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Houston, TX

Tom Bass Park

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kevdiv48
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Experience: 17.6 years 265 played 30 reviews
2.50 star(s)

The remnants of an early 00's great carry on 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:May 14, 2022 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

New, grippy Discatchers. Course map before hole 1. Informative tee signs. What tee pads are not torn are grippy and adequate length (see cons).
Abundant distance and opportunities to rip drives.
Multiple tees on most holes offer significant distance and shape variation.

Cons:

Wide open holes in flood conducive land with little shade or protection from wind. While this is this is the natural landscape of Gulf Coast Texas it makes for holes of forgetful design.
Tee pads (wooden frames with putting turf stapled on top) are not durable. The heavier trafficked short tees have a significant number of pads with the ends torn loose, resulting in a throwing surface worse than the grass adjacent to it.
Insufficient mowing (a problem that plagued the original courses in their waning years) still remains. 10 foot strips of grass carry from tee to basket but grass outside of that grows long and thick.

Other Thoughts:

By and large Tom Bass is a grip it and rip it course across a rice field sprinkled with trees. Early holes take advantage of tighter bunching of trees to demand more precise lines and after that, the majority of holes are wide open with a few trees near the basket to provide some challenge.
All in all, this reincarnation of disc golf at Tom Bass Park does capture the essence of the courses that hosted the PDGA Worlds in the early 00's, but in a form that falls short on the previous bright spots and fails to improve on any of the prior shortcomings.
Come to Tom Bass on a cool, drier day to test your arm's mettle for 7000 feet. Otherwise, there are other more enjoyable courses in the area.
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