Dover, NH

Bellamy Park

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Jeriicco
Experience: 19.2 years 23 played 4 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Bellamy 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 10, 2012 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

-Very private course through the woods, quiet, peaceful and scenic
-Large parking lot with practice basket.
-Travels along a river that plays into a couple holes adding to the scenic feel of the course.
-Easy to find the next hole.
-Several ace opportunities
-Hole distances have nice variation, has some nice long distance drives and shorter ace opportunity drives.

Cons:

-This course can be a little muddy in a few areas. Wear boots in the spring.
-This course can get pretty busy during peak hours.
-If you throw a disc in the river it can get swept away in the currents.
-This course makes it easy to lose your disc, the river, blind drives and heavy wooded areas can make your plastic disappear.
-Little hole variation, mostly plays through the woods with only a couple drives in open space.

Other Thoughts:

Bellamy park is a beautiful area. The course follows a river and trail that travels through the woods. The first couple holes the river is on full display and on the second hole if you drive right of the fairway you will end up in the drink. Sometimes the river is raging and the disc is gone, other times you can fish it out. the next several holes carve through the woods with some pretty challenging fairways to hit as tree obstacles are aplenty. Hole nine is a short downhill drive with ace potential but watch out for the water hazard. Hole 11 is a fun power drive down hill towards the river, if your approach is to strong go fish. The back half of the course takes you deep into the woods with a lot of tree hazards. This course is not great for beginners and can be a good challenge to all players.
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tcolby
Experience: 4 played 4 reviews
3.00 star(s)

2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 13, 2012 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Solid baskets, tee boxes, good lines to throw threw, friendly players and developers. This course was my home course for a few months so I played often. It was nice to play without paying too!

Cons:

There aren't really any cons accept I would have enjoyed more par 4's but it's definitely a solid course!

Other Thoughts:

Looking forward to get back out there to play this summer. I have yet to see it without snow and with leaves!
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dsm767
Experience: 20.9 years 16 played 12 reviews
3.00 star(s)

This course will test your limits in EVERY way 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Feb 1, 2011 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

A FREE course located right next to the soccer field at the Dover High School in NH. Lots of places to park, right when you pull in bear right for closer parking. This is a course with a few ace ops and will reward a skilled player.

The fairways are tighter than tight, most of the locals who have had success at the course stick to side arm and over hand shots not just for tee shots, but, putts and approaches as well; using 150 weight discs. If this is a style that you are familiar with you should have no problem navigating the fairways.

I have seen this course looking both good and bad. With the replacement of the ancient beat up practice basket at the start of the course things have seemed to improve. Although, during the course of the season and as it gets closer to fall, believe me when I say that the upkeep goes down; the signs wear fast and with the movement of the baskets its hard to tell how truthful the signs are if you don't play here religiously. However, volunteers run the course and for how much has been put into the course the fairways are kept up as well as can be expected and there are littered trash cans and benches to rest on as well.

Overall, this course will change the way you look at the game and faithfully show you what you need to be working on in your game.

Cons:

Baskets change location on a relatively weekly basis which makes for an even more challenging course; they know how to keep a player on their toes.

Because of the tight fair ways and having relatively no open holes, this is a hard course for RHBH players. To add to this the par is a low even 60 not giving you much room for error. If you mess up a shot keep your composure and get to the basket in as few strokes as possible, or suffer the consequences.

The course is free as I have stated so certain amenities are not provided as they would be for a paid private course; simply put there is no club house, and nowhere locally to buy discs outside the Portsmouth mall area at the Dicks Sporting Goods. For bathrooms, there are a few port-a-potties located at the top of the parking lot closer to the soccer field.

Other Thoughts:

Holes one and two are water holes. The average player should have no problem making it over the river from the tee on the first hole, but the long fairway on hole 2 sports an embankment on the right hand side that is steep and the trees are thin, discs tend to slip through.
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kanekasey9
Experience: 15.9 years 18 played 3 reviews
3.00 star(s)

2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 17, 2010 Played the course:once

Pros:

The pro tee boxes are well marked. The fair ways are clear, the baskets are easy to find, good mix of shots. Alot of trees makes it a good challanging course.

Cons:

A lot of little sticks and branches on the ground to fall on.

Other Thoughts:

Was on vaction in Maine and drove down to play this course and will go again.
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tracrat78
Experience: 15.9 years 23 played 4 reviews
3.00 star(s)

2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 17, 2010 Played the course:once

Pros:

good fairways well defined
lots of technical shots with some good long shots
the mix is good
long tee boxes are mostly good

Cons:

difficult almost imposible to follow the amature tees
available maps are way off amiture tees 4,5,6, are nowhare to be found on the maps
some sinage is missing
small 1 foot long sticks everywhere (maybe from recent storms) makes walking and throwing difficult

Other Thoughts:

hard to find from rd passed it the first time by
came up from ct and worth makeing the trip again
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Tippie4
Experience: 21.8 years 32 played 4 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Bellamy Park 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Aug 7, 2009 Played the course:once

Pros:

• Nice mix of technical and simple holes
• It's a course that is all about putting it through a window, and not hitting the tree.
• Looks like some work was done on the course, the map show holes reused and baskets used more then once that was not the case there where 18 holes. I was pleasantly surprised.
• Free to play and easy to get to

Cons:

• Natural tee boxes are a mess, they are boxed in like the plan was to pour slabs but they fill it with dirt, one hole was pour slab, recommend continuing.
• The front nine had trash all over it.
• There seems to be a lot of clean up left, lots 2 -3 foot twigs all over the course my guess is from the ice storm.
• I would like to see some longer holes, most where in the 250 - 350 range.

Other Thoughts:

As a 1st time player on this course I got lost a few times, also had to ask myself what tee or basket do I use. The1st tee box is hard to find but if you read review before going you will know its by the parking lot
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