot. Basket is just past a tree line on top of the dam for a pond.

Hole 6 throws over the pond and up the hill. A key tree takes out a natural right handed hyzer.

Hole 7, longest hole on the course and a marked mando. First throw is pretty open but you have to get around a tree line with a mando to get a clear shot to the basket. Don't overthrow your drive, another tree line down the right side of the fairways. The basket is another 280ft from the mando down a natural fairway sitting on the small hill.

Hole 8 is a simple hyzer up a slight hill with some brush hiding the basket from sight.

Hole 9 throws back down towards the creek with one large tree forcing you to throw a hyzer or anhyzer around it. There is some smaller brush just short of the green and the creek is just past the basket.

After hole 9, there is an area you can cross the creek between baskets 4 and 1, or walk all the way round the only bridge on fairway 4.

This course will be nice if the grass is kept mowed. As long as not too much clearing of some of the smaller brush does not happen. I really did like the natural fairways.

What I didn't like was the tee box placement for hole 4 and the use of a mando on hole 7. But that is my personal opinion. We all can look at a course and see how we would do something dfferent.

Would I play here again? Not right now, when the course is cleaned up, I want to play it again. but right now it is just too rough. Reminds me of the first time I attempted to play Trinity Falls over in McKinney.
Was this review helpful? Yes No

Latest posts

Top