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Eastview Park

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wellsbranch250
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Experience: 10.3 years 658 played 636 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Find A Local To Find The Better Unmarked Bonus Holes.

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jun 5, 2023 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

(1.503 Rating) A recently down-sized heavily wooded sixer, shackled with site constraints.
- COUNTS AS A COURSE PLAYED - A course needs 3 things to qualify as an actual course to me. A dedicated spot to throw from, this place has small concrete pads. Second, a number sequence, Eastview has numbers affixed to each pad. Third, targets to hit and thankfully the prior tone poles have been upgraded to baskets here. These noted items makes this place a course to me.
- UPDATED COURSE MAP - A new course map is posted near tee (1). A local told me, that the course went through significant changes mid-spring 2023.
- QUICK PLAY - I finished in roughly ten minutes. Which was not enough for me, so I threw a second round.
- MA4 FRIENDLY - This is a laid back chucker kind of course. The holes are super short. Hole (5) registers in at 54 feet! I was pissed I didn't hit metal on it. Aces will be 10 times more common here than a normal course. 6 downs, and even better, could be achieved by a skilled player. Players that dig a social scene and can't throw that well, may like this little place.
- NATURAL BEAUTY - I was loving the trees here. Big Douglas Firs and other softwoods blanket the horizon. Imagine the scenery of Pier Park DGC, but twice the tree density, a bit blander and flat. If this course looked like the average sixer I've played, I may have dropped a 1.0 rating on this course.

Cons:

Losing 3 holes.
- SHACKLES - Eastview Park is not a big spacious piece of land. Maybe 6 acres, and it has one wide well-used pedestrian path running thru it and some smaller paths. Supposedly a few people complained about a few bad apples, and Wham, a forced redesign occurs modifying existing holes and also removed 3 holes. The redesign layout is weird, and only retains a few elements of the original, like the pads and some basket locations, probably to save money.
- LACK OF CHALLENGE - As noted, this place will be most ideal for MA4s. Higher skilled players will feel like they are going through the motions. Myself as an MA2, I shot 5 down on first attempt. It felt like meh.
- LOST DISC POTENTIAL - I had no issues keeping my discs. However the target MA4 audience is going to lose plastic. The woods were surprisingly thick with overgrowth in early June. The locals I played with on my second round lost 2 discs. Granted they were all highly inebriated, but you would think a 5 person search party would find them in the ten minutes we searched.
- BASKET AND TEE SEPARATION - Tee pad (2) and (6) are in the line of fire from tee pad (1).
- NAVIGATION - The weird layout and double backs will have players making mistakes first time through. I personally made the mistake of walking over to pad (6) after finishing hole (1). However, because the park is so small and there's a map posted, everyone will figure it out eventually.
- AMENITIES AND EXTRAS - No extras beyond the basics of tees, baskets and a map of the layout. I Don't give credit for the port-a-potty that smelled like death and which probably had the grim reaper waiting inside.
- HOLE VARIETY - The six holes are all short, flat and wooded.
- PARKING - Street parking only.

Other Thoughts:

Eastview has the required basics to qualify as a course to me, but sixers in general, just feel incomplete. It seems like the park could have achieved a niner layout and still aim play to keep non-playing path users safe, but those in charge seemingly elected to pre-kill the course with a half-hearted re-design effort. The locals even noted that the city is still considering fully pulling it. Anyways, not a course anyone should seek out unless you are in the neighborhood looking for a social scene. I only scored it a 1.5 because the locals showed me the bonus holes. Had I only seen the six holes from my first round, I would give it a 1.0. These bonus holes helped a lot. Plus it's a pretty park. Of the 3 courses I played near downtown, I would rank this one 3rd after both Little Mountain and Quilchena.
- PERSONAL NOTE - This was my 600th course. Normally I don't play courses twice while on vacation, but I made an exception here as 4 locals invited me to throw a casual round with them and I had finished my first loop in a flash. With the local's help, I was able to play 4 extra unmarked holes that are regularly played and one alternate tee location on (3). The 4 bonus holes and the alt tee, were the best 5 holes I played here. Thanks to Robbie, Taylor, Matt and one more, for showing me the disc golf scene in North Vancouver. I enjoyed it fellas.
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Experience: 5 played 2 reviews
1.50 star(s)

it's ok 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 18, 2010 Played the course:once

Pros:

Most holes are wooded but not to the point where you are hitting a tree every time. It's a good course to play if you are in walking distance or maybe 5-10 min drive.

Cons:

Tee areas can be hard to find. I couldn't even find #1's area.

Other Thoughts:

I'm not a big fan of tonals but thats just personal preference I guess
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