Foster's Meadow reviews
10
0
Forgettable...and forgotten 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Sep 26, 2021
Played the course:once
Pros:
+ This is a very plain around-the-park layout that seems mostly forgotten. But there are several features that add some fun to the play:
Hole #1 is a 350ish with a late dogleg right. It's a good RHFH challenger.
The basket on #3 is tucked into a small glen, protected by a ring of trees. You can throw straight through the gap, or drop a high hyzer in.
The basket on #7 is perched at the edge of a steep slope leading down to a creek. It's a surprisingly severe death putt for such a tame park course
+ The holes are pretty long for a park course: only 2 of them are shorter than 300'. The par is a very generous 33, which makes sense for newbies who might try out the game at a multi use park
Hole #1 is a 350ish with a late dogleg right. It's a good RHFH challenger.
The basket on #3 is tucked into a small glen, protected by a ring of trees. You can throw straight through the gap, or drop a high hyzer in.
The basket on #7 is perched at the edge of a steep slope leading down to a creek. It's a surprisingly severe death putt for such a tame park course
+ The holes are pretty long for a park course: only 2 of them are shorter than 300'. The par is a very generous 33, which makes sense for newbies who might try out the game at a multi use park
Cons:
- Hole #4 plays way too close to a baseball diamond, and hole #8 requires you to thread your way over the corner of a parking lot within about 30' of a park building. These are just really bad design
- There's a stretch of holes in the middle where you're just throwing down the sides of wide open athletic fields. Long, boring holes
- There's a stretch of holes in the middle where you're just throwing down the sides of wide open athletic fields. Long, boring holes
Other Thoughts:
It's been a long time since the last review, and the biggest change isn't with the course itself, but with the availability of apps like uDisc - which really solve a lot of the navigation problems cited in early reviews. The tees are still natural grass - and they appear to have been painted sometime within the last few months. There are still no signs and the baskets are that much older. But if you use uDisc, you can find your way around, locate most of the tees, and play this mostly-forgettable around-the-park layout.
This is a textbook "2" to me. It's just a park nine with a couple of fun shots and a few significant flaws. Nothing really broken here, as long as you're not playing when other park users would interfere. The earlier 1.5's are probably right, but uDisc really solved a lot of the navigation issues for me.
The course has the feeling of being 9 baskets that were placed, and then largely forgotten. If I were local, I might bring discs to throw while my kids play sports. But I can't imagine any other circumstances where somebody would play this course more than once.
This is a textbook "2" to me. It's just a park nine with a couple of fun shots and a few significant flaws. Nothing really broken here, as long as you're not playing when other park users would interfere. The earlier 1.5's are probably right, but uDisc really solved a lot of the navigation issues for me.
The course has the feeling of being 9 baskets that were placed, and then largely forgotten. If I were local, I might bring discs to throw while my kids play sports. But I can't imagine any other circumstances where somebody would play this course more than once.
