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Crossroads Fellowship

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Pizza God
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0.50 star(s)

Why? 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jan 14, 2021 Played the course:once

Pros:

Has 3 really nice Mach 5 baskets
Tee signs are really nice and show a map of the hole and distance.
An effort was made to have cement tee's for all the holes by using parking spaces, roads and erosion control areas.

Cons:

Everything else

Other Thoughts:

3 baskets around a church with 3 sets of tee's throwing to each basket.

My first issue was throwing over parking lots

2nd issue is walking back and forth to each tee. The flow of the course is just flat out horrible. You will get a lot of exercise playing this course.

Starts off you have to walk from the parking lot to hole 1 that is out by the road. Simple enough hole, no problems here.

Then you walk way to the left for hole 2, throwing back to the same basket you just played. It's a decent hole, but your throwing from a parking space.

Now for hole 3, it's a short walk as your playing across the parking lot to the 2nd basket on the course. Don't know if your suppose to play the parking area as OB, it's a 315ft shot with 90% of it over the parking area.

Now you walk across the field and have another almost crazy shot. 444 ft with the last 200 being across that parking lot again back to the basket used for holes 1 and 2. Unless your a big arm player, your laying this one up at 200ft and then throwing another 200ft shot across the parking lot.

Now that your at that 1st basket, to play hole 5, you go back to the same area that Tee 1 is in and throw to the 2nd backet across the parking lot. Again, another 480ft hole with the last 200ft being over the parking lot.

Walk back across the field past #4 tee pad to hole 6 throwing behind the church. I actually found this to be one of the best holes on the course even though your throwing down a road. You got to land on the right past a fenced in area to get a decent upshot (for those that can't throw 423ft like me)

The next 2 hole, 7 and 8 both use this same 3rd basket. Both are pretty normal disc golf holes and nothing special, you are throwing from the parking lot back across the road going around the church to the basket that is sitting near a few tree's.

Then you get to play hole 9. 701ft hole throwing over the lake, over the entrance road, OVER the 1st basket, over the parking lot to the 2nd basket. It's a safari hole for sure.

This is not the place to try to build a championship level course. Top pro's, even someone good is not going to play here at all. Throwing around so much cement is going to tear your favorite discs up. Anything going on at the church and this course is totally unplayable. This course is not even good to take the youth group out to throw a round. Too long and too difficult for newer players.

Would I ever play here again? Heck no, this is right up there with one of the worst courses I have ever played. It is trying to be something it isn't nor should it be.

My recommendation, don't play here. If this is your course, pleases consider redesigning it making some pitch and putt holes.
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c_a_miller
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Experience: 12 years 299 played 209 reviews
0.00 star(s)

In contention for the worst course in Houston 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jan 16, 2021 Played the course:once

Pros:

The course has nice new Mach V baskets, and useful tee signs on each of the holes!

Hole 8 is an average hole, which is a huge pro considering the disaster that the rest of the holes are.

Cons:

First and foremost, the course has only three baskets and nine tees. This means that you play to each basket three times. This in itself isn't a con necessarily. I think you can arrange a course with this set up and the navigation make sense, however it doesn't make sense here. Holes 6-8 play to the same basket. This means that you play six, walk to the basket, walk away from the basket to tee of off of seven, walk back to the basket, walk out to eight, play eight and then somehow find the 9th tee. Navigation is mess out here.

The worst part of this course is the holes. Most of the holes play either over the large parking lot or the church's streets. I mean seriously, look at the picture of hole 6 on here. If there are more than five cars in the parking lot, you run the very real risk of hitting one of them. the parking lot is big, and takes a pretty decent throw to get it over. if you don't make it and don't hit any of the cars, then your discs will have some serious road rash.

Tee 1 and 5 are in the same area on a concrete swale. The designers obviously thought to use the existing concrete for a tee, except the swale is sloped down, making any run up treacherous.

Hole 9 is the worst of the bunch as it's a 700' hole in which you need to carry the lake, the parking lot all while avoiding the small trees that have been planted next to the tee. Truly awful.

Also, check out the picture of hole 4. Yeah. I don't know where you are supposed to tee from without whacking your hand on the light post, tee sign or tree.

Other Thoughts:

Houston has some bad courses. B. Schmitz, Resoft, Jersey Village. I think what makes this worse than those is this has tee signs and niceish baskets. Real effort was put into this course, and it just falls flat on its face. Play here early on a Saturday to minimize the chances of having no cars are in the lots. But my real recommendation to you is to just skip it all together.

I hereby proclaim that Crossroads Fellowship DGC as the worst course in the Houston area,
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