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Round Rock, TX

Old Settlers' Park

3.925(based on 6 reviews)
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Doofenshmirtz
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Experience: 12 years 122 played 72 reviews
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Poison Ivy Plinko Lost Disc Fest

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Sep 10, 2023 Played the course:once

Pros:

This is a moderate length course in a mixed-use public park that mostly plays in the wooded periphery of the park. the woods surrounding the park tend to follow creek beds that were mostly dry when I played and contained a nasty combination of woody, dense brush and poison ivy. There is mostly moderate elevation change although some holes have more significant rises and drops.

The tee boxes are excellent and the signage is good - being large signs on the side of large square cut stones. Navigation is reasonably straightforward.

Cons:

The top con is the narrow, sometimes impossibly so, fairways surrounded by dense brush and poison ivy. One hole in particular comes to mind, I think it was 15 or 16 where I counted more than 10 trees whose trunks were covered in scarring from disc hits. This is because you have to throw through a gauntlet of trees multiple times to reach the basket. It is stupidly random and this characterizes at least 4-5 holes. Hole 10 or 11, the one after a long walk from the previous basket, is the poster child for holes that could be made much better with a chainsaw. As is, it is probably the second worst hole that I have ever played. This narrow, plinko-like design pervades the part of the course that follows hole 4. It only lets up here and there.

The tightness of the holes and the thickness of the surrounding brush makes this course a luck fest. Count yourself lucky if you only hit a tree and drop into the fairway, that will happen a lot, but kicking off into the brush, which will also happen a lot, is a lot worse.

Another con is the sometimes treacherous hills that you need to try to walk. I played this course during a drought and the soil was bare and loose. There were several hills, the worst of which was Hole 10 or 11 (I just can't remember) where I had to hold onto trees (thankfully plentiful for this purpose) in order to get down a hill in the middle of a fairway without falling.

Another of the holes had to be skipped because it is placed next to the only tree near some soccer fields. There was a large group of people set up in the shade within a few feet of the basket.

Some of the walks between holes are very long. While not all that much of a problem, just know that this is going to happen and that someone thought that this crazy narrow, apparently unfinished fairway going through a bazillion trees several a few hundred yards away was better than all the potential ones you got to pass along the way.

Other Thoughts:

There were very few people playing this course on the Saturday afternoon that I played. I assume that this is a testament to its lack of local popularity. The land that was apparently available for disc golf in this park would be the envy of many disc golf communities, and it has the potential to be much better, but someone spared the chainsaw and spoiled the course.
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