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PizzaGod Disc Golf days
- Thread starter Pizza God
- Start date
- Joined
- Oct 21, 2009
- Messages
- 876
1085 miles
36 hours
9 courses
137 holes
1 newspaper interview
Up to 1802 courses played
45 of those in Mississippi
Played
Robertson Park (18) – Collins
Okatoma KOA (9) – Lux
Carterville Baptist (18) – Petal
Paul B Johnson SP – Kit Fox (12) – Hattiesburg
Paul B Johnson SP – Artic Fox (18) – Hattiesburg
Paul B Johnson SP – Desert Fox (18) – Hattiesburg
Cheona Trails (18) – Wiggins
Ashe Lake (18) – Brooklyn
Ashe Lake Rec (8) – Brooklyn
Bit more than I can chew.
Got away from the store just before 10pm and made it all the way to Collins MS. When I pulled up to the park at 5am, I recognized it. I looked it up and saw that it had been redesigned from 9 to 18 holes. So I took a nap till the sun came up and played a round.
Robertson Park is a park style course with lots of large tree's. It does have a little elevation. And it has a couple of dangerous water holes. Yep, hole 17's basket is on a very then peninsula. I not only threw a junk driver into the water with a drive that would have been inside of circle one. But I missed my putt with my backup putter and it landed on the edge of the shore and slid into the water to never be seen again. This course is an improvement from the old course. A couple of the holes are the same.
Just down the road a little was the KOA campground, Okatoma. The office wasn't open yet, but I found a guy on a golf cart who talked about him and his brother building the course for fun. Got permission to play it and played a quick round. It's 3 baskets with 9 rubber tee pads and small signs for each hole. Nothing special and you would think with all the ponds and wood around, they could have built a better course. But it's better than nothing and does force you to throw different shots.
Next up I headed to the east side of Hattiesburg to play Carterville Baptist course. This one had 8 baskets and 18 tee's. You really need to use UDisc map because not all the tee's were marked and a few were hard to figure out. With that said, hole 18 was messed up on UDisc, but it was marked with a tee sign so I played it right. The course did have a couple of wooded holes and a couple that you had to throw kind of hard. But most of the course was pitch and putt though tree's and around some playground equipment.
Needed 3 more courses to get to the goal, Paul B Johnson State Park has 3 courses and it fit the bill. I started on what I thought was a "family friendly" 9 hole course. Well I then noticed DGCR had it listed as 10, UDisc had it listed as 11 and when I pulled up the score card, it said 12. It does could a few bucks to play, they offered me a map to the two other courses, but this new one they didn't have yet. I walked around and found all 12 holes and played them. Later that day I talked with Bo Kirk who told me he was about to give them 2 more baskets to put out there. Holes 1 and 2 are below the dam and wide open shots. Then you have 2 little shots between the maintenance building and the entrance. Then 8 more holes in a nicely mowed area all the way over to the park entrance at the highway. Only one hole is "long" That was hole 7 that throws though some tall trees, one with a mando, then off to the left with the basket down behind some rough. There is a newer hole after this on the way to the hole marked hole 8. The last hole is near the park entrance. The tee's are marked, just no hole numbers. There were at least 4 different type of baskets.
Across the dam and spillway was the next course Artic Fox. This one is mostly a park style course with mostly open holes throwing around tree's with elevation coming into play on several holes. Course flow was pretty good except for a hole that threw towards the spillway, you then had to walk back to throw the other direction. The course does make two loops with 9 holes each and the restrooms were open. A couple of holes were cut into a wooded area.
When you come out of the woods on hole 4 and throw hole 5, you can see the turn for Desert Fox. You could play all 36 of these holes and one long course. There is a championship layout that uses both courses but I didn't try to look at it. Desert Fox is the oldest course in the park. It's actually more open that Artic Fox but has some decent holes. Most memorable is hole 3 that throws across part of the lake to a peninsula that is a scary shot even though it's only 200 ft. I parked this one, but hole 10 along the road has a little creek that was maybe 3 foot wide that ate one of my bottom stamped wraiths. Hole 11 to 18 were all mostly open with a few longer holes. You could tell they have lost several very large tree's in the park.
Next up was course #1800, I sent a message to Bo Kirk telling him I was going to be in his neck of the woods and was going to play a top 5 UDisc rated course "Eagle's Nest". However, he told me I should make his new course in Wiggins course #1800 and he would not install the last baskets in until I showed up so I would be the very first person to play the full 18 hole course with baskets. Bo built a beast. Most of the course is carved out of the woods and you could tell he learned a lot from John Houck on how to build a disc golf hole. The course was only started 3 months ago and the fairways are still very rough and the rough is thick. He does have Blue, White and Red tee's marked on the course. I was pretty tired at this point and elected to play the White layout. Bo also had a reporter from the local play show up and do a quick interview of me and took some pictures as I played the first few holes. All I can say about this course is that it will eventually be one of the top 5 courses in the state. Well designed with decent holes. Of course the baskets are orange, the Orange Man designed the course. But he did a great job of making you use every shot in your bag. Disc placement is important on several holes to score well. And as I found out on hole 7, don't get off the fairway, it's rough.
Finished my round, for some dumb reason I headed to the next course. I was hurting trying to finish that one as it was. I was SO glad that Ashe Lake course was mostly flat. I played the "main" course and elected to not play the long tee's on the holes that had them. This course is really pretty. Green grass on most of the fairways with large tree's and deep rough lining the fairways. It's not a super long course, you just need to keep it on the fairway.
After I finished that round, there was an old 9 hole rec course across the little lake. I could see the baskets and what looked like tee signs so I figured I was in the area, might as well play it. I found a kiosk with map and description of what the course was. It had holes with different levels of play. Hole 1 to 4 had a sidewalk for wheel chairs. Holes 5 to 7 were next to the lake with grass. Then Tier 3 holes 8 and 9 were on the side of a hill. However I was unable to find hole 9. I did find the tee sign for 8 and after throwing up the hill, managed to find the basket almost overgrown on the side of a hill. I only carried a Classic Roc with me, was playing with 2 of the new ones I picked up from Innova a few weeks ago. 2 of the baskets still had the bell on top for the blind. One of them still could be rang.
It was getting dark at this point, there is a high school course close by but I didn't really feel like it nor was there enough day light. I had a 525 mile drive to go. I made it to Hattiesburg to get gas. Then managed to make it to Vicksburg and stopped to get a bite to eat. I was going to try to stop every hour, but when I pulled over near Monroe LA, I almost instantly fell asleep. Woke up in 2 hours, fell asleep again for another 2 hours. At his point it had me getting home at 8am in rush hour traffic. I did manage to get to Marshall TX before I had to pull over and take another nap. 2 hours later the sun woke me up and I drove the rest of the way home getting home at 10am.
Favorite Course of the day – Artic Fox has to be my favorite. The course really fit my game and I scored well and enjoyed throwing most of the holes.
Best course of the day – No question here, what Bo is building in Wiggins is a monster of a course worthy of a top tier pro tournament. I didn't keep score, but I know I didn't shoot under par.
Worst course of the day – I hate bashing private church courses, but the little course at Carterville Baptist should have just been a little 9 hole course instead of trying to make it 18 throwing back and forth. It would be hard to have more than just one group playing this course. You also have a hodge podge of different baskets from cheap Amazon to old Innova Discatchers.
2024/05/02 Hattiesburg
36 hours
9 courses
137 holes
1 newspaper interview
Up to 1802 courses played
45 of those in Mississippi
Played
Robertson Park (18) – Collins
Okatoma KOA (9) – Lux
Carterville Baptist (18) – Petal
Paul B Johnson SP – Kit Fox (12) – Hattiesburg
Paul B Johnson SP – Artic Fox (18) – Hattiesburg
Paul B Johnson SP – Desert Fox (18) – Hattiesburg
Cheona Trails (18) – Wiggins
Ashe Lake (18) – Brooklyn
Ashe Lake Rec (8) – Brooklyn
Bit more than I can chew.
Got away from the store just before 10pm and made it all the way to Collins MS. When I pulled up to the park at 5am, I recognized it. I looked it up and saw that it had been redesigned from 9 to 18 holes. So I took a nap till the sun came up and played a round.
Robertson Park is a park style course with lots of large tree's. It does have a little elevation. And it has a couple of dangerous water holes. Yep, hole 17's basket is on a very then peninsula. I not only threw a junk driver into the water with a drive that would have been inside of circle one. But I missed my putt with my backup putter and it landed on the edge of the shore and slid into the water to never be seen again. This course is an improvement from the old course. A couple of the holes are the same.
Just down the road a little was the KOA campground, Okatoma. The office wasn't open yet, but I found a guy on a golf cart who talked about him and his brother building the course for fun. Got permission to play it and played a quick round. It's 3 baskets with 9 rubber tee pads and small signs for each hole. Nothing special and you would think with all the ponds and wood around, they could have built a better course. But it's better than nothing and does force you to throw different shots.
Next up I headed to the east side of Hattiesburg to play Carterville Baptist course. This one had 8 baskets and 18 tee's. You really need to use UDisc map because not all the tee's were marked and a few were hard to figure out. With that said, hole 18 was messed up on UDisc, but it was marked with a tee sign so I played it right. The course did have a couple of wooded holes and a couple that you had to throw kind of hard. But most of the course was pitch and putt though tree's and around some playground equipment.
Needed 3 more courses to get to the goal, Paul B Johnson State Park has 3 courses and it fit the bill. I started on what I thought was a "family friendly" 9 hole course. Well I then noticed DGCR had it listed as 10, UDisc had it listed as 11 and when I pulled up the score card, it said 12. It does could a few bucks to play, they offered me a map to the two other courses, but this new one they didn't have yet. I walked around and found all 12 holes and played them. Later that day I talked with Bo Kirk who told me he was about to give them 2 more baskets to put out there. Holes 1 and 2 are below the dam and wide open shots. Then you have 2 little shots between the maintenance building and the entrance. Then 8 more holes in a nicely mowed area all the way over to the park entrance at the highway. Only one hole is "long" That was hole 7 that throws though some tall trees, one with a mando, then off to the left with the basket down behind some rough. There is a newer hole after this on the way to the hole marked hole 8. The last hole is near the park entrance. The tee's are marked, just no hole numbers. There were at least 4 different type of baskets.
Across the dam and spillway was the next course Artic Fox. This one is mostly a park style course with mostly open holes throwing around tree's with elevation coming into play on several holes. Course flow was pretty good except for a hole that threw towards the spillway, you then had to walk back to throw the other direction. The course does make two loops with 9 holes each and the restrooms were open. A couple of holes were cut into a wooded area.
When you come out of the woods on hole 4 and throw hole 5, you can see the turn for Desert Fox. You could play all 36 of these holes and one long course. There is a championship layout that uses both courses but I didn't try to look at it. Desert Fox is the oldest course in the park. It's actually more open that Artic Fox but has some decent holes. Most memorable is hole 3 that throws across part of the lake to a peninsula that is a scary shot even though it's only 200 ft. I parked this one, but hole 10 along the road has a little creek that was maybe 3 foot wide that ate one of my bottom stamped wraiths. Hole 11 to 18 were all mostly open with a few longer holes. You could tell they have lost several very large tree's in the park.
Next up was course #1800, I sent a message to Bo Kirk telling him I was going to be in his neck of the woods and was going to play a top 5 UDisc rated course "Eagle's Nest". However, he told me I should make his new course in Wiggins course #1800 and he would not install the last baskets in until I showed up so I would be the very first person to play the full 18 hole course with baskets. Bo built a beast. Most of the course is carved out of the woods and you could tell he learned a lot from John Houck on how to build a disc golf hole. The course was only started 3 months ago and the fairways are still very rough and the rough is thick. He does have Blue, White and Red tee's marked on the course. I was pretty tired at this point and elected to play the White layout. Bo also had a reporter from the local play show up and do a quick interview of me and took some pictures as I played the first few holes. All I can say about this course is that it will eventually be one of the top 5 courses in the state. Well designed with decent holes. Of course the baskets are orange, the Orange Man designed the course. But he did a great job of making you use every shot in your bag. Disc placement is important on several holes to score well. And as I found out on hole 7, don't get off the fairway, it's rough.
Finished my round, for some dumb reason I headed to the next course. I was hurting trying to finish that one as it was. I was SO glad that Ashe Lake course was mostly flat. I played the "main" course and elected to not play the long tee's on the holes that had them. This course is really pretty. Green grass on most of the fairways with large tree's and deep rough lining the fairways. It's not a super long course, you just need to keep it on the fairway.
After I finished that round, there was an old 9 hole rec course across the little lake. I could see the baskets and what looked like tee signs so I figured I was in the area, might as well play it. I found a kiosk with map and description of what the course was. It had holes with different levels of play. Hole 1 to 4 had a sidewalk for wheel chairs. Holes 5 to 7 were next to the lake with grass. Then Tier 3 holes 8 and 9 were on the side of a hill. However I was unable to find hole 9. I did find the tee sign for 8 and after throwing up the hill, managed to find the basket almost overgrown on the side of a hill. I only carried a Classic Roc with me, was playing with 2 of the new ones I picked up from Innova a few weeks ago. 2 of the baskets still had the bell on top for the blind. One of them still could be rang.
It was getting dark at this point, there is a high school course close by but I didn't really feel like it nor was there enough day light. I had a 525 mile drive to go. I made it to Hattiesburg to get gas. Then managed to make it to Vicksburg and stopped to get a bite to eat. I was going to try to stop every hour, but when I pulled over near Monroe LA, I almost instantly fell asleep. Woke up in 2 hours, fell asleep again for another 2 hours. At his point it had me getting home at 8am in rush hour traffic. I did manage to get to Marshall TX before I had to pull over and take another nap. 2 hours later the sun woke me up and I drove the rest of the way home getting home at 10am.
Favorite Course of the day – Artic Fox has to be my favorite. The course really fit my game and I scored well and enjoyed throwing most of the holes.
Best course of the day – No question here, what Bo is building in Wiggins is a monster of a course worthy of a top tier pro tournament. I didn't keep score, but I know I didn't shoot under par.
Worst course of the day – I hate bashing private church courses, but the little course at Carterville Baptist should have just been a little 9 hole course instead of trying to make it 18 throwing back and forth. It would be hard to have more than just one group playing this course. You also have a hodge podge of different baskets from cheap Amazon to old Innova Discatchers.
2024/05/02 Hattiesburg
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You're an animal @Pizza God
"Finished my round, for some dumb reason I headed to the next course."
Then played another one after that too.
Congrats on 1800
"Finished my round, for some dumb reason I headed to the next course."
Then played another one after that too.
Congrats on 1800
- Joined
- Oct 21, 2009
- Messages
- 876
96 miles
2 1/2 hours
1 course
9 holes
1 ACE
Up to 1803 courses played
701 of those in Texas
Played
Trenton Memorial Park (9) - Trenton
Well, I read about this course on Friday off the McKinney page. No one seemed to know anything about it other than the guy who posted asking about it. He did drive by and check it out saying it saw "posts" marking tee's.
I didn't get up early enough yesterday so I made sure if the weather was ok to take the time to drive up and check it out today.
Well, I found 8 tee markers and 7 baskets. I figured out one of the baskets actually was used for hole 6 and 8. However there was not a basket with the number 9 on it.
It's a small little pitch and putt course in a very small park. Your typical small town course.
You even throw over the parking lot, next to a ball field, off a walking trail, 6 fairway goes over 7's tee box not to mention there are some picnic tables in the fairways.
I could not find a surveyor stick (that is what marked the tee's) for hole 1. I found what I thought would make a good spot and played it from there. However I can't guarantee you that is what is the intention. It throws left to right about 200ft.
Hole 2 throws from an old walking path that looks like it has been a long time since it got used. This hole's fairway was mostly water as it did rain pretty good in the last few days. It's another 240 or so shot.
Hole 3 throws back along the road and is probably suppose to be a mando left to right, but it's not marked and I hyzered over the road to the basket about 275 between two tree's next to the park road.
Hole 4 throws across the parking area for the ball fields to a basket between two trees with a horse shoe pit to the left of the basket.
Hole 5 throws to the park entrance over some PAR equipment, it's one of the shorter holes with a low clearance.
Hole 6 is across the park road and a tree line on the fire station yard to a hanging basket that is also used for basket 8. Due to the rain, there was a very small creek under the basket.
Hole 7 throws next to hole 6's basket, actually inside of circle 1. This one follows a tree line and that small creek for about 300ft. You do have a ball field to the left and on the other side of the tree line is the fire station.
Hole 8 basically throws back but is a little shorter and more open with the ball field to your right and that row of tree's on your left.
