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Sunset Hills, MO

Sunset Lakes - Main

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klooster
Bronze level trusted reviewer
Experience: 27.2 years 392 played 23 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Monotonous Redundancy 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 24, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

The Disc Catcher baskets are yellow and easy to spot from 700-1050 feet away. The course is on an ex-ball golf property and is mostly flat, except for the mounds created by bulldozers when originally built. There are not many areas of high grass to hide discs. Most holes have small wooden tee markers with the hole number on them and pink paint sprayed on the grass or old cart paths to delineate the tee boxes. If you can drive 450 feet or more, you might enjoy Sunset . It is cart friendly. 2 pins per hole. Grass pads.

Cons:

Hole 1 tee is about 1000 feet east of the parking lot, then throw back to west towards the parking lot! Hole 2 should be numbered #1 ( across the road from parking lot ) and all holes numbered one less and hole 1 should be 18 for sensible flow. So start on hole 2. As this is on a ball golf course, there was tons of acreage,, so this was stretched out, and many holes in the 600-800 foot range, with only 2 or 3 around 300ft. Not a lot of variety for shaping shots; just chuck your arm out its socket 2 or 3 times per hole and avoid the water hazards on half the holes, and the standing water in low spots. No signs yet, just tee markers; I needed U Disc to navigate. No benches or trash cans. Beginners and Rec players will be frustrated and discouraged.

Other Thoughts:

The baskets are from the Creve Coeur course, which is long and flat. Sunset is longer, with more lakes and less trees. I live 15 miles from Creve Coeur ( I call it Creve Bore ) and played it maybe 3 times in 23 years; it just has no fun factor, and this course is more of that. My friend (Grumpy) Erik is rated around 950 and he thought it sucked too. Everyone has different ideas on what makes a fun course though, so come out and play Sunset first, then click on whether this review is helpful or not.
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