Dalhart, TX

Rita Blanca DGC

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Pizza God
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Experience: 36 years 1678 played 553 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Descent but not great 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Feb 27, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

Good tee signs on every hole
Good cement tee boxes (although I think they made them backwards)
Good use of what is available.

Cons:

Several longer boring holes with a few good ones in between

Other Thoughts:

I had this vision in my head of a big flat park with no trees and a disc golf course full of long open holes.

Well I was sort of right.

Print out a map before you get here, you might need it to find some of the holes.

Specially when you get to hole 8. I found 2 hole 8's. Apparently there is an alternate 8 over the canyon, and then an alternate 9 that throws down into the canyon and to the right (with a clowns mouth mando marked with a yellow rope)

I do recommend playing these holes over the regular 8 and 9. They are the only holes that are not on the flat area of the park.

To be honest, I don't have much to say about this course.

Would I play here again?

Not going to drive out of the way to play here again. Maybe if I was in town and wanted to play, the next nearest course is an hour away, and to be honest, that course (Johnson park) is the best course in the panhandle.
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Itstchalk
Experience: 4 played 4 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Pretty fun little course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 2, 2016 Played the course:once

Pros:

•Concrete tee pads
•Great signage
•Great Baskets
•Easy to follow
•Well kept park
•Decent Verity of shots
•Lots of trash cans
•Plenty Parking
•Friendly Locals

Cons:

•Very windy
•Tons of stickers
•Descriptions on where hole one starts

Other Thoughts:

I think all around this was a very fun course. A few friends and myself played this course on our way from Dallas to Idaho. After finding where to park it went smoothly. For its location the designer used all natural resources available to make it challenging... But not so much to where its a beat down. The course playes through a city park and close to a small lake which make for a couple nice views. Tee pads were large and at no time did I feel a need for more space. and the signs were pretty accurate and descriptive. Although we didn't play the alternate holes they looks like a lot of due to throwing across a small canyon. All in all a good mix of technical shots and a couple in the 400's-500's to stretch it out a little. If I ever pass through I will defiantly play again. Shout out to a local player named Cody, check on us to see how we liked the course!
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txdive88
Experience: 11.9 years 31 played 3 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Better than expected 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Feb 21, 2016 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

New concrete teepads, well kept grassy fairways, a good use of available trees, and an easy course to navigate on my first time through.

Each concrete teepad has a nice tee sign, with pretty accurate distances.
Two extra holes on the course are 8A and 9A, that are substitute holes for 8 and 9. The regular 8 and 9 are consistent with the rest of the course, but the 2 alternate holes are a nice, challenging addition. 8A is maybe 300 feet, but it carries almost the entire length over a tree filled valley. Very cool shot, and requires anything but a typical RHBH hyzer. 9A requires a short, downhill placement shot, to set yourself up for a nice tunnel shot through the trees.

Cons:

This isn't an extremely long, or challenging course. Most holes are reachable for better players, if you can hit the required lines with accurate finishes.

The Texas Panhandle is notoriously a very windy region, and Dalhart is no exception. Be prepared to make major wind adjustments, or see your discs behave extremely different than you expect them to.

Other Thoughts:

I learned a long time ago, that when I am passing through an area, and am only going to play a course once on the way through, the highest rated, most difficult courses aren't necessarily the most enjoyable. You can spend half your time trying to find the basket on each hole, the next teepad, and your discs that inevitably go the wrong way.

This is a course that you will be able to play blind, and will get to enjoy your very first round, and any other rounds that follow. You can step up on the first concrete teepad, and quickly identify the correct basket, and the kind of throw needed to reach it. Then, the following teepad is also very easy to find, and on and on throughout all 18 holes.
You'll finish the round most likely with all of your discs, and much less frustrated than if you tried playing a championship level course without any guidance.

Rita Blanca is probably not worth a long drive out of your way to play a casual round, but if you're passing through the area, or you see an upcoming tournament, you can plan to play here, and expect to enjoy yourself.
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markmcc
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Experience: 11.9 years 278 played 254 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Very Nice 18 Holes (with more on the way). 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 4, 2014 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

What a surprise to find this well-designed, well-maintained 18 hole course in the small down of Dalhart, Texas.