Hole 9's tee is marked on the edge of the horse shoe pit on the cement. Based on how all the other sticks were facing, this was f acing basket #3 however it did not have a number 9 on it. There were no other baskets in that area other than hole 1 and it did not have a 9 on it either. I threw to basket 9 which is across the edge of the parking area and park road and smashed the chains for an Ace. So is it an ace or black ace, I do not know for sure. Till I find out, I am counting it.
In general, this is your typical small town course. It's not worth playing unless you are driving up 121 between Bonham and McKinney and have the time to swing by.
I always say in my reviews, would I play here again? Nope, this is a one and done course. I might drive by and take new pictures if they put in tee pads or tee signs. otherwise, I counted it, not going to play it again.
2 1/2 hours
1 course
9 holes
1 ACE
Up to 1803 courses played
701 of those in Texas
Played
Trenton Memorial Park (9) - Trenton
Well, I read about this course on Friday off the McKinney page. No one seemed to know anything about it other than the guy who posted asking about it. He did drive by and check it out saying it saw "posts" marking tee's.
I didn't get up early enough yesterday so I made sure if the weather was ok to take the time to drive up and check it out today.
Well, I found 8 tee markers and 7 baskets. I figured out one of the baskets actually was used for hole 6 and 8. However there was not a basket with the number 9 on it.
It's a small little pitch and putt course in a very small park. Your typical small town course.
You even throw over the parking lot, next to a ball field, off a walking trail, 6 fairway goes over 7's tee box not to mention there are some picnic tables in the fairways.
I could not find a surveyor stick (that is what marked the tee's) for hole 1. I found what I thought would make a good spot and played it from there. However I can't guarantee you that is what is the intention. It throws left to right about 200ft.
Hole 2 throws from an old walking path that looks like it has been a long time since it got used. This hole's fairway was mostly water as it did rain pretty good in the last few days. It's another 240 or so shot.
Hole 3 throws back along the road and is probably suppose to be a mando left to right, but it's not marked and I hyzered over the road to the basket about 275 between two tree's next to the park road.
Hole 4 throws across the parking area for the ball fields to a basket between two trees with a horse shoe pit to the left of the basket.
Hole 5 throws to the park entrance over some PAR equipment, it's one of the shorter holes with a low clearance.
Hole 6 is across the park road and a tree line on the fire station yard to a hanging basket that is also used for basket 8. Due to the rain, there was a very small creek under the basket.
Hole 7 throws next to hole 6's basket, actually inside of circle 1. This one follows a tree line and that small creek for about 300ft. You do have a ball field to the left and on the other side of the tree line is the fire station.
Hole 8 basically throws back but is a little shorter and more open with the ball field to your right and that row of tree's on your left.
Hole 9's tee is marked on the edge of the horse shoe pit on the cement. Based on how all the other sticks were facing, this was f acing basket #3 however it did not have a number 9 on it. There were no other baskets in that area other than hole 1 and it did not have a 9 on it either. I threw to basket 9 which is across the edge of the parking area and park road and smashed the chains for an Ace. So is it an ace or black ace, I do not know for sure. Till I find out, I am counting it.
In general, this is your typical small town course. It's not worth playing unless you are driving up 121 between Bonham and McKinney and have the time to swing by.
I always say in my reviews, would I play here again? Nope, this is a one and done course. I might drive by and take new pictures if they put in tee pads or tee signs. otherwise, I counted it, not going to play it again.
- Joined
- Oct 21, 2009
- Messages
- 876
865 Miles
26 Hours
9 courses
90 holes
1 strike out
1 lost disc
Up to 1813 courses played
338 of those in Kansas
Played
Clapp Park - East (18) – Wichita
Knockwood (18) – Augusta
Flying Bee Country Club (18) – Valley Center
Alley Park (9) – Bel Aire
Newman University (9) – Wichita
Central Community Church (9) – Wichita
Conway Springs (9) – Conway Springs
The Cardinal (9) – Sharon
Bulldog Meadows (9) – Attica
Well, got away from the store at 11:30 and drove to Wichita KS. I had planned on playing Knockwood first, but when I got close and typed it into google maps, it told me they didn't open till 8am. Well I am flexible, so I just parked at Discount Tire and took a nap till the sun came up.
Started the morning at Clapp. I played the first Championship layout "Blacks" a couple of years ago. They redesigned it into 2 18 hole courses. I elected to play the East this time around. I will hit West some other day. The ground was wet but there was no wind and it was 60 degrees. This is a former ball golf course turned into a park. The course design uses some of the old cart paths as OB lines and uses the large tree's well. As is usual for a ball golf course, you do have some long holes. On top of that, most of the baskets were in the longest position. I did lose my hard aviar putter I just hit an ace with a few weeks ago in the small, but very full of water creek going through the course.
I had to swing by the Air Force base nearby to see if I could get a pass. I was denied because I am not former military. I will need to find a sponsor to play this newer 18 hole course on a former ball golf course another time.
So off to Knockwood that I had heard a lot of good things about. It's a city run park that the daily use fee is $10. To be honest, this course was worth it. The park manager and staff have put a lot into this course. Shoot, it had rained that night but they were still out this morning spreading mulch. As far as the course, it's not a championship level course, but it's not a pitch and putt course either. You do have a few air it out long shots, several technical shots and everything between. It's not perfect, you do have fairways too close together and some "not"fair ways with just too many tree's. But I did fully enjoy my round and several of the holes are really good.
Next up on my agenda was Flying Bee Country Club, or Bills back yard. I contacted him the night before asking if the course was available. He said he would be free after morning. So I headed that way to play a round. 5 baskets using 18 tee's. Bill said he originally designed the course in 1988. It's a good mix of low shots with different distances on home made baskets. He does get the most use out of the land he has. He has some random artwork out on the course and in his shed is several old home made baskets from different Kansas courses he has collected when they upgraded their course. The history there was pretty cool, even tone polls from the Hays KS course.
After finishing up there, time to hit several 9 hole courses. Started in Bel Aire with a little 9 hole course that were all pitch and putt holes. Very small park with dirt tee pads, a pond that can come into play and plenty of ace runs. It's not bad for a short course.
Then back into Wichita to Newman University. No tee's are marked so you have to use UDisc. The baskets are numbered. The first 6 holes are though an area between the parking area and the main road with several large trees and an open area for a couple of bombers. Then the last 3 holes all throw over or next to a couple of ponds. These are the ones that rec players are bashing online. Yes, I did throw a driver into the water on hole 9, but it was very reachable.
Then across the Arkansas River was a church course not listed on UDisc. No map, but I was able to find tee signs and baskets for all 9 holes. This little course is pretty much a wide open field game. It's not overly long, only one hole out of my range and a couple that you want to empty your bag on shooting for an ace. It's a one and done course, I can see why no one has listed it on UDisc.
Good little drive down to Conway Springs to play a small town course. Tis course is located in the sports complex going around the 4 ball fields. Other than hole one, you actually tee off from the sidewalk going around the ballfield. It's mostly a pitch and putt course that you don't want to turn your drive over into the fields.
Headed over to Sharon to play The Cardinal. Another VERY small town that wanted a disc golf course. The first 4 holes are next to the old school turned community center and are all wide open. Then you have a couple of shots next to and THROUGH the baseball field. And you finish with two holes criss crossing across the playground and basketball court. I love small town courses.
Last course of the day was Bulldog Meadows. Located behind a school next to the football field and track, this was a fun little course with a couple of heavy wooded holes, some decent holes going back and forth though some trees and then finishing with 3 holes going around the track. As far as a course for kids at a school, it's not too bad. It's a fun little track to play a quick round. It's your typical small town course.
I did make the drive home with a few stops and a very short map getting home at 1:30am, I didn't want to take a long trip this week due to driving to Austin on Saturday. This next week I will be staying home probably. Last day of School is this next Thursday and we are feeding one of the Elementary schools with a VERY large order. Then my day driver/manager wants to attend his daughters 5th grade graduation. So I will be staying in town, maybe a date night with the wife.
Favorite Course of the day – This is going to be easy, Knockwood was the most fun course I played. It does have issues and it not a top Kansas course, but it is well kempt and fun to throw.
Best Course of the day – No question here either, Clapp East was a good course with OB's, Island hole, long shots and a few good birdie opportunities. This is a decent tournament course with a pro shop on site. Too bad I was playing before they opened.
Worst Course of the day – Not a small town course this time, the Church course at Central Community Church is not worth playing. Mostly wide open pitch and putt holes. The grass does not look like it gets mowed often. Tee sign for hole 8 was laying on the ground. Not even listed on UDisc tells you something.
5/16/24 Wichita KS cleanup
26 Hours
9 courses
90 holes
1 strike out
1 lost disc
Up to 1813 courses played
338 of those in Kansas
Played
Clapp Park - East (18) – Wichita
Knockwood (18) – Augusta
Flying Bee Country Club (18) – Valley Center
Alley Park (9) – Bel Aire
Newman University (9) – Wichita
Central Community Church (9) – Wichita
Conway Springs (9) – Conway Springs
The Cardinal (9) – Sharon
Bulldog Meadows (9) – Attica
Well, got away from the store at 11:30 and drove to Wichita KS. I had planned on playing Knockwood first, but when I got close and typed it into google maps, it told me they didn't open till 8am. Well I am flexible, so I just parked at Discount Tire and took a nap till the sun came up.
Started the morning at Clapp. I played the first Championship layout "Blacks" a couple of years ago. They redesigned it into 2 18 hole courses. I elected to play the East this time around. I will hit West some other day. The ground was wet but there was no wind and it was 60 degrees. This is a former ball golf course turned into a park. The course design uses some of the old cart paths as OB lines and uses the large tree's well. As is usual for a ball golf course, you do have some long holes. On top of that, most of the baskets were in the longest position. I did lose my hard aviar putter I just hit an ace with a few weeks ago in the small, but very full of water creek going through the course.
I had to swing by the Air Force base nearby to see if I could get a pass. I was denied because I am not former military. I will need to find a sponsor to play this newer 18 hole course on a former ball golf course another time.
So off to Knockwood that I had heard a lot of good things about. It's a city run park that the daily use fee is $10. To be honest, this course was worth it. The park manager and staff have put a lot into this course. Shoot, it had rained that night but they were still out this morning spreading mulch. As far as the course, it's not a championship level course, but it's not a pitch and putt course either. You do have a few air it out long shots, several technical shots and everything between. It's not perfect, you do have fairways too close together and some "not"fair ways with just too many tree's. But I did fully enjoy my round and several of the holes are really good.
Next up on my agenda was Flying Bee Country Club, or Bills back yard. I contacted him the night before asking if the course was available. He said he would be free after morning. So I headed that way to play a round. 5 baskets using 18 tee's. Bill said he originally designed the course in 1988. It's a good mix of low shots with different distances on home made baskets. He does get the most use out of the land he has. He has some random artwork out on the course and in his shed is several old home made baskets from different Kansas courses he has collected when they upgraded their course. The history there was pretty cool, even tone polls from the Hays KS course.
After finishing up there, time to hit several 9 hole courses. Started in Bel Aire with a little 9 hole course that were all pitch and putt holes. Very small park with dirt tee pads, a pond that can come into play and plenty of ace runs. It's not bad for a short course.
Then back into Wichita to Newman University. No tee's are marked so you have to use UDisc. The baskets are numbered. The first 6 holes are though an area between the parking area and the main road with several large trees and an open area for a couple of bombers. Then the last 3 holes all throw over or next to a couple of ponds. These are the ones that rec players are bashing online. Yes, I did throw a driver into the water on hole 9, but it was very reachable.
Then across the Arkansas River was a church course not listed on UDisc. No map, but I was able to find tee signs and baskets for all 9 holes. This little course is pretty much a wide open field game. It's not overly long, only one hole out of my range and a couple that you want to empty your bag on shooting for an ace. It's a one and done course, I can see why no one has listed it on UDisc.
Good little drive down to Conway Springs to play a small town course. Tis course is located in the sports complex going around the 4 ball fields. Other than hole one, you actually tee off from the sidewalk going around the ballfield. It's mostly a pitch and putt course that you don't want to turn your drive over into the fields.
Headed over to Sharon to play The Cardinal. Another VERY small town that wanted a disc golf course. The first 4 holes are next to the old school turned community center and are all wide open. Then you have a couple of shots next to and THROUGH the baseball field. And you finish with two holes criss crossing across the playground and basketball court. I love small town courses.
Last course of the day was Bulldog Meadows. Located behind a school next to the football field and track, this was a fun little course with a couple of heavy wooded holes, some decent holes going back and forth though some trees and then finishing with 3 holes going around the track. As far as a course for kids at a school, it's not too bad. It's a fun little track to play a quick round. It's your typical small town course.
I did make the drive home with a few stops and a very short map getting home at 1:30am, I didn't want to take a long trip this week due to driving to Austin on Saturday. This next week I will be staying home probably. Last day of School is this next Thursday and we are feeding one of the Elementary schools with a VERY large order. Then my day driver/manager wants to attend his daughters 5th grade graduation. So I will be staying in town, maybe a date night with the wife.
Favorite Course of the day – This is going to be easy, Knockwood was the most fun course I played. It does have issues and it not a top Kansas course, but it is well kempt and fun to throw.
Best Course of the day – No question here either, Clapp East was a good course with OB's, Island hole, long shots and a few good birdie opportunities. This is a decent tournament course with a pro shop on site. Too bad I was playing before they opened.
Worst Course of the day – Not a small town course this time, the Church course at Central Community Church is not worth playing. Mostly wide open pitch and putt holes. The grass does not look like it gets mowed often. Tee sign for hole 8 was laying on the ground. Not even listed on UDisc tells you something.
5/16/24 Wichita KS cleanup
- Joined
- Oct 21, 2009
- Messages
- 876
1230 Miles
37 Hours
11 courses
117 holes
4 Amish Buggies
Up to 1832 courses played
105 of those in Missouri
Played
RayPac High School (9) – Peculiar
Minor-Smith/Southwood (9) – Raytown
Pioneer Trails (9) – Independence
William Jewell (9) – Liberty
Jesse James (18) – Kearney
Cameron (9) – Cameron
South Harrison Bulldogs (9) – Bethany
Princeton (9) – Princeton
Trenton (18) – Trenton
Pleasant Valley (9) – Liberty
Country View (9) – Belton
A bit more than I could chew
Got away early from the store as I had a long drive to the first course. I wanted to hit courses north side of Kansas City that I had not played yet. My original plan was to it a course in Iowa but that didn't work out as planned.
I started at a High School course in Peculiar as the sun was coming up. The course is behind the school and goes around the tennis courts and a few practice fields. Most of this course is wide open and most of the course is not marked. You have to have UDisc to find your way around.
Working my way north, I wanted to hit a few school courses as the kids are out of school. I read the description of the course in Raytown that said it was behind a school, that is actually all I read and headed that way. Turns out it was a park located behind a school. At first I was confused in that UDisc only had 5 or 4 basket layouts. Turns out this was a 9 hole course spread between two parks. I didn't realize till I had played a few holes that you had to drive to the other park to finish the course. Well, other than that being dumb, the course was interesting, but not a safe course for other park users. I also lost "Bo", my favorite Star Wraith in a small ditch with very high grass. I headed over to the other park to play the other 4 holes. Again, some good holes but it just didn't make sence to have a 9 hole course spread out like this.
Next course north of there was a school course in Independence called Pioneer Trails. This is a very new course that tee pads had recently been poured on. The tee posts were there, but no tee signs yet. 2 pin placements on every hole. This was actually a surprising little course. However, it was not built for kids, it would not be kid friendly with that rough and some very long holes. Other than twice having to search the rough for my Stryke, This was a fun course that I would not mind playing again someday.
Up to Liberty for a college campus course. William Jewell follows around some athletic fields and uses elevation and a creek lined tree well. The course did have a kiosk map and tee signs, but the tee pads were crushed granit boxed in with wood. Several tee boxes were in sad shape as the wood had come up and was a trip hazard. On top of that, hole 3's basket was in very high grass in an area they had not mowed this year. I would have thought the basket was missing if it were not for UDisc actually having it marked in the correct spot. Another course with thick rough. Lost a Roc on hole 5 and a Star Valk on hole 6. After spending way too much time looking for that DX Roc, I didn't even bother with the Valk as I threw it deep into the rough. The last few holes had spots of rough that I managed to find, at least I found those discs.
On my original agenda was Jesse James, of course I had to play this one. It's an older 18 hole course that was in very good shape for an older course. The rough wasn't too bad, but the fairways were very fair and not too narrow. Only issue with this course was the hard left and right turns on a few of the holes. The course also has a couple of boring wide open holes.
Up to Cameron to play there pitch and putt old school DGA course. I admit, I threw 2 to 4 drives on almost every hole throwing for aces as several holes were pretty easy ace runs. Abet no aces were hit.
