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Angola, IN

Commons Park DGC

3.755(based on 10 reviews)
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BogeyNoMore
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Experience: 20 years 484 played 183 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Long and Hilly 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 6, 2021 Played the course:once

Pros:

Nice, clean, multi-use park that tries to segregate the DG from most other activities.

• Variety: Decent - Very nice range of distances with four holes clocking in over 500', three more at 400+ ft, and yet another three at 350+. A few ace runs and birdie opportunities for noodle arms are sprinkled in.
The course plays a bit on the longish side, but it's mostly open with a few trees to avoid, so if you like to bomb, you'll enjoy playing here. The sparsely treed landscape does what it can, but most holes allow a variety of routes. This means not much is required in terms of shot shaping (which is what keeps me from marking it higher in terms of variety). Might get better as trees grow in on the front 9, but without a crystal ball, I can only rate what I played.

• Elevation: Very good - by far my favorite feature of this course is the rolling terrain. Elevation changes from mild to very significant on at least half the holes. Don't expect massive elevation changes, but IMHO, this course would be fairly boring if it were flat.

• Challenge: Decent - Mostly in terms of distance and dealing with wind if it's blowing. If you can throw 350 or better without working hard, and can place upshots in the circle, you'll eat this course up. If you can only manage 300 off the tee, strokes will start to add up.

• Equipment: Decent - Concrete tees are adequate, and the Mach VII baskets are fine. Tee posts are pretty easy to spot from a distance, and provide the basics.

• Aesthetics: Good - Rolling terrain and open landscape make for some nice sightlines. Expect a pleasant, peaceful stroll, up and down grassy hill sides.

• Fun-Factor: Decent - Guess it depends what you prefer. This course will appeal to players who like to air it out and/or enjoy elevation changes. If line shaping is your thing, you may not have as much fun. Reasonably good for beginners if they don't mind piling up strokes on long holes. This course won't beat them down, and there's not a lot of opportunity for lost discs. Plus it's the kind of course that will encourage beginners to improve technique to gain distance.

• Routing/Nav: Decent - Nothing struck me as out of the ordinary here.

• Responsibly designed. Does a decent job of keeping discs away from the walking path.

Cons:

Nothing glaringly wrong, but...

• Without any holes that say, "Hit this line," the course started to feel repetitive halfway through. That feeling never left me

• #15 teased me by letting me think, "Finally, a couple of woods holes!" ...but no.

Other Thoughts:

Park style disc golf that leans heavily on rolling terrain and distance as the primary features.

Came across couple of groups that had no clue they were walking up a fairway, but it wasn't a prevalent issue.

The only real potential issue I foresee is on a couple of the uphill holes, where the hill limits your line of sight and it's possible to throw farther than you can see.

Keep in mind that only disc golfers see "fairways." Other people just see trees and grass. As far as they know, they're literally just going for a walk in the park. Disc golfers have to assume people walking 200+ ft away have absolutely no idea what we're doing, or where we're throwing, or the potential of being hit.

Good course that could have earned a higher rating if it had a few fairways that really require hitting a line. Look at the course pix - they're not misleading.
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Bassbrass
Experience: 6.9 years 30 played 7 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Nice course, but... 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:May 28, 2021 Played the course:once

Pros:

The park is amenities rich. Bathrooms, cart friendly, decent parking and, while there are walking paths throughout the area, I did not have any problems with other-use patrons. Pars are very generous (and I don't have a big arm), the Mach VIIs are great, and the next tee arrows on the baskets and mown paths, fairways and greens make navigation a snap. Great use of elevation changes in a fairly flat part of the country.

Cons:

It will need tee pads, and several years for the trees planted in the first third of the course to grow. Variety between holes is mostlyaccomplished with elevation and distance changes. I didn't see a tee pad sign with anything but a straight line on it for most of the course. Even where trees are planted, I'm not sure they will add to the challenge. (on hole one, they make a nice neat box around an open shot up the middle.)

Other Thoughts:

There were some opportunities that got overlooked in setting this one up. For example, fifteen finishes into the woods. You see a path ahead and think, "Great! A wooded hole or two." Wrong. You walk through the woods to the next open tee. On the other hand, thirteen made me choose between a RHFH drive or pick a gap in the trees for a backhand. And I loved hole three, which has a high tee you would think would be for a long bomber-nope, putter shot to a basket tucked up by a ditch and the road. Admittedly, the morning I was there had no appreciable wind, so I may well have been missing a normal difficulty factor, but more might be done with OBS and/or mandatories to up the challenge on a fairly open course.
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Jstankk
Experience: 1 played 1 reviews
3.00 star(s)

first impressions 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 27, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

The course had a lot of elevation changes with a mix of long and short shots! The grass pads were a new treat (I\'m used to concrete) would play again under the right weather conditions!

Cons:

Went and played a day after it had rained causing it to be muddy and slick on the grass pads! Besides a few holes (2,10,11,12,18) most pads were useable!

Other Thoughts:

Would recommend not going when the wind is above 5-10mph due the the course having zero tree cover to slow the wind gust down
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shiftyjoco
Experience: 36.8 years 28 played 15 reviews
3.00 star(s)

I will play it again 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 27, 2019 Played the course:once

Pros:

right out front, the tee signs are nice.
> being new, the grass tees, are in good condition. they have two flat stones to tee off from between.
> the grass was cut, so there was not much as in a hazard
> if you are newer to the sport, it is not too difficult to make you overly frustrated.
> the baskets are in good condition
> good elevation changes
> # 14 ,15, 16 are like in a secluded area, that when I was back there , there was a couple deer watching, and grazing.
> A tunnel shot does not stand out in my mind at all.
> I met only two other people playing while I was there, and they were very friendly... to me, that is where it all starts.. how upfront and helpful of the people who on the course regularly.
<> the course is new, and honestly I really enjoyed it.
NO POISON IVY that I seen. again well cut grass.

Cons:

> the fairways and the roughs, basically the same.. if you were looking for tree, this is not the place. while there are some, on maybe the middle third of the course, most generally trees do not come into play ( this is not necessarily a con).
> Parking, well my guess , it was a 300 yards walk to the first tee, and finish of #18 is a little bit further than that back to the parking lot I WAS IN
but no sign saying I was heading the right way is what was the main flaw.
> no benches, no trash cans... I am in my late 50's, and like a spot to set the bag down, I am not in a hurry.
> if there are restrooms, they are a bit of a way away.. it say there is, but not by the disc area.
> walking paths may bother some.. but really, I did not see a problem.

Other Thoughts:

ONCE you find hole #1 tee, you play north and slightly west. By the time you tee off on number three you are throwing east down hill at a basket , guessing 250 ft. then from #4 you begin to work back southwest towards #1, How ever at this point you keep working south zigzagging back and forth till hole #13 which is a short ace / birdie drop hole almost due east.. from there 14 goes south #15 NE, and here where the biggest hiccups in the layouts start., #16 is a bit of a travel to tee, down around the edge of the trees, and east, to tee out west..yes back where someone from 15 would be entering, then again the only way to #17 tee shot, is past #14 , and right up the center of #13 fairway.. where,#17 is basically right by 13 going back north, #18 tees going NW.
you never really loop back, AND, if I recall correctly number 9 is not near the start either.
not sure if there is a Course design sign somewhere, IF there is , I never seen it. but the dog run fence area, is west and on the south side the walking path from Tee #1.
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