Cornelius Road Park reviews
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BraveThrower43
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Experience:
14.2 years
732 played
59 reviews
Not enough Bridges 2+ years
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Played on:Apr 20, 2013
Played the course:once
Pros:
This Park is beautiful and the property is exactly the type of property that you would want to put a disc golf course on.
Nice Teepads and Teesigns.
Nice Teepads and Teesigns.
Cons:
However this properties potential was not met.
In it's current condition this course has a gimmicky feel that is greater than most courses that I have ever played. The design feels as if the goal was lucky/impossible= championship level course and I disagree totally.
Rewarding luck, in my mind, is not something that you want to incorporate in course design and that is what this course does.
The design did not take into account newer players. There are places where if you do not throw 200'-250' you will have very few options to save yourself a trip into a ravine.
Even courses like Nevin and Renny have ways that new players can layup and play the holes. This course does not.
All of the holes with the Creek in play have it on the left side. There is no variety to this and it gets very repetitive
Here are issues that can be easily fixed and are new course problems.
Drag piles on fairways and near fairways along with lots of barbed wire just in the fairways piled up in tangled knots.
Lots of low limbs(especially on the back)
No directional signage, trashcans, or benches.
Very few ways to cross the ravine and the course probably needs a few ladders or steps so people can get down into them without getting hurt.
In it's current condition this course has a gimmicky feel that is greater than most courses that I have ever played. The design feels as if the goal was lucky/impossible= championship level course and I disagree totally.
Rewarding luck, in my mind, is not something that you want to incorporate in course design and that is what this course does.
The design did not take into account newer players. There are places where if you do not throw 200'-250' you will have very few options to save yourself a trip into a ravine.
Even courses like Nevin and Renny have ways that new players can layup and play the holes. This course does not.
All of the holes with the Creek in play have it on the left side. There is no variety to this and it gets very repetitive
Here are issues that can be easily fixed and are new course problems.
Drag piles on fairways and near fairways along with lots of barbed wire just in the fairways piled up in tangled knots.
Lots of low limbs(especially on the back)
No directional signage, trashcans, or benches.
Very few ways to cross the ravine and the course probably needs a few ladders or steps so people can get down into them without getting hurt.
Other Thoughts:
I was incredibly disappointed in this course not only because the design is currently poor but also because I feel that even with many things fixed this property has so much potential to be more than it will ever be in this layout. I can Only hope that they can improve what is currently there and make this property shine as it should.
If the rules of this course changed to where the ravines were not OB in at least some places then it would improve slightly. But knowing that was not the initial intent of the design it's still a con.
I do not recommend this course. Go to Stumpy if you are in the area and you will have a better time. May be just as wooded but there are fairways.
Few holes with issues:
6 is a weird shot with trees galore with OB practically in the fairway. It also starts the RHFH/LHBH friendly holes.
7- This hole is gimmicky. There is Little to no fairway with an OB creek beside it. Even a very good shot the initial landing zone leaves you standing staring a a wall of trees with poke and pray routes. There is no legitimate line to the basket
10- no legit lane to the basket. If you pure the initial fairway the basket ends up being guarded by a wall of trees that requires luck to get through since they are blind to the tee-pad and there is very little space between them.
11- the fairway is a ravine for 200ft. add this to the fact that you must hit a 15 ft gape to clear the fairway that turns into Plinko 250 ft down the fairway and you have yourself a poor hole
14- The Tee is angled towards a large clump of trees. I can see where a fairway was meant to be but unfortunately there is a large tree very close to the pad that eliminates this as a viable option. If the teepad was moved the hole could be salvaged.
16- Ok so the angle of the hole makes it impossible to reach the basket but just in case you do pure the fairway there is a line of trees that run down the center of the fairway that will knock down any disc that is flying on the correct path.
18- the mandatory causes there to Almost no landing zone off of the Teepad. and that is followed by a throw up a large hill into a grassy area next to a walking path. The embankment between the initial landing zone and and the 2nd landing zone is very dangerous if your disc sticks to it.
If the rules of this course changed to where the ravines were not OB in at least some places then it would improve slightly. But knowing that was not the initial intent of the design it's still a con.
I do not recommend this course. Go to Stumpy if you are in the area and you will have a better time. May be just as wooded but there are fairways.
Few holes with issues:
6 is a weird shot with trees galore with OB practically in the fairway. It also starts the RHFH/LHBH friendly holes.
7- This hole is gimmicky. There is Little to no fairway with an OB creek beside it. Even a very good shot the initial landing zone leaves you standing staring a a wall of trees with poke and pray routes. There is no legitimate line to the basket
10- no legit lane to the basket. If you pure the initial fairway the basket ends up being guarded by a wall of trees that requires luck to get through since they are blind to the tee-pad and there is very little space between them.
11- the fairway is a ravine for 200ft. add this to the fact that you must hit a 15 ft gape to clear the fairway that turns into Plinko 250 ft down the fairway and you have yourself a poor hole
14- The Tee is angled towards a large clump of trees. I can see where a fairway was meant to be but unfortunately there is a large tree very close to the pad that eliminates this as a viable option. If the teepad was moved the hole could be salvaged.
16- Ok so the angle of the hole makes it impossible to reach the basket but just in case you do pure the fairway there is a line of trees that run down the center of the fairway that will knock down any disc that is flying on the correct path.
18- the mandatory causes there to Almost no landing zone off of the Teepad. and that is followed by a throw up a large hill into a grassy area next to a walking path. The embankment between the initial landing zone and and the 2nd landing zone is very dangerous if your disc sticks to it.
