Houston, TX

Roberts Elementary School

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The Valkyrie Kid
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Experience: 45.9 years 1562 played 1507 reviews
1.00 star(s)

Lots Of Activities In A Small Space! 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 23, 2017 Played the course:once

Pros:

Roberts Elementary is located about a 1/2 mile from Rice University. The playground behind the school is a very busy place, and here I'm using busy in the sense that there are toys and picnic tables and climbing apparatus everywhere, very cluttered feeling for an elementary school play area. They must treat 20 students a day for crashing into "stuff." They don't have much open space here. There is a small play field.

The little 6 hole course starts at the back right on the playing field. There are no tee pads and the signs are simple 4" x 4" posts with the hole number on them. The baskets are nice, new DGA models with the red numbers on top.

The course is definitely a pitch and putt. I actually thought it is quite appropriate for an elementary school. # 1 plays about 125' to a basket in the corner. There is a fence on the left waiting for your disc. # 2 plays to the opposite corner of the field, maybe 190' and open. # 3 is about 150' to the basket on the BRH corner. If you're playing basket to basket, # 4 throws through the covered area to the basket just on the other side. Then # 5 plays to a basket sitting on a small hill. You finish with # 6 which plays across the side lawn of the school. I had to skip it because of a soccer clinic for 2-3 year olds. Those kids had no interest in kicking a soccer ball around. And this was at 7:30 on a Saturday morning.

Cons:

I'm not sure if you could find a daylight hour when this course is completely playable. It just seems like that kind of a playground that would constantly have kids playing on it.

Only 6 baskets.

No tee pads. Play basket to basket. No signs.

Pitch and putt distances and challenge.

Other Thoughts:

I'm amazed that some building principal signed off on this project. There's just way too many structures in such a small area. Anyone using any apparatus here would be in harm's way. If you could guarantee no other people would be here, this would be an OK little beginner course. As is, reserve the 4 am to 6 am block. You might have the course to yourself then.
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tkmcdougal
Silver level trusted reviewer
Experience: 16.2 years 196 played 96 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Roberts Elementary School 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 21, 2017 Played the course:once

Pros:

This a nice short little course on a school campus. The baskets are in great condition. You start by the baseball backstop and and play around the building ending near the carpool lane. This course isn't designed to be challenging but introduce students to the game and it accomplishes exactly that.

Cons:

There aren't any teepads but they aren't needed as you just play basket to basket. This is a tight area so there isn't much room to add any beside throwing from each basket. Hole 4 throws through the pavilion and is near the playground.

Other Thoughts:

This is a course designed to introduce kids to the game. Also, if you live nearby it gives you some practice baskets to work on your putting or some upshots. Obviously, you can't play this course during school days. I could imagine this park can get pretty packed on the weekends so be aware of other pedestrians.

I had fun playing this course as it was my first course of the day so it gave me a few shorts holes to get warmed up.
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johnselby
Experience: 13.1 years 144 played 7 reviews
0.50 star(s)

Waste of good baskets! 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Feb 14, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

It has good baskets

Cons:

There are 3 holes around a small baseball diamond, and couldn't be played if there were kids playing baseball. The other 3 holes are on the other side of the school, and you'd have to play through a playgound & picnic area to play them.

Other Thoughts:

This was the biggest waste of good quality baskets I have ever seen. I'm not sure who even put them there. We played on a saturday, and the park was full of people.
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