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Druid Hill Park - Forest Drive reviews
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Better - and Worse - than Legacy
Reviewed:
Played on:Nov 5, 2022
Played the course:once
Pros:
+ Forest Drive is the wooded 18 at Druid Hill Park. Intersects with the Legacy course at a few points, but it's an entirely different playing experience. Single set of baskets, mixed tee types, good signage (but more about the signs in "Cons")
+ Almost every hole plays in thick woods, and many include significant elevation change too. More challenging than the Legacy course. Nothing comes easy on Forest Drive
+ Unlike Legacy, Forest Drive doesn't have a lot of options to change the holes or the play. There are a few long tees - but they were infrequent and difficult to find (they almost felt like safari tees put in for the enjoyment of local players who wanted to try out a few new routes). The lack of multiple layouts isn't a "con" itself, only in comparison to Legacy's two tee / two basket setup.
+ Almost every hole plays in thick woods, and many include significant elevation change too. More challenging than the Legacy course. Nothing comes easy on Forest Drive
+ Unlike Legacy, Forest Drive doesn't have a lot of options to change the holes or the play. There are a few long tees - but they were infrequent and difficult to find (they almost felt like safari tees put in for the enjoyment of local players who wanted to try out a few new routes). The lack of multiple layouts isn't a "con" itself, only in comparison to Legacy's two tee / two basket setup.
Cons:
- As other reviewers have noted, parts of Forest Drive came about as two nine hole loops to make the Legacy course more interesting and replayable. Many of the 20 (!) Legacy layouts include parts of Forest Drive. The problem is that they've tried to make the single set of signs on the 18 Forest holes work for partial loops with Legacy AND for the Forest standalone 18. So every tee sign shows multiple numbers for the hole. In fairness, the signs have a small paragraph explaining this, but It's pretty confusing for the first time visitor.
Other Thoughts:
~ Unlike Legacy, Forest Drive is not at all cart friendly (one word: ravines).
~ Traffic can be a little unpredictable. You'll be trucking along all by yourself in the woods and suddenly find several groups ahead or behind you, because they're playing the combination loops
~ If you're visiting Druid Hill for the day, it's tempting to play Legacy several times using the different tees or baskets, but Forest Drive is so different that it's well worth playing on its own
~ Traffic can be a little unpredictable. You'll be trucking along all by yourself in the woods and suddenly find several groups ahead or behind you, because they're playing the combination loops
~ If you're visiting Druid Hill for the day, it's tempting to play Legacy several times using the different tees or baskets, but Forest Drive is so different that it's well worth playing on its own
13
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Huns Hons 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Aug 1, 2015
Played the course:5+ times
Pros:
Variety ...
• Length: ace runs to lucky-to-par
• Elevation: up, down, valley, hump, flat
• Shape: left/right/S/straight
• Tightness: fairly broad to fairly tight, wooded throughout!
Current 18-hole Legacy course. Future 18-hole Hillway course.
• Length: ace runs to lucky-to-par
• Elevation: up, down, valley, hump, flat
• Shape: left/right/S/straight
• Tightness: fairly broad to fairly tight, wooded throughout!
Current 18-hole Legacy course. Future 18-hole Hillway course.
Cons:
Access: Go past Legacy basket-4/tee-5 to find Forest tee-1.
Flow: The most natural 18-hole loop is 1-6, 15-18, 10-14, 7-9. To find tee-10 from basket-18, walk past Legacy tee-13/basket-12. Or, play Legacy 1-4, Forest 1-9, Legacy 5-9 for the "Front" 18-hole loop, and Legacy 10-12, Forest 10-18, Legacy 13-18 for the "Back 18-hole loop. Better yet, play with a local the first few times through!
Tee locations are mostly natural (some are carpet remnants), with some tree root tripping potential.
The newer holes (3-5, 12-17) still need some sapling/branch removal, and a beatdown of some brush.
Flow: The most natural 18-hole loop is 1-6, 15-18, 10-14, 7-9. To find tee-10 from basket-18, walk past Legacy tee-13/basket-12. Or, play Legacy 1-4, Forest 1-9, Legacy 5-9 for the "Front" 18-hole loop, and Legacy 10-12, Forest 10-18, Legacy 13-18 for the "Back 18-hole loop. Better yet, play with a local the first few times through!
Tee locations are mostly natural (some are carpet remnants), with some tree root tripping potential.
The newer holes (3-5, 12-17) still need some sapling/branch removal, and a beatdown of some brush.
Other Thoughts:
Course is set in the woods that form the back border of the Original course. This Original course consisted of 18 "standard" holes, plus 9 rough/raw eXtra holes in the woods, known as the X-holes. Over the past year, nine new holes were added within these woods, and are now combined with the (former) X-holes, to create this new Forest Drive course.
As mentioned earlier, finding/navigating these holes could prove difficult for the first-time/infrequent visitor, but they are worth the effort, as they offer a wide variety of challenges. Wooded throughout, throwing lanes/windows will vary from tight to broad. This part of the park sits on some rolling topography, contains a variety of trees, some quite large, and some fairways consist of a carpet of English ivy.
While there are many good holes, my personal favourites are: #11, a long, slowly-descending right-turner, with scattered large trees to avoid while working around a right-to-left slope; #12, long and straight across a carpet of ivy early, needing to split two large hardwoods, followed by a left-turn up a steep bank to a basket guarded by a few smaller trees - and the drop-off behind!
A great contrast to the long-established Legacy course - play both for a varied day of disc golf.
As mentioned earlier, finding/navigating these holes could prove difficult for the first-time/infrequent visitor, but they are worth the effort, as they offer a wide variety of challenges. Wooded throughout, throwing lanes/windows will vary from tight to broad. This part of the park sits on some rolling topography, contains a variety of trees, some quite large, and some fairways consist of a carpet of English ivy.
While there are many good holes, my personal favourites are: #11, a long, slowly-descending right-turner, with scattered large trees to avoid while working around a right-to-left slope; #12, long and straight across a carpet of ivy early, needing to split two large hardwoods, followed by a left-turn up a steep bank to a basket guarded by a few smaller trees - and the drop-off behind!
A great contrast to the long-established Legacy course - play both for a varied day of disc golf.
