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Moneta Park - Old Layout reviews
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What Do You Do When The Hay Is Four Feet High? 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Aug 15, 2016
Played the course:once
Pros:
Moneta Park is a decent sized park with picnic shelters, soccer fields, restrooms. etc. The course starts just past the picnic shelter and then heads out into an area that appears mostly unused by park patrons, including a large hay field.
The baskets are single chain Lightning models with the hole # on top. I don't really know how to be careful putting as I just try to band into the chains and hope it falls into the basket. No wonder I'm such a sucky putter. There is a lovely course sign at the beginning. There are no pads, just tee off from a basket, I guess.
Several baskets are just set next to a barb wire fence as you're just throwing across an open hay field. Any hyser mistake flies over the barb wire fence. I played shortly after the hay was cut and the large circular rolls were still lying in the field. So holes 3-5 play across an open hay field. What are you doing when the hay is 2-3-4' foot deep here? Do the folks who own this field like having disc golfers trample across their growing hay? Do the disc golfers like searching for their straight down the middle of the fairway drives in tall hay?
The baskets are single chain Lightning models with the hole # on top. I don't really know how to be careful putting as I just try to band into the chains and hope it falls into the basket. No wonder I'm such a sucky putter. There is a lovely course sign at the beginning. There are no pads, just tee off from a basket, I guess.
Several baskets are just set next to a barb wire fence as you're just throwing across an open hay field. Any hyser mistake flies over the barb wire fence. I played shortly after the hay was cut and the large circular rolls were still lying in the field. So holes 3-5 play across an open hay field. What are you doing when the hay is 2-3-4' foot deep here? Do the folks who own this field like having disc golfers trample across their growing hay? Do the disc golfers like searching for their straight down the middle of the fairway drives in tall hay?
Cons:
I could generate no love whatsoever for this course. I think the design is overly long, boring in places and features two holes I really detested.
Holes 3 & 4 which play down the hay field are ho-hum, unplayable during growing season which is most of the summer. Hole # 5 is just a wide open 500' toss across the field, once again unplayable during growing season.
Then I came to # 7. It plays down a narrow path used by the cross country runners, 6-8' wide with deep nasty rough on both sides. I say to myself as I'm approaching this narrow little path, "I bet they made this hole 300' down this path." I was more than a little bit unimpressed with the course by this point. But was I wrong! The hole was not 300' down a super narrow path but it is 340' with a dogleg at the bottom of the hill. It's an advanced difficulty hole. Ridiculously difficult. Playing alone, I never considered throwing my disc down that narrow trail.
And then I finished with # 9 with it's 550', uphill all the way to a basket sitting under a tree. Who finds 550' uphill holes enjoyable?
Holes 3 & 4 which play down the hay field are ho-hum, unplayable during growing season which is most of the summer. Hole # 5 is just a wide open 500' toss across the field, once again unplayable during growing season.
Then I came to # 7. It plays down a narrow path used by the cross country runners, 6-8' wide with deep nasty rough on both sides. I say to myself as I'm approaching this narrow little path, "I bet they made this hole 300' down this path." I was more than a little bit unimpressed with the course by this point. But was I wrong! The hole was not 300' down a super narrow path but it is 340' with a dogleg at the bottom of the hill. It's an advanced difficulty hole. Ridiculously difficult. Playing alone, I never considered throwing my disc down that narrow trail.
And then I finished with # 9 with it's 550', uphill all the way to a basket sitting under a tree. Who finds 550' uphill holes enjoyable?
Other Thoughts:
Sorry, if I lived across the street from this course, I would never play it again. It's a terrible design which doesn't suit or match anyone's game. I hate to be negative but I truly hated this course.
I think the baskets should be pulled right now and this course should be relocated to the main part of the park as a short Pitch & Putt. I guarantee that a short, easy recreational course would draw far more players than this current bad design. And farmer John would be happy not to have his hayfield tramped down! On retrospect, how much tramping down does one round a month do?
I think the baskets should be pulled right now and this course should be relocated to the main part of the park as a short Pitch & Putt. I guarantee that a short, easy recreational course would draw far more players than this current bad design. And farmer John would be happy not to have his hayfield tramped down! On retrospect, how much tramping down does one round a month do?
