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Scioto Grove DGC reviews
7
2
Here's an unused wasteland. Let's put a disc golf course on it. drive by
Reviewed:
Updated:
Played on:Jun 3, 2023
Played the course:once
Pros:
* Hole #3 the "rock peninsula" hole is an interesting challenge.
* Tee pads are in good condition
* The baskets are new and in good shape
* this course is hidden in the back of a nice metro park
* clean park-style pit toilet right near the parking lot
* this course has good quality hole maps for those holes where the maps haven't been damaged or stolen.
* Because this course plays in a former gravel-pit wasteland, it sort of gives you the feel of what its like playing on desert courses in the American southwest. Which is kind of interesting.
* Tee pads are in good condition
* The baskets are new and in good shape
* this course is hidden in the back of a nice metro park
* clean park-style pit toilet right near the parking lot
* this course has good quality hole maps for those holes where the maps haven't been damaged or stolen.
* Because this course plays in a former gravel-pit wasteland, it sort of gives you the feel of what its like playing on desert courses in the American southwest. Which is kind of interesting.
Cons:
* Once you get into the Scioto Grove metro park, the course is hard to find. There are no signs telling anyone that there is a disc golf course here at all.
* This course stinks...literally! The course plays mostly inside the bowl of what appears to be an old rock quarry. Several deep stagnant water holes fill the entire bowl with the fetid smell of decaying sewage.
* The rough here is way overgrown and needs trimming. Several shots tee off down five-foot high tunnels of trees and vines with little to no fairway in sight. This isn't "making the course more challenging", its just lazy.
* Baskets are difficult to spot, even with the uDisc GPS map. The prodigy baskets are often hidden deep into the treeline, and then they painted them tree-leaf green.
* Lots of trash on this course. I picked up about ten crushed beer cans.
* some of the printed hole maps are missing.
* the tee pads are nicely done in concrete, but they're too short for most player's run-up. Another two feet of pad would have helped immensely here.
* Though it was dry on the day that I played, it was evident that on wet days this course is extremely muddy.
* No benches, no trash cans, no drinkable water. Not particularly cart friendly.
* Several holes throw directly at other player's tee pads. Hole 1 features a 5-foot wide fairway alongside a popular walking path. You can wait for traffic, or throw right at the pedestrians and dogs.
*several of the holes tee off blind, the basket is nowhere to be seen. This is normally fine because there is a landing zone you can hit to plan your upshot to the green. This course really doesn't bother with that. Instead there are multiple blind tee shots throwing into an impenetrable wall of trees, towards a basket 300 feet away which is also tucked tightly into an impenetrable wall of trees. The number of blind tees plus lack of landing zones makes this course almost unplayable for a solo player with no spotter.
* This course stinks...literally! The course plays mostly inside the bowl of what appears to be an old rock quarry. Several deep stagnant water holes fill the entire bowl with the fetid smell of decaying sewage.
* The rough here is way overgrown and needs trimming. Several shots tee off down five-foot high tunnels of trees and vines with little to no fairway in sight. This isn't "making the course more challenging", its just lazy.
* Baskets are difficult to spot, even with the uDisc GPS map. The prodigy baskets are often hidden deep into the treeline, and then they painted them tree-leaf green.
* Lots of trash on this course. I picked up about ten crushed beer cans.
* some of the printed hole maps are missing.
* the tee pads are nicely done in concrete, but they're too short for most player's run-up. Another two feet of pad would have helped immensely here.
* Though it was dry on the day that I played, it was evident that on wet days this course is extremely muddy.
* No benches, no trash cans, no drinkable water. Not particularly cart friendly.
* Several holes throw directly at other player's tee pads. Hole 1 features a 5-foot wide fairway alongside a popular walking path. You can wait for traffic, or throw right at the pedestrians and dogs.
*several of the holes tee off blind, the basket is nowhere to be seen. This is normally fine because there is a landing zone you can hit to plan your upshot to the green. This course really doesn't bother with that. Instead there are multiple blind tee shots throwing into an impenetrable wall of trees, towards a basket 300 feet away which is also tucked tightly into an impenetrable wall of trees. The number of blind tees plus lack of landing zones makes this course almost unplayable for a solo player with no spotter.
Other Thoughts:
This is the worst course I've played in Ohio. Its just bad, and I'm not afraid to say it. I know this is in contrast to the majority of the other reviews here, but apart from Hole#3, I just could not find anything to enjoy on this course. Your mileage may vary.
I'd really like to know what the designer was thinking when they put this one together. Did they do any kind of analysis of other nice courses in the area and try to incorporate the things that are good in those courses into this one? Go look at Brent Hambrick, go look at Simsbury, those are well put together. Scioto Grove isn't even in the same class, and doesn't deserve the same rating.
The description says, "The course design is geared toward the experienced player." and I'm here to tell you that as a disc golfer who has been playing for more than 20 years in multiple states and multiple countries, I am an experienced player and based on my experience this course rates very poor compared to the other disc golf courses available in central Ohio.
This course looks like it was slapped into an unused, unwanted piece of waste land as an afterthought. And while I'd rather have a course here than not have a course here, Scioto Grove ranks firmly at the bottom of my list for lack of fun factor.
But hey, if you didn't play a real stinker once in a while, how would you know what a good course really is? It can only get better from here right?
I'd really like to know what the designer was thinking when they put this one together. Did they do any kind of analysis of other nice courses in the area and try to incorporate the things that are good in those courses into this one? Go look at Brent Hambrick, go look at Simsbury, those are well put together. Scioto Grove isn't even in the same class, and doesn't deserve the same rating.
The description says, "The course design is geared toward the experienced player." and I'm here to tell you that as a disc golfer who has been playing for more than 20 years in multiple states and multiple countries, I am an experienced player and based on my experience this course rates very poor compared to the other disc golf courses available in central Ohio.
This course looks like it was slapped into an unused, unwanted piece of waste land as an afterthought. And while I'd rather have a course here than not have a course here, Scioto Grove ranks firmly at the bottom of my list for lack of fun factor.
But hey, if you didn't play a real stinker once in a while, how would you know what a good course really is? It can only get better from here right?
3
23
Chain Clanger
Experience:
22 played
1 reviews
2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:Jul 15, 2018
Played the course:once
Cons:
I don't want to just sit in harp on this course but being that we've had 35 years of developing and designing courses and this is the best that someone could do with the city's money is sad. The pads are too short, there's nowhere to putt everything's up against the bush and shots are blind for no reason and they put baskets by water hazards just to be cute in areas that are just going to cause people to lose their discs so the people who built it can come along and fish them out (There was already two guys doing specifically that on hole 3 because they didn't continue playing the round they collected discs and went back to their car. My buddy and I both watched them.) Anyone new to the sport will surely be uninterested in coming back.
