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The opening holes are flat, open, and a bit dull - but the course becomes hilly and wooded on #6. Given the openers, you might be surprised at the amount of elevation change through much of the rest of the course.


Very good signage and concrete tees, good baskets and intuitive navigation. Holes have a good balance of uphill downhill, left-to-right and right-to-left lines. Hanging basket doesn't add much challenge to #10, but it's a nice touch.

A few of the back nine holes deserve special mention:

+ Hole #14 is a tight uphill par 4. It's under 400', but it's uphill all the way, and the rough is punishing. It's a good challenge following a couple of relatively easy holes

+ Hole #15 is a picture-perfect short par 3 across a valley to a raised basket on the opposing hillside. It's only 170', but the bowl-shaped terrain is like throwing across an amphitheater. A memorable and pretty hole

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- A few too many dull holes. The five opening holes and the flat, open 18th take away from the overall experience that's somewhat balanced out by all the good stuff in between.

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~ Smart Layouts on uDisc include a "non-woods option" playing 1-8 and 18 twice. There's also a short layout ("purple tees") for beginners, marked by lines of bricks in the fairways


~ A good community park course that has more bite to it than nearby Kenilworth, though not as much challenge as Sankanac. A fun play. Quick enough to play several times if it's not busy. And second time through, you'll dial in distances for more birdies on those short middle holes

-REZ PRK is a wonderful community course, located in Reservoir Park in Phoenixville. The park also features a dog area, community garden, playground, and mountain bike course, none of which interfere with the disc golf.

-The course begins with six holes in an open section of the park, before winding through a hillier, more wooded area on the back nine. There are a variety of hole types, including three short par 4s. The course is well-designed to take advantage of the flatter upper section of the park, as well as the steeper parts closer to the river. Hole 8, 9, and 13 in particular demand excellent angle control with a putter.

-Only two years old, REZ PRK features concrete tees, Innova baskets, and color tee signs which give important distances to mandos, etc. The layout is intuitive — no need for a map or UDisc.

-While the back nine plays through woods, fairways are clean and errant shots are generally retrievable. The highest chance of a lost disc is probably actually on holes 4-6, which play through a field on the edge of a steep, overgrown slope.

-Although the course is advertised as "along the banks of the majestic Schuylkill River," the river is barely visible. Also, the reservoir is actually covered and above-ground, not connected to the River, as I originally thought.

-This course is especially well suited for intermediate level players. Most holes can be birdied with 300' power, but no hole earns the distinction of "gimme." For better players, this course is good practice and plenty of fun, but it does not demand very many long or difficult shots.

-Each hole only has one tee and one basket location, which is perfectly acceptable for this length of course. Holes 7-11 and 18 in particular play very close to one another, and adding extra variations would cause confusion and a safety risk. Kudos to the designers for not trying to do too much with the limited space available.

-While it doesn't have much of a "wow factor," REZ PRK doesn't do a lot wrong, either. It scores high on the fun factor and can easily be played in one hour on a quiet day.

- Variety of hole design- 6 field, 6 lite woods, 6 fully wooded
- Good use of the available property
- Long enough to challenge but not too long for new players
- Tee boxes are clean and good size
- Nice lines on multiple holes.

- compact and some holes at very close
- maintenance could be stronger
- weak finishing hole (main mando tree had to be removed which really hurt he design.
- multi use park, so pedestrians can be in way on some holes

Rez Park is a very well designed community course. It is challenging enough with the variety of hole structures, but won't kill you if you are new to the game. Maintenance could be a little better to clean up some of the rough areas. Overall I think this is a very well designed community park course that with a little love and some minor tweaks could be on of the best in the area.

Concrete tee pads
Nice tee signs
Good baskets
Mix of woods and open
Elevation changes

- Hole 5 tee pad is in the "line of fire", meaning too close to the adjacent fairway, potentially requiring a wait for the safety of the players.
- Hole 12 green is, simply put, dangerous.

Rez Prk is a nice 18 hole course sitting, for the most part, high above the Schuylkill River. The course has a nice mix of wide open holes and wooded holes, with elevation change factoring into the mix for most of the wooded holes and a few of the open ones.
Tee pads are concrete and I found them to be more than long enough for the length of the holes. The tee signs are well made and give you a nice overview of the hole with accurate distance information.
Baskets are good and found them easy to spot in the woods with the bright blue bands. The course itself is well maintained and clean. Wood chips on the path and greens helped keep the course looking good. It's clear the local club is taking pride in the maintenance of the course.

