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Falling Creek Park DGC - Old Layout

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BrotherDave
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Experience: 16.8 years 192 played 189 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Falling Short 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:May 17, 2014 Played the course:once

Pros:

It's a really nice park that is well mowed. It even has fairways mowed shorter than the rough like a ball golf course and this makes transitioning from hole to hole quite simple. If you like ball golf style disc golf than you'll really like it here thanks to the vast expanses of open fields, gently rolling landscape and fir trees dotting the terrain. Big arms will find it much more interesting than regular folks, not that it's terribly long. Pars seemed fairly on point and I really enjoyed how the course was laid out and minimized walks between holes.

The playground looked really cool so if you have family they can tag along and play there while you sling plastic. Not very wooded or natural so you won't be covered in bugs or anything much either.

Cons:

I felt like it lacked variety, just too open. It even taunted me by pretending to go into these gorgeous woods on several holes but as soon as you cross over the creek you just blast out immediately into the field again. Not a lot of line-shaping to do out here, just a lot of straight bombs, occasional big hyzers or anhyzers.

What trees there are are view obstructing, disc stealing fir trees, probably my least favorite tree for disc golf. Hole 15 is a really bad hole along these lines. You have a small gap to hit where the fir trees break at the creek and where your disc goes after you past them is anybody's guess. Mine apparently disappeared in either the woods immediately behind the firs or in the tall grass/undergrowth that was everywhere. Then the hole takes this weird angle into the woods that is really difficult to approach with your 2nd shot.

The tees are brick and not terribly smooth. They're serviceable but when you're trying to crank out a big rip the last thing you want to think about is catching the edge of a brick sticking up.

Other Thoughts:

This course seemed like a poor man's Cedarock, although it flowed better. Or a longer Catawba Meadows with (much) worse tees. Maybe I'm being too harsh due to stylistic preferences but I think I've played plenty of better open courses than this. It's a nice course for airing it out and working on your farmer's tan, I just feel like the historic farm house you drive past when you enter the park is more interesting than the actual golf course.
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