Carlyle City Park reviews
6
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Sometimes a course needs to be retired and reworked altogether 2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:Aug 24, 2020
Played the course:once
Pros:
It's a city park course with excellent MVP baskets.
For a tiny course there is good use of elevation.
For a tiny course there is good use of elevation.
Cons:
Boy of boy. The issues with this course.....
1. Basket location/Teepad location. - It's really awful here, My drive on Hole 1 ended on Hole 2 teepad, inside circle 1. I also landed on the hole 3 teepad from Hole 2. If fact, with the exception of 7 and subsequently the hole 8 teepad; I think every basket is within circle 2 for the previous hole's drive. That's pretty bad.
2. dirt pads, basically would be unplayable if it rained. as it
hasn't rained in awhile I was fine today.
3. Hole design. Well well well. We all know the 2 famous Rec Level / amateur disc golf course designers. Mr Forehand and Mr Backhand. It goes like this. Mr Backhand likes to put courses in that feature a lot of RHBH hyzers because that's what they throw. Then there's Mr. Forehand who comes along and says....hey hey hey....what don't you just do everything opposite that way it'll be challenging. Most folks would say, lets have a mixture. Not these folks. Mr Forehand must have compromising photos of the town's mayor. Every optimal line on this course with the exception of Hole 8 is forehand. If you have a 250ft forehand or a very solid turnover game you should shoot -5 or better. if you don''t you will be faced with low ceilings and/or much more difficult lines on most of the course.
1. Basket location/Teepad location. - It's really awful here, My drive on Hole 1 ended on Hole 2 teepad, inside circle 1. I also landed on the hole 3 teepad from Hole 2. If fact, with the exception of 7 and subsequently the hole 8 teepad; I think every basket is within circle 2 for the previous hole's drive. That's pretty bad.
2. dirt pads, basically would be unplayable if it rained. as it
hasn't rained in awhile I was fine today.
3. Hole design. Well well well. We all know the 2 famous Rec Level / amateur disc golf course designers. Mr Forehand and Mr Backhand. It goes like this. Mr Backhand likes to put courses in that feature a lot of RHBH hyzers because that's what they throw. Then there's Mr. Forehand who comes along and says....hey hey hey....what don't you just do everything opposite that way it'll be challenging. Most folks would say, lets have a mixture. Not these folks. Mr Forehand must have compromising photos of the town's mayor. Every optimal line on this course with the exception of Hole 8 is forehand. If you have a 250ft forehand or a very solid turnover game you should shoot -5 or better. if you don''t you will be faced with low ceilings and/or much more difficult lines on most of the course.
Other Thoughts:
I've said it before in other reviews and I'll say it again here. Scouts should not be designing/building disc golf courses. I don't know when this became a thing. They almost never have real pads and typically have poor design and worst of all is they ruin a potential opportunity for a properly designed disc golf course to go in that park or in the town. Yes its obviously cheaper than paying a professional or using Gateway and their design services/baskets if you are close-ish to St. Louis but cheaper is almost never better. And now the city has to maintain that course. It will now be even more difficult for a proper course to be installed because that would be a 2nd course for the city to maintain. This is why these Scouts courses have to stop. Unless they are only retrofitting an existing course with baskets and/or new pads. It's ok short term but terrible long term.
The sad thing is this course has great baskets on an otherwise crummy course.
Sometimes another course isn't always a good thing. Improving an unplayed/unpopular course is great is you hire someone for the re-design who knows what they are doing. Using funds to buy nice baskets only to have the course design stink doesn't make sense.
This park could have held 6-7 good holes but they sandwiched 9 in. More isn't always better especially when it means good drives can land on other teepads!
The sad thing is this course has great baskets on an otherwise crummy course.
Sometimes another course isn't always a good thing. Improving an unplayed/unpopular course is great is you hire someone for the re-design who knows what they are doing. Using funds to buy nice baskets only to have the course design stink doesn't make sense.
This park could have held 6-7 good holes but they sandwiched 9 in. More isn't always better especially when it means good drives can land on other teepads!
5
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OldGolfer
Experience:
19 played
19 reviews
A Very Nice 9-Hole Course 2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Updated:
Played on:Jul 23, 2017
Played the course:2-4 times
Pros:
Nice pins -- they look almost new.
Very smart use of a relatively small park ... and I think pretty much all of the course is in the shade!
Not super challenging, but not a cakewalk for this player at all.
Very smart use of a relatively small park ... and I think pretty much all of the course is in the shade!
Not super challenging, but not a cakewalk for this player at all.
Cons:
Earthen tees -- but I can live with those -- no big deal.
Other Thoughts:
A very nice, well laid out course. Very smart use of the limited space.
On 8/17/18 I lowered my rating from 3 to 2.5 -- that DOES NOT mean I think any less of the course. In fact, I played it a week or so ago. Play this course! A "decent/typical" course is not a badge of shame.
On 8/17/18 I lowered my rating from 3 to 2.5 -- that DOES NOT mean I think any less of the course. In fact, I played it a week or so ago. Play this course! A "decent/typical" course is not a badge of shame.
2
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chevy_cowboy
Experience:
7.1 years
12 played
1 reviews
Recently updated with new MVP baskets 2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:Apr 24, 2017
Played the course:2-4 times
Pros:
I noticed several of the older reviews mentioned outdated baskets, I wanted to report that the baskets were all replaced last fall with new MVP Black Hole Portals.
My wife and I are fairly new players just learning the game and this course is perfect for us. Nice layout with some challenge but not crazy difficulty.
My wife and I are fairly new players just learning the game and this course is perfect for us. Nice layout with some challenge but not crazy difficulty.
Cons:
There's a couple small creeks through this park and mosquitoes have been bad around them a couple of evenings we played, bring some repellent!
Other Thoughts:
For those with small children, there's a really nice playground right in the middle of this 9 hole course. it's a great place to let the kids play while you disc golf and can still keep an eye on them.
2
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KoenigStern
Experience:
8.7 years
31 played
6 reviews
Could use some work 2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:Jun 13, 2012
Played the course:once
Pros:
- Variable elevation makes for interesting shots
- Beautiful park setting
- Bathrooms and water fountains available
- Nearby pool if you wish to take a dip after a hot and intense game of disc golf
- nice flow to course.
- Beautiful park setting
- Bathrooms and water fountains available
- Nearby pool if you wish to take a dip after a hot and intense game of disc golf
- nice flow to course.
Cons:
- Signs are 4x4 pieces of wood with hole number and distance, but doesn't really clearly indicate where the basket is.
- Dirt tee pads. #2's pad was DOWNHILL, so tee-ed off on the sidewalk right next to it
- Tees also don't say which side of it to start from.
- Single-chained baskets
- Plays through park area, may be congested if there were any pavilions being used for parties
- Dirt tee pads. #2's pad was DOWNHILL, so tee-ed off on the sidewalk right next to it
- Tees also don't say which side of it to start from.
- Single-chained baskets
- Plays through park area, may be congested if there were any pavilions being used for parties
Other Thoughts:
Not that bad of a course. The holes themselves are fun and my only REAL complaints are the actual baskets and tee pads. The single chains bug the heck out of me as some putt shots go through. If the park were to upgrade above mentioned, my rating for this course would be a 4. Not a course to go out of your way to play until if they were to upgrade it.