Overall, this is a nice course that's not too long and will allow you to get a relatively quick round of golf in if the course isn't overly crowded. When I played, there was a group of 7 in front of us, and despite this we had very little wait time on the tees. Flow of the course is good except for one hole that requires the group to walk back towards the tee they just used to get to the next tee box.
Overall the design is good, although simple at times. The wide open holes are not overly challenging, although each has a certain element that takes away the gimmie birdie. For the most part, I thought the holes were varied enough that you didn't feel you were playing the same hole twice.
One hole I didn't like was Hole 12. The design falters with the green, where the basket is perched at the top of a steep slope comprised of dirt and loose rock (shale) making footing dangerous, to say the least. I fell trying to get to my disc, and another in my group almost fell. In the rain this slope would be nearly impossible to navigate. In my opinion, it would be in the best interest of the course and player safety to move the basket to a safer location. There is more than enough room to move it and still keep the integrity of the hole.
Aside from hole 12, I liked the course design and the use of the natural terrain in making shorter holes challenging.

Overall I gave the course a rating of 3.0, but would quickly change that to a 3.5 if Hole 12 were slightly redesigned. The course is fun, well maintained and a nice place to play an enjoyable round of disc golf.

+ Wide and long tee pads are of solid concrete.
+ Where it matters, the OB areas are visibly distinct from fairways.
+ Bright blue 'next' arrows attached to baskets.
+ Tee signs are clear and simple with all the right info.
+ A lost disc box is right next to a sturdy and prominent course map and notice board, but...

- ...There is no practice basket. Basket18 easily pulls this double duty, though. Just be mindful of players already on the course.
- The course feels a bit compact at certain areas. Holes7 through 11 pack players in like sardines. This would be troublesome during busy days and/or tournaments.
- Holes12 and 13 are kind of dangerous with tripping hazards and noticeably steep walks.

I liked looking at hole15 the most because the tree pepper combined with its valley shape made me imagine it to be some kind of hidden meeting spot for a secret society of disc golfers. I really didn't like hole18 for no other reason than it is so close to a road, even if it is just the seldom-traveled park road. I enjoyed playing hole8 the most because of its downslope, right dogleg and sneakily placed trees and branches. It was a nice disc golf puzzle.

As for the course as a whole, REZ PRK has a nice cross sampling of what most disc golf courses offer. The player gets their fill of longer wide open holes with minimum elevation changes in the first third of the course. The tree cover increases along with the elevation until they reach their maximum level at holes12 and 13. After that, the course takes on a park-style profile for the final third.

I will say that it takes its time to warm up, though. After a dozen or so throws in wide-open fields, the player might get a false sense of how the rest of the course will play. Thankfully, trees come into play in a more meaninful way by hole7. I wish that they'd have shown up sooner, but then again I am on the record as being biased in favor of wooded courses.

But once those trees do join the party, it's a more enjoyable time- especially when elevation tags along. When those two factors work together, they try and give the course a sense of variation and challenge. Also, the course is lucky enough to be perched right above the Schuylkill River. Some nice views of it can be had from holes4, 12 and 13.

All said, REZ PRK has a peaceful presentation of pleasure, peril, pressure and pastures proficiently packaged in a pretty parcel of public park property. It didn't blow my socks off, but I could see myself being a regular here if I lived closer. Recommended.

REZ PRK or Reservoir Park definitely has enough edge for it to earn its shortened name. It's an 18er where the short hole lengths on paper trick you about any actual ease of the course.

From the main park on FIllmore Street, you drive into a NO OUTLET Franklin Avenue that looks rather sketchy with overgrown chainlink fence and lots of No Dumping signs. Past that first row of park is the end lot in sight of a Pavilion and a Community Garden, that cheers the whole place right up, near the first tee.

The beginning holes don't seem too promising. By tee#2 -- an open long distance hole with lots of signs about the Mando left of the big bush to avoid neighboring properties -- I was wondering if this place was yet another tacked-on course, an afterthought crammed onto some spare park field. The kind you see behind some highschool fields or the like, maybe with a singular tree desperately trying to spruce up a boring course.

It does gets a bit interesting at #4, open with a ender in forest, with the basket in front of a steep cliff. #5 starts giving rhfh some gravy to work with, a big rightward bend, after an amount of dead straight shooting.

Then #6 starts dishing out the meat and potatoes of the game and the course never really relents until the end. It's a long distance uphill to a ridge with a small gap on the most straightforward route, going back down with a smattering of small trees. The basket is on the right on a slope.

What follows a number of short, oft-tight technicals in or bordering forest, that carries risk if you don't make lines too well. Interspersed are several more longer-distance holes, notably #14 and bookends #17/18.

If a comparison needs to be made, perhaps the type of course the old 9er, New Hanover Community Park DG, about half an hour away towards Boyertown, was yearning to become years ago. Ultimately it just didn't get the land for it, here it did although it's tight. There's also obviously involvement by a heavily vested community.

In the summer, I was cursing out this place. Scouring for color circles in rough for the third time in a series of incline shots. Battling wineberry pickers over captured plastic. My ankles resigning in protest over heavily sloped #13. It's not ball golf style disc golf amongst grassy meadows and lounging with Palmer's iced tea, that's for sure. But I couldn't bring myself to hate it because the potential was plainly there, it was just too much existing thorns and weeds to be enjoyable during the warm months.

