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Knoxville, TN

Inskip Park Junior DGC

2.655(based on 10 reviews)
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wellsbranch250
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For Beginners, Or For Ace Runs 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:May 29, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

(1.828 Rating) One of the best beginner courses out there.
- ACEABILITY - Numerous holes, is not all, are highly aceable. Young kids could get their first ace here for sure. I knew going in that the course was very short so I was secretly thinking that I'd be walking away with my first Tennessee ace and sure enough, it happened. Seasoned players should walk away with an ace on every 10th round or less. However, a lot of players I know would be conflicted on whether to even count these shorties as an ace. No conflict for me, ace number 23.
- SIGNAGE - Awesome hole signage designed by 3rd, 4th and 5th graders. All the appropriate info is on them. Hole number, par, distances, artistic description of the hole and next tee direction.
- BEGINNER FRIENDLY - Inskip Park is the kind of place I would bring a first timer to. Most of the shots are less than 150 feet. This is a great place to learn the game as there is nice mix of short open and wooded shots.
- QUICK PLAY - This layout can be run by a solo in 20 minutes by a seasoned player who knows the course. Probably 30 minutes for a blind solo player. Groups of four should be done in around 45 minutes
- NATURAL BEAUTY - Hole (1) is about as blah as they get, but the rest of the layout is either about average looking or above. Starting on tee (3) and through hole (8), the layout looks really nice. There are several shots that play under a fully wooded tree canopy that make these ace runs just a bit more awesome.
- SPACING FOR A SHORT COURSE - Typically courses this short have all sorts of adjacency issues with other holes or other park amenities. I was shocked by how few there were. Hole (5) has a road in play on the left. Hole (9) basket is too close to tee (2). Other than that, really nice hole spacing.
- MULTIPLE TEES - Another shocker was two tee pads on every hole. The front tees average 100 feet per hole while the back average roughly 150 feet per hole.

Cons:

A nice course for Beginners but that's about it.
- LACK OF CHALLENGE - Throwing below the listed course par will occur for even the newest of newer players. To seasoned players these hole play mostly like par 2s with only holes (5-7) being legit par 3s to Recreational players. These three holes were the only times I personally felt challenged to make a deuce
- CHAINS - Adequate Mach3s on most holes, but they appears to be older than the course install date of 2014. If I had to guess I'd say the baskets are from another course that got new baskets. Hole (6's) basket was a very old single chain basket. Mach I, I think.
- TEES - Concrete, but circular shape for some odd reason. They are 7 feet in diameter. For a skilled player like me they are adequate as I either did a standing throw or did a one step approach. However, considering that the course is designed for beginners the odd shape will not be long enough to learn the footwork for a run-up or walk-up throw. At roughly 40 square feet in surface area, a 4 foot by 8 foot long pad that widens 6 feet in the back would have been better.
- CHARACTER - A touch below average. The park definitely has some nice non disc golf related amenities. A nice shelter with picnic tables and a nice playground. There are restrooms at the pool if its open. However, the disc golf related amenities are missing other than slightly sub-par tees and nice signage. No benches or garbage cans at the tees. Also no practice basket and no alternate pin placements.
- UNIQUENESS - Inskip Park lacks the uniqueness that one would see on the average 18 hole course. The layout is just so short with no plays over 260 feet in length. The only hole I didn't throw a putter was on (5), which required me running back to the car as I needed a very low shot to travel 240 feet. Every hole twists by less than 10 degrees. No water in play, although obviously this is great for Beginners. Elevation is moderate on a couple holes. (7) seemed to play down 25 feet or so which was something I was not expecting. Also a nice mix of open and wooded holes.

Other Thoughts:

Inskip is no doubt a Beginners and Juniors course. Unfortunately however, it will have only one stop appeal for skilled players that don't like deuce or die courses. Sure it can be fun running at some of these baskets, but all of the plays are so short that most seasoned players won't be satisfied. A really tough course to rate. I'd give it a 3.5 among all the courses I've played with hole length average under 175 feet. So I'd say for Beginners this is a very good course. However, for those with Recreational skills and above, I think this will be a "check, I've played it" type of course.
- NAVIGATION - No course map but considering the extremely short layout, traversing this course is fairly doable with a little scouting. Most next tees are within 100 feet and it's just matter of walking down an intuitive path to find the next tee. Hole signage has next tee direction so be sure and take note of that.
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