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Ashland, MO

Ashland City Park

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Surge5
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Experience: 9.8 years 167 played 167 reviews
0.50 star(s)

Why Did I Do That?

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 8, 2024 Played the course:once

Pros:

Six yellow DisCatcher baskets mostly set in a small clearing of the park, with a concrete tee and tee sign for each hole. The distance is listed in yards which... isn't really an issue if you can multiply by 3.

Hole 1 is actually quite good. A low ceiling 100ft off the tee with a slight uphill as you move toward the pin, the right side is covered with trees. It's an interesting line.

A large berm covered in trees guards the pin of 4. Makes for a very tough birdie look if you get the distance.

There is at least a decent bit of length. Holes 1, 4, and 6 are all over 300ft.

Cons:

The rest of the course is surrounded by other park infrastructure and... well here we go:
- I complimented hole 1, but there is a walking path very close by to the left of the fairway and behind the pin.
- The basket of 2 and tee of 3 are in a dog park. And the gate to exit to the basket of 3 is locked shut. It's also possible for your drive on 6 to end up in here as well if you hit a tree.
- There's some sort of retention pond with "NO TRESPASSING" signs on the fence just 15ft from the basket of 3, and the right line of 4 would carry all the way over it.
- A creek on 5 and 6 is just deep/wide enough to where I needed my retriever to keep from getting my shoes soaked through to get my Wraith back... and both holes' baskets sit only 10ft away from the creek.

If for some reason this course got busy, the tee/basket proximity is way too close on the last four tees.

Hole 5's dogleg is far too tight and the wide left side hyzers may end up with a disc going into the creek.

Obviously if the dog park is in use holes 2 and possibly 3 are no-gos. Luckily it was empty and I got a great skip off of one of the sunken tractor tires to park hole 2.

Other Thoughts:

When this was a new, unobstructed course I'm sure it was fine. The difficulty of 1 would be a little out of place, but so be it. But now with the dog park, I got back to the car questioning "why did I do that?" ...then remembered I'm a hardcore course bagger. Which is what you need to be to have any reason to stop here. 1 and 4 are moderately difficult, and the rest are dog water.
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Three Putt
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Experience: 29.4 years 152 played 127 reviews
0.50 star(s)

I'm gonna buy me a dog, 'cause I need a friend now. I'm gonna buy me a dog, my girl, my girl don't love me no how.

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 26, 2023 Played the course:once

Pros:

This was a scout project course, and the kid got funding for DISCatchers and concrete tees. The course also has tee signs (small ones that oddly giving distances in yards, but OK) so it clicks off the basic things you need to be a disc golf course.

Cons:

Avoiding the elephant in the room, the area the course is set on is too small and not appropriate for disc golf. Aside from hole 1, the tees are too close to the last basket played to be safe. Hole 1 runs parallel to a walking path that is basically the left edge of the fairway, creating a conflict with people walking on the path. There is a fenced off retention area with "NO TRESPASSING" signs that is very much in play on holes 3-4, creating an unnecessary lost disc possibility on a recreational course. Hole 5 sets the basket behind a wall of trees/underbrush with no route to the basket cut through, you have to throw toward the tee for hole 6 to get in position to have a putt. All of the holes are too close together due to the small piece of land in use.

Hole 6 is a 354' shot with a totally unrealistic route to the basket. This is largely due to the elephant in the room; at some point a dog park was installed over the course. Literally, they put a dog park over 1/3 of a disc golf course and didn't move anything. Hole two has you tee INTO the dog park; the basket it literally inside. The tee for hole 3 is also inside, and the gate that would let you out toward the basket is chained shut. You have to walk out the way you came and walk all the way around the dog park to get to the basket. The fence creates a 3'-4' narrow path between the dog park and a creek, and that very narrow path makes up a lot of the fairway for hole 6 now. There is basically a 15' gap you have to hit between a fence and the woods with a creek running up the middle. Remove the dog park and it's already a poorly designed hole for a recreational disc golf course. Add in the dog park, and it's one of the worst holes I've ever seen.

Other Thoughts:

After playing the course in Salem I thought "At least I won't have to wonder what the worst course I ever played was again." Ashland tested that. It's really, really bad.

In the end I did rate it a .5; there are concrete tees and good baskets set to the flawed original design. The dog park is inexcusable, though. Once that was in place, the course should have been pulled.
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Cujo
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Experience: 29.9 years 254 played 31 reviews
0.50 star(s)

Welcome to Night Vale beware of the DogPark 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 8, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

-Amazingly there are concrete pads here.
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Cons:

First off. The Dog Park was installed after the course was built. The designers did not know, I assume, the city would do that...At that point the course should have been removed and the moved. But it wasn't so On with the Review!!!!

well lets see. How bad could a 6 hole course be. There is a hilarious sign I believe pointed out in another review that said the course was designed with input from disc golfers...why would you have to say that.......wellllllll

I went out of my way to find this course after reading reviews bc I thought it couldn't be that bad. It may not have been when it was built but I promise it is now. It's that bad. It's laughable.

