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Clarksville, TN

Rotary Park DGC

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3.195(based on 8 reviews)
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murf1087
Experience: 14.1 years 368 played 17 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Another HB Flub 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jan 30, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

Flat and grippy tee pads. Good baskets that catch and are easy to spot in the woods. Multiple baskets allows beginners a shot at par and the advanced players a greater challenge at the longer, but not much more difficult, yellow baskets. Pretty nice and quiet park with lots of native vegetation and not an abundance of thorns.

Cons:

The park is clearly used primarily as a mountain bike course with confusing trails running all over the place. There are no next tee signs or arrows on trees, and the "next tee" indicators on the tee signs are insufficiently detailed. The course map provided at the parking area does not include the 15 foot wide creek that divides the course (I'm no cartographer, but isn't that a significant point of reference for lost disc golfers looking for the path to the next hole?). The creek barely comes into play and is essentially a perfect OB that is ignored in the course design. Elevation is used in the design but the course overall still feels mostly flat compared to the rolling hills around you. The lines are completely forced at this course with dense young trees and shrubs off the fairway, causing a serious lack of creativity in play.
The course is mostly dirt and plays close to the creek - it will probably stay wet and muddy after rain.

Other Thoughts:

I walked around the park looking for next tee pads while cursing HB for this crummy design. After 9 holes and not being able to find 10's tee pad (despite having a photo of the course map) I was very discouraged and so annoyed by the course design that I was no longer having fun. Worse yet, the course only gets more ridiculous and crammed into a small area.
There are a ton of trees and low branches that need to be removed in order to make this course fun and open new lines. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE wooded courses, but this is simply unacceptable. You can't expect golfers to have fun when there are 30 trees inside the circle or when the trees in the fairway are so dense that a disc barely fits between them - you might as well practice your coin slot putts at the practice basket before heading to tee pad 1. I respect HB for bringing disc golf to tons of small towns but I really wish he would quit treating course design like a business and start reading reviews and criticisms of his courses. If he doesn't, he will continue to develop mediocre 2.75-3.5 star courses that leave you thinking you could have done a better job designing it yourself.
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