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Stockton, CA

Oak Grove Park - Purple

3.365(based on 7 reviews)
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swatso
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Experience: 15.8 years 755 played 414 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Sheb Wooley 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 3, 2014 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

Practically every teepad is 4'x10', concrete, ribbed, raised.

Cons:

The current teesigns simply give you the hole number, and many baskets are mis-numbered (older numbers, course apparently in re-numbering transition).

Other Thoughts:

This extremely flat course skirts the outer edge of this multi-purpose park, occasionally turning in and back out to take advantage of scattered/pockets of trees, Well-maintained grass will be found on practically every fairway, along with a gaggle of geese, and their droppings, on numbers16&17. Roughly half the holes simply require a straight shot off the tee, typically needing to miss a tree or two late. The remaining holes requite either a right or a left (a couple where you have a choice), but none of the required turns are very extreme.

Holes 11-14 form a nice grouping, as large trees force a late left-turn (11), a large mid-fairway oak, its branches, and supporting trees offer a few different lines (12), open early but windowed late by trees, branches, and other obstacles (13), and an out-of-bounds driveway along the left, mid-fairway mid-sized trees forcing shot-shaping (14).

Navigation: To find tee-1, turn left shortly after passing the entry gate, then turn right into the next parking lot. Tee-1 is beyond the back left of the parking lot, behind the Miwok trail sign. If playing both courses back to back, from purple basket-18, gold tee-1 is on the other side of the small Nature Center parking lot, over the footbridge.

Navigation: If a visitor or infrequent player, a map would be useful, but not essential. The course plays in primarily a counter-clockwise direction. You cross a driveway when moving from basket-10 to tee-11, a parking lot from basket-15 (or 15a) to tee-16, and again from basket-17 to tee-18. Note that tee-18 is quite near basket-13.

A decent course, with some chances to air it out, a few others requiring a bit of touch, some shot-shaping needed, but nothing extreme.

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