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Bell & Howard Chevrolet DGC

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BrotherDave
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Experience: 16.8 years 192 played 189 reviews
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Part This Chevy Out 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 18, 2016 Played the course:once

Pros:

Front 9 is like disc golf with training wheels, a good place to learn how to play. It's wide open with holes ranging from really short to decently long so you can see how your new driver behaves. There are a few holes where trees are around and they're relevant but not much of an obstacle except for hole 3 (which is still pretty easy if you know how to skip a disc).

The front 9 is also really easy to navigate and you can knock it out in no time. The course basically loops around, running parallel to the street on one side and then coming back by running parallel to the creek. Old but decent concrete tees keep it worthwhile.

The back 9 gets a lot more technical and a decent test of your trick shots. I think it's hole 13 for example that's a par 5 and absolutely would be a challenge with its many low-ceiling trees and winding fairway...if you didn't know how to throw a roller at all. I threw two bad rollers and had an easy chance at Eagle. Whereas the front 9 is hard to get off the fairway, in stark contrast the back is a scrambler's paradise. Throw a get-out-of-jail shot here, a roller there, turbo-putt, etc.

Cons:

The back 9 is fairly dumb. As easy as the front is, the back would be the same except the designer ramped up the flukey factor. Some of these holes are pretty decent/fun but there's disc hiding rough everywhere (lots of cedars too) and the lines get really tight and angled oddly. Like the hole after the par 5 with all the short, low-ceiling trees that is basically u-shaped. The only way this is a par 3 is if you can turn around on the tee and throw overhand over the trees and skip the fairway altogether.

It's hard enough finding the back 9 but then you find it overlapping heavily with a mountain bike trail which leads to lots of navigational headaches. You get to throw down a road for one hole, tee off park roads a couple of times, and walk across hole 12's fairway after hole 18 (said hole also throws over a park road). It's not really ideal land for putting in a disc golf course but it could still be better.

Other Thoughts:

I felt like Goldilocks playing this course. The front was too easy, the back was too hard. Well, hard's not the word because it ain't that hard just annoyingly designed and full of fun-sucking vegetation. Not of enough holes were just right in terms of having a balance between fun and challenge. Your front 9 challenge is to birdie every hole and your back 9 challenge is to leave with all your discs. Throw in all the headaches of getting around the back 9 and it's just not a really worthwhile endeavor. Play here once and just skip it unless you live nearby and need a quick practice round.
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