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Garrison Park DGC reviews
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The Good and Bad of a Mixed Use Park 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Oct 9, 2021
Played the course:once
Pros:
Mixed use Park course with two great water holes...but they're overshadowed by park obstructions and danger to park goers on the other holes
+ The two water holes are great - and they're unusually challenging for a casual park layout like this. Hole #6 is 259' and you need ~240' to go straight across Darling Pond. Playing around the edge isn't difficult, but you're most likely playing for par. Hole #7 takes you back across the pond, but this time there's no bailout. The hole is 360', but you need only about 200' to stay dry
+ Excellent carpet tees in raised frames; new Lat 64 Pro baskets
+ The two water holes are great - and they're unusually challenging for a casual park layout like this. Hole #6 is 259' and you need ~240' to go straight across Darling Pond. Playing around the edge isn't difficult, but you're most likely playing for par. Hole #7 takes you back across the pond, but this time there's no bailout. The hole is 360', but you need only about 200' to stay dry
+ Excellent carpet tees in raised frames; new Lat 64 Pro baskets
Cons:
- Hole #2 throws uphill to a blind basket. Directly in line of your throw: a park bench at the top of the hill
- Hole #3 requires you to throw over a baseball backstop with fencing. A RH hyzer must travel over the baseball infield; an anhyzer must travel over a neighboring field with OB stakes the entire 270' to a basket that's maybe 6 feet inside the OB
- Holes #4 and #7 require throws through open portions of the park. The direct line to the basket on #8 requires a throw over a parking lot
- The most danger comes on the final hole, with a picnic pavilion that's about 30 degrees to the left of the throwing line, and only 100 feet from the tee. The basket is placed in a pretty grove of trees, (behind the park bathrooms!). The course has been in place for only a year, but they already recognized the need to hang a protective net on the side of the picnic pavilion that faces the tee
- Hole #3 requires you to throw over a baseball backstop with fencing. A RH hyzer must travel over the baseball infield; an anhyzer must travel over a neighboring field with OB stakes the entire 270' to a basket that's maybe 6 feet inside the OB
- Holes #4 and #7 require throws through open portions of the park. The direct line to the basket on #8 requires a throw over a parking lot
- The most danger comes on the final hole, with a picnic pavilion that's about 30 degrees to the left of the throwing line, and only 100 feet from the tee. The basket is placed in a pretty grove of trees, (behind the park bathrooms!). The course has been in place for only a year, but they already recognized the need to hang a protective net on the side of the picnic pavilion that faces the tee
Other Thoughts:
~ If you play on a day when the park is deserted (as I did), you might be annoyed by the obstruction of the backstop on #3, but you may really enjoy the challenge of the two water holes (as I did). In those conditions, it would be easy to overlook the dangers that become obvious when the park is being used
~ Garrison Park is like a lot of perimeter-of-park courses: wide open holes with some man made obstructions like buildings, fences, walking paths and parking lots. The water holes are unusually high caliber.
So the moral of the story is to get there soon, play on a day when nobody's around, and enjoy it as a nice park course with some water. But the design creates dangers to other park goers, and so I can't help but wonder how long the town will allow the baskets to stay in the ground
~ Garrison Park is like a lot of perimeter-of-park courses: wide open holes with some man made obstructions like buildings, fences, walking paths and parking lots. The water holes are unusually high caliber.
So the moral of the story is to get there soon, play on a day when nobody's around, and enjoy it as a nice park course with some water. But the design creates dangers to other park goers, and so I can't help but wonder how long the town will allow the baskets to stay in the ground