About this time I realized that if I wanted to avoid a very long drive home, I had better skip hitting the college campus course in Iowa. So I did head up to Bethany to play another High School course. This course was wide open, throwing around the football field with home made baskets. The baskets were different than I have ever seen, the chains were light and did not catch well. On top of that, the spaces in the basket were too wide and I had a couple of putts fall out the bottom of the baskets. Being the hottest part of the day with almost no tree's, I was glad to play this one quickly. The par's for this course were also meant for rec players. I shot -9 on the course considering sign par.
Skipping Iowa, I headed over to Princeton to play there little pitch and putt course. This is my favorite kind of small town course to play. Old swimming pool and other building with the course and park on the side of a hill with large tree's. It's a fun quick play.
Down to Trenton. This 18 basket, 9 tee course with DGA signage and baskets was fun. Several of the holes were short, but there were a couple of longer holes. I did see a group I talked to with about 5 teens. 3 guys and 2 girls who were in dresses and no shoes. Considering I was in Amish country, they were probably Mennonites. They did ask my how long I had been playing, always fun telling them longer than they have been alive. The course it self is a park style course with some decent holes. It's not hard, but not exactly easy either.
I was going to head to Carrollton MO, but reaized how long of a drive to get there and how long of a drive home that would be, I headed toward KC to play a championship level 18 hole course. But after thinking about it for a while and realizing how much daylight I had left, instead of an 8+ hour drive home, I drove on back to Liberty to play Pleasant Valley Church course expecting a quick play. Well, I found a decent little 9 hole course with some great holes. This course also had several other disc golfers out playing including a guy teaching some girls how to play on the practice basket.
I wanted to get one more course in, but wanted the shortest drive home afterwards. I elected to hit a pitch and putt course on the south side of KC. Country View in Belton is a very short, wide open course. I threw several shots off several of the tee's going for the MO ace. No luck but I did have some good runs. I did finish the course shooting an 18 and right as the sun was setting. Oh, a guy with his kids were coming off the course when I pulled up, I really like seeing that. This is why courses like this are important.
The drive home took FOREVER. I did drive for an hour, picked up dinner in Fort Scott. Made it to Oklahoma before I pulled over and took my first nap. Slept for over 3 hours before I woke up and drove 2 more hours. I had to pull over to take another 2 hour nap. I tried to drive home the rest of the way but even though the sun had come up, I could not keep the car in one lane, so I pulled over again and took another hour nap before I drove the last 100 miles home. Took way to long and I got home the latest I have ever gotten home outside of hitting that deer outside of Dodge City KS. At least I got home in once piece. What funny is that I have driven in 8 states this week considering I drove home from Florida on Sunday and then to MO on Thursday.
Favorite course of the day – This is a tough one, going to go with Pleasant Valley. The use of the elevation and tree's and natural fairways really made this round enjoyable.
Best course of the day – Well, I didn't play and good tournament courses. I think, even though it's only 9 holes, the course at Pioneer Trails would be a good course to test accuracy of the pro's. They would have to hit those lines for the birdies or suffer punishment with that thick, almost impassible rough.
Worst course of the day – no question here, South Harrison Bulldog course was rough, horrible baskets, hardly any tree's. At least it was marked well enough to find my way round.
North of KC trip
37 Hours
11 courses
117 holes
4 Amish Buggies
Up to 1832 courses played
105 of those in Missouri
Played
RayPac High School (9) – Peculiar
Minor-Smith/Southwood (9) – Raytown
Pioneer Trails (9) – Independence
William Jewell (9) – Liberty
Jesse James (18) – Kearney
Cameron (9) – Cameron
South Harrison Bulldogs (9) – Bethany
Princeton (9) – Princeton
Trenton (18) – Trenton
Pleasant Valley (9) – Liberty
Country View (9) – Belton
A bit more than I could chew
Got away early from the store as I had a long drive to the first course. I wanted to hit courses north side of Kansas City that I had not played yet. My original plan was to it a course in Iowa but that didn't work out as planned.
I started at a High School course in Peculiar as the sun was coming up. The course is behind the school and goes around the tennis courts and a few practice fields. Most of this course is wide open and most of the course is not marked. You have to have UDisc to find your way around.
Working my way north, I wanted to hit a few school courses as the kids are out of school. I read the description of the course in Raytown that said it was behind a school, that is actually all I read and headed that way. Turns out it was a park located behind a school. At first I was confused in that UDisc only had 5 or 4 basket layouts. Turns out this was a 9 hole course spread between two parks. I didn't realize till I had played a few holes that you had to drive to the other park to finish the course. Well, other than that being dumb, the course was interesting, but not a safe course for other park users. I also lost "Bo", my favorite Star Wraith in a small ditch with very high grass. I headed over to the other park to play the other 4 holes. Again, some good holes but it just didn't make sence to have a 9 hole course spread out like this.
Next course north of there was a school course in Independence called Pioneer Trails. This is a very new course that tee pads had recently been poured on. The tee posts were there, but no tee signs yet. 2 pin placements on every hole. This was actually a surprising little course. However, it was not built for kids, it would not be kid friendly with that rough and some very long holes. Other than twice having to search the rough for my Stryke, This was a fun course that I would not mind playing again someday.
Up to Liberty for a college campus course. William Jewell follows around some athletic fields and uses elevation and a creek lined tree well. The course did have a kiosk map and tee signs, but the tee pads were crushed granit boxed in with wood. Several tee boxes were in sad shape as the wood had come up and was a trip hazard. On top of that, hole 3's basket was in very high grass in an area they had not mowed this year. I would have thought the basket was missing if it were not for UDisc actually having it marked in the correct spot. Another course with thick rough. Lost a Roc on hole 5 and a Star Valk on hole 6. After spending way too much time looking for that DX Roc, I didn't even bother with the Valk as I threw it deep into the rough. The last few holes had spots of rough that I managed to find, at least I found those discs.
On my original agenda was Jesse James, of course I had to play this one. It's an older 18 hole course that was in very good shape for an older course. The rough wasn't too bad, but the fairways were very fair and not too narrow. Only issue with this course was the hard left and right turns on a few of the holes. The course also has a couple of boring wide open holes.
Up to Cameron to play there pitch and putt old school DGA course. I admit, I threw 2 to 4 drives on almost every hole throwing for aces as several holes were pretty easy ace runs. Abet no aces were hit.
About this time I realized that if I wanted to avoid a very long drive home, I had better skip hitting the college campus course in Iowa. So I did head up to Bethany to play another High School course. This course was wide open, throwing around the football field with home made baskets. The baskets were different than I have ever seen, the chains were light and did not catch well. On top of that, the spaces in the basket were too wide and I had a couple of putts fall out the bottom of the baskets. Being the hottest part of the day with almost no tree's, I was glad to play this one quickly. The par's for this course were also meant for rec players. I shot -9 on the course considering sign par.
Skipping Iowa, I headed over to Princeton to play there little pitch and putt course. This is my favorite kind of small town course to play. Old swimming pool and other building with the course and park on the side of a hill with large tree's. It's a fun quick play.
Down to Trenton. This 18 basket, 9 tee course with DGA signage and baskets was fun. Several of the holes were short, but there were a couple of longer holes. I did see a group I talked to with about 5 teens. 3 guys and 2 girls who were in dresses and no shoes. Considering I was in Amish country, they were probably Mennonites. They did ask my how long I had been playing, always fun telling them longer than they have been alive. The course it self is a park style course with some decent holes. It's not hard, but not exactly easy either.
I was going to head to Carrollton MO, but reaized how long of a drive to get there and how long of a drive home that would be, I headed toward KC to play a championship level 18 hole course. But after thinking about it for a while and realizing how much daylight I had left, instead of an 8+ hour drive home, I drove on back to Liberty to play Pleasant Valley Church course expecting a quick play. Well, I found a decent little 9 hole course with some great holes. This course also had several other disc golfers out playing including a guy teaching some girls how to play on the practice basket.
I wanted to get one more course in, but wanted the shortest drive home afterwards. I elected to hit a pitch and putt course on the south side of KC. Country View in Belton is a very short, wide open course. I threw several shots off several of the tee's going for the MO ace. No luck but I did have some good runs. I did finish the course shooting an 18 and right as the sun was setting. Oh, a guy with his kids were coming off the course when I pulled up, I really like seeing that. This is why courses like this are important.
The drive home took FOREVER. I did drive for an hour, picked up dinner in Fort Scott. Made it to Oklahoma before I pulled over and took my first nap. Slept for over 3 hours before I woke up and drove 2 more hours. I had to pull over to take another 2 hour nap. I tried to drive home the rest of the way but even though the sun had come up, I could not keep the car in one lane, so I pulled over again and took another hour nap before I drove the last 100 miles home. Took way to long and I got home the latest I have ever gotten home outside of hitting that deer outside of Dodge City KS. At least I got home in once piece. What funny is that I have driven in 8 states this week considering I drove home from Florida on Sunday and then to MO on Thursday.
Favorite course of the day – This is a tough one, going to go with Pleasant Valley. The use of the elevation and tree's and natural fairways really made this round enjoyable.
Best course of the day – Well, I didn't play and good tournament courses. I think, even though it's only 9 holes, the course at Pioneer Trails would be a good course to test accuracy of the pro's. They would have to hit those lines for the birdies or suffer punishment with that thick, almost impassible rough.
Worst course of the day – no question here, South Harrison Bulldog course was rough, horrible baskets, hardly any tree's. At least it was marked well enough to find my way round.
North of KC trip
I witnessed an ace at South Harrison on one of those "baskets"
Hole 5, the slight downhill 350' throwing back toward the football stadium. Buddy threw a forehand skipper. Slammed the chains HARD. No idea how it stayed in.
Hole 5, the slight downhill 350' throwing back toward the football stadium. Buddy threw a forehand skipper. Slammed the chains HARD. No idea how it stayed in.
- Joined
- Oct 21, 2009
- Messages
- 876
718 Miles
23 Hours
4 Courses
63 Holes
100 degrees
2 falls
2 lost discs
Up to 1836 courses played
71 of those in Louisiana
Played
Jimmie David State Park (18) – Womack
Hippie Point (9) – Haddens
South Toledo Bend State Park (18) – Haddens
North Toledo Bend State Park – Hillside (18) – Zwolle
Mike Brown @zeromiles2empty is trying to kill me
Well, both Carrollton and Addison's KaBoom Town were on Wednesday night. Between that and that a lot of people are off for the 4th made for a very busy night. I didn't get away from the store until midnight. Drove almost non stop to Chatham LA and slept about an hour and a half in the Family Dollar parking lot.
Got to the park just after 6am and the gate to the Disc Golf parking area was not open yet. So I parked next to the camping area and walked over to hole 1. This course was just installed in the last year by Mike Brown. In what is becoming his trademark, he has been building Championship level courses with rough OB's. As I walked over to hole 2, there was a fox on the tee pad. But he ran off before I could even reach back for my phone. I played the Blue tee pads because I am a glutton for punishment. I realized pretty quick that it is VERY important to stay on the fairways. There are some very good lines on this course. Plenty of risk reward type holes. I get over to hole 16 and my drive slipped off my fingers to the rough on the left side of the fairway. I spent a good 15min looking for my disc climbing around in the rough. At one point I was standing on a very large fallen tree and I guess was paying more attention to looking for my disc than where I was walking. I slipped and fell hitting on my side on the log. As I laid there calling out for help, I realized I had to get out myself. Seriously, I was stuck between that log and other debris pretty bad. I did get out eventually, evaluated the damage and after a while continued with the last 2 holes. After the fall, I said "screw that disc" In typical Mike Brown design, the last hole is one of the longest holes on the course. It's in the open, but you do have OB roads to the left and right. I managed to find both as I threw the wrong direction because I could not see the basket and it wasn't where I thought.
Next up was only 122 miles away. South Toledo Bend State park has 2 courses. A 9 hole called Hippie Point and the full 18 hole course. These 2 course also just opened up in the last year. However a big storm hit the park and they have not cleaned up the Hippie Point course yet. I mean tree's were down everywhere. One was laying next too and on basket 1. Another hole had a tree down in front of the tee. And of course they have not mowed this course at all so the grass/weeks were knee high or higher in spots. I spent more time looking for my drives than anything. For a 9 hole course, this has your typical Mike Brown long par 4 holes and a par 5 hole that plays even harder with downed tree's. Of course I was also playing the Blue tee's. At least I got rained on a little, although when the rain cloud passed and the sun came out, it was even hotter than before with the humidity.
The other 18 hole course in the park would be the shortest 18 hole course I have played of Mike's courses. The blue tee's clock in at only 6337ft. Yep, I played the longs yet again. My rib was hurting, but I was feeling pretty good otherwise. I was taking a short break every 3 holes and making myself drink plenty of water. This is a pretty good little course with some very fun holes to play. My biggest complaint was the long walks, specially between basket 11 and tee box for 12. It's also a longer walk than I would prefer between 14 and 15. The rest of the course flowed pretty well. Anyways, the park has done a fantastic job getting this course back into a playable condition. I was not able to use the blue tee for hole 5 as it had a tree down on it, but that was the only bad stop on the whole course. Good mix of par 4 holes and par 3 holes that you can hit the birdie on. No par 5's on this course. I actually played this course rather well, except for the signature finishing hole where Mike likes to throw in a long hole to finish on.
Up to North Toledo Bend State Park to play Hillside. Last year in June, when it was 100+ that day too, I played Lakeside but overheated and didn't play Hillside. So this was a goal, just took me a year to get over here. Hillside and Lakeside are two championship level courses side by side with a Disc Golf parking lot not shared with any other park users. Hill side does go along the lake for a few holes, but the rest of the holes are carved into the woods. As I did on the last courses, I played the long Blue tee's. I tried to pace myself taking breaks every few holes. But as I was walking towards the basket on hole 2, I was not watching where I was walking as there was a log in the lake that I thought might be an animal. Well I stepped into a gopher hole and fell. Thankfully I didn't twist my ankle or break anything, but I did lay there for a min because the rest of my body hurt. I tried to continue playing, but between being dehydrated and I apparently pulled some muscles on my left side, I was in so much pain my ribs were not even noticeable. I left my cart next to a tee and went back to my car as sat in the AC for nearly an hour drinking plenty of water and tried to take a nap. After recuperating, I go the body moving and went back and finished my round. Even playing the signature final hole of the course with an even par. If you have played this 1000ft hole, you will know that a 5 is good. In fact, I would rank Hole 18 Hillside as the hardest hole I have ever played on 1836 courses.
The next closest course I had not played was nearly 2 hours away. Google said it would be 8:30 before I got there so I just called it quits and headed home. Of course I stopped at Dairy Palace for dinner and Buc-ee's because it's hard to pass one without stopping.
Favorite course of the day – I enjoyed South Toledo Bend's course the most. While it is longer than what I ideally like, it has some fantastically designed holes. I am just going to say it, I think Mike Brown is one of the better course designers out there. Does not hurt that he has loads of land available when he has designed several of these state parks.
Best course of the day – No question here either, North Toledo Bend Hillside is a championship level course with elevation, water and plenty of natural ob lines. This course, along with Lakeside might be one of the best one two punches out there. At least of what I have played.
Worst course of the day – Only because it was in bad condition due to a storm, Hippie Point was horrible to play. It's a good compliment to the other course, but with all those tree's down, it's going to be a while before this course is playable. Plus when you play 2 Championship level course and a borderline Championship course then this 9 hole course, it's going to lose every time. In all honestly, I think a short pitch and putt 18 hole course should have been put in here. But that is just me. I would like to play it again when it's ready to be played.
Next few weeks will be light if I can take the days off. Having to open the next morning, I can run the big trips. Need to do shorter trips I am home by midnight so I can get a good nights sleep before work Friday morning.
Louisiana State park trip
23 Hours
4 Courses
63 Holes
100 degrees
2 falls
2 lost discs
Up to 1836 courses played
71 of those in Louisiana
Played
Jimmie David State Park (18) – Womack
Hippie Point (9) – Haddens
South Toledo Bend State Park (18) – Haddens
North Toledo Bend State Park – Hillside (18) – Zwolle
Mike Brown @zeromiles2empty is trying to kill me
Well, both Carrollton and Addison's KaBoom Town were on Wednesday night. Between that and that a lot of people are off for the 4th made for a very busy night. I didn't get away from the store until midnight. Drove almost non stop to Chatham LA and slept about an hour and a half in the Family Dollar parking lot.
