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Lake Forest, CA

Lake Forest Golf Park

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2.135(based on 4 reviews)
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The Katana Kid
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 8.5 years 184 played 56 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Not bad, but... 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 22, 2017 Played the course:once

Pros:

Pay to play. The price has gone up from $5 for 9 holes and $10 for 18 since a review about 1.5 years ago. Now it officially costs $12 for 9 and $17 for 18. After making the 5 minute walk from the clubhouse to the first tee (I uploaded a map that clearly shows this path) I was greeted by a lady that collected my receipt for payment, which allowed me to play. That's the first time I've experienced that, but I suppose it keeps people from sneaking on to the course.

Well maintained.

Pleasant atmosphere.

Challenging course, especially if you treat ball greens and sand traps as OB.

Cons:

A lot of people. I waited at nearly every tee. Maybe it was busy since it was a Saturday afternoon. The first guy I was behind was going so slow and hitting multiple balls, so I passed him. Then I got behind a lady and boy playing soccer golf, which is the first time I've seen that. Then when we got to 8 both of us had to wait behind a ball golfer who jumped in at that point.

Other Thoughts:

The SSE is too high and that's probably because the distances listed here are way off. The distances are much shorter than listed in the red column. I entered the distances from the scorecard, which I uploaded. The scorecard distances, now under white, are not for the baskets, but they are way closer to actual.

Locals play night golf here and have an Ace pot. These Ave run holes would be unrealistic at the longer distances that are listed under red.
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The Valkyrie Kid
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Experience: 46 years 1562 played 1507 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Standard Issue Disc Golf On Ball Golf Course! 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 22, 2016 Played the course:once

Pros:

$5 for 9 holes, $10 for 18 holes. Probably a little costly to make this one of your usual stops. Obviously Lake Forest is in the welcoming mood inviting not only us disc golfers but those soccer players,eh, football players, eh, UH, foot golfers, too.

The gentlemen attendant wasn't sure where I should tee off from either but suggested I use the red rock tees that the foot golfers use. They seem as good as anywhere? The baskets are Innova Discatchers with the yellow bands and the small numbers on them. They were usually set somewhere to the back of the green. I always play the greens as OB on golf courses so this added to the challenge here. # 2 has a not too long water carry but then you're faced with the large expanse of green to miss, too. And # 4 had water on both sides of it's fairway.

# 9 was easily my most favorite hole. It's a dogleg left, probably 350' before the dogleg. But then you have to cross a 100' wide, mostly dry, stream bed to get up onto the green area. The basket sits left of the green on # 9.

Thre were a couple of shorter ACE runs (# 4 at 200' and # 6, also at 200'). # 5 and 9 were both over 500'.

Cons:

I was caught up playing behind two groups of extremely slow women. One group finally let me play through. I was out driving them.

$10 for 18 holes is more than I'm willing to pay on a regular basis. Especially just to play the same nine holes again.

Other Thoughts:

I did enjoy my round here. I'm glad I just chose the nine hole option. The pace of play would frustrate me. As with almost all the golf course courses, it's a lot too open for me to find real interesting. It's just too many wide open, drive-approach-putt sequences. I liken disc golf on ball golf courses to playing on ski resorts. They're gimmicky. They're okay for a change but I would quickly become bored with them.
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