Murrieta, CA

Mountain Pride Park

Permanent course
3.85(based on 41 reviews)
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rybob42
Experience: 14.8 years 41 played 6 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Safety first! 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 20, 2012 Played the course:once

Pros:

- The teepads and baskets are great, new, and in good condition.
- It's a nice, clean little park in a good neighborhood.
- Holes are short, but fun to play with good use of the trees around the outside of the park.
- Some varied elevation adds to the experience.

Cons:

- Stay left! The course plays along the border of the park, and on every hole, to the right of the hole is doom. For the first few holes, going over a fence into a neighbor's yard is likely. Then you encounter a fence separating the park from the freeway, and on the back stretch is a sharp slope filled with disc-eating shrubs.
- Safety. The park was barren when we were there, but if there were baseball games or walkers/joggers, it would not have been safe to play. The park is small enough that any people in it are going to be at risk.
- No signage. Locals pointed us to hole one, but easy to follow after that. Hole lengths would be nice. Also, our group was initially confused about which basket to throw at on hole 3 (hint: hole 6 is the one you see off the tee; hole 3 is down the hill to the right).

Other Thoughts:

I don't want to disparage the best course in the area too much, but it's nearly unplayable due to the constraints of the park. Our group wouldn't throw forehand because the risk of throwing into someone's yard or down the hill was so large, especially because the wind was a factor. Challenge on the course is usually a good thing, but in this case, it's not an enjoyable challenge.

The current rating on the park is a little misleading. I appreciate people's enthusiasm for the course, but it's nowhere near the course of the similarly-rated Huntington Beach course. I enjoyed Deerfield in Irvine more than this, as it's a similar small-park 9-holer but without the hazards.
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