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Evergreen DGC reviews
7
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Go Geoducks! 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Jul 10, 2016
Played the course:once
Pros:
The course plays mostly through a quintessential, Pacific Northwest Rain Forest. The forest here is filled with large cedar trees, both Sword Ferns and Pacific Northwest Native Ferns, everywhere are moss draped trees and branches and players will enjoy walking on this lovely, soft, forest floor.
The Evergreen College DGC starts out behind the school's soccer field. The Geoducks don't field a football team. The course utilizes this lovely forest for 7 1/2 holes. # 1 plays up a small hill to a basket out in the open. And # 9 tees off in the forest, across the open field and then finishes back in the woods.
There are two small blue signs pointing you towards the course from the parking lot. The tee signs are homemade wooden ones giving you the hole #, par, distance and on a couple of holes, an amateur par, as well. The tee pads are gravel, enclosed by a wooden border. They might be the weak link at this course.
I wouldn't call this a technical course but it's absolutely a course in which you need to hit your lines. Both holes 7 & 9 force you to hit a 20-25' window approximately 75-100' out. Hit it and you're in good shape, miss and things get tougher. I liked # 2. It's just 207' but with another window that you need to hit leading into the forest. The course has more than decent length with # 8 being a 485' throw through the trees. The last four holes all play 348' or longer. Combine the length with all the trees, and I would think this course plays at a challenging recreational level.
There are benches at # 3,# 7 and # 9. There is also a little box filled with bottles at # 5 asking players to please pack out their litter. A large net has been strung behind the # 3 and # 9 tee pad (they're right beside each other) to keep players from being hit by the drives/second shots on # 8.
The Evergreen College DGC starts out behind the school's soccer field. The Geoducks don't field a football team. The course utilizes this lovely forest for 7 1/2 holes. # 1 plays up a small hill to a basket out in the open. And # 9 tees off in the forest, across the open field and then finishes back in the woods.
There are two small blue signs pointing you towards the course from the parking lot. The tee signs are homemade wooden ones giving you the hole #, par, distance and on a couple of holes, an amateur par, as well. The tee pads are gravel, enclosed by a wooden border. They might be the weak link at this course.
I wouldn't call this a technical course but it's absolutely a course in which you need to hit your lines. Both holes 7 & 9 force you to hit a 20-25' window approximately 75-100' out. Hit it and you're in good shape, miss and things get tougher. I liked # 2. It's just 207' but with another window that you need to hit leading into the forest. The course has more than decent length with # 8 being a 485' throw through the trees. The last four holes all play 348' or longer. Combine the length with all the trees, and I would think this course plays at a challenging recreational level.
There are benches at # 3,# 7 and # 9. There is also a little box filled with bottles at # 5 asking players to please pack out their litter. A large net has been strung behind the # 3 and # 9 tee pad (they're right beside each other) to keep players from being hit by the drives/second shots on # 8.
Cons:
The gravel tee pads aren't good. The gravel is being spilled out over the front of the tee pad frame. They're already a little rough and little treacherous and will only get worse with play and winter coming. They can remain adequate only with constant maintenance.
I don't have much faith in these tee signs wearing well. The rain and weather will quickly damage them as well as the vandals.
# 9 has you possibly throwing over the walking path right before reaching the basket. It's a pretty severe safety hazard here as it's blind off the tee and many players will not get through the small window, and thus, will have to throw their second shot blindly over the smallish grassy knoll.
I don't have much faith in these tee signs wearing well. The rain and weather will quickly damage them as well as the vandals.
# 9 has you possibly throwing over the walking path right before reaching the basket. It's a pretty severe safety hazard here as it's blind off the tee and many players will not get through the small window, and thus, will have to throw their second shot blindly over the smallish grassy knoll.
Other Thoughts:
This lovely Northwest Forest rates an easy 4. Unfortunately the golf doesn't quite measure up. There isn't a 9 hole course in America that rates a 4.0. This is a solid little throw. It's challenging and tight but always fair. The rough is actually not too punishing. Patio block tee pads would be a huge upgrade here. And some kind of metal or vandal proof tee signs would be nice, too.
