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Shawnee Park reviews
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Pizza God
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Premium Member
Experience:
36.1 years
1726 played
574 reviews
My first
Reviewed:
Played on:Nov 14, 2023
Played the course:2-4 times
Pros:
Good tee pads
Good signage
Good Baskets
Good mix of left and right shots
Good mix of short and long shots
Good signage
Good Baskets
Good mix of left and right shots
Good mix of short and long shots
Cons:
Very dangerous course for other park users (more on tis later)
Few holes too close together.
Limited Parking, specially in the summer.
Few holes too close together.
Limited Parking, specially in the summer.
Other Thoughts:
Ok, I played Shawnee for the first time since it was first expanded to a full 18, or as I like to call it "Shawnee 3.0"
Story time - I played Ultimate at NTSU/UNT in the late 80's. I came home for Christmas in 86 and my mom had put an article about the new "Frisbee Golf Course" at Shawnee park. I did play the course with my 165 Ultimate Frisbee, technically this was my first round on a course with Baskets. But I really did not start playing till 88 when I found out there were actual Golf Discs.
So, I use to live in Plano in the early 90's and played the original 9 holes many times. I even hit an ace on the OG hole 9 in a mini for cash. Stuck right in the side of the basket with a DX Viper. (yea, I know, but at the time that counted)
Sometime after I moved to Carrollton, someone got the city to expand the course to 18 holes, BUT the layout used the same land. They literally had 9 holes on top of 9 holes. Even at the time I thought it was horrible.
FF to a few years ago the City redesigned the park and purchased new equipment, installed tee pads and new tee signs. From my understanding, someone from the city designed the course.
Don't get me wrong, as a whole, the new layout is fun for a player. While it's not a championship level course, it's not a beginner course either. You do have a few 400+ foot holes and a couple of shorter pitch and putt holes. It's a decent mix.
As someone who first played in this park 35+ years ago, the tree's that use to be small are much bigger now. The course does attempt to use the tree's as much as possible. But I would consider this a mostly open course with only 2 or 3 holes being wooded holes.
The park does play along a creek, you DO NOT want to throw in there, trust me, I had a hard time climbing down today to get my disc out of the water after bouncing off a tree. Most of these holes are hyzer shots anyways.
After hole 13, you have a few mostly open shots back towards hole 1. These are the longest holes on the course and the most open. Hole 16 is nicely tucked into a nice green. Then you get into two of the most dangerous holes on the course.
Hole 17 has you throwing down a tunnel of tree's, right along a walking path around the pond. This is a very popular walking spot, so on good weather days, this is a tough hole to play.
But that is NOTHING compared to hole 18. You are throwing slightly over the edge of the pond, across the popular walking path twice and the basket is near an area that other park users will be walking or playing.
When the course first went in, I contacted the city to find out who designed this garbage. Now I call it garbage but rated it 4. Why? Because as a course, it's actually pretty good. I saw several other players out there playing today, something I don't see much in my course collecting adventures. So while the course has some decent holes and is a good course, this course is HORRIBLE for other park users. I mean hole 6 is 400ft hole down the road with homes across the street. They have planted some evergreen trees to force you to throw to the right, but that shot is still there, I could have throw a straight to turnover shot down the road.
Look at the tee for hole 7, yep, that is tee box for hole 8 right in front of you.
Would I play here again? Well I just played it again, so yes. It's been a few years, I enjoyed my round today and even splashed out of the chains on hole 12. But that does not change the fact that his course is a liability to the city and they just don't realize it.
Story time - I played Ultimate at NTSU/UNT in the late 80's. I came home for Christmas in 86 and my mom had put an article about the new "Frisbee Golf Course" at Shawnee park. I did play the course with my 165 Ultimate Frisbee, technically this was my first round on a course with Baskets. But I really did not start playing till 88 when I found out there were actual Golf Discs.
So, I use to live in Plano in the early 90's and played the original 9 holes many times. I even hit an ace on the OG hole 9 in a mini for cash. Stuck right in the side of the basket with a DX Viper. (yea, I know, but at the time that counted)
Sometime after I moved to Carrollton, someone got the city to expand the course to 18 holes, BUT the layout used the same land. They literally had 9 holes on top of 9 holes. Even at the time I thought it was horrible.
FF to a few years ago the City redesigned the park and purchased new equipment, installed tee pads and new tee signs. From my understanding, someone from the city designed the course.
Don't get me wrong, as a whole, the new layout is fun for a player. While it's not a championship level course, it's not a beginner course either. You do have a few 400+ foot holes and a couple of shorter pitch and putt holes. It's a decent mix.
As someone who first played in this park 35+ years ago, the tree's that use to be small are much bigger now. The course does attempt to use the tree's as much as possible. But I would consider this a mostly open course with only 2 or 3 holes being wooded holes.
The park does play along a creek, you DO NOT want to throw in there, trust me, I had a hard time climbing down today to get my disc out of the water after bouncing off a tree. Most of these holes are hyzer shots anyways.
After hole 13, you have a few mostly open shots back towards hole 1. These are the longest holes on the course and the most open. Hole 16 is nicely tucked into a nice green. Then you get into two of the most dangerous holes on the course.
Hole 17 has you throwing down a tunnel of tree's, right along a walking path around the pond. This is a very popular walking spot, so on good weather days, this is a tough hole to play.
But that is NOTHING compared to hole 18. You are throwing slightly over the edge of the pond, across the popular walking path twice and the basket is near an area that other park users will be walking or playing.
When the course first went in, I contacted the city to find out who designed this garbage. Now I call it garbage but rated it 4. Why? Because as a course, it's actually pretty good. I saw several other players out there playing today, something I don't see much in my course collecting adventures. So while the course has some decent holes and is a good course, this course is HORRIBLE for other park users. I mean hole 6 is 400ft hole down the road with homes across the street. They have planted some evergreen trees to force you to throw to the right, but that shot is still there, I could have throw a straight to turnover shot down the road.
Look at the tee for hole 7, yep, that is tee box for hole 8 right in front of you.
Would I play here again? Well I just played it again, so yes. It's been a few years, I enjoyed my round today and even splashed out of the chains on hole 12. But that does not change the fact that his course is a liability to the city and they just don't realize it.
