Justin DGC reviews
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Jimbotten
Experience:
3.9 years
21 played
12 reviews
Five Players' Thoughts 2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:Mar 19, 2017
Played the course:2-4 times
Pros:
- Two tees & 2 pins
- Some water holes
- Assortment of difficulty
- Assortment of sidearm-favored holes and backhand-favored holes
- Rough areas are mostly retrievable
- Mando clearly marked.
- Signage is minimalistic, but acceptable (shows distances).
- Assortment of North/South/East/West to ease the strong summer headwinds out of the south.
- Long tees are concrete
- Some water holes
- Assortment of difficulty
- Assortment of sidearm-favored holes and backhand-favored holes
- Rough areas are mostly retrievable
- Mando clearly marked.
- Signage is minimalistic, but acceptable (shows distances).
- Assortment of North/South/East/West to ease the strong summer headwinds out of the south.
- Long tees are concrete
Cons:
- OB not clearly marked yet.
- Many fairways touch; drives can land near the tees on the next hole.
- Parking is very limited.
- Short tees are natural.
- Lots of hazards to consider:
- throwing over park walkways
- touching fairways
- thorny rough in the wooded edges of some fairways
- steep drop-off on creek makes retrieving discs very hard
- some backyard fences with barking dogs and no trespassing signs means if you throw a disc there, it's gone.
- hole 8 throws over an active soccer field
- Not a summer course (very open, little shade, rough)
- Nothing on the billboard sign except a google earth of the course.
- Tee 4 is around the corner of #3 and blind to your throw.
- Many fairways touch; drives can land near the tees on the next hole.
- Parking is very limited.
- Short tees are natural.
- Lots of hazards to consider:
- throwing over park walkways
- touching fairways
- thorny rough in the wooded edges of some fairways
- steep drop-off on creek makes retrieving discs very hard
- some backyard fences with barking dogs and no trespassing signs means if you throw a disc there, it's gone.
- hole 8 throws over an active soccer field
- Not a summer course (very open, little shade, rough)
- Nothing on the billboard sign except a google earth of the course.
- Tee 4 is around the corner of #3 and blind to your throw.
Other Thoughts:
- Skeptical at first of the basket on hole 5, but pretty cool feat.
- Needs better signs in my opinion, but fairly tolerable.
- The barking dogs are annoying.
- Watch out for ants.
- Watch out for bees and wasps in the woods and open fields.
- Don't kill the cat that walks through the fairway on Hole 3.
- Yell HEADS UP!!!! when your throw goes right on Hole 3.
- Needs better signs in my opinion, but fairly tolerable.
- The barking dogs are annoying.
- Watch out for ants.
- Watch out for bees and wasps in the woods and open fields.
- Don't kill the cat that walks through the fairway on Hole 3.
- Yell HEADS UP!!!! when your throw goes right on Hole 3.
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Pizza God
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Premium Member
Experience:
36.1 years
1717 played
574 reviews
better than expected 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Jul 14, 2016
Played the course:once
Pros:
Decent flow
easy to navigate (as long as the tee signs stay in place)
some really good holes
easy to navigate (as long as the tee signs stay in place)
some really good holes
Cons:
Some really boring holes
one hole is really too close to peoples back yards
Temp tee signs, hopefully some better ones are in the works.
one hole is really too close to peoples back yards
Temp tee signs, hopefully some better ones are in the works.
Other Thoughts:
I was expecting a very flat course with no trees.
You start off with hole one, the signature hole, not because it is a good disc golf hole, it is a 300ft shot with zero trees or elevation change, but because it is the Pyramid hole. The basket is suspended from the top of a pyramid. There is a ladder if you are height challenged.
Next hole is another 300+ hole that is very wide open, unless you turn it over into a small row of trees to the right.
Hole 3 is semi wide open, but you are throwing over a drainage area that does have a small pond in it.
Now you get to the better holes, hole 4 thrown slighting downhill, it does cross a sidewalk so watch out for other park users. This is the first hole that the alternate pin placements do actually change up the hole, the long position looks like it make the hole a blind shot with a hill blocking the baskets view, the shorter position is on top of that hill. While there is not much between you and the basket, this is still a decent fun hole to play.
Hole 5 is a shorter forced turnover shot. It is forced because there is a fence on the right hand side of the fairway. You can throw over this fence, but the risk reward may not be worth it.
Hole 6 is a hard left dogleg, specially from the short tee. Decent hole and is reachable by most advance players.
Hole 7 is a long turnover shot with the creek on the right and a hill/houses/8 tee pad on the left.
Hole 8 throws along the fence line of peoples houses with the basket in a stand of trees.
Hole 9 is an old school type of shot, from the long it was an old fashion s curve hole. Not real long, but there is no hyzer or anhyzer shot, you need to throw and s curve to get the bird. (in the far left position)
In General, there is not much to work with. While I do not like "gimmick holes", the pyramid hole does make hole 1 interesting. The more open the hole was, the longer the hole was, that is a good thing.
My only issue with this course is hole 8. it is TOO easy to throw over into those backyards for my comfort. To be honest, both my shots from the Gold and Red tee's went over the fences but were high enough to come back.
You start off with hole one, the signature hole, not because it is a good disc golf hole, it is a 300ft shot with zero trees or elevation change, but because it is the Pyramid hole. The basket is suspended from the top of a pyramid. There is a ladder if you are height challenged.
Next hole is another 300+ hole that is very wide open, unless you turn it over into a small row of trees to the right.
Hole 3 is semi wide open, but you are throwing over a drainage area that does have a small pond in it.
Now you get to the better holes, hole 4 thrown slighting downhill, it does cross a sidewalk so watch out for other park users. This is the first hole that the alternate pin placements do actually change up the hole, the long position looks like it make the hole a blind shot with a hill blocking the baskets view, the shorter position is on top of that hill. While there is not much between you and the basket, this is still a decent fun hole to play.
Hole 5 is a shorter forced turnover shot. It is forced because there is a fence on the right hand side of the fairway. You can throw over this fence, but the risk reward may not be worth it.
Hole 6 is a hard left dogleg, specially from the short tee. Decent hole and is reachable by most advance players.
Hole 7 is a long turnover shot with the creek on the right and a hill/houses/8 tee pad on the left.
Hole 8 throws along the fence line of peoples houses with the basket in a stand of trees.
Hole 9 is an old school type of shot, from the long it was an old fashion s curve hole. Not real long, but there is no hyzer or anhyzer shot, you need to throw and s curve to get the bird. (in the far left position)
In General, there is not much to work with. While I do not like "gimmick holes", the pyramid hole does make hole 1 interesting. The more open the hole was, the longer the hole was, that is a good thing.
My only issue with this course is hole 8. it is TOO easy to throw over into those backyards for my comfort. To be honest, both my shots from the Gold and Red tee's went over the fences but were high enough to come back.