Got to the park just after 6am and the gate to the Disc Golf parking area was not open yet. So I parked next to the camping area and walked over to hole 1. This course was just installed in the last year by Mike Brown. In what is becoming his trademark, he has been building Championship level courses with rough OB's. As I walked over to hole 2, there was a fox on the tee pad. But he ran off before I could even reach back for my phone. I played the Blue tee pads because I am a glutton for punishment. I realized pretty quick that it is VERY important to stay on the fairways. There are some very good lines on this course. Plenty of risk reward type holes. I get over to hole 16 and my drive slipped off my fingers to the rough on the left side of the fairway. I spent a good 15min looking for my disc climbing around in the rough. At one point I was standing on a very large fallen tree and I guess was paying more attention to looking for my disc than where I was walking. I slipped and fell hitting on my side on the log. As I laid there calling out for help, I realized I had to get out myself. Seriously, I was stuck between that log and other debris pretty bad. I did get out eventually, evaluated the damage and after a while continued with the last 2 holes. After the fall, I said "screw that disc" In typical Mike Brown design, the last hole is one of the longest holes on the course. It's in the open, but you do have OB roads to the left and right. I managed to find both as I threw the wrong direction because I could not see the basket and it wasn't where I thought.
Next up was only 122 miles away. South Toledo Bend State park has 2 courses. A 9 hole called Hippie Point and the full 18 hole course. These 2 course also just opened up in the last year. However a big storm hit the park and they have not cleaned up the Hippie Point course yet. I mean tree's were down everywhere. One was laying next too and on basket 1. Another hole had a tree down in front of the tee. And of course they have not mowed this course at all so the grass/weeks were knee high or higher in spots. I spent more time looking for my drives than anything. For a 9 hole course, this has your typical Mike Brown long par 4 holes and a par 5 hole that plays even harder with downed tree's. Of course I was also playing the Blue tee's. At least I got rained on a little, although when the rain cloud passed and the sun came out, it was even hotter than before with the humidity.
The other 18 hole course in the park would be the shortest 18 hole course I have played of Mike's courses. The blue tee's clock in at only 6337ft. Yep, I played the longs yet again. My rib was hurting, but I was feeling pretty good otherwise. I was taking a short break every 3 holes and making myself drink plenty of water. This is a pretty good little course with some very fun holes to play. My biggest complaint was the long walks, specially between basket 11 and tee box for 12. It's also a longer walk than I would prefer between 14 and 15. The rest of the course flowed pretty well. Anyways, the park has done a fantastic job getting this course back into a playable condition. I was not able to use the blue tee for hole 5 as it had a tree down on it, but that was the only bad stop on the whole course. Good mix of par 4 holes and par 3 holes that you can hit the birdie on. No par 5's on this course. I actually played this course rather well, except for the signature finishing hole where Mike likes to throw in a long hole to finish on.
Up to North Toledo Bend State Park to play Hillside. Last year in June, when it was 100+ that day too, I played Lakeside but overheated and didn't play Hillside. So this was a goal, just took me a year to get over here. Hillside and Lakeside are two championship level courses side by side with a Disc Golf parking lot not shared with any other park users. Hill side does go along the lake for a few holes, but the rest of the holes are carved into the woods. As I did on the last courses, I played the long Blue tee's. I tried to pace myself taking breaks every few holes. But as I was walking towards the basket on hole 2, I was not watching where I was walking as there was a log in the lake that I thought might be an animal. Well I stepped into a gopher hole and fell. Thankfully I didn't twist my ankle or break anything, but I did lay there for a min because the rest of my body hurt. I tried to continue playing, but between being dehydrated and I apparently pulled some muscles on my left side, I was in so much pain my ribs were not even noticeable. I left my cart next to a tee and went back to my car as sat in the AC for nearly an hour drinking plenty of water and tried to take a nap. After recuperating, I go the body moving and went back and finished my round. Even playing the signature final hole of the course with an even par. If you have played this 1000ft hole, you will know that a 5 is good. In fact, I would rank Hole 18 Hillside as the hardest hole I have ever played on 1836 courses.
The next closest course I had not played was nearly 2 hours away. Google said it would be 8:30 before I got there so I just called it quits and headed home. Of course I stopped at Dairy Palace for dinner and Buc-ee's because it's hard to pass one without stopping.
Favorite course of the day – I enjoyed South Toledo Bend's course the most. While it is longer than what I ideally like, it has some fantastically designed holes. I am just going to say it, I think Mike Brown is one of the better course designers out there. Does not hurt that he has loads of land available when he has designed several of these state parks.
Best course of the day – No question here either, North Toledo Bend Hillside is a championship level course with elevation, water and plenty of natural ob lines. This course, along with Lakeside might be one of the best one two punches out there. At least of what I have played.
Worst course of the day – Only because it was in bad condition due to a storm, Hippie Point was horrible to play. It's a good compliment to the other course, but with all those tree's down, it's going to be a while before this course is playable. Plus when you play 2 Championship level course and a borderline Championship course then this 9 hole course, it's going to lose every time. In all honestly, I think a short pitch and putt 18 hole course should have been put in here. But that is just me. I would like to play it again when it's ready to be played.
Next few weeks will be light if I can take the days off. Having to open the next morning, I can run the big trips. Need to do shorter trips I am home by midnight so I can get a good nights sleep before work Friday morning.
Louisiana State park trip
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My next 2 weeks got nixed. Oh well. I was thinking of going to a concert the Thursday after that. Now if I can take that evening off, I don't know if I will do a disc golf day or go see a band I like that does not come to this area often (Wand is playing in Denton TX)
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1260 Miles
32.5 hours
7 Courses
90 holes
1 Museum
1 Barn
Up to 1843
112 of those in Missouri
Played
Higginsville (18) – Higginsville
Carrollton City Park (9) – Carrollton
Walt Disney Park (9) – Marceline
Brookfield DGC (18) – Brookfield
Lake Nehai DGC (9) – Keytesville
Potts park (9) – Salisbury
Hills and Valley's DGC (18) – Glasgow
The Happiest Place on Earth
Talked the wife into going with me if we stopped at the Wald Disney Museum in Marceline. So I did get away from the store early and we were on the road by 10pm. It was an 8 hour drive to the first course in Higginsville.
Higginsville DGC is the first course in MO in a State Park, no fee's as this is more of a historical area than anything else. The 18 hole course was park style, but had enough tree's to make It interesting. Hills and Ponds added to the course too. Most of the holes had alternate pin positions, and a couple of the holes actually had a 2nd basket in place. I just played the "main layout" on UDisc.
Next up was a course I really wanted to play, Carrollton City par with home made basket. You know when a course sounds so bad and a waste of time, those are the courses I probably enjoy playing the most. You never know what's next. Well, the home made baskets were horrible, the course was not horrible, but not good either. Classic stuffing 9 holes into a park that really should not have disc golf in it. But with that said, it was not all that bad, I have played a lot worse.
On to Marceline and learning about the Disney connection to the town. I found the history very interesting, but the Museum didn't have much of Disney's art work which disappointed my wife. The lady working the register noticed my disc golf shirt and asked me if I was in town to play the course. "Well yes I am" they also tripped out when they saw my car sign on my car.
Anyways, the Walt Disney Park's little 9 hole course flows counter clockwise around the pond. This is another case of someone forcing holes that should not be including hole 5 I posted a picture of with the fairway throwing down the sidewalk. More walking between holes than some of the holes too. I don't see this course getting much play as it is not very challenging for a seasoned player, but has some bad homes for new players.
On the way out of town, we did stop at the Disney's homestead which is currently a private residence. However there is a barn built on the property 20 years ago that is a replica of the barn Walt built in California that was based on his barn on this property when he lived there. You can bring a marker and leave a message if you like. Of course I have markers on me and my wife drew a dragon and signed it.
Brookfield was a quick jog over for a mostly open 18 hole course with a few tree's. Kind of reminds me of many of the old school Texas courses. The guys were out mowing and the course looked great. One of the guy came up and apparently run the weekly league. Most of the holes had alternate pins and a couple had new pin positions that were not on UDisc or on the tee sign. They also moved one of the tee boxes off the cement tee, better hole, but miss throwing off the cement tee pad.
Drove over to one not listed on DGCR yet, Google had me drive down "Pat" road, I saw the RV area that I knew was next to the disc golf course, but when I got to my turn, there was a gate. Well someone pulled up to the gate from the other direction and I elected to follow them in. Paid my $5 in the lock box and played my round. This is a 9 hole disc golf course that follows a par 3 ball golf course with sand greens. Not enough tree's, but a few of the holes were decent enough. They did use both ponds well. As I was leaving, I knew I could not drive out the way I came in unless someone pulled in or was leaving. So I looked on the google maps and found a "North" entrance that looked like it had a guard shack, I figured I could get out that way. Turns out only the back entrance to the development had a gate, front side was open with no guard.
On to the next course, a little pitch and putt 9 hole course in a small grove of tree's. I did throw several shots at several holes attempting to get that elusive ace. No such luck. Quick play though.
Down to Glasgow to play what I thought was going to be a 9 hole course. Well, it has been fully redesigned to 18 with new baskets, tee pads, and tee signs. The course was actually pretty good although I would not recommend dragging a cart around. The hills were extreme and it was hard to pull it up and down those hills. The course starts out with 6 very heavy wooded holes with elevation on just about all of them. Actually, just about every hole had some elevation on it. Based on the pictures of the original course, this layout uses most of the park and a lot of clearing has been done and still needs to be done to really get this course in top shape. But man, those hills. Specially after a long day killed me, I was done and started on the 9+ hour drive home. This pretty much was my longest drive home from a disc golf trip.
We did stop in Lincoln MO at a little diner for a fantastic burger. 2 burgers, 2 orders of fries and 2 large drinks for under $20, served with a smile even though it was 15 min to closing time. When she asked if it was to go or dine in, I asked if it was ok that we eat it there. She said as long as we didn't mind her mopping the floor no problem. They were super nice, even asked if we wanted any ice cream before they cleaned everything up. I normally don't tip for counter service, but I did throw a few buck in for the hospitality.
Best/Favorite course of the day – no question here, even though it was killing me, I really loved the new course in Glasgow. Out of all the courses I played, it is the only one I would consider playing again. I have not played many David McCormick courses, this one has his name on it and it is a fantastic course. Not a championship, just a good course that is fun to play.
Worst course of the day – easy here too, of course I had to play Carrollton MO considering I live in Carrollton TX. The course has home made baskets that look more like grills and catch about the same as a grill too. The pan was about 2 or 3 inches deep, the chains were attached at the base and top so if you hit the basket on the left or right, your disc just clanked and kicked out. So if you don't get spit from the hard chains, you might bounce off the bottom grillwork of the pan and spit back out. As far as course design, they used rubber mats that I really don't like. It was still early enough in the day that the grass was still wet and rubber mats and wet shoes don't mix. A couple of the holes are along a sidewalk that was in use by a few people. I did have to wait twice for walkers/joggers to be safe.
We will see what happens this week. I may do another longer trip or just hit KC area again. Depends on when I can get away from the store and if I can get help with the driving.
Disney Hometown USA Trip
32.5 hours
7 Courses
90 holes
1 Museum
1 Barn
Up to 1843
112 of those in Missouri
Played
Higginsville (18) – Higginsville
Carrollton City Park (9) – Carrollton
Walt Disney Park (9) – Marceline
Brookfield DGC (18) – Brookfield
Lake Nehai DGC (9) – Keytesville
Potts park (9) – Salisbury
Hills and Valley's DGC (18) – Glasgow
The Happiest Place on Earth
Talked the wife into going with me if we stopped at the Wald Disney Museum in Marceline. So I did get away from the store early and we were on the road by 10pm. It was an 8 hour drive to the first course in Higginsville.
Higginsville DGC is the first course in MO in a State Park, no fee's as this is more of a historical area than anything else. The 18 hole course was park style, but had enough tree's to make It interesting. Hills and Ponds added to the course too. Most of the holes had alternate pin positions, and a couple of the holes actually had a 2nd basket in place. I just played the "main layout" on UDisc.
Next up was a course I really wanted to play, Carrollton City par with home made basket. You know when a course sounds so bad and a waste of time, those are the courses I probably enjoy playing the most. You never know what's next. Well, the home made baskets were horrible, the course was not horrible, but not good either. Classic stuffing 9 holes into a park that really should not have disc golf in it. But with that said, it was not all that bad, I have played a lot worse.
On to Marceline and learning about the Disney connection to the town. I found the history very interesting, but the Museum didn't have much of Disney's art work which disappointed my wife. The lady working the register noticed my disc golf shirt and asked me if I was in town to play the course. "Well yes I am" they also tripped out when they saw my car sign on my car.
Anyways, the Walt Disney Park's little 9 hole course flows counter clockwise around the pond. This is another case of someone forcing holes that should not be including hole 5 I posted a picture of with the fairway throwing down the sidewalk. More walking between holes than some of the holes too. I don't see this course getting much play as it is not very challenging for a seasoned player, but has some bad homes for new players.
On the way out of town, we did stop at the Disney's homestead which is currently a private residence. However there is a barn built on the property 20 years ago that is a replica of the barn Walt built in California that was based on his barn on this property when he lived there. You can bring a marker and leave a message if you like. Of course I have markers on me and my wife drew a dragon and signed it.
Brookfield was a quick jog over for a mostly open 18 hole course with a few tree's. Kind of reminds me of many of the old school Texas courses. The guys were out mowing and the course looked great. One of the guy came up and apparently run the weekly league. Most of the holes had alternate pins and a couple had new pin positions that were not on UDisc or on the tee sign. They also moved one of the tee boxes off the cement tee, better hole, but miss throwing off the cement tee pad.
Drove over to one not listed on DGCR yet, Google had me drive down "Pat" road, I saw the RV area that I knew was next to the disc golf course, but when I got to my turn, there was a gate. Well someone pulled up to the gate from the other direction and I elected to follow them in. Paid my $5 in the lock box and played my round. This is a 9 hole disc golf course that follows a par 3 ball golf course with sand greens. Not enough tree's, but a few of the holes were decent enough. They did use both ponds well. As I was leaving, I knew I could not drive out the way I came in unless someone pulled in or was leaving. So I looked on the google maps and found a "North" entrance that looked like it had a guard shack, I figured I could get out that way. Turns out only the back entrance to the development had a gate, front side was open with no guard.
On to the next course, a little pitch and putt 9 hole course in a small grove of tree's. I did throw several shots at several holes attempting to get that elusive ace. No such luck. Quick play though.
Down to Glasgow to play what I thought was going to be a 9 hole course. Well, it has been fully redesigned to 18 with new baskets, tee pads, and tee signs. The course was actually pretty good although I would not recommend dragging a cart around. The hills were extreme and it was hard to pull it up and down those hills. The course starts out with 6 very heavy wooded holes with elevation on just about all of them. Actually, just about every hole had some elevation on it. Based on the pictures of the original course, this layout uses most of the park and a lot of clearing has been done and still needs to be done to really get this course in top shape. But man, those hills. Specially after a long day killed me, I was done and started on the 9+ hour drive home. This pretty much was my longest drive home from a disc golf trip.
We did stop in Lincoln MO at a little diner for a fantastic burger. 2 burgers, 2 orders of fries and 2 large drinks for under $20, served with a smile even though it was 15 min to closing time. When she asked if it was to go or dine in, I asked if it was ok that we eat it there. She said as long as we didn't mind her mopping the floor no problem. They were super nice, even asked if we wanted any ice cream before they cleaned everything up. I normally don't tip for counter service, but I did throw a few buck in for the hospitality.
Best/Favorite course of the day – no question here, even though it was killing me, I really loved the new course in Glasgow. Out of all the courses I played, it is the only one I would consider playing again. I have not played many David McCormick courses, this one has his name on it and it is a fantastic course. Not a championship, just a good course that is fun to play.
Worst course of the day – easy here too, of course I had to play Carrollton MO considering I live in Carrollton TX. The course has home made baskets that look more like grills and catch about the same as a grill too. The pan was about 2 or 3 inches deep, the chains were attached at the base and top so if you hit the basket on the left or right, your disc just clanked and kicked out. So if you don't get spit from the hard chains, you might bounce off the bottom grillwork of the pan and spit back out. As far as course design, they used rubber mats that I really don't like. It was still early enough in the day that the grass was still wet and rubber mats and wet shoes don't mix. A couple of the holes are along a sidewalk that was in use by a few people. I did have to wait twice for walkers/joggers to be safe.
We will see what happens this week. I may do another longer trip or just hit KC area again. Depends on when I can get away from the store and if I can get help with the driving.
Disney Hometown USA Trip
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@Pizza God I enjoy the heck out of reading these trip reports, thanks for sharing. And while I haven't played the course you mentioned I will vouch for Dave Mac as a great course designer.
