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I thought that there was one at River City with even more placements. Missed it on my first pass through.
I thought that there was one at River City with even more placements. Missed it on my first pass through.
.One tee + 18 baskets and you have a course, no?
I'm a little confused by some of the reasoning behind the "course isn't set up the same as last time"/repeat challenge angle and its latest iteration "I saw this awesome layout on Youtube and want to play it." Unless I'm missing something, if you like pin position C because it's the one you played last time, you can still play it even if the basket has been moved to position D. It's not like there are armed thugs preventing you from chasing C's green if that's what you want to do. Courses don't stop maintaining a pin location or otherwise make it unplayable.
If you care enough about your game to want the barometer of improvement that comes from repeat plays on the same layout, you're likely honest enough with yourself to know if you have a makeable putt on the C position after your approach shot. Hell, if you're super anal, step that **** off from the C pin position and go putt on the basket at D. If that approach is untenable, play the placement currently in rotation AND PLAY YOUR FAVORITE! This isn't rocket surgery.
My course has 2 basket locations for each hole which get switched out every 5-6 weeks. A few prominent signs indicate if the baskets are in the red or blue position. I tried red and blue bolts to indicate pin locations and found this method was a lot better.
For about ½ the holes red is more difficult and for ½ the holes blue is more difficult. (I'm not a fan of courses that go from all short positions, to all long.)
The total length difference over 27 holes is less than 100 feet.
I think it's quite a stretch to say Goliath is "Beast played backward."Someone suggested all courses should get played both directions. Mason County in western Michigan has this setup with Beast and Goliath. Shared fairways played in opposite directions. I've never played Goliath, so I can't really comment on how well this works in practice. I don't think Beast suffered for it as far as I could tell.
I think it's quite a stretch to say Goliath is "Beast played backward."
Beast and Goliath each have 24 holes. 18 baskets are shared (purplish arrows), and each of them have six holes that are completely independent of the 18 shared baskets (yellow arrows and blue arrows).
Of the 18 shared baskets, some share part of the fairway the other course plays on.. sometimes in the opposite direction, but more typically from such a different angle that the two holes make use of different fairways.
River City features an almost embarrassing number of pin placements on some holes.
Let me preface by saying I live on the other side of the state, and don't get out there often enough to say how big an issue that really is.so how isnt there any injuries or people hitting each other
Let me preface by saying I live on the other side of the state, and don't get out there often enough to say how big an issue that really is.
But from the times I've been, neither course ever seems to be very busy, which cuts down on that possibility tremendously. I don't think a couple of foursomes playing Beast with a couple of foursomes playing Goliath at the same time would really cause each other too much trouble. But I could see it being trouble if you had a dozen or so players on each course in groups of 2-3 per card playing at the same time.
They use these courses for the MI State Championships every year, and can't imagine they allow different pools/divisions to play both courses at the same time... that would be a problem waiting to happen.
I really need to play those Mason county courses. It doesn't help that they seem to get brought up pretty often on here. I've had them wishlisted for years now. MI has some pretty sweet disc golf from the little bit I've played.