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Olpe, KS

Goodies Gravel Getaway DGC

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PastorofMuppets
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1.50 star(s)

Scenic yet Simplistic

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 26, 2023 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

1) Scenic course on a small but beautiful B & B property. Course sports a very nice maintained pond (dyed blue water, nice bridge over it, rock shore perimeter, no signs of growth or eyesores of any kind) and multiple farm related antiques. A gazebo, multiple very nice benches and sitting locations to enjoy the pond, a small fountain in the pond. Really nice to look at as a whole.

2) In typical Dynamic Discs fashion, excellent 4' x 8' textured concrete tee pads, like new Red White and Blue Veteran baskets throughout, full color course kiosk sign with course map, and full color tee signs with hole map and OB info.

3) Moderate to very short holes with natural OB. The Kansas winds can increase the difficultly on this course 10 fold at times, but it is definitely a family friendly course aimed at beginner to low recreational players. Each hole presents it's own challenge and there are no back to back same shot shapes.

4) For what it is, there are some very memorable holes. Hole 1 gets you started off right with a short 200 is foot Par 3 completely over the small pond to a protected green which sits on a downslope into the water. The righty hyzer is blocked by massive evergreens forcing a high spike hyzer or a left to right shaping shot. The view from the tee pad is great and it's a fun way to start a course.

Hole #2 is a nervy 250 foot shot back over the pond with the basket located right on the bank of the pond protected from the left and right by trees leaving you the option to go straight at it and hope it sticks or blast past it into the field behind it leaving you a death putt coming back.

Hole #5 is a 275 foot low ceiling tunnel shot or roller hole with the straight line blocked by trees and it forces your to throw something low over OB left or right most of the fairway and try to skip back to the basket. Really cool design for what they had to work with and nicely executed.

Hole #8 is only about 200 feet but presents you with a question, how straight can you throw a disc. The basket is guarded by two massive trees set probably 30 feet in front of the basket like angry bouncers and are labelled a double mando you must pass through. The gap between them is only about 10 feet wide. There is a small mowed landing zone in front of the gap in the trees where you can land safely and a mowed strip down the center from teepad to basket that is safe, but for the most part, OB awaits you on all sides short of the mando. Not a super difficult hole, and even if you miss the mando you can probably still hit a putt. (When we played a flex here, missed mando was a retee until you made it. YIKES)

5) Extremely well manicured property (some tall grass in places but you can easily tell it was intentional to provide natural OB lines for the course) Has that feel of playing through a retirement community but I don't hate that.

6) Pretty intuitive flow and even though 2 of the baskets are blind from the tee, the distances are pretty short and it only takes a few steps up the fairway to see where the basket is.

7) Very little elevation on the property, but what exists is used wonderfully to create tricky roll away potential on greens.

Cons:

1) Not a tournament level course, and not even a course I would suggest playing if others are on the course. The property is rather small and there is not much space between holes. Most holes throw directly at or near the next holes tee pad in order to reach the current hole you are playing's green. Hole 3 actually throws blindly over #4's tee pad and #4's teepad is probably at the edge of circle 1.

2) Between the pond, the tall grass and the couple blind shots there is lost disc potential and expect to spend some time searching for discs.

3) Not a big arm course, you can play most of this course with putters and an overstable Mid or approach disc.

4) The wind can make this course near unplayble. I played a round with a group from Estonia and we were greeted with 27-30 mph wind sustained throughout. Because of the difficult green locations and forced shot angles the property creates, discs were just getting shoved in all the wrong directions for everyone, and multiples in the pond. They still had a blast because the course is very pretty and I enjoyed chatting them up, but the actual playing of the disc golf was not fun at all. lol

5) This course just can't compete with the other courses in and around Emporia. Though beautiful, it just doesn't jump off the page as a disc golf course as much as it does a nice B & B to stay at that also has a pitch and putt disc golf course.

Other Thoughts:

Though a gorgeous property and some really well designed holes, this course is passable for me. Everything is done top notch in regards to design and infrastructure but the limit of the size of the property really hurts this course. If I were to be staying at this B & B while in Emporia I would absolutely play this course, or if I were in town for DDO or GBO and there was a flex tournament here I'd definitely sign up, but otherwise there are so many better courses to spend your time at when in the area. Great little course, just not worthy of a dedicated stop.
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