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1182 Miles
35 hours
8 Courses
117 holes
horse Barn tour
Cool Observatory
Killer Arc Deco Pool
Up to 1851 courses played
120 of those in Missouri
Played
Warsaw Harbor (9) – Warsaw
Shawnee Bend (9) – Warsaw
Clover Dell Park (18) – Sedalia
Tipton Park (9) – Tipton
Boonville (18) - Boonville
Fayette City Park (18) – Fayette
Indian Hills – North (18) – Marshall
Indian Hills – South (18) – Marshall
111111
This will be the last Thursday disc golf trip. I got away from the store early and was on the road by 10pm. My little Nissan Kicks did hit a mile stone on the way, all 1's on the odometer. That is 58K miles in 15mo on that car, most from these day trips. My wife did go with me and we managed to pull into Warsaw at 5:30am. After a quick break at Casey's we hit the course before the sun came up, even came across a couple of deer as we pulled into the park.
Warsaw Harbor park is a small town 9 hole course with old school Mach III baskets and old DGA small size tee signs. Cement tee pads at least. The park is small and the holes were almost on top of each other. Shoot, my drive on hole 6 landed near 8's tee pad and I had to throw my upshot over 7's basket. It was also a little confusing with holes 2, 4, 6 and 7 all very close to each other. Hole 8 is a mostly open shot so what do they do? They raise the basket of course. What do course designers have against short people?
Next up was just a couple of miles away, after checking out an old Suspension bridge, we played Shawnee Bend's little 9 hole course. I have played a few Army Corps courses and they are usually in pretty bad shape, this was an exception. They have been mowing the fairways and all the baskets were in decent shape. Would be nice to have tee pads, but at least the tee's were grass and not mud. You start off with a few wide open shots, a few even have some length. Then you have a couple of pitch and putt holes in the woods till holes 8 and 9. These were longer wooded shots using a power line clearings as fairways.
Up to Sedalia to Dell Park DGC. This course has an original 9 holes with a few alternate pin and tee's, then an apparently newer "back 9" that go around the ponds and tend to be longer more open as the front 9 play though a bunch of cedar tree's. The back side does have some better holes, however it also has some major issues. You tee off from the sidewalk twice and they painted a tee. This does NOT work with wet shoes. After almost falling down on the first one, I did not use the 2nd. There is a great hole over a pond with a small window. Scary hole to throw. Make it and you are inside circle 1, otherwise you are probably in the water. I did throw a bad shot on hole 18, it's the longest hole on the course, I turned my drive over and landed in the rough. Waste high grass. It started to rain and I spent 15 min looking for that disc. I think my name was on it, I found two other crap discs while looking for mine.
We were staying on pace, over to Tipton to play it's little small town 9 hole course. This one was kind of a classic small town course with a dumb mando, throwing though a gazebo, twice having crossing fairways. Throwing over playground equipment and the last hole was a totally blind shot near a parking area. There was also some walking which I really hate. Especially between holes 9 and 1 and walking from 8's basket to 9's tee. Classic example of putting a course where one should not be.
still on schedule, had just enough time to play the course in Boonville. I much mention that this property use to be a military school for 158 years. It's been closed for 22 years and the city owns most of the property now. So behind the YMCA is an 18 hole course on a beautiful piece of property will hills, a creek, tree's and history.
I finished my round in time to make it over to the Budweiser Clydesdale facility, Warm Springs Ranch. Our tour was at 2pm, we got there right as they opened the gate, got to visit with a Clydesdale while we waited for the tour. They even give you a beer before the tour to enjoy if you wish. (I had a Bud Zero) Interesting history and tour of the barn and how they raise and train the Hitches.
After the tour we headed up to Fayette to play that small town course. The park is actually quite large and could hold an 18 hole pitch and putt if they really wanted. But instead, its 9 basket with 2 tee's each. Elevation and shot shaping on a few holes. What really got us was the Observatory next to the park. It was originally built almost 150 years ago in Glasgow, but moved to this location in 1930's. Not sure if it's a private house or what. It was not open and just had a plaque out front saying what it was and it's history. Then we got to the City Pool. Oh man, I see a lot of old pools that are closed. Sometimes just the old pool house is there and the pool is filled in. Nope, this 1936 built pool was open. But that is not what was neat about it, the pool and buildings were art deco. What a trip. They were open and the kids working even let my wife check out the dressing room and pool area.
Oh yea, I was there to play disc golf. Anyways the course is on the side of a hill so you do have some elevation and different lengths of holes. As an 18 hole course, it's not too bad. I really did like the finishing hole 9/18. Eighteen had a water carry before you reach the basket, hole 9 had the water on the right if you turned it over. I actually parked it from 9 but overthrew 18 making sure I cleared the water for a par.
On to Marshall. I was now pressed for time. I really wanted to get in both courses in Marshall so I could clear this area out. It also started to rain kind of hard as we pulled into the park. No lighting so I was a go on playing. This course is hilly, I mean it is in the parks name. The North course was about ½ park style course and ½ wooded course. Most of the park style hole were on the long side. Several throwing along the side of the hill so bad shots mean going up and down the hill on the same hole. The wooded shots were also hilly, but most were on the short side with left and right shots needed.
The south course starts off in the woods, but does have a few wide open holes with some lenth. It's probably about the same with it being 50% wooded, 50% open park style. I did enjoy the courses, but after a long day the hills were killing me. At least it was cool and not 100+ like it was in Dallas. I finished after the sun went down and it was starting to get dark. We found a little restaurant/bar on the square and had a decent meal for a reasonable price with good service.
And the LONG drive home. We took turns but did have to stop and both take naps in Oklahoma and we pulled up to our house just after 9am this morning.
Favorite course of the day – no question here, I really really really enjoyed playing Boonsville. It's mostly a pitch and putt course, but I did like how it used the elevation on several of the holes. The only boring hole I actually found interesting was a hole throwing from the endzone, from under the old scoreboard with the basket at the other end of the old football field. Hole 16 even had 2 baskets in place, one of them was hanging under a foot bridge. The pin location was pretty cool, but the hole was too hard left and too short to be a par 4, but is an almost impossible 2. Oh, and the campus for the old military school is on the National Registry of historic Buildings.
Best Course of the day – This is a tossup between Indian Foothills North and South. I am going to go with South because it had more variety of shots. Even the open holes and a walking path that could be played OB and across OB which would really tighten those holes up for tournament play.
Worst course of the day – No question here, Tipton was horrible as far as safety and course flow. This is a classic example of a course being put into a park where it really probably should not be in. But on the other hand, I had most of the park to myself and it did bring me to town.
We will see what the future brings. My managers have totally changed up the schedule and it looks like I will have weekends off this fall. I start with Sunday off, but I don't think I will do anything this weekend. Next weekend I may do a single day on Saturday because I may be going to see Deep Purple on Sunday night if the tickets come though. My hope is to take off early on Friday nights, go deeper than I can in a single day camping on Saturday nights at a course or park near a course. I was able to do this once last years and hit come courses in Nebraska sleeping next to hole 1/9 at one of the courses. I may hit some Western TN courses, I got a place I can stay with a bed overnight. The other good thing, no more trying to work around schools, I will be able to play any on the weekends.
Clydesdale trip 8/8/24
35 hours
8 Courses
117 holes
horse Barn tour
Cool Observatory
Killer Arc Deco Pool
Up to 1851 courses played
120 of those in Missouri
Played
Warsaw Harbor (9) – Warsaw
Shawnee Bend (9) – Warsaw
Clover Dell Park (18) – Sedalia
Tipton Park (9) – Tipton
Boonville (18) - Boonville
Fayette City Park (18) – Fayette
Indian Hills – North (18) – Marshall
Indian Hills – South (18) – Marshall
111111
This will be the last Thursday disc golf trip. I got away from the store early and was on the road by 10pm. My little Nissan Kicks did hit a mile stone on the way, all 1's on the odometer. That is 58K miles in 15mo on that car, most from these day trips. My wife did go with me and we managed to pull into Warsaw at 5:30am. After a quick break at Casey's we hit the course before the sun came up, even came across a couple of deer as we pulled into the park.
Warsaw Harbor park is a small town 9 hole course with old school Mach III baskets and old DGA small size tee signs. Cement tee pads at least. The park is small and the holes were almost on top of each other. Shoot, my drive on hole 6 landed near 8's tee pad and I had to throw my upshot over 7's basket. It was also a little confusing with holes 2, 4, 6 and 7 all very close to each other. Hole 8 is a mostly open shot so what do they do? They raise the basket of course. What do course designers have against short people?
Next up was just a couple of miles away, after checking out an old Suspension bridge, we played Shawnee Bend's little 9 hole course. I have played a few Army Corps courses and they are usually in pretty bad shape, this was an exception. They have been mowing the fairways and all the baskets were in decent shape. Would be nice to have tee pads, but at least the tee's were grass and not mud. You start off with a few wide open shots, a few even have some length. Then you have a couple of pitch and putt holes in the woods till holes 8 and 9. These were longer wooded shots using a power line clearings as fairways.
Up to Sedalia to Dell Park DGC. This course has an original 9 holes with a few alternate pin and tee's, then an apparently newer "back 9" that go around the ponds and tend to be longer more open as the front 9 play though a bunch of cedar tree's. The back side does have some better holes, however it also has some major issues. You tee off from the sidewalk twice and they painted a tee. This does NOT work with wet shoes. After almost falling down on the first one, I did not use the 2nd. There is a great hole over a pond with a small window. Scary hole to throw. Make it and you are inside circle 1, otherwise you are probably in the water. I did throw a bad shot on hole 18, it's the longest hole on the course, I turned my drive over and landed in the rough. Waste high grass. It started to rain and I spent 15 min looking for that disc. I think my name was on it, I found two other crap discs while looking for mine.
We were staying on pace, over to Tipton to play it's little small town 9 hole course. This one was kind of a classic small town course with a dumb mando, throwing though a gazebo, twice having crossing fairways. Throwing over playground equipment and the last hole was a totally blind shot near a parking area. There was also some walking which I really hate. Especially between holes 9 and 1 and walking from 8's basket to 9's tee. Classic example of putting a course where one should not be.
still on schedule, had just enough time to play the course in Boonville. I much mention that this property use to be a military school for 158 years. It's been closed for 22 years and the city owns most of the property now. So behind the YMCA is an 18 hole course on a beautiful piece of property will hills, a creek, tree's and history.
I finished my round in time to make it over to the Budweiser Clydesdale facility, Warm Springs Ranch. Our tour was at 2pm, we got there right as they opened the gate, got to visit with a Clydesdale while we waited for the tour. They even give you a beer before the tour to enjoy if you wish. (I had a Bud Zero) Interesting history and tour of the barn and how they raise and train the Hitches.
After the tour we headed up to Fayette to play that small town course. The park is actually quite large and could hold an 18 hole pitch and putt if they really wanted. But instead, its 9 basket with 2 tee's each. Elevation and shot shaping on a few holes. What really got us was the Observatory next to the park. It was originally built almost 150 years ago in Glasgow, but moved to this location in 1930's. Not sure if it's a private house or what. It was not open and just had a plaque out front saying what it was and it's history. Then we got to the City Pool. Oh man, I see a lot of old pools that are closed. Sometimes just the old pool house is there and the pool is filled in. Nope, this 1936 built pool was open. But that is not what was neat about it, the pool and buildings were art deco. What a trip. They were open and the kids working even let my wife check out the dressing room and pool area.
Oh yea, I was there to play disc golf. Anyways the course is on the side of a hill so you do have some elevation and different lengths of holes. As an 18 hole course, it's not too bad. I really did like the finishing hole 9/18. Eighteen had a water carry before you reach the basket, hole 9 had the water on the right if you turned it over. I actually parked it from 9 but overthrew 18 making sure I cleared the water for a par.
On to Marshall. I was now pressed for time. I really wanted to get in both courses in Marshall so I could clear this area out. It also started to rain kind of hard as we pulled into the park. No lighting so I was a go on playing. This course is hilly, I mean it is in the parks name. The North course was about ½ park style course and ½ wooded course. Most of the park style hole were on the long side. Several throwing along the side of the hill so bad shots mean going up and down the hill on the same hole. The wooded shots were also hilly, but most were on the short side with left and right shots needed.
The south course starts off in the woods, but does have a few wide open holes with some lenth. It's probably about the same with it being 50% wooded, 50% open park style. I did enjoy the courses, but after a long day the hills were killing me. At least it was cool and not 100+ like it was in Dallas. I finished after the sun went down and it was starting to get dark. We found a little restaurant/bar on the square and had a decent meal for a reasonable price with good service.
And the LONG drive home. We took turns but did have to stop and both take naps in Oklahoma and we pulled up to our house just after 9am this morning.
Favorite course of the day – no question here, I really really really enjoyed playing Boonsville. It's mostly a pitch and putt course, but I did like how it used the elevation on several of the holes. The only boring hole I actually found interesting was a hole throwing from the endzone, from under the old scoreboard with the basket at the other end of the old football field. Hole 16 even had 2 baskets in place, one of them was hanging under a foot bridge. The pin location was pretty cool, but the hole was too hard left and too short to be a par 4, but is an almost impossible 2. Oh, and the campus for the old military school is on the National Registry of historic Buildings.
Best Course of the day – This is a tossup between Indian Foothills North and South. I am going to go with South because it had more variety of shots. Even the open holes and a walking path that could be played OB and across OB which would really tighten those holes up for tournament play.
Worst course of the day – No question here, Tipton was horrible as far as safety and course flow. This is a classic example of a course being put into a park where it really probably should not be in. But on the other hand, I had most of the park to myself and it did bring me to town.
We will see what the future brings. My managers have totally changed up the schedule and it looks like I will have weekends off this fall. I start with Sunday off, but I don't think I will do anything this weekend. Next weekend I may do a single day on Saturday because I may be going to see Deep Purple on Sunday night if the tickets come though. My hope is to take off early on Friday nights, go deeper than I can in a single day camping on Saturday nights at a course or park near a course. I was able to do this once last years and hit come courses in Nebraska sleeping next to hole 1/9 at one of the courses. I may hit some Western TN courses, I got a place I can stay with a bed overnight. The other good thing, no more trying to work around schools, I will be able to play any on the weekends.
Clydesdale trip 8/8/24
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211 miles
9 hours
2 courses
36 holes
100 degrees
Up to 1853 courses played
704 of those in Texas
Played
Dino Hills – Pterodactyl Ridge (18) – Walnut Springs
Buffalo (18) – Cleburne
Hot
New schedule started this week so I had my first Sunday off in a long time. I still had to close on Saturday night and I promised my wife we would go see the Deadpool movie.
I had been wanting to get over to Dino Hills since October when he got the Pterodactyl Ridge course done and I had heard about the Buffalo course in Cleburne I wanted to collect. I sent a message to both owners and when I woke up, got an answer from both so I headed out.
Elected to play the longer of the 2 first, Dino Hills is really a destination spot. The work that has been done on these courses is incredible. While you don't need a reservation on the weekend, reservations are required on week days. The Pterodactyl Ridge is his championship course. While no true par 5 holes, the course does have several par 4's with a couple that are tough 4's. Then you have the Par 3 holes, some are tough 3's. But right before you finish, you do have a few nice little tough short holes. I say tough because you want to ace run these little holes, but that will be a mistake if you miss the line. As far as the challenge of the course, you do have wide open bombers and tight technical holes. It's a good mix and a good course.
After talking and cooling off for an hour in the pro shop, I headed over to Cleburne to play Buffalo. I had been hearing good things about this course in that it is fun to play. Again, you need to contact the owner as it is his "back yard" and he does need a waiver. The course runs on donations, so make sure you leave something in the box (he does have cash app QR codes posted too) After the first hole, most of this course is in the shade. It's not a long course, a few holes are listed as par 4's but they are not really that hard if you hit your lines. Plenty of accuracy needed. At lot of clearing has been one, the grass was perfect, better than most parks. The rough is thick if you get off the fairway. There are a few water shots out there. When I got about ½ way done, Jarrett shows up with a Gatorade and water for me. He even went back and got a disc out of the creek I was going to go back to get later. This labor of love shows. He had been building it for a couple of years before he added it to UDisc and he gave me the OK on posting it on DGCR.
It was a good day, it was HOT for sure, almost overheated at Dino Hills, but Buffalo had plenty of shade. I got home and the wife and I went to see the Deadpool moving and stopped to get some OMG Taco's on the way home.
Favorite course of the day – No question, Buffalo. This is the type of course I enjoy the most as it really fits my game the best. Several holes were very fun to throw with plenty of risk/rewards even for short holes.
Best course of the day – no question here either, Pterodactyl Ridge is a very good tournament course. While the longest holes are mostly open, where to land is VERY important on several of these holes. Land behind the brush will cost you a stroke every time.
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9 hours
2 courses
36 holes
100 degrees
Up to 1853 courses played
704 of those in Texas
Played
Dino Hills – Pterodactyl Ridge (18) – Walnut Springs
Buffalo (18) – Cleburne
Hot
New schedule started this week so I had my first Sunday off in a long time. I still had to close on Saturday night and I promised my wife we would go see the Deadpool movie.
