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Butte, MT

Eagles Nest DGC

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Experience: 24 years 204 played 45 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Revamped 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Sep 2, 2011 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

New course in what used to be a tree/object course. Thompson Park has been updated and the disc golf course has been revamped. There are now new restrooms and picnic tables in the park. 9 tone poles and 9 home made baskets, both of which are painted yellow or white. Great scenery and some really fun throws up, down, and through the hills and forest. This course offers some great challenge and plenty of long holes. Several blind holes that usually follow a line to the pin. Hole 6 is probably one of the longest blind holes that snakes around a path through the trees. A spotter could be helpful for this hole and according to the locals this is the only par 4 hole on the course and the rest play par 3. The final couple of holes open up and play through the sage flats and allow you to stretch out your arm. A really fun course and a good way to kill a few hours and enjoy nature.

Cons:

No tee signs or maps, though that is in the future plans. No multiple tee or pin placements. The homemade baskets tend to have the occasional disc slip through the cage, wire has been added to the gaps to reduce this, but due to wear it still happens. I highly recommend finding a local to play through with the first time or you will be hunting for tees and most likely just have to guess where to throw from. A lot of the trash has been cleaned out but there's still broken bottles around. A few trash cans through out the course would really help. Tone poles, although they are rumored to be replaced with baskets at some point.

Other Thoughts:

The day I played this course I lucked out and got to throw with locals who knew the layout. I had a blast playing here but I never would have found the tees without them. To start off, hole one is a right handed anhyzer or forehand toss around the trees to the right of the parking lot to a tone pole. From there each tee is located fairly close to the previous pin, some could be a little too close. There is talk of some more improvements to the course, as well as maps, and eventually league games and possible tornaments. I definitely recommend this one, but find someone who knows the layout.

Played this course a year later and during winter in the snow. Almost all of the trees in the fairway for hole 3 are now gone and there has been a good deal of clean-up on some other holes. Other trees have fallen or have been removed, there is currently a tree fallen over right in the gap on hole 5's fairway but the pin is still reachable with a big hyzer. Still no tee signs or course map. I really hope some effort is put into completing the course. It is a really fun course but could use a little redesign and replacment of the homemade baskets and tone poles with regulation baskets. Hole 18 does have a discatcher now instead of a tone. Some holes have changed; hole 2 now plays to 3's basket, a new tee for three now plays to 2's basket and a new tee for hole 4 that is a fun change. The new hole 2 is a really fun shot as well.
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