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Ottawa, KS

Forest Park DGC

2.925(based on 6 reviews)
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Experience: 9.8 years 167 played 167 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Flat Track

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 8, 2022 Played the course:once

Pros:

18 concrete tees, 18 DisCatchers, and 18 tee signs. That's the extent of the amenities but it passes the eye test.

Some solid challenges. Hole 4 is a narrowing hallway of trees that make you go straight or get kicked off your line. Holes 2, 5, and 12 have very difficult ceilings to beat off the tee. Hole 16 has a long pad that adds 50 feet to an already tough hole, and the raised basket on hole 10 makes that a park it or die hole. A small culvert prevents rollers on 11-15 and 17.

The basket of 18 is right across the parking lot from hole 1's tee. Such a convenient loop that I thought it was a practice basket until I saw the "18" on the pin. The course also does a pretty good job of staying out of the way of the rest of the park besides one big issue (see Cons)

Cons:

The park is as flat as the little guy from Frogger. Without much distance variation it falls to the trees to make the course challenging. They do ok, but there's almost always more than one easy line to the pin if you have enough power.

The course layout is poor. Having to walk almost all the way back down the fairways of 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, and 15 to tee off of the following holes is evidence of a lack of planning.

Holes 7 and 8 not just tempt but encourage you to play over the dog park. There are multiple ladders going over the fences so you can retrieve your disc once it goes in there. The holes themselves would be fine without that howler of a design flaw.

Other Thoughts:

This is a flat, short course that plays as long par 3s for the newer arms, but someone with a year's experience should be hitting par or below quite easily. If you have time for just one course in Ottawa, this is not the one to choose. This would be among the most basic of Par-54 courses but it does a little work to spice up some holes, then sticks a dog park on two of the fairways. The added spices are nice, but apart from that there isn't a lot to say about one of the blander 18s I've played.
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