Course is long and challenging requiring a variety of shots. Course takes use of the elevation on the property and the creek running through the valley in center of Park.

Course is undergoing major changes in preparation for DGPT Silver Series event in August. Course has seen a lot of ash tree death and changes are being made to reflect the lose of those trees, but changes are happening, and course is being renumbered to reflect new starting spot.

Hole 1 now starts at back of Parma Town Park, and not old VFW parking lot. Can see protentional after finished, but some holes are still being worked on, and only have temporary tee pads at moment.

+ Mature course that's "grown in" without becoming overgrown. It's clear that a lot of time goes into upkeep

+ Great variety of open and wooded holes, and they're interspersed in a way that keeps the course interesting

+ For a course with so many wooded holes, you can almost always find a line if you've veered a bit off the fairway

+ After relatively flat opening holes, #5 - #7 show unexpected elevation changes

+ There's a small creek in the middle section of the property that comes into play several times through the round. The holes down in this section (6, 9, 16) are particularly pretty - you're playing along a flat floodplain through a grove of trees

+ Hole #5 might be the best on the course - it certainly takes the most advantage of the property. It starts in the woods. You're throwing up a slight rise, and the way out of the woods is narrowed by woodpiles on either side. Then the second half of the hotel is open, but bending to the right, and the basket is downhill and tucked into a protected green. It requires several different types of good throws, and I wanted to play it several times

~ Hole 1A seems to be out of commission. It's a great water throw to start off the round, but the reeds have grown tall and we didn't see a basket. One of the other reviews implies that it's used for tournaments. If you're a first time player, just expect to play the main 18 without 1A

~ It's a 6400' course that squeezes every foot out of the par 56, and I walked off feeling pretty beat up. The two par 4's are in the mid 500's, and there's a run of three 400+ par 3's on the back 9, along with the 471' par 3 eighteenth hole. That's a lot of distance, especially because some of them are wooded. You might have a bigger arm, or play the course regularly. I just found that being so far off par on so many holes took away some of my enjoyment of what's a really good course.




COURSE AMENITIES:
Excellent signs, poured tees, good DisCatcher baskets. 5 gallon buckets for trash at most tees. Some benches. Hole 18 returns you to the parking lot


RECOMMENDED COMBINATIONS:
We made a day of it: starting at SUNY Brockport before Parma, then playing Basil Marella, Sawyer and the Woodlands. Parma and Basil are certainly the best of them - the others are for bagging only

Great tee pads, fantastic variety of shots, beautiful scenery, always perfectly mowed.

Any time a vandal breaks something this place is nearly immediately fixed.

this course i loved, and keeps better better. There's something for everybody. There are only a few spots on the course that have elevation changes and you spend a goof chunk of your time weaving back and forth across those areas to get the most out of it.

This place NEEDS SIGNS. I'll give this an extra .5 rating when it gets them. Here's why:

The only real problem this course has is that until you know where the tee pads are, it's really hard to navigate.

Part of this comes from the fact that they had to remove Old Hole 2 from casual play via the VFW's request. It makes sense if you know the story...but I don't think golfers were warned adequately (how about posting a sign on the board?) and when the new rules weren't followed the town said to take it out.

Now you have to walk backwards from the basket on one, past old 2's basket to current 2's tee...If you'd never played there before you'd walk to hole 4's tee and assume that you're shooting towards the basket that you can see...you're not. That's hole 7's basket..you need to shoot down the fairway and hook left into the woods.

And also the new hole 11 (fantastic addition btw) is an entirely different route than it used to be on the old layout and different from the initial new layout...once you finish 10 go left and left until you see the new hole...then follow the deer grass along the woods to the right.

"short" tees are either missing or hard to see/find on most hole

Parma will be getting better over the next year as fairways get trimmed up (on the new holes) and basket placements get a little more permanent. Hole 5 currently has an "unfairway" but it's the same for everybody so it's kind of a moot point.

With a little more TLC, and some signage, and proper "shorts" I will eventually give parma a 4.5 disc rating. It's rochester's crown jewel and it really is awesome.

The holes in the woods are awesome. Great use of elevation and small stream. Cement tee pads are wonderful.

Navigating the course was very confusing! It's a long walk from the basket to the next tee in some spots and there's no indication of where to go. We wasted at least 30 minutes just trying to find our way around. I'm not too crazy about some of the holes that are out in the open but I suppose the variety is good.

I'm certainly going to play this course again. Finding my way around will hopefully be less frustrating having done it once already.

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