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Benton, AR

Tyndall Park Juniors

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2.75(based on 5 reviews)
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aclay
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Experience: 39.6 years 309 played 236 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Tyndall Park Juniors

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 7, 2022 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

-- Excellent use of land, especially for target audience.
-- Concrete tee pads. Most are dedicated concrete, but a few use existing paths. Pads are not very long.
-- Great signage with hole number, layout and obstacles marked.
-- A couple of challenging pin placements on small hillsides (some can be played as islands even though the tee signs don't state that). This adds challenge to otherwise easy, very short (under 150 feet) holes.
-- Practice basket.
-- Restrooms on site (near 4 and 16).
-- Great playground near the front 9.

Cons:

-- Shares the walking path for much of the layout (so it's very cart friendly except for numerous creek crossings, but who needs a cart on a course with only a couple of holes longer than 200 feet?).
-- Safety. No. 2 has a picnic table in the flight path for a RHBH tee shot. In fact, our group hit the table (no one was there) once. Another hole (5?) plays along the walking path and has a bench about 20 feet past the basket. And another hole (10) plays between a road 15 feet left and a pavilion 25 feet right. A shanked shot could hit someone there. In addition, the walking path is in play on numerous other holes. Visibility is good, so you should be able to see if someone is coming down the path, but you might have to wait or skip some holes altogether. Also, you cross the creek numerous times, and those crossings are a little tricky.
-- No. 15 is perhaps the most boring hole ever: Just short of 200 feet, totally flat with NO obstacles (trees, water, etc.) within 75 feet of the tee or basket. It feels worse than it is because you've got a long walk from 14 to get to this hole. This plays between two ball fields.
-- Long walk (several hundred yards) from 18 back to 1.

Other Thoughts:

-- This course is clearly intended for young players (or old guys like me with almost no power), so the number rating is difficult. It was a BLAST to play, but anyone with even a modicum of distance off the tee is likely to be bored here. Low intermediate players are going to shoot under par (perhaps double digits) even with a few penalty strokes that are almost impossible to avoid.
-- Construction of a skate park was impinging on Hole 18, but I think this is a temporary situation. One of the ramps waiting to be installed was in the fairway.
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Pizza God
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Experience: 36.1 years 1727 played 576 reviews
2.50 star(s)

2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 19, 2021 Played the course:once

Pros:

Tee signs
Great course for new players or introducing players.
Fun course to play with just one or two discs.

Cons:

VERY DANGEROUS COURSE

Other Thoughts:

Seriously, this course is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Not only are you teeing off from the walking paths on a few of the holes, but some of the holes throw DOWN the paths with at least one of the baskets right next to the basket. I mean you could probably touch the basket from the walking path without touching the grass it's so close.

On the other hand, if your the only person in the park, it's a fun little course to play.

The course/park is in a valley of a creek across from the high school. Mostly very short holes throwing back and forth across the creek and around obstacles.

I think I only pulled a driver out on one or two of the back holes that actually had a little distance on them.

I would not attempt to play this course if there is anything going on around the park. The day I played it had been raining and my wife and I were the only ones in the park. She actually played the full course with me and almost hit her first ace on one of the shorter holes.

Would I play here again? No, I got birdies on almost every hole, it's not much of a challenge. It's basically all upshots except 2 or 3 of the holes. A few blocks away is Traxx which is a killer challenging course I played right before I played this one. Bring the family out to play this one, or introduce someone to disc golf on this course. Or if your like me, bag it and be done with it.
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