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El Reno, OK

Route 66 DGC

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PastorofMuppets
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Experience: 4.9 years 150 played 118 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Left to return to nature

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 15, 2023 Played the course:once

Pros:

1) This course sits off historic Route 66 in a well utilized large park facility. Hole #1 (even with U-Disc help) was difficult to locate but it is over by the Football field parking lot.

2) Pretty solid use of the trees available, the creek running through the course, and the natural OB presented by the tons of roads crisscrossing through the course.

3) Solid mix of long and short holes that both let you open up and air it out and then flipping the script and making you hit lines with touch.

4) Some of the baskets had indicators pointing in the general direction of the next tee. (Some also pointed to old tee locations and were confusing, so beware)

5) Ample parking. There are multiple large parking lots throughout the park where you can find a spot, even if the park is super busy like it was when we visited.

6) Large old hardwood trees provide a lot of much needed shade and most tee pad locations are protected by this shade, making summer rounds a little more tolerable.

7) Course sees very little play. We played in the middle of the day on a Saturday and were the only people on the course. We actually had several different vehicles stop and ask us what we were doing because they hadn't seen anybody play the course in years. The rest of the park was updated and in great condition and being utilized in all corners, but the disc golf course was a ghost town.

Cons:

1) Course map kiosk is incorrect. By Hole #18 which I guess used to be Hole #1. If you go by the kiosk map there are multiple locations where there should be a tee pad but isn't, or you locate a tee pad that has no tee sign or visible basket to play.

2) Amenities - The holes that do have tee pads have only rubber mats, others are just bare spots of mud/dirt. Tee signs that do exist (most are broken or have the sign pole with no sign anymore), have incorrect distance or appear to have been moved from the original design and located on the new layout without changing par or distance or even the rudementry hole map, which cause a lot of confusion and searching for intended baskets. Baskets were old DGA and the hole numbers on the plates on top of the basket did not always match the hole # you were playing.

3) Traffic - You will be throwing and walking along and over heavily traveled roadways through most of your round. There is also a traditional golf course nearby where you are throwing at a green on a few occasions.

4) Course feels abandoned. Missing tee pads, no updated map and hole locations to follow, non main park holes were not mowed while the main park holes were manicured wonderfully, Course map and U-Disc combined didn't have the correct layout. Tee signs damaged, extremely hard to navigate, we almost gave up several times when we were unable to find the next tee.

5) Course redesign must have added a ton of length, because this course is very long to both play and walk. Long walks between holes, and the back 9 was on the other side of the park and very difficult to find.

6) Hole #4 is one of the worst designed holes I have ever witnessed in person. You are roughly 30 feet from a double mando between two trees spaced maybe 10 feet apart to tee off into. 30 feet beyond that mando in a straight line is a road (OB) and on the other side of the road is a traditional golf green. If you navigate the double mando you must hook immediately straight left for another 300 feet to a basket sitting on the top of a hill protected by concrete drainage culverts. The only way to access this hole is to throw a crazy roller or risk throwing into blind traffic or directly at traditional golfers playing the other golf course. The low ceiling provided by the trees make this hole even more difficult. We just pitched past the mando, threw an upshot, and took our 3's.

7) There was no tee pad or tee sign for Hole #5. We checked the course map and U-Disc and there was nothing where both said the tee should be. We found the basket though and just threw from the grass where the tee was supposed to have been. Would have been a nice hole with a unique elevated basket in a tree stump, but ended up just being frustrating.

8) Several point A to point B holes that aren't designed well and appear just to be there to get you to the next intended tee pad. Some very short par 3's where you just toss around a single tree or completely wide open, verses some very long par 4's that are just open hyzers to get you where you are going. While there are several good/decent holes on the course, the bad outweigh the good.

9) Multiple holes where the trees and rough are overgrown leaving little to no gap. Like I mentioned earlier, the "in the main park" holes were immaculately groomed. The ones on the fringe of the property were left for nature to reclaim.

Other Thoughts:

I'm not sure if a better course came along in the area that all the local disc golfers began flocking to (as this course is just outside of Oklahoma City) or if the money to maintain and upkeep this course dried up, but it appears this course was once well loved and well trafficked. But the course we played, like most of old Route 66, is a shell of its former self. Just off I-40 on the historic Route 66 if you want to visit and play for yourself, but this course left a sour taste in our mouths being the one we chose to play in the area when we passed through (over others that weren't rated as highly on this site). This course is definitely not deserving anymore of the high ratings it once received in the past. Do yourself a favor and choose something else in the area.
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