I had been wanting to get over to Dino Hills since October when he got the Pterodactyl Ridge course done and I had heard about the Buffalo course in Cleburne I wanted to collect. I sent a message to both owners and when I woke up, got an answer from both so I headed out.
Elected to play the longer of the 2 first, Dino Hills is really a destination spot. The work that has been done on these courses is incredible. While you don't need a reservation on the weekend, reservations are required on week days. The Pterodactyl Ridge is his championship course. While no true par 5 holes, the course does have several par 4's with a couple that are tough 4's. Then you have the Par 3 holes, some are tough 3's. But right before you finish, you do have a few nice little tough short holes. I say tough because you want to ace run these little holes, but that will be a mistake if you miss the line. As far as the challenge of the course, you do have wide open bombers and tight technical holes. It's a good mix and a good course.
After talking and cooling off for an hour in the pro shop, I headed over to Cleburne to play Buffalo. I had been hearing good things about this course in that it is fun to play. Again, you need to contact the owner as it is his "back yard" and he does need a waiver. The course runs on donations, so make sure you leave something in the box (he does have cash app QR codes posted too) After the first hole, most of this course is in the shade. It's not a long course, a few holes are listed as par 4's but they are not really that hard if you hit your lines. Plenty of accuracy needed. At lot of clearing has been one, the grass was perfect, better than most parks. The rough is thick if you get off the fairway. There are a few water shots out there. When I got about ½ way done, Jarrett shows up with a Gatorade and water for me. He even went back and got a disc out of the creek I was going to go back to get later. This labor of love shows. He had been building it for a couple of years before he added it to UDisc and he gave me the OK on posting it on DGCR.
It was a good day, it was HOT for sure, almost overheated at Dino Hills, but Buffalo had plenty of shade. I got home and the wife and I went to see the Deadpool moving and stopped to get some OMG Taco's on the way home.
Favorite course of the day – No question, Buffalo. This is the type of course I enjoy the most as it really fits my game the best. Several holes were very fun to throw with plenty of risk/rewards even for short holes.
Best course of the day – no question here either, Pterodactyl Ridge is a very good tournament course. While the longest holes are mostly open, where to land is VERY important on several of these holes. Land behind the brush will cost you a stroke every time.
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1412 Miles
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11 courses
114 Holes
1 Strike Out
1 Ace
8 hours of naps
Up to 1864 courses played
131 Of those in Missouri
Played
Milan DGC (9) – Milan
Unionville DGC (9) – Unionville
Lake Showme DGC (18) – Memphis
Memphis DGC (9) – Memphis
Knox County DGC (9) – Edina
Sever Lake DGC (9) – Hurdland
Rotary Park DGC (12) – Kirksville
Central Christian College (9) – Moberly
Indian Hills DGC (18) – Columbia
Ashland City Park (6) – Ashland
Belair Elementary School (6) – Jefferson City
The first full weekend off in a long time.
As I stated last week, new schedule and I am off on the weekends for now. I had tickets thanks to Ricky Box to see Deep Purple on Sunday night, so I figured I would see how far I could drive on a Friday night.
It was 600 miles to Milan, I left just before 5pm and pulled up to the course at 2:30am. The park said closed till 6am so I found downtown and parked and took a 3 hour nap till the sun came up. The goal for this trip was to hit all the courses in the north East corner of MO.
Milan's course is a 3one7 course. Actually several of the course I have played in this area are designed by 3one7. This is a small city park on the side of a hill. The course does make full use of this hill with almost every hole having major elevation change. Most of the course was pitch and putt and most were park style except the last 2 holes in the woods. Unfortunately, I don't think these holes have had any clearing done on them since the course was installed. As far as small town courses, this one wasn't that bad. And the restroom actually had running water.
Next up was up north from there in Unionville's park. This one was located between the campgrounds, which was pretty full, and the county fair area. Several holes were pretty open, another 3one7 course that takes full advantage of the tree line along a small creek. The course was well kempt and had been recently mowed. At least this small town course was away from most other park users.
Lake Showme was my next stop. This course is located on the south side of the lake with a small camping area with a pit toilet at the parking area for the course. Being Saturday, there was another group out on the course but I never saw them. Mostly open with a few shots though some woods. This course does have some distance from the long tee boxes. A few true par 4 holes where you have to make a dogleg fairway. I would recommend this course as one to play. It's not a championship level course, but does have enough decent holes to be fun.
Just a couple of miles into town was a typical small town 9 hole course with metal home made baskets. There were tee signs that sort of didn't help as I think some of this course had been redesigned. It's a pitch and putt course with crossing fairways and throws next to or over other park amenities. It was a quick play and the city does a great job on the upkeep of the grounds.
On the way to the next course, there was a course listed on UDisc I drove by. I pulled up to the entrance and there were several "no trespassing" signs on the road. It's a private country club opened in 1919 and UDisc did say it was on a ball golf course. Instead of attempting to ask permission, I just turned around and went on to the next course. I really was not counting on this course anyways.
Knox County DGC is actually on a school yard. I didn't even look on this trip because I knew it was on a weekend and I didn't need to plan it out as much. Most of these holes were wide open and pitch and putt. In fact I hit the front of the basket on hole 2. One inch higher and I would have had the ace. As is true with many school courses, you are playing around ball fields. It's a one and done course and was designed by 3one7 yet again.
Short drive over to Sever Lake to play that course. I played the "main" tees because there were old tee signs on those. I didn't realize the longs were only marked with paver stones till I came across one in the round. This is a park style course throwing from one side of the lake to the other, then back. Only a couple of the holes throw over or near the lake. If you throw from the "pro" tee's, there is a shot that was mostly over water. Hole 9 might have been the shortest hole and I laid out my big bead Aviar out and BANG into the chains. It's my 4th ace this year in 4 different states.
Next stop was Kirksville, home of 3one7 discs, which is NOT open on the weekends….. Oh well, I tried. Headed over to Rotary Park to play another 3one7 designed course. This 12 hole course has some cool shots. There were alternate pin positions but most were in the shorts. I did come across some local college students who let me play through. The Larpers were in the field near holes 11 and 12 but were out of my way. This is a park style course with some elevation, a couple of longer shots and a few pitch and putt holes. With the cement tee pads, good signage, it's a decent small town course. The flow wasn't the best, but I have played worse.
That was the 7 courses I wanted to make sure I hit, now I wanted to start heading home for a shorter drive from the last course. I elected to skip some 18 hole courses and headed down to Central Christian College to play that campus 9 hole course. It actually is a little long for a college campus, but most of the holes are reachable. Only one hole was over 400ft across a field. The holes on the front side of the campus were though some old growth trees and fun to play. It was a quick round and I headed further south.
I had only played one 18 hole course so I figured I should play at least one more. I stopped in Colombia and played Indian Hills. Most of the baskets were in the "Blue" long position. Several wooded holes but not counting hole 16, there was a line to hit. Out of every course I played, I actually played this one the best. Because several of the holes were blind and I had no idea where to land, I was laying up and then throwing an upshot on several of the holes. On the heavy wooded holes is where I actually got my birdies, most of them were right to left and right at the best distance for my Wraith.
At his point I really wanted to get as far as I could. I saw I was going to pass Ashland and it was just a 6 hole course. I thought I could play it real fast then hit another short 9 hole in Jefferson City area. Well, for a 6 hole course, it took some time to play. Apparently the city added a dog park on the course. Basket 2 and tee for hole 3 were inside the dog area. You have to go back to the entrance and walk around to get to holes 4 to 6. However hole 6 throws over the dog park again and I landed in it and had to walk around and go back inside it. Then I had to wait for some kids to cross the fairway on my last hole. This course was a Boy Scout project and is not worth playing other than to collect.
I realized I was going to get to Jefferson city right before the sun went down. There was a 6 hole school course not too far out of the way and it would be dark before I could get to a 9 hole course I had not played yet. Belair Elementary school has built a new road, it took out basket 1 and the tee for hole 2. They also installed a fence blocking access to this area. Luckily the rolling gate was unlocked and I was able to throw to the spot the basket use to be, then tee off where the old tee was (now on a road) then played the rest of the wide open holes quickly. Out of all 6 holes, not a single tree. Not any real elevation either. One of the holes that was slightly downhill was over 300ft, but the rest were an elementary distance that was cool with me. I finished just after 8pm and headed home. It was 541 miles or just under 9 hours home. I did manage to drive to Buc-ee's in Springville for gas and dinner, then drove to Oklahoma and pulled over as soon as I hit the 271 mile half way point. I wound up sleeping for just over 4 hours at the Woodshed in Big Cabin off 69. When I woke up, I made it to the Loves in Atoka and slept for another hour. I managed to get back to Carrollton at 10am and slept till it was time to drive back to Durant OK for Deep Purple.
Favorite Course of the day – None of the courses really popped, Indian Hills was a fun course to play but I didn't like several of the holes. I think I had the most fun at Milan even though it was not in the most playable shape. It does have some fun holes if someone would go do some trimming.
Best Course of the day – Between Indian Hills and Lake Show Me, Lake Show Me is the better tournament course even though it is more open. It actually has some true par 4 holes. Because they mow fairways, you could easily have artificial OB's on most of the holes that are more open.
Worst Course of the day – I don't like to put school yard courses here, the worst designed course was Memphis. The baskets were homemade, the buckets were shallow and they didn't catch very well. You had holes crossing each other. You also had a tennis court, basketball course and ball field in play. At least the holes were short and it was marked pretty good for a small town course.
Next week, should be my first 2 day trip in over a year. Looking at New Mexico, Nebraska, Iowa or St Louis MO areas. Going to save southern states for the colder months.
41 Hours
11 courses
114 Holes
1 Strike Out
1 Ace
8 hours of naps
Up to 1864 courses played
131 Of those in Missouri
Played
Milan DGC (9) – Milan
Unionville DGC (9) – Unionville
Lake Showme DGC (18) – Memphis
Memphis DGC (9) – Memphis
Knox County DGC (9) – Edina
Sever Lake DGC (9) – Hurdland
Rotary Park DGC (12) – Kirksville
Central Christian College (9) – Moberly
Indian Hills DGC (18) – Columbia
Ashland City Park (6) – Ashland
Belair Elementary School (6) – Jefferson City
The first full weekend off in a long time.
As I stated last week, new schedule and I am off on the weekends for now. I had tickets thanks to Ricky Box to see Deep Purple on Sunday night, so I figured I would see how far I could drive on a Friday night.
It was 600 miles to Milan, I left just before 5pm and pulled up to the course at 2:30am. The park said closed till 6am so I found downtown and parked and took a 3 hour nap till the sun came up. The goal for this trip was to hit all the courses in the north East corner of MO.
Milan's course is a 3one7 course. Actually several of the course I have played in this area are designed by 3one7. This is a small city park on the side of a hill. The course does make full use of this hill with almost every hole having major elevation change. Most of the course was pitch and putt and most were park style except the last 2 holes in the woods. Unfortunately, I don't think these holes have had any clearing done on them since the course was installed. As far as small town courses, this one wasn't that bad. And the restroom actually had running water.
Next up was up north from there in Unionville's park. This one was located between the campgrounds, which was pretty full, and the county fair area. Several holes were pretty open, another 3one7 course that takes full advantage of the tree line along a small creek. The course was well kempt and had been recently mowed. At least this small town course was away from most other park users.
Lake Showme was my next stop. This course is located on the south side of the lake with a small camping area with a pit toilet at the parking area for the course. Being Saturday, there was another group out on the course but I never saw them. Mostly open with a few shots though some woods. This course does have some distance from the long tee boxes. A few true par 4 holes where you have to make a dogleg fairway. I would recommend this course as one to play. It's not a championship level course, but does have enough decent holes to be fun.
Just a couple of miles into town was a typical small town 9 hole course with metal home made baskets. There were tee signs that sort of didn't help as I think some of this course had been redesigned. It's a pitch and putt course with crossing fairways and throws next to or over other park amenities. It was a quick play and the city does a great job on the upkeep of the grounds.
On the way to the next course, there was a course listed on UDisc I drove by. I pulled up to the entrance and there were several "no trespassing" signs on the road. It's a private country club opened in 1919 and UDisc did say it was on a ball golf course. Instead of attempting to ask permission, I just turned around and went on to the next course. I really was not counting on this course anyways.
Knox County DGC is actually on a school yard. I didn't even look on this trip because I knew it was on a weekend and I didn't need to plan it out as much. Most of these holes were wide open and pitch and putt. In fact I hit the front of the basket on hole 2. One inch higher and I would have had the ace. As is true with many school courses, you are playing around ball fields. It's a one and done course and was designed by 3one7 yet again.
Short drive over to Sever Lake to play that course. I played the "main" tees because there were old tee signs on those. I didn't realize the longs were only marked with paver stones till I came across one in the round. This is a park style course throwing from one side of the lake to the other, then back. Only a couple of the holes throw over or near the lake. If you throw from the "pro" tee's, there is a shot that was mostly over water. Hole 9 might have been the shortest hole and I laid out my big bead Aviar out and BANG into the chains. It's my 4th ace this year in 4 different states.
Next stop was Kirksville, home of 3one7 discs, which is NOT open on the weekends….. Oh well, I tried. Headed over to Rotary Park to play another 3one7 designed course. This 12 hole course has some cool shots. There were alternate pin positions but most were in the shorts. I did come across some local college students who let me play through. The Larpers were in the field near holes 11 and 12 but were out of my way. This is a park style course with some elevation, a couple of longer shots and a few pitch and putt holes. With the cement tee pads, good signage, it's a decent small town course. The flow wasn't the best, but I have played worse.
That was the 7 courses I wanted to make sure I hit, now I wanted to start heading home for a shorter drive from the last course. I elected to skip some 18 hole courses and headed down to Central Christian College to play that campus 9 hole course. It actually is a little long for a college campus, but most of the holes are reachable. Only one hole was over 400ft across a field. The holes on the front side of the campus were though some old growth trees and fun to play. It was a quick round and I headed further south.
I had only played one 18 hole course so I figured I should play at least one more. I stopped in Colombia and played Indian Hills. Most of the baskets were in the "Blue" long position. Several wooded holes but not counting hole 16, there was a line to hit. Out of every course I played, I actually played this one the best. Because several of the holes were blind and I had no idea where to land, I was laying up and then throwing an upshot on several of the holes. On the heavy wooded holes is where I actually got my birdies, most of them were right to left and right at the best distance for my Wraith.
At his point I really wanted to get as far as I could. I saw I was going to pass Ashland and it was just a 6 hole course. I thought I could play it real fast then hit another short 9 hole in Jefferson City area. Well, for a 6 hole course, it took some time to play. Apparently the city added a dog park on the course. Basket 2 and tee for hole 3 were inside the dog area. You have to go back to the entrance and walk around to get to holes 4 to 6. However hole 6 throws over the dog park again and I landed in it and had to walk around and go back inside it. Then I had to wait for some kids to cross the fairway on my last hole. This course was a Boy Scout project and is not worth playing other than to collect.
I realized I was going to get to Jefferson city right before the sun went down. There was a 6 hole school course not too far out of the way and it would be dark before I could get to a 9 hole course I had not played yet. Belair Elementary school has built a new road, it took out basket 1 and the tee for hole 2. They also installed a fence blocking access to this area. Luckily the rolling gate was unlocked and I was able to throw to the spot the basket use to be, then tee off where the old tee was (now on a road) then played the rest of the wide open holes quickly. Out of all 6 holes, not a single tree. Not any real elevation either. One of the holes that was slightly downhill was over 300ft, but the rest were an elementary distance that was cool with me. I finished just after 8pm and headed home. It was 541 miles or just under 9 hours home. I did manage to drive to Buc-ee's in Springville for gas and dinner, then drove to Oklahoma and pulled over as soon as I hit the 271 mile half way point. I wound up sleeping for just over 4 hours at the Woodshed in Big Cabin off 69. When I woke up, I made it to the Loves in Atoka and slept for another hour. I managed to get back to Carrollton at 10am and slept till it was time to drive back to Durant OK for Deep Purple.
Favorite Course of the day – None of the courses really popped, Indian Hills was a fun course to play but I didn't like several of the holes. I think I had the most fun at Milan even though it was not in the most playable shape. It does have some fun holes if someone would go do some trimming.
Best Course of the day – Between Indian Hills and Lake Show Me, Lake Show Me is the better tournament course even though it is more open. It actually has some true par 4 holes. Because they mow fairways, you could easily have artificial OB's on most of the holes that are more open.
Worst Course of the day – I don't like to put school yard courses here, the worst designed course was Memphis. The baskets were homemade, the buckets were shallow and they didn't catch very well. You had holes crossing each other. You also had a tennis court, basketball course and ball field in play. At least the holes were short and it was marked pretty good for a small town course.