The course is located in the multi-use Lake Rita Blanca Park. Though the course is flat and mostly open, the course design has made good use of what vegetation there is.

Hole lengths vary from 252' to 515', so there is good opportunity to work on your drives. The real challenge out here comes from the near-constant wind. One drive will be into a 20 mph headwind, and the next will have the same wind at your back.

They have just added two new holes, marked 8A and 9A. The "A" is for adventure, as these holes utilize a small canyon that runs alongside the course to create a pair of truly memorable holes.

8A requires a drive across the width of the canyon, which I would estimate at about 300'. Access down into the canyon is rough but doable, so if you miss on the drive you've still got a (difficult) upshot. 9A was still under construction when I was there, but it sounds like the basket will be down in the canyon itself, around a bend from the tee. It is great to see ongoing efforts to add interest to the course.

Each tee has an excellent trapazoidal concrete teepad. They are a bit unusual in that the wider end of the pad is toward the basket, but they work well. There is a clear sign at each pad giving hole number, distance, and an accurate map of the basket position, tree locations, etc.

Navigation throughout the course was pretty simple. I printed a map but once I located the first tee I didn't need to refer to it for subsequent holes.

Cons:

Not a great deal of variety. Most of the holes are pretty open, so there is not a lot of line-shaping required on your drive. But to be fair they didn't have a lot of elevation or vegetation to work with.

Most of the teepads are built up several inches above the surrounding ground. There is some fresh dirt piled up around the edge, but if you use a big run-up that starts off of the pad, you won't like the abrupt elevation change.

Other Thoughts:

This was the sixth course I played on my West Texas/Panhandle trip, and it was the best. With the addition of the new "Adventure Holes" the course will be even better.

If the wind stops blowing this will be a much easier course, but it seems like the wind always blows in the panhandle.

This is a multi-use park, and there are picnic tables scattered within the course. I would imagine that some holes could be unplayable if the park is busy.
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giles
Bronze level trusted reviewer
Experience: 27.3 years 225 played 19 reviews
3.00 star(s)

A Pleasant Surprise 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 26, 2012 Played the course:once

Pros:

This course had great tee signs and baskets with the dirt tee pads in good condition. Navigation was easy with a natural flow from basket to tee without too much extra walking. The park contained a nice playground for kids and is conducive to using a jogging stroller for your child or discs (aka cart friendly). They appear to water most of the grass in the park and have irrigation for the trees where they don't have sprinkler for the grass, giving you a pleasant and healthy ground covering on a majority of the course and promising sustained healthy trees. Hole distances varied greatly from hole to hole ranging from 250' to 500' uphill giving you some variety in distance where it lacked in shot type (hyzer vs. anhyzer) variate. Some holes actually forced a flex (or "S") shot which I don't typically throw and can't think of many holes on other courses that force that shot.

Cons:

Despite the variety in hole length most (though not all) holes were reachable with a hyzer, some where you had a large gap to hit but many that you simply had to go around the trees with little repercussion for taking it too wide. No OB was marked on the tee signs and several of the fairways had pylons with a wire threw them (to keep vehicles off the grass) that I played as an OB line to tighten up the course. Tee signs also didn't hint at the huge drop-off on holes 7&8, you do not want to be off to the right on those holes.

Other Thoughts:

I played this course to break up the drive between Amarillo and Pagosa Springs, CO. This rout was 1 hour longer but allowed me to stop at 3 courses along the way breaking the drive into roughly 3 hour sections. This was key for traveling with our toddler son and small dog who were able to walk most of this course with little aid. We had no info on this course (I uploaded pics, distances and this first review) so we were extremely pleased to find it to be such a nice and fun course.

I've rated it a 3.0 "Good" course but you probably be cussing me if you go out of your way to play this course. It is a typical park course with no unique holes or features to make it worth seeking out.
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