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Meridian, ID

Kleiner Memorial Park

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2.835(based on 3 reviews)
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sillybizz
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Experience: 22.3 years 426 played 412 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Smaller?

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 24, 2023 Played the course:once

Pros:

- Excellent infrastructure
- Tee signs are colorful and informative
- Tee pads are level and sufficient
- Excellent use of rolling hills
- Decent variety for an open (ish) course
- Pin locations are well thought out

Cons:

- Not enough obstacles to challenge your tee shots
- Not enough distance shots
- The course does a poor job of punishing bad throws
- Competition with many other park users for fairways and putting greens

Other Thoughts:

Kleiner in German means "smaller". Smaller than what I don't know. The holes are short but not THAT short. The Kleiner statue in the middle of the course is interesting, people back then just dressed better I guess. Overall not a bad course but nothing exciting either. Course baggers can get this in pretty quickly during non peak hours.
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cplgutz27
Experience: 2 played 2 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Convenient course for beginner or intermediate player. 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 2, 2019 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Very few true obstacles, a couple of trees on several of the holes but nothing outlandish as this is a fairly open course through a well-maintained city park. This means convenient bathrooms and shade opportunities, very close to #5 is a bathroom with drinking water with a dispenser that can also be used for filling water bottles.
Good tee signs with hole map and distance. #7 can be tricky to find but otherwise not so bad.
This is what I would consider a "short course" meaning all holes are par 3 (and for good reason) so it's a fun course for practice and to learn disc golf. Basket distances vary from 165 feet to 281 feet. For a good player with a young (read: strong) arm you could play this course with a good putter.

Cons:

Not too bad but what we have in my opinion are more of a bother.
No tee boxes, you play off the grass but the main tee spots are worn, not good after a watering. I would love to see them put in some tee boxes of some sort, that would improve the course.
As mentioned this is a course through a city park which means your basic hazards and obstacles will be pedestrians, runners, picnics, geese and ducks near the ponds which roam through the course and leave their resultant debris (mostly holes #2-#5, it can pretty bad).
As mentioned in the earlier review during the late spring and summer the park is over-watered to the point where I had considered wearing rubber boots during morning play after the sprinklers come on during the night. If you play in the morning before noon and the sprinklers were on the night before prepare to play in wet tennis shoes, however afternoon is not bad. There has been several occasions where I have played during the middle of the day and some of the sprinklers are running...annoying.
On Tuesdays through Fridays you also have to play around the park staff doing their lawn cutting and trimming gig. Not a huge problem but be prepared to wait on your shots and time them depending on when the mowers (or timers) are moving through the line of fire.

Other Thoughts:

There are some trees at most of the holes but not nearly like you would have in a wooded course, for the most part they are on the edges of the flight line so if you throw a half-decent straight shot you will be fine. The trees framing the basket shot at #6 are a little tighter plus there is a large-leafed tree just to the right of the basket but it is not overly challenging. The exception is #3 and #5 where you have tree(s) blocking the basket inline from the tee but it is a fairly easy hyzer shot to shape your shot around the trees.
Since the third week in May 2019 I have played this course about 250 times (I am retired and do so for the exercise).
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Tjamesd
Experience: 15.8 years 48 played 7 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Decent 9 hole lunch course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 28, 2019 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

- Well maintained park style golf
- Tee signs are informational
- Permanent, year round course
- Utilizes available terrain/trees very well
- Variation of shots used, not just a wide open/hyzer fest

Cons:

- Hole 9s basket is quite a ways from parking/hole 1 tee pad (1500 ft or so)
- Hole 8 & 9 are close to a kids play area (not in danger of throwing into play area at all), and frequently are unplayable due to families playing on the hill where 9s basket is.
- Grass teepads
- Grass is very marshy/over-watered during the summer months.

Other Thoughts:

Overall this course does a good job using the available terrain, and (mostly) avoids other features of the park that attract pedestrians. I am lucky to have this course close to my work to get out for a 30 minute jaunt to get some holes in.

If you are playing for the first time, the only non-intuitive basket to tee walk is 6-7, walk across the road to find hole 7s teepad.

There is an entirely unused area of the park east of hole 1 that could easily house 9 more holes, I would love to see that expansion.
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