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Telford, United Kingdom

Telford Town Park

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2.135(based on 8 reviews)
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ManicMinerUK
Experience: 3 played 2 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Short and expensive 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 19, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

The course is situated in a truly brilliant park full of activities, which would make for a pretty great day out. The course itself boasts three tee positions for every hole and is great for total beginners as the short tees are basically just simple putting stations. I liked the tee signs on the coloured rocks and found the course very easy to navigate.

The course is well looked after and apart from a few brambles and nettles the rough is rather short so it's almost impossible to lose a disc here

Cons:

Sad to say it but the course is, to be honest, overpriced and quite dull. The longest hole is 60m from the furthest tee and the last hole is just 30m! Many of the holes feel rather generic with only two really asking for any kind of shot shaping... otherwise it's just point and shoot putter approaches. The two tunnel tee shots are a welcome change but there's just not enough meat on this course to satisfy, even for a poor quality recreational division player!

I also have to say that £5 for a round of golf on which you likely won't make more than 30 throws is honestly just asking too much! I wish there was a day rate so I could play as many times as I wanted and chase the course record but for the price asked, you get roughly 30 mins of golf? For the same price at other pay to play courses you get a full 18 holes and even on other "short" courses you get a more interesting set of challenges to face.

Other Thoughts:

Feel bad leaving such a negative review but after an hours drive, plus £2 parking AND £5 a head for the actual round, I just expected a lot more than this. It's a fun enough pitch and putt but for "proper course" prices I think players deserve a bit more. It also feels like a bit of a wasted opportunity as the space the course is installed into has a great mix of open land and wooded sections so it feels like a more ambitious layout could have been possible that retained the accessible short tees for the kiddies but also offered a couple of real drives from the long tees to show punters what disc golf can really be.

All in all, a bit of a missed opportunity I think.
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andrewdouse
Experience: 13.1 years 7 played 2 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Very beginner friendly 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 15, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

In a quiet area of a busy public park, so lots of people about to play, as we waited to pay everyone else in the que was returning discs having just played so lots of people are trying out disc golf.
A short visible course, with lots of signage around the park advertising it, good for complete beginners, with 3 tees per hole clearly marked - so a group of mixed age or ability could play from different tees to even out the scores if they wanted... the tees are pretty much each 1/3 of the length of each hole. (E.g. Red 20m, white 40m, blue 60m)
Lots of parking as its telford town centre (telford being a new town the centre is just a big shopping centre which butts up to the park)

Cons:

Whilst great for complete beginners, the course is not very interesting for existing disc golfers, all short holes and not much variety, though the gaps are tight on the wooded holes, mostly its pitch and putt.
£5 deposit, whether you have a disc or not - staff didn't make us have a disc (we have our own) but said they still had to charge the £5 deposit (thus making me wonder what would happen when we came back after the round as we hadn't got hire discs to return... but it worked as it was the same staff, and they give out clipboards for scoring as well, so we returned that) just a bit weird.
The course is so short it only took about 20 minutes to play - though we had seen many people returning discs we didnt come across anyone else whilst playing so played straight though.

Other Thoughts:

Great if you're with a complete beginner, but If already a disc golfer looking for a fun and challenging course, id give it a miss. We were in Telford overnight and had planned to play again the next day, but didn't feel it was a good use of time or money (whereas the high ropes in the park was an excellent use of both.)
This review may have been slightly clouded by the fact that we had played Lichfield on the way to Telford, which is a fantastic 18 hole course.
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