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Newark, OH

River View DGC

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Mulligan
Experience: 26.1 years 68 played 12 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Well intentioned urban neighborhood course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 24, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

-Easy to get to, located in a quiet residential area near some other recreation fields and a multiuse walking/biking trail.
-Runs right next to a lazy river thats pretty.
-Roughly half open and half wooded.
-DGA Baskets catch well but have a tight basket area so force a little bit better putting.
-Nice signage with advertising which hopefully indicates community investment.
-Didn't see much issue with litter.
-A couple small elevation changes.
-Nice to have close to the center of town and hopefully a good draw for kids and new players.

Cons:

-No tee pads. So slightly wet and muddy, and the grass is getting tore up pretty quickly.
-I didn't take a tally but the pars listed on the signage are silly. I think anything around 200ft was considered a par 4, for instance. Vets know to ignore this, but new players might be surprised if this is their first course and then go elsewhere...
-The biggest con is the multiuse trail being in the middle, or directly adjacent to, fairways on the front 8 holes. In some cases, its totally in play, as in #3 where you are tossing over a berm and the basket is blind, but the paved trail runs right along the best flight path. I played mid week during the day and only saw one biker, but if this trail is busy during the weekend, could be dangerous.
-Not really a creative course design. Those first 8 are all pretty much longer, straight shots, so probably good holes to work on distance. But then the last ten are kind of comically short. 3-4 are really short, like sub 150ft.
-One basket was on its side, and I don't think it was pushed over, just looked like didn't have enough cement around the pole and had fallen under its own weight. If thats the case, these might be easy to steal or have problems down the line.
-On a couple shots, the river to the left is in play if you get too much fade. The river in play isn't a con, but the banks have some serious thorn bushes that want to eat you alive! Beware.
-Basically, its a two disc course. A straight shooting fairway or control driver on the front, and a putter is literally all you need for the last 10 holes.

Other Thoughts:

-Disc Golf courses are kind of like pizza... even when its bad, its still pretty good.
-My issue with this course is that its ultimately kind of boring for an intermediate player or above, and the front 8 are so vastly different from the back 10 as to seem like two different courses. But none of it is really all that interesting.
-For me, this is a prime example of how jamming 18 into a space is less preferable to a well designed and creative 9. Plus, the money that would have been saved on the extra 9 baskets could have been used on concrete tee pads (possibly even multiple positions).
-I'd have rather seen a 9 with more use of the hilly wooded area and staying clear of the multi use trail, even though the river view is pretty.
-Not a course I'd go out of my way to play again, but if it was in my backyard I'd be very happy to have it.
-Well intentioned, but I have a feeling this was built without any input from actual disc golfers.
-Stop on your way to Horn's Hill and use your putter only. Play 1, 2, maybe 3, and then jump to 9-18 in the woods for a good warm up.
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