Mount Pleasant, PA

Mammoth Park

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The Red Death 30
Silver level trusted reviewer
Experience: 27.6 years 91 played 50 reviews
3.00 star(s)

It's 9 Holes, It's Disc Golf

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 27, 2024 Played the course:once

Pros:

The overarching impression I have of this course is that it's just painfully average. There is very little on this course that has any memorable quality but I will start with the positives of course. There are two really good holes here out of the nine. The 6th Hole is a fantastically designed hole. It's a sweeping downhill hyzer shot that you have to place just in the right spot to line up a tight tunnel approach. It will challenge you in the best ways. The 8th Hole was another that I found to be a fun hole to play. It's essentially a forehand flick that needs to settle into a lane. You need two good shots on this one and a birdie is not easy.

They have nice stark white baskets that help stand out from the background. The park, itself, is fantastic even if the course makes little use of it. There is a beautiful lake and some giant slides you can check out, among other things. There were running water bathrooms, still open in late November. There were plenty of picnic pavilions you could squat in for lunch as well

Cons:

It's not a bad course, it's just not a good course either. I have played my share and I find this style of course pretty often. They don't seem to have had much land to choose from that would have offered some distinguishing terrain, or they chose the wrong spots of the land they were given. So instead of anything varied, they rely primarily on creating long shots that require accuracy to keep your discs out of the brush.

The 1st and 3rd holes are just instantly forgettable. I played there today and can barely remember them. Just shots in a field with a basket. The 4th and 5th are fun holes, but they are just fairway tunnels. Throw a straight fairway driver over and over. It really loses me on the last few holes. I'm sure someone thinks the 7th Hole is really creative, but they built a mound for a tee that's now crumbling and you throw a jenky s-curve midrange over a bunch of trees. It's kind of a gimmicky hole and sacrificed what could have been have a well-shaped hole with something more random. Then we have the 9th Hole disaster. You basically throw 1000 feet to get back to the parking lot. The challenge is keeping your disc from fading into lost disc territory and just crushing it repeatedly.

They don't have concrete tees, nor anything but a set of Whites. The tees they have are starting to wear in a bit and not always in good ways. They have signs of generic variety but they don't match the app. The distances are way off on many and the pars don't match.

Other Thoughts:

If they got concretes and fixed the signs (or the app to match) then my rating could improve a bit. I'm not sure why they didn't use the meadow in the middle at all, or any of the rest of the prettier parts of the park. That 9th Hole is just a terrible way to end what was otherwise a decent round of golf
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chrispreperato
Bronze level trusted reviewer
Experience: 11 played 11 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Not Quite There

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 28, 2024 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Unfortunately the list here is fairly short. Decent baskets, and a few interesting holes in the middle of the course keep this from being a complete dud, and I guess it does have bathrooms and is in an otherwise quite nice park

Cons:

The usuals are here: No teepads, one tee/one basket layout on a 9 hole course, so extremely limited variety. Some absolutely brutal rough, particularly to the left on Hole 9.

Traditionally 9 hole courses are a little more beginner/family friendly, and not a single hole on this course matches that.

Foundationally, the decision to play 8 holes in a loop away from the parking lot and then just make a big nonsensical "Par 5" back towards it means every round ends with a sour note.

Other Thoughts:

As a hole by hole breakdown, Holes 1 and 3 are fairly standard. Open, yet approachable Par 4s. Hole 2 plays as a tweener dogleg Par 3. Hole 4 takes you into the woods with a very gettable tunnel shot, and Hole 5 takes you out of the woods with a low ceiling, again kind of tweener distance, par 3. Hole 6 feels like the signature hole of the course, a distance placement shot into the mouth of a narrow tunnel that forces a ~150ft tricky upshot. Hole 7 gives a blind ace run chance. Hole 8 is a tricky flex RHBH shot, with some difficult rough early left. And Hole 9 sees you launching your way 1000ft back across the field, the tee shot requires some placement, the other 800ft are functionally a mow line.

As a 9-hole course, it needs far more variety to have replay value; and the lack of teepads is a real issue since this course gets mucky quickly. Hole 1 is basically in a swamp zone for the tee area and for a zone ~150-250ft from the tee.

A quick look around will tell you there is PLENTY of land there to have done more with the course. There are 2 football fields worth of land between the basket of 3 and Hole 9 that go unused, and some other areas around Holes 7/8/9 that certainly seem like there was space for this to at least be 12 holes (or 9 holes with more variety). Hard to tell if its money or land use restrictions, but what ultimately results is a pretty uninspired course that doesnt feel like it would get better with teepads and an expansion to 18 holes. If you're heading west on the Turnpike, keep going until you hit Oak Hollow
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swatso
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Experience: 16.4 years 776 played 417 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Elephas primigenius 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Oct 9, 2021 Played the course:once

Pros:

Many chances to crank on your distance drivers.

Cons:

(Too) Many chances to crank on your distance drivers.(?)

Other Thoughts:

Course is set in the sloping open space, including some pockets of shule and trees, above the parking lot of a large multi-purpose park, including a small lake/large pond (not anywhere near play).

Single (natural) tee, single basket/position. Plays primarily in a clockwise direction across, up, across, weaving back down, across the space above the parking lot.

As this is the first review of the course, a bried hole-by-hole description:
#1 Long, open, up a moderate slope, basket just barely inside a treeline at the end.
#2 Moderate length, upslope, treeline along the entire leftside, open straight and right, the basket deeper and sharp left into the treeline at the end.
#3 Quite long and open, upslope initially, then flat, basket near the edge of a treeline. Good views of lake/entire park at about the peaking midpoint.
#4 Short hole, flat, low canopy and the odd scattered tree requires the throw be almost dead straight.
#5 Moderate length, tee within treeline but window is wide and not too far, basket straight ahead in open, flat.
#6 Good length, slightly downslope, open initially, then an opening in a wall of shule begins a long, narrowing funnel to a basket guarded by some small support trees - probably my favourite hole on the course.
#7 The tee is atop a small mound, with a large bush in front of the mound. The basket is not far away to the left, but blind, and in a small green, surrounded by thick shule. An S-shape fading just before it reaches the wall of trees in front of you (RHBH), and spike hyzer (LHBH), are the likely ways to attack.
#8 Similar/different than the prior hole. Flat (no mound, no bush), moderate length, again basket blind, small green, thick shule. S-shape ot spike hyzer again.
#9 A very, very long, flat hole. Shuleline nearly the entire length of the left side. A copse of trees at about the 1/3rd mark on the right, later supported by rightside shule. As long as you avoid any severe left fade and miss the first tree-grouping, its just throw, throw again ...

It's ... okay, serves a purpose, in an area with few other nearby discing options.
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