Greenwater DGC reviews
4
0
Want a plane that loops the loop... 2+ years drive by
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Played on:Jul 19, 2015
Played the course:once
Pros:
Greenwater's disc golf course is unknown to the thousands of people who drive by it every day. It's hidden on a random property off of a turnoff that nobody even notices. I like that. It feels like a secret, even though it isn't. Is it a good secret? Read on:
Equipment: I played here in the summer, when all of the baskets are up on Crystal Mountain. In the winter they're kept down here. So in the winter, the baskets are higher quality practice baskets that catch well. In the summer? I don't have any equipment pros for the summer.
Navigation: If you stop off at the store noted on this site they'll let you take a picture of a map of the course. Or you can just download one ahead of time. You'll need the map.
Design: Sigh... There's a decent mix of long-ish and short-er, as well as right or left turning shots. There are even a couple of shots that change elevation. As much as the property allows at least. There are only two shots over 400' (which are pretty well identical), but at least this provides variety from the other 280' shots on the course.
Equipment: I played here in the summer, when all of the baskets are up on Crystal Mountain. In the winter they're kept down here. So in the winter, the baskets are higher quality practice baskets that catch well. In the summer? I don't have any equipment pros for the summer.
Navigation: If you stop off at the store noted on this site they'll let you take a picture of a map of the course. Or you can just download one ahead of time. You'll need the map.
Design: Sigh... There's a decent mix of long-ish and short-er, as well as right or left turning shots. There are even a couple of shots that change elevation. As much as the property allows at least. There are only two shots over 400' (which are pretty well identical), but at least this provides variety from the other 280' shots on the course.
Cons:
Thank goodness. I really struggled with the pros. Now for the easy part:
Equipment: If you're playing in the summer (and let's face it, you're playing in the summer), you're playing to the hula hoops. Making a putt into one of these things is the least fulfilling experience in disc golf. You don't realize how important the sound of a basket or a tone pole is until you drop a disc into complete silence. I can't change my rating based on this alone, but I can base it on the fact that the netting is ripped out of a good number of the hoops and at least three of them were knocked over or awry in some way. One doesn't get the feeling that this course sees much use, and it gets even less in the way of maintenance. The teepads are just two sticks on the ground marking where to throw from. Only one had treacherous footing though.
Navigation: Without the map a visiting player will be 100% lost after hole 7 (if not before). Once upon a time there were handpainted signs at each tee that gave direction and distance. The few that were still readable were not only helpful, but quite pleasant to look at. This tells me that the navigation was wonderful when the place opened. Not so much now. Probably 15 of the signs were unreadable, and at least 3 of them had no paint left at all. Without a map a player will just wind up wandering aimlessly around the field from holes 8-13.
Design: This course kind of feels like the designer got hammered and then threw 40 or so darts at a map. 20 of those darts hit the wall, one hit his girlfriend, one he never found, and the remaining 18 marked where the holes would be on the course. Then when he was sober (and single) he tried to find some way to make them flow together into a cohesive course. The result is a course that throws down a dirt road 5 times, across a field, back across that field, through a lower field, and back down that dirt road 5 more times. It kind of works for the most part, but it's pretty boring. It's not really technical at any point. Sure there are obstacles, but nothing that challenging. And that lower field makes little to no sense at all. You walk past random teepads and hoops that you don't even use on your way to other teepads and hoops that you will. There's not much flow down there either. They just needed 6 more holes to make it 18. I feel like it could have flowed better down there, and maybe even played back toward the start without making us throw back down the same road we started on. Road shots are fun in their own right, but they're repetitive when there are too many and you just get bored. Plus it's kind of dangerous how close many of the baskets are to the returning teepad and vice versa. Not that this place will ever be crowded...
Equipment: If you're playing in the summer (and let's face it, you're playing in the summer), you're playing to the hula hoops. Making a putt into one of these things is the least fulfilling experience in disc golf. You don't realize how important the sound of a basket or a tone pole is until you drop a disc into complete silence. I can't change my rating based on this alone, but I can base it on the fact that the netting is ripped out of a good number of the hoops and at least three of them were knocked over or awry in some way. One doesn't get the feeling that this course sees much use, and it gets even less in the way of maintenance. The teepads are just two sticks on the ground marking where to throw from. Only one had treacherous footing though.
Navigation: Without the map a visiting player will be 100% lost after hole 7 (if not before). Once upon a time there were handpainted signs at each tee that gave direction and distance. The few that were still readable were not only helpful, but quite pleasant to look at. This tells me that the navigation was wonderful when the place opened. Not so much now. Probably 15 of the signs were unreadable, and at least 3 of them had no paint left at all. Without a map a player will just wind up wandering aimlessly around the field from holes 8-13.
Design: This course kind of feels like the designer got hammered and then threw 40 or so darts at a map. 20 of those darts hit the wall, one hit his girlfriend, one he never found, and the remaining 18 marked where the holes would be on the course. Then when he was sober (and single) he tried to find some way to make them flow together into a cohesive course. The result is a course that throws down a dirt road 5 times, across a field, back across that field, through a lower field, and back down that dirt road 5 more times. It kind of works for the most part, but it's pretty boring. It's not really technical at any point. Sure there are obstacles, but nothing that challenging. And that lower field makes little to no sense at all. You walk past random teepads and hoops that you don't even use on your way to other teepads and hoops that you will. There's not much flow down there either. They just needed 6 more holes to make it 18. I feel like it could have flowed better down there, and maybe even played back toward the start without making us throw back down the same road we started on. Road shots are fun in their own right, but they're repetitive when there are too many and you just get bored. Plus it's kind of dangerous how close many of the baskets are to the returning teepad and vice versa. Not that this place will ever be crowded...
Other Thoughts:
I don't exactly know what to think about this course. It was hot and I'd just been steamrolled by Crystal when I played here, so you can factor that into the lack of fun that I had. I try to keep that out of my review and be objective, but who knows? One thing that I love about it is that it's a course in the middle of nowhere. If I lived out here I'd have to play it all the time. I'd much rather play just about any course in the state, but the fact that an area that is lacking in courses has a course at all gives it at least another half of a disc from me in rating. And yes, I realize that Crystal is just down the road, but even the lower course there will wear you out. Sometimes you just want to get 18 in without straining yourself too much. At least Greenwater offers that...