Next week, should be my first 2 day trip in over a year. Looking at New Mexico, Nebraska, Iowa or St Louis MO areas. Going to save southern states for the colder months.
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Another great adventure but how the hell was Deep Purple??
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LOL, they put on a good show. They are touring with Yes, but this was a stand alone show. They played the next night in Fort Worth with Yes.
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1369 Miles
57 Hours
13 courses
189 holes
Low 50, high 105
1 overnight camp
Up to 1877 courses played
705 of those in Texas
22 of those in New Mexico
Played
Three Little Pigs (9) – Paducah TX
Moon Mountain (18) – Ruidoso NM
Inn of the Mountain Gods (18) – Mescalero NM
FUNky Fox (9) – Ruidoso Downs NM
Wingfield Park (9) – Ruidoso NM
Oso Canyon (18) – Ruidoso NM
Disc-O-Zozo (18) – Carrizozo NM
Alameda Park (9) – Alamogordo NM
Cloudcroft Community Mtn (18) – Cloudcroft NM
Zenith Park (18) – Cloudcroft NM
Sacramento Camp and Conference Center (18) – Sacramento NM
Jaycee Park (18) – Artesia NM
Lake Van (9) – Dexter NM
1st weekend disc golf trip – This is a trip I have been wanting to do for a long time, I knew I needed 2 days to do it.
Got away from the store and drove 4 hours (took an hour just to get past Denton) to Paducah TX, this little 9 hole city park course has been on my radar for a few years and I actually added a little to my drive just to hit this course and knock it out. It's what you would expect from a small town west Texas course. Small Park, no map (even on UDisc) tee posts, baskets. It's mostly pitch and putt with the few trees in the park thrown in. I got there as the sun was setting which was nice. Finished up and drove on to Ruidoso. As I drove into town, I spotted a Walmart and parked there and took a 3 hour nap.
Woke up at 6am and headed over to Moon Mountain. As I drove though town, I noticed all the flood damage along the small creek. Several business and homes were damaged and lots of flood clean up still going on. Even saw the Army Reservists out with sand bags by the race track. About a mile from the course, I spotted the only Elk I saw on the trip. He was right off the road in someone's yard eating their tree.
Moon Mountain, There is a reason it's one of the top 5 courses in New Mexico. This Eric McCabe course is long and major elevation. In fact, UDisc has it at 46 floors. It's too bad the city has not been able to upkeep the courses. They have been busy with Fire and Flood cleanup and disc golf is a low priority right now. Needless to say, the grass is quite long and every throw was like throwing in the rough. I spent about half of my time looking for my disc, even on some of the layup shots. But the course is almost park like in that the area is mostly cleared out except for some small spots of brush. If this course had been cleaned up (mowed) it would have been very pretty. It took me all of 3 hours to play this one. I learned to stop throwing second shots real quick.
I had planned on playing FUNky Fox next, I drove over there and even though I called them and they told me it would be available at 9am, it's wasn't open yet so I headed over to Inn of the Mountain Gods. This course is below the dam of the lake and is in the valley. It does have some elevation, but nothing compared to Moon Mountain. Shorter holes through the woods, then a lot of more open longer holes throwing back. Even a "top of the Mountain" shot where you can't see the basket from the tee. I threw my midrange and still overthrew it past the basket.
I then went back to Weed World to play FUNky Fox. Weed World is exactly what it's name implies. You are not allowed in unless you are 21. I did go inside to see if they had a map and I wanted to see the inside. This use to be a roadside attraction selling trinkets. They turned the "Fox Cave" part into a cool smoking Lounge. If I partook, this would be a cool place to light one up. But I don't and I am actually glad no one was in there smoking at the time. I checked it out and asked if they had a map. Nope, but because they have not been upkeeping the course, they gave me permission to play and didn't charge me the normal $5. It's a par 2 mini disc golf style of course with each hole having a gimmick. Too bad no one is taking care of it, it's a cool little course to throw.
I then headed back to downtown Ruidoso to play the pitch and putt 9 hole course a block away from DD New Mexico. Guess what, a live concert with food vendors was happening in the park. Thankfully only hole 1 was an issue, other than trying to find somewhere to park. I did hit the pin on my drive on hole 2. Great beginner course or a quick round. I did stop at DD New Mexico after my round because I found a parking spot this time. Chatted with them for a bit and headed on to Oso Canyon.
As I was driving down the highway, this is one of the areas of this years fires. It was sad to see all the businesses and homes burned to the ground. The road to Oso Canyon is also close except for local traffic. I had seen that the course was open, so I figured I was "local traffic" and drove around the sign. I had the course to myself. Again, like Moon Mountain, no cleaning of the course has happened this year and I had to really watch my drives or spend a lot of time walking around looking for discs. This was especially true on the more open holes where the grass was thick. The front 9 holes works your way up the mountain, then back down. The back 9 are easier to traverse but still has some elevation. As I was playing a few random thunderstorms blew over. Thankfully the lighting was only between clouds and no ground strikes. I was pretty scary. On top of that it was raining. When it got heavy, I hung out under tree's. I did finish my round but my feet were soaked as I was not wearing my waterproof shoes. At this point I was done with hills for the day.
I did have a Church camp on my radar, but elected to skip it and heading to the desert and flat land. Disc-O-Zozo is a medium length course set on a former ball golf course turned into a public park. Unfortunately they are not watering the grass. So the grass and most of the tree's were dead except for the normal desert flora. The course is wide open with mowed fairways and thick grass/weeds rough. Wind was my biggest factor and the fact the temperature was 30 degrees warmer than my last round. The only "good" hole was hole 18 that I posted the picture of. However you can see a family sitting at the waters edge. I was able to throw past them for the putt for a deuce.
Still had some daylight so I drove an hour south to Alamogordo. This is another typical small town city park with 8 baskets and 9 tee boxes. Holes 3 and 7 share a basket. Not many trees either but at least there was grass. I finished my round, filled up my tank with gas, used the restroom and headed back up into the mountains to a National Forest area I had scoped out. The sun was fully down and I managed to find a pull off spot that was not in use. I used my flashlight to scope out a spot and pulled in up the hill to camp for the night.
57 Hours
13 courses
189 holes
Low 50, high 105
1 overnight camp
Up to 1877 courses played
705 of those in Texas
22 of those in New Mexico
Played
Three Little Pigs (9) – Paducah TX
Moon Mountain (18) – Ruidoso NM
Inn of the Mountain Gods (18) – Mescalero NM
FUNky Fox (9) – Ruidoso Downs NM
Wingfield Park (9) – Ruidoso NM
Oso Canyon (18) – Ruidoso NM
Disc-O-Zozo (18) – Carrizozo NM
Alameda Park (9) – Alamogordo NM
Cloudcroft Community Mtn (18) – Cloudcroft NM
Zenith Park (18) – Cloudcroft NM
Sacramento Camp and Conference Center (18) – Sacramento NM
Jaycee Park (18) – Artesia NM
Lake Van (9) – Dexter NM
1st weekend disc golf trip – This is a trip I have been wanting to do for a long time, I knew I needed 2 days to do it.
Got away from the store and drove 4 hours (took an hour just to get past Denton) to Paducah TX, this little 9 hole city park course has been on my radar for a few years and I actually added a little to my drive just to hit this course and knock it out. It's what you would expect from a small town west Texas course. Small Park, no map (even on UDisc) tee posts, baskets. It's mostly pitch and putt with the few trees in the park thrown in. I got there as the sun was setting which was nice. Finished up and drove on to Ruidoso. As I drove into town, I spotted a Walmart and parked there and took a 3 hour nap.
Woke up at 6am and headed over to Moon Mountain. As I drove though town, I noticed all the flood damage along the small creek. Several business and homes were damaged and lots of flood clean up still going on. Even saw the Army Reservists out with sand bags by the race track. About a mile from the course, I spotted the only Elk I saw on the trip. He was right off the road in someone's yard eating their tree.
Moon Mountain, There is a reason it's one of the top 5 courses in New Mexico. This Eric McCabe course is long and major elevation. In fact, UDisc has it at 46 floors. It's too bad the city has not been able to upkeep the courses. They have been busy with Fire and Flood cleanup and disc golf is a low priority right now. Needless to say, the grass is quite long and every throw was like throwing in the rough. I spent about half of my time looking for my disc, even on some of the layup shots. But the course is almost park like in that the area is mostly cleared out except for some small spots of brush. If this course had been cleaned up (mowed) it would have been very pretty. It took me all of 3 hours to play this one. I learned to stop throwing second shots real quick.
I had planned on playing FUNky Fox next, I drove over there and even though I called them and they told me it would be available at 9am, it's wasn't open yet so I headed over to Inn of the Mountain Gods. This course is below the dam of the lake and is in the valley. It does have some elevation, but nothing compared to Moon Mountain. Shorter holes through the woods, then a lot of more open longer holes throwing back. Even a "top of the Mountain" shot where you can't see the basket from the tee. I threw my midrange and still overthrew it past the basket.
I then went back to Weed World to play FUNky Fox. Weed World is exactly what it's name implies. You are not allowed in unless you are 21. I did go inside to see if they had a map and I wanted to see the inside. This use to be a roadside attraction selling trinkets. They turned the "Fox Cave" part into a cool smoking Lounge. If I partook, this would be a cool place to light one up. But I don't and I am actually glad no one was in there smoking at the time. I checked it out and asked if they had a map. Nope, but because they have not been upkeeping the course, they gave me permission to play and didn't charge me the normal $5. It's a par 2 mini disc golf style of course with each hole having a gimmick. Too bad no one is taking care of it, it's a cool little course to throw.
I then headed back to downtown Ruidoso to play the pitch and putt 9 hole course a block away from DD New Mexico. Guess what, a live concert with food vendors was happening in the park. Thankfully only hole 1 was an issue, other than trying to find somewhere to park. I did hit the pin on my drive on hole 2. Great beginner course or a quick round. I did stop at DD New Mexico after my round because I found a parking spot this time. Chatted with them for a bit and headed on to Oso Canyon.
As I was driving down the highway, this is one of the areas of this years fires. It was sad to see all the businesses and homes burned to the ground. The road to Oso Canyon is also close except for local traffic. I had seen that the course was open, so I figured I was "local traffic" and drove around the sign. I had the course to myself. Again, like Moon Mountain, no cleaning of the course has happened this year and I had to really watch my drives or spend a lot of time walking around looking for discs. This was especially true on the more open holes where the grass was thick. The front 9 holes works your way up the mountain, then back down. The back 9 are easier to traverse but still has some elevation. As I was playing a few random thunderstorms blew over. Thankfully the lighting was only between clouds and no ground strikes. I was pretty scary. On top of that it was raining. When it got heavy, I hung out under tree's. I did finish my round but my feet were soaked as I was not wearing my waterproof shoes. At this point I was done with hills for the day.
I did have a Church camp on my radar, but elected to skip it and heading to the desert and flat land. Disc-O-Zozo is a medium length course set on a former ball golf course turned into a public park. Unfortunately they are not watering the grass. So the grass and most of the tree's were dead except for the normal desert flora. The course is wide open with mowed fairways and thick grass/weeds rough. Wind was my biggest factor and the fact the temperature was 30 degrees warmer than my last round. The only "good" hole was hole 18 that I posted the picture of. However you can see a family sitting at the waters edge. I was able to throw past them for the putt for a deuce.
Still had some daylight so I drove an hour south to Alamogordo. This is another typical small town city park with 8 baskets and 9 tee boxes. Holes 3 and 7 share a basket. Not many trees either but at least there was grass. I finished my round, filled up my tank with gas, used the restroom and headed back up into the mountains to a National Forest area I had scoped out. The sun was fully down and I managed to find a pull off spot that was not in use. I used my flashlight to scope out a spot and pulled in up the hill to camp for the night.
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Like the day before, I set my alarm for daybreak to head over to the first course. It had rained that night and I was kind of worried about the road I came up. My little car barely made it as it was. Thankfully it was all downhill and the ground wasn't as muddy as I thought it would be. It was just an 8 min drive to the first course of the day.
Cloudcroft is a small tourist town, they have had one 9 basket course (we 2 tees) for years. They added a 2nd 18 hole course up on the top of a hill behind the city. Lots of up and down hills here too, but most of the holes are on the shorter side. A 150ft hole was tough to reach when you have to throw almost straight up. The locals have built switch back trails with rails on several of the holes making it easy to get up and down. While the tee's were mostly mats, at least most were level to throw from. Again, this is one of New Mexico's highest rated courses. UDisc ranks the top 5 in every state. 3 of New Mexico's are in Ruidoso, this one is 45 miles away and then one near the Texas Boarder. After playing this course, I have now played all 5.
UDisc had the other 9 basket course in town as "unplayable" however I could see the baskets and even some tee signs when I pulled up. They originally had A and B tee pads for each basket. I played the course as an 18 hole course with the UDisc "classic" layout. As I started to play, I understood why it was marked that way. Several of the tees are not marked, the mats were gone, no signs and the line was not there anymore. I still played as best I could. They put a dog park in on holes 6 and 7. Looks like they moved the basket for hole 7 out of the dog park. Church was letting out as I finished and a group was congregating at the Ice Rink that works as a summer pavilion. Hole 9/18 actually throw over the parking lot. Hole 18 my drive hits the road and skips over a Lincoln. From the Tee pad of hole 9, my drive didn't clear the car, it skipped into the door and then rolled around the car to circle 1. And to be honest, I did look for a dent on the car and I could not see where my disc hit it. The owner didn't see it so no issues.
It was a long and winding road to my last course in the Mountains. Sacramento Camp and Conference Center has an 18 hole pitch and putt course on the side of the mountain. You must check in, sign a waiver and they only charge $5. Most holes were under the 200ft range, but the fairways were carved out of the tree's. Looks like a lefty designed the course because I swear every hole was a left to right shot. For a short little course, being on the side of the hill with steep and tight fairways, this course actually plays harder than you would think. Only a few holes did I throw an actual driver, that was mostly for skip shots.
Well, at this point I had hit my main goal. I checked google too see how far to home. I had to open the store in the morning and wanted to get home by midnight. If I left right away, I would get home by 10:30pm. I had time to get in at least one more round. On to Jaycee Park in Artisian. UDisc said this course was under contruction. Well all 18 tee pads were in, all the baskets were in, just no tee signs. Shoot, even the mando's were marked on the course. This is what you would expect for a desert small town course. Very few tree's, mando's on most of the holes that had tree's forcing shots. Shoot, 2 of the holes had the one tree directly in front of you forcing either a left to right or right to left shot at the basket. The course description said "beginner friendly" but it had some longer holes. It was 105 and windy, it was not a fun round. At least it was flat.
After I finished, I figured there was one more course I could hit and still get home at a reasonable time. I didn't want to just leave one course unplayed in the area. Up towards Roswell to play Lake Van in Dexter. Another small town 9 hole course that has some ridiculous holes. Seven of the holes were under 300ft and pitch and putt style. Then you have two 400+ holes that were just bad. Hole 4 threw along the road, actually even throwing straight at the basket goes over the road with nice homes across the street. A hyzer is over the yards. On hot of that, 2 pavilions on the fairway. My drive landed between them and my upshot was THOUGH the 2nd pavilion. Then hole 8, 400+ ft hole with most of that a water carry. Most players can't throw that far, pro's can no problem, but they are not going to play here. I threw off to the left of the lake and my upshot was close to hitting another pavilion.
I actually considered trying to hit one more course in Texas that I thought I could get to by dark, but figured I already had a 7 ½ hour 407 mile drive home. I took off, only stopped for gas and restroom breaks and actually made it home in 7 hours at 1am.
Favorite course of the trip – Going with Cloudcroft Community. Plenty of elevation, but so much work has been done to make this course enjoyable. I even had 4 deer cross my fairway as I was throwing. It's not long, but it's not a pitch and putt either. I was shooting for 3's on most of the holes.
Best course of the trip – Moon Mountain for sure. Oso Canyon would be a close 2nd. I just think the layout for Moon Mountain is more set up to test even the top pro's. There is a reason it's ranked as a top 5 in the state.
Worse Course of the trip – Oh man, where do I start, I was thinking Disc-O-Zozo because it was just a boring course, but then I played Zenith in Cloudcroft, Jaycee in Artisian and Lake Van in Dexter. It's a tough call. Zenith had other park user issues, even as I was playing it. That and it's in bad shape. Jaycee is just a bad designed course. The course flow was horrible. Disc-O-Zozo just didn't have anything to work with but is not a horrible design, just a bad park. But Lake Van, it has bad design all over it. It's a 9 hole course in a small town. Why have wide open holes that are only 250ft and then a 400ft hole throwing down a road? The holes with tree's are super close together so they put mando's on those 3 holes. Then the crazy hole 8 over the lake? I figured it had to be 375 minimum to clear so I didn't even attempt it. I didn't mention hole 9 above, when the tee sign says "parking lot OB" you know it has an issue. Not to mention the tee box is next to the edge of the 4 volley ball courts. My hyzer drive was over the courts and skipped back inbounds of the parking lot. Oh, there were also picnic tables sitting next to the basket, but I don't think that was intentional, I think they were moved there temporarily. I didn't even mention hole 1 that has a mando tree inside of circle 1. Ug, Lake Van wins worse course by far.
