Community Park reviews
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JadosStalin
Experience:
12.9 years
24 played
3 reviews
Overhyped if you've played any good course 2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:Jul 30, 2016
Played the course:once
Pros:
-Tee pads are very grippy. Concrete was scored soon after pouring, giving little room for even sloppy feet to skid.
-Good degree of wooded environment to take away from the community park (see what I did there?) feel.
-Good degree of wooded environment to take away from the community park (see what I did there?) feel.
Cons:
-Taking a change of 'basket is to the left, basket is to the right' out of the equation, I feel like I was playing the same hole for about 14 of the 18 holes. There is no 'standout' hole to remember this course. I believe I said the word boring about half a dozen times during the round.
-Pars are unfathomably stupid. Thank gall for the DGCR app correcting for a hole with a 300' par 5.
-If you like airing out your arm, or even feeling like you've done more than push an elevator button, you will find pleasure extremely rarely on this course. And dont you try to call this a technical course either. Cuz you know in your heart it aint.
-Pars are unfathomably stupid. Thank gall for the DGCR app correcting for a hole with a 300' par 5.
-If you like airing out your arm, or even feeling like you've done more than push an elevator button, you will find pleasure extremely rarely on this course. And dont you try to call this a technical course either. Cuz you know in your heart it aint.
Other Thoughts:
I was told by many, many different people (in real life even, not just yous whos going to vote me down for rating this course poorly) that this was 'the course' to really find nirvana at. 'It's got variety' they said. 'It's challenging to veteran and newbie alike' they said. 'The most interesting part wont just be the bridges you cant believe are still standing on this decrepit yawnfest' they.. well, hinted.
If you have been to any, and I mean any, of the somewhat surrounding great parks- West Park, Dellwood 'Canyons' Park, hell even Oswego/Eagle Ridge (even after all the trees have been cut down), I cannot fathom how someone would call this course good, exceptional, or even worth their time.
If it were in my backyard, I might play it occasionally. But we made an actual destination of almost an hour, bypassing many other good courses, to see what the mythos was about. And we were left wanting. So much so, we played Shorewood afterward and had a significantly better time.
End point: I can tell this is an old course, and that's fine. I can tell this course hasn't had love in a long time, and that's fine. This course is not conveniently located for most, and that's also fine. But why oh why does anybody who actually know what a good course looks like actually think this place is worth praise- let alone 4/5 rating? Well, I guess we cant know the answer to everything. *Steps down from soapbox.*
If you have been to any, and I mean any, of the somewhat surrounding great parks- West Park, Dellwood 'Canyons' Park, hell even Oswego/Eagle Ridge (even after all the trees have been cut down), I cannot fathom how someone would call this course good, exceptional, or even worth their time.
If it were in my backyard, I might play it occasionally. But we made an actual destination of almost an hour, bypassing many other good courses, to see what the mythos was about. And we were left wanting. So much so, we played Shorewood afterward and had a significantly better time.
End point: I can tell this is an old course, and that's fine. I can tell this course hasn't had love in a long time, and that's fine. This course is not conveniently located for most, and that's also fine. But why oh why does anybody who actually know what a good course looks like actually think this place is worth praise- let alone 4/5 rating? Well, I guess we cant know the answer to everything. *Steps down from soapbox.*
