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Watertown, MA

Arsenal on the Charles

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Experience: 6 years 7 played 3 reviews
0.50 star(s)

High-rent Apartment Development and Outdoor Mall! 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 1, 2021 Played the course:once

Pros:

Great Shopping and expensive apartments, if you're into that. Not much else to say in this field.

Cons:

After much development between 2019-2021, most of this is now the extended outdoor Arsenal Mall, and a set of high-rent apartment buildings.

The only baskets I could find were wedged in between buildings and parking garages, and a busy four-lane surface road (N. Beacon St.), which boasts a precipitous slope ending in a 10-foot tall iron fence, protecting you from retrieving your mis-thrown disc. Pine needles abound.

Seconding the review saying it's good for close-range practice but not much else. I tried long-range practice on an adjacent 100x100-yard square of empty lawn next to a parking garage, and got a disc stuck 40 feet up in a pine tree. (I lost a second disc trying to retrieve the first. Thankfully a local resident called me a few days later, once a storm had blown them back onto the field.)

Other Thoughts:

Come to think of it, I didn't even see any tee pads! I did find four very legit baskets, and none of them were playable because you'd be likely to break a windshield or whack a pedestrian. It was only laughable because I live so close by and never knew there was a course there in the first place.

I would love to see this course revived someplace else but closeby. As it is now, it's historical in nature. Maybe archaeologists will find the missing baskets thousands of years from now.
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2tones
Experience: 7.9 years 57 played 2 reviews
0.50 star(s)

Designed by Idiots, managed by corporate facilities 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Oct 1, 2015 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Close to Boston
High quality baskets
Plenty of parking
Free

Cons:

Dangerous!!
No signs/pads
Only 5 baskets
Multi Use space on a corporate campus
Many holes play on top of each other

Other Thoughts:

I played this course the first week it went in back in 2014, and it has declined even since. At the start, it would have been rated ~1.5 and now I give it .5

As others have said, this course is very poorly designed for DG. What it is though, is a great pitch and putt safari practice area. For everything but drivers, you can test the majority of your game while reducing the risk. I don't "play" this course anymore, but I do practice here as you can make up plenty of short looks that don't risk damage.

See my course conditions for more info.
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Hector Chain
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Experience: 15.9 years 222 played 191 reviews
0.50 star(s)

Bad Idea Jeans 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Oct 13, 2014 Played the course:once

Pros:

This is now the closest course to Boston.

The baskets are legit, double-chained.

That's about it for the pros.

Cons:

The course is not safe. I can deal with walking paths intersecting with fairways; that happens. But when you have two holes playing next to a daycare outdoor play area, that's not smart. The "mando" sign isn't going to keep a newbie from griplocking a drive into the playground. In fact, one of those holes (5?) appears to have been removed or stolen. Then there are the holes playing next to North Beacon St. Those moving cars are not a problem as long as you can throw with no turnover or fade. So yeah. If moving cars aren't your kind of target, don't worry. There are several holes next to parking lots to give you stationary objects as well. And then there are the buildings several feet from baskets and fairways.

The tee signs don't always help you figure out which way the fairway is going. This shouldn't be hard when the holes are typically under 300 feet (or 100 yards, as they signs say). The fairways play back on each other, so if there were more than a few people playing, you'd be throwing at each other.

There are no tee pads.

Other Thoughts:

I felt really uncomfortable throwing a lot of these holes, particularly around the daycare. I urge the designers to rethink this course. I'm dying to have more courses within the 128 loop, but this isn't the way to do it. There is a wooded area behind hole 3 that might be suited for some good holes. It's more fun to avoid trees than kids, cars, and windows.
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