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Marshall, MI

Ketchum Park DGC

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ForearmGalore
Silver level trusted reviewer
Experience: 10.9 years 248 played 42 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Good Putter Course 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 8, 2017 Played the course:once

Pros:

-Easy to find course in a nice park. From the parking, walk to the small bridge you crossed over to get into the park. Tee one is right there.
-Easy layout to follow from hole to hole. They have markers up/around to help you, which is impressive for such a small course.
-Great place to take someone who's never played. Short, controlled shots is the way to play this.
-Great place to learn how to throw your putter. If you need to work on disc control through 100 feet. You shouldn't lose a disc here, but there are plenty of trees to kick off of and force a par instead of an easy bird. 2 of the 6 baskets are right of the tee, which gives forearm upshot options, or can teach anhyzer shots.
-Nice locals. This means something if you've ever been around bad ones.

Cons:

-No tee pads, but you can tell they're planning on expanding. They have flags/markers down with numbers showing where they want to put in more holes.
-Park runs next to a creek, and when I visited the water was almost overflowing onto hole 1. It's set high enough to hopefully stop this (as it did), but you could show up and be half underwater.
-Not much challenge here for advanced players, BUT you really need to have control of your upshots if you want to get all 6 birdies. The tunnel shots provide enough of a challenge.

Other Thoughts:

You have to take this course for what it is. I think the world could use more courses like this to allow avid players to bring first time friends along and not embarrass the heck out of em. If you're a very talented player, this is a SKIP or an Ace race.

If you need to work on your upshots with your putter, this is a great place to go. I, for one, need to work on those shots, and played through this course 7 times in about 30 minutes.
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