November rolled around, mother nature cleared out a bit, and this novelty course is becoming a regular goto like Boyertown, Kenilworth, Upper Salford for me. Solid.

+Tees excellent, Signs superb quality although some distances seem to be shorter than actual, double chained Discatchers, navigation quite easy.

+#6 and bowl-shaped #15 were my favorites

This is one of those courses that really isn't for everyone and for all seasons. Despite it practically being in my backyard, I don't see playing it in the summers like Kenilworth, Boyertown or Upper Salford. Maybe I'm wrong, they certainly stuck a lot of work into it the last half-year.

First time I went, on a Thursday afternoon, hot and muggy as hell in July, expecting a dead course but instead it was PACKED with player groups. Since many visits, never seen it dead. Expect other players.

In the summer, you're gonna spend a lot of time searching in rough. If the discs are green or dark, even better! Search and rescue when DG alone gets dull. That's what a lot of players I passed were doing. I only threw my brightest and still played battleship with the underbrush many times. Neon Orange leopard in weeds D7! No? They can glide pretty far on these downhills.

The course plays into itself and bottlenecks in spots. #7, 8 & 18, there is about 160' width the place is hosting three fairways at once. Or #9/10/11 triplet down/up/down fairways birthed together.

#12/13 are in forest, downhill, and extremely tight. And there's thorned wineberry brush throughout on many holes. If you're someone that doesn't have good disc control, particularly premature release or griplock, I'd advise to stay far away after #7. Stick to the area's more forgiving courses. This just ain't one of them. It'll eat your discs in the summer and ask for thirds with a smile.

#13 is treacherous walking. Steep downhill front-to-back with a left-to-right decline to boot. Stick to the middle downhill path until you get to your disc and then go up or down as needed. This is the most treacherous hole and dry leaves or after rain can make it extra slippery.

If you want to skip #13, and I wouldn't blame you some days, at #12's basket walk up towards the fence and then go alongside paralell the river, it will eventually deposit you by #14's tee.

Out of XXXXX:

Terrain: XXXx - Good. Varied elevation and scenery, never bores but could have used more room in spots.
Execution: XXXX - Excellent. They made about the best DGC possible on this tract of land. Nice touches like a Youtube tour video just tells you the locals care about their DG.
Upkeep: XXXX - Excellent. New but every few times I'm here, I see improvements like fallen timber strategically used as backstops behind certain baskets.
Difficulty: XXX - Intermediate. Good aim is rewarded, bad aim punished. However, distances are mostly par 3.
Fun Factor: XXXx - Very good. Excellent in winter. Less so in summer.
Crowd: XX - Busy. Never seen this place empty and often full with multiple groups in sight at once.

#1-6 loop back to Pavilion/parking lot. #7-10 are back and forths but basically stay in place. #11-18 is it's own seperate loop into forest and come to the pavilion.

NOTE: #1&2 precaution about throwing into neighbor's backyards. Observe mandos. This apparently has been a problem for the course.

#1 Within tree grove, a slight downhill to open basket, straight on.

#2 Long fielder with mando left of bush in middle of fairway.

#3 Slight Downhill with large bush/tree guarding basket.

#4 Shot over open field with basket just in forest. Seems to have cliff behind it so don't overshoot.

#5 is an anhyzer bend and the first hole where bad shots are punished by thick, thorny forest on the right side and expect more of the same until the very last holes.

#6 is where things get more interesting, neighboring #2 fairway, it's a long incline to a ridge guarded by treeline with gaps. Then it's downhill and right the last quarter to the basket.

#7 is fairly straight on except for all the branches and elevated basket (nice design with the wood btw) and #8 is a backtrack to tee on the edge of forest line, throwing under a tree's umbrella and its many branches, for an anhyzer downill line where the entire fairway including basket straddles rough. Here is the hint of ridiculous that's coming on, it's not gonna get better.

#9/10/11 are where my knees started hating this place. Short downhill/uphill/downhill on a slope, side by side, where the rough is fully invited to play along and the fairway is more like narrow walking paths until the circle. #9 anhyzers at end. #10 up has a tree guard and is hung by chains. #11 is straight on with a forest tunnel starting a bit after halfway through.

#12 Goes deeper into forest. It's a shorter shot but with a myriad of trees, slight downward incline, and extreme brush on both sides, it's not a shot to miss. Short but narrow.

#13 More extreme downhill entire way, with the left-to-right downhill being hard on the ankles. Shooting from open to forest with plenty of underbrush to lose discs and plenty of trees to swat them down. Narrow, again.

#14 Long 400ft tunnel shot slightly upwards, felt more like a small bulge. Decent width fairway with obstacles.

#15 Claims it's only 167ft but felt longer. A great bowl shot with a valley in the middle and plenty of obstacles.

#16 Long Tunnel shot back into open near basket.

#17 Slight uphill in open.

#18 Long shot near street back to pavilion.