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Haysville, KS

Old Oak DGC

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Average Joe
Experience: 21 years 146 played 8 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Lots of upgrades 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 29, 2021 Played the course:once

Pros:

Concrete teepads that are in great shape
Very good baskets
2 tee positions on every hole
Decent signage*

Cons:

Walking path interference on more than half the holes
*Needs "next tee" indicators
*At least a few of the signs need to be updated to new basket positions
Adjacent to smelly city facility
Trees planted when the course was new are now grown and provide some good obstacles... but some key pruning is needed.

Other Thoughts:

- I imagine greenbelts are tough to design. There isn't a lot of elevation to work with. If you are going down and back as most do, it is hard to keep from overlapping fairways, and while this course does a pretty good job at that there is still a lot of potential for that on 2/3/4 with 14/15/16. The much bigger interference danger is the path with unsuspecting walkers. I played on a nice Sunday morning and only encountered 4 or 5 people on the path, but it requires you to be very aware.
- 1-4 and 14-17 run east-west just across the fence to the north of the water treatment facility and the compost depot. If there is a wind from the south you really get a snootful of pungent smells.
- There is an 8 foot fence (with 3 rows of barbed wire at the top) that runs along 2-4. It doesn't take much of a driving error to lose a disc on the other side of this monster. It's closer to the fairway - especially 3 & 4 - than I would prefer.
- The course is easy to get around. The greenbelt is an engineered drainage channel. There are bridges and a nice path of raised concrete cylinders for crossing when it is wet or muddy.
- It looks to be well maintained. It had just been mowed the day I played. But it needs some tree pruning to restore some of the original fairways.
- Most of the holes, it is relatively easy to find the next Tee. Though hole 2 requires a backtrack of 200 feet and it wasn't obvious.
- I wish I had taken pictures. These always help me with a course (thank you to all that do this!) But the pics on this course's page from 2012 show the original 9 hole layout (per the info page, the redesign to 18 holes happened in 2014.) You can get an idea of the terrain and baskets (they added 9 of the same type in the pics) and signage (probably all new signs, but they are the same size and look as the ones in the photos), but I think all of the holes shown were changed.
-Sometime since the most recent previous review in 2015, concrete tee pads (2 per hole) were added.
- I don't see the 8' fence that crowds holes 2-4 in the photos and it is very possible it was added after the course had been redesigned in 2014.

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BIGDGOLFS
Experience: 10 years 5 played 3 reviews
3.00 star(s)

2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Mar 8, 2015 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Course has been dedesigned and now has 18 baskets. There are now shorter, more technical, and challenging shots. Look forward to concrete pads being poured.

Cons:

Always windy, natural tee pads make footing difficult.

Other Thoughts:

Will update my review if more work is done and concrete pads are poured.
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