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Onalaska, WI

Legacy Greens DGC

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wolfhaley
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1.00 star(s)

Reviewed: Played on:May 6, 2023 Played the course:once

Pros:

Legacy Greens DGC is located at the River of Life Assembly of God church. It's 9 holes kind of crammed into a pretty small property, but it works.

The tee pads are turf. These are pretty tiny but worked well enough. Better than natural pads and it helps with locating the intended tee area. These weren't slippery after days of recent rains, probably even better in the summer and in drier times.

Brand spanking new Mach V baskets. Love these things. These are what we have at my home course so I may be a bit biased, but these things just get the job done. Catch great and the orange wrap on the pole helps with spotting them. One basket and pin position per hole.

The flow of the course is pretty intuitive. They did an excellent job of fitting 9 holes on a property of this size. I'll have more about this design in the cons below though.

The grounds of the course are very well maintained and made for a pleasurable round. This course will most likely never be busy, is permanent and free to play.

Hole 3 is a fun little tunnel shot thru pines lining both sides of the fairway. Your obligatory BRP hole 4 hole. Hole 5 has a similar vibe with a shorter hallway.


Cons:

Without a map this is kind of a clusterf***. There's so many baskets visible from the tee of hole 1. It's just such a tiny space to have 9 holes on. Not too hard to sort things out, but kind of a basket overload at first.

The "signature" hole 3 mentioned above. This is hands down the best hole on the course. The problem is that once you clear the initial tunnel you're flying the main entrance road. Pretty blindly at that. Hard to believe that this hole was ever greenlighted to begin with.

The other unique hole, 5, features a neighbors yard serving as the right side miss. And I mean barely a miss. I'm not sure which hole is more of a WTF moment. I'll give it to hole 3 for the vehicular discular assault factor. But you can get hit with trespassing on hole 5.

Holes 6,7 and 8 play very close to the fence surrounding the property. Annoyingly close. Enough that it makes it borderline irritating. These should be easy shots for the intended crowd. But with any kind of wind or lack of disc throwing experience it'll be very easy to end up on the other side of that unappealing the scale fence.

Hole 4 throws pretty blindly over the back door entrance to the church. There's 2 entrances to enter here. Both have potential to have conflict. 3-5 is a turkey of birdie AND lawsuit potential. Lord have mercy.


Other Thoughts:

This course is actually pretty fun if it's played smartly. The problem is people make errors. I liked tis course when I played it, but as I was writing this review and sussing out the details I kept recognizing flaw after flaw.

I started with a 2, dropped it to a 1.5, ended up settling with a 1. The course itself is fun. The design got a bit gluttonous though. Possibly even greedy. Luckily this design can be forgiven.
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