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Palmore Park reviews
5
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I thought you said DISC golf 2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:Jun 5, 2018
Played the course:once
Pros:
Field work does the body good, I guess.
In all seriousness, if you ever want an opportunity to air a distance driver out on nearly every hole of a course, some more than once, here it is. Additionally, a good six holes require some tiny amount of thought about shot shapes!
The baskets are Discatchers in good condition, with two sleeves per hole, the blue tees are fair-sized, concrete, and uncracked, and the natural tees are in surprisingly good shape - no pitting at all. Maybe there's a lack of traffic to blame, idk. There are four sets of tees (62 total - some are shared) allowing players with varying drive distances (I'm avoiding the word skill) to find a tee that suits them. There are restrooms onsite, a rarity.
Layout flows okay, aside from a funky gap between 15 and 16, which will require the use of a map to sort out. Baskets 8 and 18 wind up back at the parking lot, with the former being about the point at which I got bored and wanted to leave (I was too stubborn to do so).
In all seriousness, if you ever want an opportunity to air a distance driver out on nearly every hole of a course, some more than once, here it is. Additionally, a good six holes require some tiny amount of thought about shot shapes!
The baskets are Discatchers in good condition, with two sleeves per hole, the blue tees are fair-sized, concrete, and uncracked, and the natural tees are in surprisingly good shape - no pitting at all. Maybe there's a lack of traffic to blame, idk. There are four sets of tees (62 total - some are shared) allowing players with varying drive distances (I'm avoiding the word skill) to find a tee that suits them. There are restrooms onsite, a rarity.
Layout flows okay, aside from a funky gap between 15 and 16, which will require the use of a map to sort out. Baskets 8 and 18 wind up back at the parking lot, with the former being about the point at which I got bored and wanted to leave (I was too stubborn to do so).
Cons:
Wide, wide, wide open, on just about every single hole. There are a few impotent clumps of shule along one side of a few holes, but that's about it. Hole 4, the most (read: only) technical play on the course, involves a 20 foot gap, maybe 200 feet away from the long tee. Whoo. There are also no elevation changes of substance - there are ditches, and there are elevated baskets. A few holes run along a contour, but it's such a gentle slope that it would only ever enter the calculation on a roller. Hole 16 might drop 15 feet in about 750, maybe.
Some tee signs are missing from their posts.
There are some safety issues associated with proximity to other park activites. Playground comes into play on hole 17, and hole 2, which measures upwards of 1111' (gold tee to B; 584'/766' from blue) runs right along side a walking trail on the left, with no real room to cheat out to the right and play safe. I'm concerned someone out walking will get buzzed or worse with a distance driver on that hole, which is not an appetizing prospect.
Some tee signs are missing from their posts.
There are some safety issues associated with proximity to other park activites. Playground comes into play on hole 17, and hole 2, which measures upwards of 1111' (gold tee to B; 584'/766' from blue) runs right along side a walking trail on the left, with no real room to cheat out to the right and play safe. I'm concerned someone out walking will get buzzed or worse with a distance driver on that hole, which is not an appetizing prospect.
Other Thoughts:
There isn't much shade, due to a lack of tree cover.
I'm going to summarize this with the words my GPS spoke afterward: continue for one and a half miles.
I should add one last note: it's a terrible piece of land to try to build a disc golf course on. The club seems to have put in a lot of effort in spite of that fact. I have a healthy respect for that. I'm not accusing anyone involved of doing too little, and I don't see too much more that could have been done with the design to make it that much better. There just isn't a way to make a field into a great course.
I'm going to summarize this with the words my GPS spoke afterward: continue for one and a half miles.
I should add one last note: it's a terrible piece of land to try to build a disc golf course on. The club seems to have put in a lot of effort in spite of that fact. I have a healthy respect for that. I'm not accusing anyone involved of doing too little, and I don't see too much more that could have been done with the design to make it that much better. There just isn't a way to make a field into a great course.
