I try not to let it influence my rating but the difference between a beautiful summer evening and a crappy, windy, rainy day makes all the difference to me.
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I was actually a bit disappointed by Beaver Ranch. I was expecting something more, for some reason. I enjoyed a couple of the courses I played in BC more.
We're going back out there in September to play the whole area, though...we'll see if my thoughts are the same.
Expectations are another thing. Most of us try to be as objective as possible, but we're still human. It's hard not to be influenced by your expectations (one way or another) after reading a few reviews, or even how far you've travelled to get to a course... or how exclusive it might be.
You might even be influenced by the people you're playing with. If you're really enjoying their company and having a great time, you're already in a good mood... and vice-versa. I'm not saying it makes a huge difference, but I can see it swaying things for a course you think is borderline between two ratings.
All of this is why # of reviews is very important. Volume/large sample size is the great equalizer.
I have played the Selah and Trey Ranch disc golf courses twice now with one year between each visit. After my first visit i had Selah Ranch as being superior in the rating I had made up in my head. But a year later last thanksgiving was my second visit and i have come away thinking the course I liked least, Trey Twist, has now become my favorite.
Rating a top 10 course cannot be done by first impressions I believe. Rating a disc golf course seems to be almost as confusing as trying to master the game of disc golf itself... "I got a pretzel in my head".
Agree 100%.
I try not to let it influence my rating but the difference between a beautiful summer evening and a crappy, windy, rainy day makes all the difference to me.
but if par 4 and par 5 holes aren't present on a course, that feels like more missing to me than not having concrete tees, nice signs, or maybe even 18 holes.
I'll take Bailey over Beaver. Over Bucksnort and Phantom too, but those kinda go into a different category
I LOVE BAILEY!!!
I have played the Selah and Trey Ranch disc golf courses twice now with one year between each visit. After my first visit i had Selah Ranch as being superior in the rating I had made up in my head. But a year later last thanksgiving was my second visit and i have come away thinking the course I liked least, Trey Twist, has now become my favorite.
Rating a top 10 course cannot be done by first impressions I believe. Rating a disc golf course seems to be almost as confusing as trying to master the game of disc golf itself... "I got a pretzel in my head".
I've also noticed that my personal course rating's bar has creep up over time. The first course I ever reviewed started out at a 4.0 but within months I lowered it to a 3.5. When I played it this last summer I dropped it to a 2.5.
As for courses without multi-play holes, I'd agree, its just not the same to me. Currently my highest rated par 54 is at 3.838 - Cliff Stevens. Every course in my current top 10 has several par 4s and most have a par 5. That stated, I'm fairly certain that if I ever had the opportunity to play an all par 3 course like Bucksnort, I'd rate it at least a 4.5. That one just looks so awesome, in so many other ways.
We have a site in Australia to review courses too and it allows only whole numbers out of 5. So creating differentiation is so hard.
Any top notch 18 I have to give a 5,and no 9s deserve a 4 even, so left giving them a 3, despite some being way better then others.
I have played the Selah and Trey Ranch disc golf courses twice now with one year between each visit. After my first visit i had Selah Ranch as being superior in the rating I had made up in my head. But a year later last thanksgiving was my second visit and i have come away thinking the course I liked least, Trey Twist, has now become my favorite.
There is no Trey Twist!!! hahahaha! There's Trey Deuce and Texas Twist.
My group had a bad experience at the Trey Ranch. The Deuce course was swamped, so we walked off after 3 holes. Twist was navigable, but not overly enjoyable. Relevant to the recent discussions here, 55 degrees and windy and swampy made me not like those courses much. If it was dry and 70 and sunny, I bet I'd rate them a lot higher. But I don't see us ever passing up Lakeside and Creekside to give the Trey courses another shot.
In another thread, someone hinted about zoning issues, and the website indicates a complaint felled it. Reading between the lines, sounds like neighbor problems---and perhaps something that can eventually be worked out.
So it might have been too much revenue. Baskets might not have been a zoning issue; being a business might have been. Just speculation on my part, of course.
Sounds eerily similar to the demise of the original Bracketts Bluff.
If this doesn't get remedied, looks like there'll be an open spot in the Top 10:
http://bucksnort.healthtrains.net/