Next week, somewhere FLAT
Cloudcroft is a small tourist town, they have had one 9 basket course (we 2 tees) for years. They added a 2nd 18 hole course up on the top of a hill behind the city. Lots of up and down hills here too, but most of the holes are on the shorter side. A 150ft hole was tough to reach when you have to throw almost straight up. The locals have built switch back trails with rails on several of the holes making it easy to get up and down. While the tee's were mostly mats, at least most were level to throw from. Again, this is one of New Mexico's highest rated courses. UDisc ranks the top 5 in every state. 3 of New Mexico's are in Ruidoso, this one is 45 miles away and then one near the Texas Boarder. After playing this course, I have now played all 5.
UDisc had the other 9 basket course in town as "unplayable" however I could see the baskets and even some tee signs when I pulled up. They originally had A and B tee pads for each basket. I played the course as an 18 hole course with the UDisc "classic" layout. As I started to play, I understood why it was marked that way. Several of the tees are not marked, the mats were gone, no signs and the line was not there anymore. I still played as best I could. They put a dog park in on holes 6 and 7. Looks like they moved the basket for hole 7 out of the dog park. Church was letting out as I finished and a group was congregating at the Ice Rink that works as a summer pavilion. Hole 9/18 actually throw over the parking lot. Hole 18 my drive hits the road and skips over a Lincoln. From the Tee pad of hole 9, my drive didn't clear the car, it skipped into the door and then rolled around the car to circle 1. And to be honest, I did look for a dent on the car and I could not see where my disc hit it. The owner didn't see it so no issues.
It was a long and winding road to my last course in the Mountains. Sacramento Camp and Conference Center has an 18 hole pitch and putt course on the side of the mountain. You must check in, sign a waiver and they only charge $5. Most holes were under the 200ft range, but the fairways were carved out of the tree's. Looks like a lefty designed the course because I swear every hole was a left to right shot. For a short little course, being on the side of the hill with steep and tight fairways, this course actually plays harder than you would think. Only a few holes did I throw an actual driver, that was mostly for skip shots.
Well, at this point I had hit my main goal. I checked google too see how far to home. I had to open the store in the morning and wanted to get home by midnight. If I left right away, I would get home by 10:30pm. I had time to get in at least one more round. On to Jaycee Park in Artisian. UDisc said this course was under contruction. Well all 18 tee pads were in, all the baskets were in, just no tee signs. Shoot, even the mando's were marked on the course. This is what you would expect for a desert small town course. Very few tree's, mando's on most of the holes that had tree's forcing shots. Shoot, 2 of the holes had the one tree directly in front of you forcing either a left to right or right to left shot at the basket. The course description said "beginner friendly" but it had some longer holes. It was 105 and windy, it was not a fun round. At least it was flat.
After I finished, I figured there was one more course I could hit and still get home at a reasonable time. I didn't want to just leave one course unplayed in the area. Up towards Roswell to play Lake Van in Dexter. Another small town 9 hole course that has some ridiculous holes. Seven of the holes were under 300ft and pitch and putt style. Then you have two 400+ holes that were just bad. Hole 4 threw along the road, actually even throwing straight at the basket goes over the road with nice homes across the street. A hyzer is over the yards. On hot of that, 2 pavilions on the fairway. My drive landed between them and my upshot was THOUGH the 2nd pavilion. Then hole 8, 400+ ft hole with most of that a water carry. Most players can't throw that far, pro's can no problem, but they are not going to play here. I threw off to the left of the lake and my upshot was close to hitting another pavilion.
I actually considered trying to hit one more course in Texas that I thought I could get to by dark, but figured I already had a 7 ½ hour 407 mile drive home. I took off, only stopped for gas and restroom breaks and actually made it home in 7 hours at 1am.
Favorite course of the trip – Going with Cloudcroft Community. Plenty of elevation, but so much work has been done to make this course enjoyable. I even had 4 deer cross my fairway as I was throwing. It's not long, but it's not a pitch and putt either. I was shooting for 3's on most of the holes.
Best course of the trip – Moon Mountain for sure. Oso Canyon would be a close 2nd. I just think the layout for Moon Mountain is more set up to test even the top pro's. There is a reason it's ranked as a top 5 in the state.
Worse Course of the trip – Oh man, where do I start, I was thinking Disc-O-Zozo because it was just a boring course, but then I played Zenith in Cloudcroft, Jaycee in Artisian and Lake Van in Dexter. It's a tough call. Zenith had other park user issues, even as I was playing it. That and it's in bad shape. Jaycee is just a bad designed course. The course flow was horrible. Disc-O-Zozo just didn't have anything to work with but is not a horrible design, just a bad park. But Lake Van, it has bad design all over it. It's a 9 hole course in a small town. Why have wide open holes that are only 250ft and then a 400ft hole throwing down a road? The holes with tree's are super close together so they put mando's on those 3 holes. Then the crazy hole 8 over the lake? I figured it had to be 375 minimum to clear so I didn't even attempt it. I didn't mention hole 9 above, when the tee sign says "parking lot OB" you know it has an issue. Not to mention the tee box is next to the edge of the 4 volley ball courts. My hyzer drive was over the courts and skipped back inbounds of the parking lot. Oh, there were also picnic tables sitting next to the basket, but I don't think that was intentional, I think they were moved there temporarily. I didn't even mention hole 1 that has a mando tree inside of circle 1. Ug, Lake Van wins worse course by far.
Next week, somewhere FLAT
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1810 Miles
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11 Courses Played
122 holes
2 tires
1 traffic stop
1 running off the road
1 new state
1888 courses played
1st course in Wyoming
706 in Texas
9 in Colorado
340 in Kansas
244 in Oklahoma
Played
Rivers Edge (18) – Iowa Park TX
Willow Creek Park (9) – Lamar CO
Kiowa County Fairgrounds (9) – Eads CO
Flagler Consolidated Schools (9) – Flagler CO
Humbling Chains DGC (10) – Limon CO
Spirit of the Prairie (9) – Deer Trail CO
Wiggins Disc Golf (9) – Wiggins CO
Leaning Rock – The Canyon (18)* - Pine Bluffs WY
Victoria DGC (9) – Victoria KS
Windy Hill (9) – Great Bend KS
Ski Point at Lake Carl Blackwell (18) – Stillwater OK
Another adventure
Ok, so maybe this was a bit too much. I got away from the store just after 4pm and drove though some pretty hard rain to get to Iowa Park to play Rivers Edge. Nathan has been trying to get me out there since he started building it. I was on FB and noticed there was a tournament at the course on Saturday, I figured the course was in perfect shape so I contacted Nathan to play, a little more than an hour before I was going to leave. It was perfect, the rain didn't hit here so the course was dry and in probably the best shape it could be in. Not sure how to describe this course, it's a labor of love for sure. The fairways were all nicely mowed, there were a view OB sticks, but not on every hole. Good variety of shots from shorter technical shots to a couple of longer bomber holes. Even the Elevated tee I posted the picture of. I really really enjoyed my round out here and already want to come back to play again.
After that round, I drove another 400+ miles to Lamar CO and took a nap till daybreak. Willow Creek Park is a small park with a decent little 9 hole course. They do actually water the park so many of the holes had green grass (don't forget, this part of CO is desert) Lots of large old growth tree's probably planted during the depression as the park has several WPA buildings including a tower built in honor of Brigadier General Zebulon Pike who's expedition apparently camped in the area. The course flows well and has a couple of interesting shots. Some of the holes are a little long for a small town course, but that is just my opinion.
Next up was Eads, this is a little pitch and putt course on the side of the county fairgrounds. They do have rubber mats for tees with the hole numbers on them. It was a quick play, I threw my Classic Roc on most of the holes and only missed 2 putts.
Up to Flagler, this is a little school course that is a mess. As you would expect, about ½ the holes throw around the ball fields. 2 of the holes actually throw over playgrounds. The last hole might be the longest, and it throws over a gravel parking area. The basket is actually damaged from someone running into it. But this was not the worst course I play, not even 2nd worst.
Got to play them all, well I knew that the next course just down I-70 in Limon was not in good shape. But I have to check it out to see for myself. So the city put up a nice sign at the entrance to the course. But they also use the area as staging area for dumping trees and other stuff. The course flows around clockwise with long holes. In fact this course is over 5000ft and only 10 holes. The issue was not the fact that there were ZERO trees in this "field" It's the fact that the course has not been mowed in who knows how long. The "rough" was knrr deep of crap I did not enjoy looking though. The fairways were almost just as tall but were slightly grassier. Hole 9 was located on top of a dirt pile, but that cheap Axiom basket was on the ground in pieces. Nice tee signs though. Too bad my legs were itching like crazy when I was done.
On to Deer Trail for another small town course. Across the street from downtown of this VERY small town is Spirit of the Prairie Park. They put in a little 9 hole course that you would expect in a small town. A couple of longer shots in the open and a few shorter shots around the few tree's and bushes. Yes, you throw over other Park amenities like the walking trail and basketball court. It's not much, but it is right off the Interstate and better than what I just dealt with.
North to Wiggins. When UDisc says "Don't bother trying to play" I find it a challenge to see why. I thought Limon was bad. This course was worse. 9 Latitude 64 Pro Baskets going around a nice neighborhood. However I am not sure this has ever been mowed. The UDisc map was wrong. I did find most of the tee posts and the baskets were numbered. Several holes I was shooting for areas I thought I could find my disc faster. By the time I got to hole 9 and the fairway was shoulder high weeds, I threw my putter to the walking path and kept throwing 50ft shots, took and 8 on that hole but played it faster than several of the other holes I had to search for my disc every shot.
Was SO glad to get that course done, now for a 90min drive up to Pine Bluff to play one of the top courses in Wyoming and my first courses in that state. HOWEVER google had me going down gravel county roads. After driving about an hour on these roads, my "low air" alert came on for a tire that I knew was needing to be replaced anyways. It was a slow leak and I stopped and aired it up when it hit 19 pounds. Drove another 10 miles and stopped again to air it up. I had already seen the screw and figured I would just get to the course and fix the flat when I was done. But then I hit a curvy section of the road going up to the plateau. I looked at the tire pressure then looked back at the road, the car was heading off the side with a rather large drop off. I tried to turn but the car was still going straight (gravel road) It was either straighten the car out or risk hitting that drop off and rolling the car. I turned into it and jumped off the road into the wash. The drop of was over a foot, the bottom of the car did scrape on the gravel road. Thankfully the car was still working, the wash was mostly flat and I drove down a little and found a spot I could pull back up on the road. Stopped, checked the car for damage and could not see any. I was only a few miles from the course so I headed over there. Every time I turned I could hear rocks falling from under my car. If I hit the breaks or accelerated, rocks were coming out from my car (oh, when I hit Wyoming, the road became paved) Anyways, I got to the course with 12 pounds of pressure and just went to play The Canyon course first.
55 Hours
11 Courses Played
122 holes
2 tires
1 traffic stop
1 running off the road
1 new state
1888 courses played
1st course in Wyoming
706 in Texas
9 in Colorado
340 in Kansas
244 in Oklahoma
Played
Rivers Edge (18) – Iowa Park TX
Willow Creek Park (9) – Lamar CO
Kiowa County Fairgrounds (9) – Eads CO
Flagler Consolidated Schools (9) – Flagler CO
Humbling Chains DGC (10) – Limon CO
Spirit of the Prairie (9) – Deer Trail CO
Wiggins Disc Golf (9) – Wiggins CO
Leaning Rock – The Canyon (18)* - Pine Bluffs WY
Victoria DGC (9) – Victoria KS
Windy Hill (9) – Great Bend KS
Ski Point at Lake Carl Blackwell (18) – Stillwater OK
Another adventure
Ok, so maybe this was a bit too much. I got away from the store just after 4pm and drove though some pretty hard rain to get to Iowa Park to play Rivers Edge. Nathan has been trying to get me out there since he started building it. I was on FB and noticed there was a tournament at the course on Saturday, I figured the course was in perfect shape so I contacted Nathan to play, a little more than an hour before I was going to leave. It was perfect, the rain didn't hit here so the course was dry and in probably the best shape it could be in. Not sure how to describe this course, it's a labor of love for sure. The fairways were all nicely mowed, there were a view OB sticks, but not on every hole. Good variety of shots from shorter technical shots to a couple of longer bomber holes. Even the Elevated tee I posted the picture of. I really really enjoyed my round out here and already want to come back to play again.
After that round, I drove another 400+ miles to Lamar CO and took a nap till daybreak. Willow Creek Park is a small park with a decent little 9 hole course. They do actually water the park so many of the holes had green grass (don't forget, this part of CO is desert) Lots of large old growth tree's probably planted during the depression as the park has several WPA buildings including a tower built in honor of Brigadier General Zebulon Pike who's expedition apparently camped in the area. The course flows well and has a couple of interesting shots. Some of the holes are a little long for a small town course, but that is just my opinion.
Next up was Eads, this is a little pitch and putt course on the side of the county fairgrounds. They do have rubber mats for tees with the hole numbers on them. It was a quick play, I threw my Classic Roc on most of the holes and only missed 2 putts.
Up to Flagler, this is a little school course that is a mess. As you would expect, about ½ the holes throw around the ball fields. 2 of the holes actually throw over playgrounds. The last hole might be the longest, and it throws over a gravel parking area. The basket is actually damaged from someone running into it. But this was not the worst course I play, not even 2nd worst.
Got to play them all, well I knew that the next course just down I-70 in Limon was not in good shape. But I have to check it out to see for myself. So the city put up a nice sign at the entrance to the course. But they also use the area as staging area for dumping trees and other stuff. The course flows around clockwise with long holes. In fact this course is over 5000ft and only 10 holes. The issue was not the fact that there were ZERO trees in this "field" It's the fact that the course has not been mowed in who knows how long. The "rough" was knrr deep of crap I did not enjoy looking though. The fairways were almost just as tall but were slightly grassier. Hole 9 was located on top of a dirt pile, but that cheap Axiom basket was on the ground in pieces. Nice tee signs though. Too bad my legs were itching like crazy when I was done.
On to Deer Trail for another small town course. Across the street from downtown of this VERY small town is Spirit of the Prairie Park. They put in a little 9 hole course that you would expect in a small town. A couple of longer shots in the open and a few shorter shots around the few tree's and bushes. Yes, you throw over other Park amenities like the walking trail and basketball court. It's not much, but it is right off the Interstate and better than what I just dealt with.
North to Wiggins. When UDisc says "Don't bother trying to play" I find it a challenge to see why. I thought Limon was bad. This course was worse. 9 Latitude 64 Pro Baskets going around a nice neighborhood. However I am not sure this has ever been mowed. The UDisc map was wrong. I did find most of the tee posts and the baskets were numbered. Several holes I was shooting for areas I thought I could find my disc faster. By the time I got to hole 9 and the fairway was shoulder high weeds, I threw my putter to the walking path and kept throwing 50ft shots, took and 8 on that hole but played it faster than several of the other holes I had to search for my disc every shot.
Was SO glad to get that course done, now for a 90min drive up to Pine Bluff to play one of the top courses in Wyoming and my first courses in that state. HOWEVER google had me going down gravel county roads. After driving about an hour on these roads, my "low air" alert came on for a tire that I knew was needing to be replaced anyways. It was a slow leak and I stopped and aired it up when it hit 19 pounds. Drove another 10 miles and stopped again to air it up. I had already seen the screw and figured I would just get to the course and fix the flat when I was done. But then I hit a curvy section of the road going up to the plateau. I looked at the tire pressure then looked back at the road, the car was heading off the side with a rather large drop off. I tried to turn but the car was still going straight (gravel road) It was either straighten the car out or risk hitting that drop off and rolling the car. I turned into it and jumped off the road into the wash. The drop of was over a foot, the bottom of the car did scrape on the gravel road. Thankfully the car was still working, the wash was mostly flat and I drove down a little and found a spot I could pull back up on the road. Stopped, checked the car for damage and could not see any. I was only a few miles from the course so I headed over there. Every time I turned I could hear rocks falling from under my car. If I hit the breaks or accelerated, rocks were coming out from my car (oh, when I hit Wyoming, the road became paved) Anyways, I got to the course with 12 pounds of pressure and just went to play The Canyon course first.
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