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Wiconisco Creek DGC reviews
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Excellent New Course with lots of Variety
Reviewed:
Played on:Apr 29, 2024
Played the course:once
Pros:
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4 x 8 level poured concrete tees on Gold and Silver layouts, excellent signage including elevation change, new Innova baskets including a practice basket. Kiosk at the parking lott. Brooms at most tees. Thorough wayfinding signage to the various tees, and the teeposts themselves include arrows pointing to the more forward tee positions. Bronze tees are natural, with lines of flush bricks indicating front.
The three layouts provide differentiation for level of challenge. The Bronze tees are well-forward, inviting and fair for newbies. The 12 separate Gold tees (6 are shared Gold/Silver) add an average of 100', and they play at the same par as Silver: a clever way to increase the challenge when you don't have a lot of room to stretch out the holes
They've cut down a lot of tree to create fairways, and they've created some really beautiful greens (3, 5 and 6, and another handful on the back nine. 18 is a large framed island with wood chips). Gold plays to two island greens; Bronze and Silver play to one island green (#18)
Crossing the park road to #8 and the course changes completely: three steep uphill holes and lots of elevation change on most holes
4 x 8 level poured concrete tees on Gold and Silver layouts, excellent signage including elevation change, new Innova baskets including a practice basket. Kiosk at the parking lott. Brooms at most tees. Thorough wayfinding signage to the various tees, and the teeposts themselves include arrows pointing to the more forward tee positions. Bronze tees are natural, with lines of flush bricks indicating front.
The three layouts provide differentiation for level of challenge. The Bronze tees are well-forward, inviting and fair for newbies. The 12 separate Gold tees (6 are shared Gold/Silver) add an average of 100', and they play at the same par as Silver: a clever way to increase the challenge when you don't have a lot of room to stretch out the holes
They've cut down a lot of tree to create fairways, and they've created some really beautiful greens (3, 5 and 6, and another handful on the back nine. 18 is a large framed island with wood chips). Gold plays to two island greens; Bronze and Silver play to one island green (#18)
Crossing the park road to #8 and the course changes completely: three steep uphill holes and lots of elevation change on most holes
Cons:
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- A lot of the front nine is hardly higher than the creek, and subject to being flooded out. Check conditions before heading out
- uDisc has this as "Not Cart Friendly" and I think that's more accurate than the "Somewhat" here. If it's wet, you're pulling a cart through mud, and the back nine will require dragging it uphill and navigating across a couple of steeply-side downhills. So it's possible, but probably not worth the effort.
- A lot of the front nine is hardly higher than the creek, and subject to being flooded out. Check conditions before heading out
- uDisc has this as "Not Cart Friendly" and I think that's more accurate than the "Somewhat" here. If it's wet, you're pulling a cart through mud, and the back nine will require dragging it uphill and navigating across a couple of steeply-side downhills. So it's possible, but probably not worth the effort.
Other Thoughts:
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~ So many nice touches that improve play: logpiles guarding greens (and a few guarding tees from incoming fire), tight marked OB (don't be left throwing uphill on #8). Low bulkheads on a few hillside greens to protect against rollaways, and to encourage ace runs. Bells on a few blind holes to indicate clear. C1 whiskers here and there.
~ Signs indicating sponsors on each hole (and some holes have different sponsors on the different tees). Great indication of local support.
~ You could put together a short nine here if you want to leave out the steeper hills (1-7, 15, 18).
~ The finisher might be a little controversial: it's under 200' with a big downhill (20' of drop) to a large bordered green that plays as an island. A fun challenge, if not the typical closer (I was a bit disappointed to find it as the finisher). But when I looked past that one hole, I could acknowledge that the designer threw a wide variety of challenges on the closing four holes: #15 is a long and straight par 3 that requires clearing a stream in a ravine crossing the fairway, #16 is a very narrow downhill hallway with close OB on both sides (the road on the left will catch anything that goes nose up or fades too much), #17 is short uphill with a large tree at the top creating a low ceiling, and then #18 is a controlled putter to an island green. Whew. Lots of precision and concentration required to close out your round.
~ New, though mostly broken in already. Thoughtful design, fun, and lots of challenge variety to make it desirable for multiple plays.
~ So many nice touches that improve play: logpiles guarding greens (and a few guarding tees from incoming fire), tight marked OB (don't be left throwing uphill on #8). Low bulkheads on a few hillside greens to protect against rollaways, and to encourage ace runs. Bells on a few blind holes to indicate clear. C1 whiskers here and there.
~ Signs indicating sponsors on each hole (and some holes have different sponsors on the different tees). Great indication of local support.
~ You could put together a short nine here if you want to leave out the steeper hills (1-7, 15, 18).
~ The finisher might be a little controversial: it's under 200' with a big downhill (20' of drop) to a large bordered green that plays as an island. A fun challenge, if not the typical closer (I was a bit disappointed to find it as the finisher). But when I looked past that one hole, I could acknowledge that the designer threw a wide variety of challenges on the closing four holes: #15 is a long and straight par 3 that requires clearing a stream in a ravine crossing the fairway, #16 is a very narrow downhill hallway with close OB on both sides (the road on the left will catch anything that goes nose up or fades too much), #17 is short uphill with a large tree at the top creating a low ceiling, and then #18 is a controlled putter to an island green. Whew. Lots of precision and concentration required to close out your round.
~ New, though mostly broken in already. Thoughtful design, fun, and lots of challenge variety to make it desirable for multiple plays.
