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Upper Salford Park reviews
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Down On Upper Salford 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Mar 29, 2021
Played the course:once
Pros:
+ The whole course plays through a peaceful and expansive chunk of tree-peppered fields within a much larger park. It appears to be well upkept and quiet.
+ Some gentle slopes and a sleepy stream give the course some pleasant hints of texture and life.
+ The tee pads, while quite small, appear nicely constructed and are present on all nine holes.
+ There is a practice basket and scorecard container (empty on my visit) behind hole 1.
+ It's not ideal, but all baskets do have that 'next tee tape' visibly wrapped around one of the upper spokes to point players to where they should go next, but....
+ Some gentle slopes and a sleepy stream give the course some pleasant hints of texture and life.
+ The tee pads, while quite small, appear nicely constructed and are present on all nine holes.
+ There is a practice basket and scorecard container (empty on my visit) behind hole 1.
+ It's not ideal, but all baskets do have that 'next tee tape' visibly wrapped around one of the upper spokes to point players to where they should go next, but....
Cons:
- ...That's all the player gets in terms of signage. Navigation is a gallery of guesswork. Thankfully, it's mostly obvious where the player ought to walk, so that can almost be forgiven, except...
- ...There are no tee signs here, either. In the absence of guiding signage, disc golfers seach the middle distance for those vertical posts that typically accompany a tee pad, but there are no tee signs. The only one I saw was on the ground next to hole 5.
- The tee pads themselves are pretty tiny, too. I suppose that the holes' distances don't require a run-up, but new and/or younger players could benefit from them.
- What is that picnic bench doing in the middle of 8's fairway?
- The topography of this course is mostly flat, and the texture is wide open fields punctuated with the occasional tree or stream.
- ...There are no tee signs here, either. In the absence of guiding signage, disc golfers seach the middle distance for those vertical posts that typically accompany a tee pad, but there are no tee signs. The only one I saw was on the ground next to hole 5.
- The tee pads themselves are pretty tiny, too. I suppose that the holes' distances don't require a run-up, but new and/or younger players could benefit from them.
- What is that picnic bench doing in the middle of 8's fairway?
- The topography of this course is mostly flat, and the texture is wide open fields punctuated with the occasional tree or stream.
Other Thoughts:
My favorite hole here to play was hole 9 because it is the most challenging with its distance. My favorite hole here to look at was hole 3 because of that grassy berm with the pin on top. My least favorite hole was hole 1 because I feel like it plays way too close to that walking path.
This will undoubtedly be one of my more disagreed-with reviews.
I feel the need to pre-emptively apologize to all of the previous reviewers when I say that I simply didn't see what they saw in Upper Salford. It's flat. It's wide open. All of the shots are straight-forward and direct. There are no obstacles and precious little elevation. There is nothing to challenge the player besides the stream that we are asked to cross a few times too many, and the distances would certainly be good training for the newer players, but they are just birdie/ace runs for players who have been playing with any degree of regularity for more than, say, six months.
On the upside, I will say that it is a very accessible course. The flat and treeless fairways are a low-pressure introduction to the sport for the new player. For the experienced player, this course is a fine place to reinforce approaches and power control. There are plenty of birdies and ace chances here. The venue is nice, too.
But none of that compensates for the overall dull nature of the holes. A few of them feel copy-pasted just to pad out the run time. Holes 5, 6 and 7 are a perfect example. Their fairways border each other, and the player crosses that same stream three times in a row. Tedious. All straight, flat and wide-open. Boring.
As I close this review, I'll say what I usually say about courses like this: I am glad that it exists. I may not have had a good time with it, but there are definitely people out there who played disc golf for the first time at this course and liked it so much that they wanted to continue playing, and I think that's wonderful. It's a great novices' course. But when I think about other 9-hole courses that I've played, Upper Salford doesn't quite scratch the itch.
This will undoubtedly be one of my more disagreed-with reviews.
I feel the need to pre-emptively apologize to all of the previous reviewers when I say that I simply didn't see what they saw in Upper Salford. It's flat. It's wide open. All of the shots are straight-forward and direct. There are no obstacles and precious little elevation. There is nothing to challenge the player besides the stream that we are asked to cross a few times too many, and the distances would certainly be good training for the newer players, but they are just birdie/ace runs for players who have been playing with any degree of regularity for more than, say, six months.
On the upside, I will say that it is a very accessible course. The flat and treeless fairways are a low-pressure introduction to the sport for the new player. For the experienced player, this course is a fine place to reinforce approaches and power control. There are plenty of birdies and ace chances here. The venue is nice, too.
But none of that compensates for the overall dull nature of the holes. A few of them feel copy-pasted just to pad out the run time. Holes 5, 6 and 7 are a perfect example. Their fairways border each other, and the player crosses that same stream three times in a row. Tedious. All straight, flat and wide-open. Boring.
As I close this review, I'll say what I usually say about courses like this: I am glad that it exists. I may not have had a good time with it, but there are definitely people out there who played disc golf for the first time at this course and liked it so much that they wanted to continue playing, and I think that's wonderful. It's a great novices' course. But when I think about other 9-hole courses that I've played, Upper Salford doesn't quite scratch the itch.
