Red Wing, MN

Minnesota State SE Technical

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mndiscg
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Experience: 16.4 years 502 played 494 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Quick College Fun 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 15, 2021 Played the course:once

Pros:

+9 nice but older baskets
+Concrete pads on most holes.
+Some elevation in there.
+A few quirky but interesting holes:
2- I throw a RHFH bank shot off the campus sign that set me up for an easy 2.
5- Slightly uphill with a low ceiling to contend with.
8- Big downhill deep left of the basket
+Decent variety in shot length off the tee.
+A few ace chances.

Cons:

-No signage except a bit of fading paint on the tee. I think some of that was wrong too.
-This course is definitely pretty old and is showing it's age a bit; cracking tee pads, fading paint, etc.
-Navigation isn't great. Once you play it once, it makes sense but not the easiest to find your way around the first time.
-A few holes play over different paths and campus roads. 4,5,6.
-This was one of the courses where I kept thinking things like:
Why is there not a hole there?
Why is there not a basket on top of that hill?
Lots of missed opportunities from a design and fun perspective.
-Not many trees coming into play on most holes.
-A few long walks between holes. Definitely look at the course map or you will look for hole 7 tee for awhile.

Other Thoughts:

+This course had flashes of fun mixed into a bit of frustration and disappointment. I like a few holes, was bored by a few holes, and wanted to redesign more of them.
+This course is ok, Memorial Park is the better option in town.
+Hole 1 starts right in front of the main doors to the CC but you can play the holes in any order if you have to park somewhere else. The course loops entirely around.
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guppster01
Experience: 8.4 years 22 played 3 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Has a little bit to offer... 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 7, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

Has a couple holes you can air it out
4 of the holes give some variety besides just a straight shot

Cons:

No Tee Signs, need to use map to find out where the holes are.
The baskets are older - had a couple dead center poll hits that jumped out.
The fairways are pretty dry; makes for a pretty bumpy walk up and down the holes.
Hole 5 just doesn't make any sense. Not really any shot where you can attack the basket. Makes it a forced layup

Other Thoughts:

It does have a little distance variety and some 'obstacles' (dog leg, very up hill, guarded pin placement), but it is a course at a community college. The grounds are not in the best of shape, but it isn't terrible. No tee signs is kind of a bummer. Need to have this app with you to get a course map so you know where to start. Nothing really overly 'fun' about the course, but nothing glaringly bad about it either.
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jlundberg
Experience: 6 played 1 reviews
2.00 star(s)

good course for bringing kids along 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 12, 2016 Played the course:once

Pros:

Great course for introducing kids to the sport because most trouble spots are just tall grass and they don't get too tired playing a round.

Cons:

Gets really soggy after lots of rain and we had to search for the tee pads.

Other Thoughts:

Good spot to just practice on skills because no one else is around.
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jonas
Experience: 17.3 years 39 played 25 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Okay 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 12, 2010 Played the course:once

Pros:

Great flow to the course
It wasn't busy at all with no waiting which is a plus.
The course offered some unusual basket placements: behind a backstop and over some prairie restoration.
There were some decent sized holes, but most them fall into the average range for length.

Cons:

There are no signs for the holes. If I hadn't come on here before going it would have taken a long time to find the first tee.
All holes are pretty much straight.

Other Thoughts:

Make sure you park in the visitor lot and the first hole will be in the front lawn.
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harr0140
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Experience: 15.8 years 1512 played 480 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Better than I originally thought! 2+ years

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Dec 20, 2009 Played the course:once

Pros:

1) This is a small town of Red Wing, sure thye have another course, but this one would be much better to learn on, I just hope the beginners do not dislike the sport because there isn't much challenge.

2) The only two holes with any redeeming value in my opinion are #8 and #9. #8 is a great short hole with the basket tucked precariously on the edge of a major dropoff. If you gun for the ace you might end up with a 3 or worse because of the vegetation and dropoff below. #9 is also a longer uphill sidehill shot. I like these types of holes because you have to pick your route . . . either stay along the bottom of the hill for a nice level uphill approach, or gun your drive to the top of the hill and have a flat approach into the basket. It takes more to get to the top of the hill on your drive but the reward is the flat approach. If you don't get enough on it you are stuck with an awkward stance on the sidehill. UPDATE: I can also see some value in the hole design of #2. It is set on a severe sideslope and the basket is at the top of the hill. It will take a smart shot to get it close. I can also see a little bit of interest in Hole #7 also because the basket is perched above a drainage swale. This will create a different feel around this basket. Hole #5 is also a decent hole because the tee is ont he other side of the road and it is uphill with a low ceiling. That is a very tough shot to execute.

3) Baskets are in excellent shape.

4) I saw and heard some bald eagles over my head here, as well as over at Memorial Park. This is always fun to see on the course.

5) UPDATE: Nice concrete tees, I couldn't find them under the snow when I played 2 years prior, but they are there now.

Cons:

1) Teepads are not shovelled in winter. Obviously this is a negative to me because I played it in Winter and will probably never be back, but I will not take this into account in the rating (that would be unfair considering it is small town MN and it gets darn cold and snowy here).