Hole 1. The photos on the site here look lovely don't they. Too bad trees Grow a lot in 8 years...there is a walking path that makes the entire hole play on a peninsula. VERY low ceiling that makes a roller or miracle shot over trees heading towards walkers the only way to even touch circle 2, much less have a legitimate putt.
Hole 2. I Shi*t you not. The tee pad is on one side of a fenced in dog park and the pin is INSIDE the dog park under the largest tree with branches that make an 8ft putt impossible. sure, let's throw into the dog park; it's not like dogs like to see objects flying in the air and then go chase them.

Hole 3. Now remember the Dog park is fenced in. The next pad is also inside the dog park forcing you to throw out and potentially over a fenced of retention pond with Huge no trespassing signs everywhere. You can very easily land in there. now you'd think I'll just walk through the dog park out the other opening to where the basket is....except its locked! so you have to walk the opposite direction back out of the dog park then all the way around.

Hole 4. A good a normal disc golf hole. Technical hyzer or flick required as the basket is very well hidden by a huge overgrown tree. not much in the way...except the giant retention pond that has warning signs all over it and any and decent shot is going to be throw directly over the area. what could go wrong....

Hole 5. Another normal hole. Just throw directly into the woods and hope you punch through to the basket....Oh you say, your disc golf course doesn't have any hole where the best line is straight into a wall of trees and hopefully you penetrate 10 ft into the woods.....odd.

Hole 6. This hole....I...don't know. even without the dog park it would have been ridiculous because you're throwing directly at the baskets for holes 2 and 3. I will go out on a limb right here.....This is the worst hole in disc golf on any course I have ever played. That's over 120 courses at last count. You have throw a shot in between the dog park fence and the forest line. This is about a 15ft tunnel which is very difficult. It's even more difficult with that big tree in the dog park spreading it's limbs like the womping willow from harry potter..you remember, the one basically covering the pin for hole 2 making it unplayable..... If you hit the tree and drop in the dog park you have to walk all the way around the entrance by hole 2 pad then try to throw out then, hope you don't disappear into the woods, then walk all the way back around. it's bananas. Oh there is also a creek/ditch that is right in the fairway in circle 1 so a great shot can land in it. This hole is like a parody of bad design and really needs a case study or a piece on the back page of the PDGA magazine. A segment of the magazine could be started call "What the What Course design" and every week you feature a hole and dissect the issues.

Other Thoughts:

I knew this was going to be bad and it was. I cannot imagine if there were actually people with dogs in the dog park. literally 1/2 the course would be unplayable due to safety concerns. Still not as Dangerous as the equally hilarious course in Salem MO which has you throwing over playgrounds and literally through a family pavilion.
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Cerealman
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Experience: 15.8 years 585 played 178 reviews
0.50 star(s)

Small course = large mistake 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 3, 2017 Played the course:once

Pros:

This course is "only" six holes. Thankfully.

Cons:

From the unusual tee signs to the very short teepads to the ridiculous hole designs to the annoying basket locations to the menacing "No Trespassing" out-of-bounds fence, this course is a disaster.

The first hole offers a reasonable fairway - at least until nearing the basket - and is the only "decent" hole on the course. After that, the course design resembles something the Three Stooges would have created, complete with all the nonsensical hijinks.

Holes #2 through #6 overlap in their real estate usage as the five holes are shoehorned into an area unfit for more than two holes. Having multiple groups on the course concurrently would be unsafe.

Holes #2 through #4 feature a ludicrously located fenced-off area on the right side of the fairway that includes a No Trespassing sign. No baskets should be placed so near this obstacle.

Despite their short distance, the baskets for holes #2, #4 and #5 are difficult (or impossible) to see from the teepad due their maddening placement just a few feet behind a large tree or densely wooded area.

The tee signs include the distance in yards, a la golf style.

Other Thoughts:

A disc golf course should never have been installed here. The space is inadequate and the design is awful. Small-town parks sometimes specialize in offering fun courses for novices, but this course is neither fun nor appropriate for novices.

Don't waste your time here. If you're seeking to bag courses, bring a couple discs you don't like and race through the preposterous course.

Of the more than 100 courses I've been blessed to play, this course is definitely the worst. A rating of 0.0 would be more accurate, but unfortunately, the course doesn't fall under the "unplayable" descriptor, so it receives a 0.5 rating.
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