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Slinger, WI

Heritage Trails County Park

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3.365(based on 7 reviews)
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mcbrandt
Experience: 3 played 3 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Beautiful Parcel of Land and Fun Course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Oct 15, 2019 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Mix of open and wooded holes in an absolutely beautiful park! There are essentially no easy birdies here, unless you are playing some of the longer holes as par 4. To me, that is a pro.
Could be a con to others, though. If you like pitch-and-putt courses, this is not for you. Some of the long pins on longer holes warrant par 4, but some of the 4s out there should be 3s, IMO.

Cons:

Some might consider this course as "too open". I think the elevation changes and course features (island green on hole 4, et al.) trump that, though. The prairie can be a major pain when it's fully grown in the summer.

Other Thoughts:

This course is on its way to 4+ rating. Will be expanded to 27 holes in 2020. The beautiful, but problematic tees will be phased out in the near future, and replaced with a couple different styles. Once the slippery tees are replaced, and the next nine holes is in, this is easily a 4.
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torrettas
Experience: 3 played 3 reviews
3.50 star(s)

For a novice, I like this course, but..... 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 21, 2019 Played the course:once

Pros:

Nice quiet course that wasn't heavily used.
Plenty of parking.
Course layout board right at the beginning of front and back nines.
Wide variety of hole types including an "island" hole.
Good for a novice to intermediate player.
Tees well marked and baskets easy to locate in all but a couple of hilly holes.
Plenty of rough, trees, hills to make it a challenge for novice to intermediate players. Trees tended to be boundaries on holes more so that in the fairways.
Has a variety of hole lengths and challenges.

Cons:

Concrete tees are smaller.
Rough was quite tall especially on the back nine.
If wearing shorts, watch out for stinging nettle plants in the rough!
Could be a difficult or frustrating course for a new player.

Other Thoughts:

Keep your hyzering/anhyzering to a minimum and you will stay out of the rough. Being a novice player, I was in the rough quite often. The stinging nettles were in the back nine around holes 14 through 16. I lost a disc in deep rough to the left on hole 15. In looking for it, my bare legs rubbed against some stinging nettles, unbeknownst to me. My legs felt like there was continuous bee stings from my knees to my ankles for about a day.
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wolfhaley
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Experience: 20 years 1008 played 579 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Better than expected 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 3, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

The course is set in a beautiful multi use park and the area its set up in is exclusively for disc golf. The baskets are DGA's that are in fantastic shape and catch great. There's two tees at each hole except hole 18. There's no signs just wood posts with the hole number on them. These are fine as it's pretty easy to see the pin from each hole anyway. Hole 4 is an "island" hole minus the water. I personally like these on these prairie type courses to add a little more challenge on an otherwise pretty bland hole. It's a unique idea and the only other places I've seen this is token creek and capital springs in Madison. The flow of the course is very easy to follow with the only long walk being from hole 2 to 3, then obviously back up toward the parking lot after the first 9 to get to the back nine. There are numerous next tee arrows throughout anyway though which is always a plus. They have excellent scorecards with very nice maps on them at the kiosk by the parking lot as well. These are some of the best I've seen. The tees are just natural/grass which are ok for now but will become problematic with more wear and tear. Hopefully they plan on getting concrete or at least rubber mats in the future to help with this. The course is free, permanent and there's tons of parking spaces. This would be a good place to play a snow round too. There's a solid mix of distances here. They also use the elevation and the limited woods to the best they could it seemed. There were numerous tees tucked into tree lines to add challenge to some otherwise wide open holes. Also quite a few (not sure exactly how many) holes had multiple pin locations to mix things up.

Cons:

The tee signs are my biggest con. They're a strange height and I kept feeling like and almost did smack my throwing hand on them on my follow through. This annoyed me. The tees aren't a problem yet but with enough use these will be. You can already tell by the worn down grass that this course gets a decent amount of traffic which means these tees are going to be a problem sooner rather than later.

Other Thoughts:

This is not by any means a destination course but is well worth a stop if you're anywhere nearby. I was surprised after playing here at how much fun I had. I normally don't like prairie courses at all but something about this one was different. Give it a shot for sure, just don't expect rollin ridge, just a well maintained fun round or two.
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knivile1
Experience: 13 years 60 played 25 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Solid course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jul 4, 2016 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

-Multiple tee and basket locations. Updated plastic teepads on short tees since I first reviewed this course last year
-Good use of elevation available as well as treeline or pockets of trees on the prairie holes
-Very quiet and unassuming. Very minimal non-DG traffic
-Great aesthetics to the park as a whole and the mowed fairways contrasted against the rough look great.

Cons:

-I like that they have added permanent tees, however the plastic tiles do not instill much confidence in your run-up. Can't count how many times I've slipped on these already. Much prefer concrete and even rubber over this stuff.
-LONG prairie grass will eat up discs in the rough if you don't pay complete attention to your throw

Other Thoughts:

Course continues to break in and add new and better elements. Makes for a fun round of golf.

Accuracy and power required. Keep in the short grass and you will have a great time!
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