2) Very minimal trees and other obstacles, the one thing that truly forces your shot is a backstop, where you either have to loft it right over the backstop or try and skid in a hyzer because it is basically on home plate and you have 10-15' of fence to get around or over. I couldn't decide if this is creative or just stupid. I will give them the benefit of the doubt here that it was by design and since there is minimal other obstacles on the course.

3) No tee signs or map directing you where to go. You could almost just throw from the previous basket in winter since the teepads are not findable int he snow (although throwing from #7 basket to #8 basket would be a long way and across a few hundred feet of parking lot.

4) No garbage no benches no nothing. I guess I wouldnt expect a lot of play so why should you ever have to sit down and since you could play in 15-20 minutes you can always throw your garbage away when you finish, or maybe head out to the service area and look for a garbage dumpster.

5) Course starts on the front lawn of the school, then you cross a driveway to get to #2, then between the parking lot and the main road for #3 and #4. #4 crosses another little road perhaps only there for plowing or overflow parking. #5, 6, 7, are on the east of the property in open lawn (and also baseball field). Then you cross the back parking lot and service area to the parcel on the north side of the school. That nearly brings you full circle to the 1st tee.

Other Thoughts:

There really isn't much more that can be said here, it is simply a plain old course winding around a school. There is more here than most school courses I have come across but not by much.

I wish they had more land to develop this course because a few of the plain open holes could be removed, perhaps you could have 3 or 4 holes on the north part of the building, then you could go off into that prairie area behind the back parking lot and create a few more holes with different vegetation (prairie instead of mowed turf). Just an idea.

WARNING: I did play this in winter and could not find the teepads. It would have made playing easier if I had, but I did not account for this in the rating because there are concrete pads I just coldnt find them in the snow. Obviously I cannot comment on the turf or other grounds conditioning because it is winter, so if something I have stated in this review is not accurate please let me know and I can edit it.

UPDATE: After revisiting this course for my blog entries, I feel my 1.5 disc rating is too harsh. Sure there are 3 or 4 just flat out simple holes, but there is more redeeming value to Hole #2 and also to Hole #7. Realizing I threw from the wrong spot on #5 also makes this a much more challenging hole. I am upping my rating to a 2.0 here. I also apologize to the designer for saying "no real thought to hole design, just throw a basket down every few hundred feet". That was way to harsh because I can definitely see some thought in these holes. If I ever make it back here, I will update my review to reflect that.
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Cradical
Silver level trusted reviewer
Experience: 17.4 years 110 played 63 reviews
3.00 star(s)

2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 6, 2009 Played the course:once

Pros:

There is a good flow from hole to hole around a parking lot and a building. Most holes are fairly open with a few having some trees in the way.
There are some unique shots where you have to worry about throwing down a giant hill on the leftside of the hole. Another hole has you throwing through some trees and trying to get it around a backstop.
There is a good amount of distance on most holes and there is also some good elevation on a few holes

Cons:

There aren't too many obstacles in your way on most holes. A few holes are just straight and flat with no trees, which gets repetative. There were no signs anywhere to tell you where to start.
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falcon79
Experience: 16.3 years 286 played 19 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Good starter course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 27, 2008 Played the course:once

Pros:

Baskets and tee pads were in good shape, and the layout is fairly straightforward. The grounds were in good shape.

Cons:

The complete lack of signage made finding the first tee pad a challenge. We ended up just starting at what turned out to be the 6th tee, and followed the course from there. Trash bins, benches and other amenities lacking.

Other Thoughts:

Given this is a course laid out on pre-existing open park land, it isn't too bad. There holes are nothing fancy, and they offer little challenge, but for novice players like myself, this isn't necessarily a bad thing. I played with two people for whom this was their first DG experience, and they had a good time.
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johnt1969
Silver level trusted reviewer
Experience: 41.4 years 166 played 25 reviews
1.00 star(s)

Terrible course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jul 27, 2008 Played the course:once

Pros:

I guess the fact that there are 9 baskets here is a pro. I can't think of another pro.

Cons:

This is not a golf course in my opinion. It's just a bunch of randomly place baskets around a parking lot. There are no maps, no tee signs and no way to figure out where the next hole is. In my opinion, these baskets should be pulled and reinstalled in a park where a "disc golf course" can exist. Grass around a parking lot is not a golf course.

Other Thoughts:

If you're looking to play in Red Wing go to the other course. It's short and not all that hard but it's designed much better, has a better flow, is in a nice park and has great tee signs.

A comment regarding my evaluation of courses. I am not trying to insult or hurt any ones feelings when I review a course. I'm just trying to evaluate the course on what I feel are important characteristics of a good course. Disc golf has become a large enough sport that I feel we should strive for better than we have now. Just putting 18 holes in a park isn't enough. 18 pole holes does not make a disc golf course. It requires tee's, signs, maps, solid course design and constant maintenance. Any less than that and we will never advance the sport to a reputable level.
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