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Hassan Township, MN

Hidden Meadows Park

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Goosefraba
Experience: 14.8 years 114 played 12 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Ho hum 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 25, 2012 Played the course:once

Pros:

*Nice long holes for practice on your drives
*Shorter rough makes finding discs easier
*Fairways are fairly wide
*Easy to navigate
*Signed fairly well

Cons:

*Baskets on #2 and #3 were stolen
*No garbage cans
*Not very challenging, trees on 2 holes and power lines on 1, rest are just flat or hills
*Fair amount of bothersome flies

Other Thoughts:

Hole #1 - Just a straight shot, rather mundane.
Hole #2 - Dog leg right into the woods, which will be nice once the basket is returned
Hole #3 - Straight shot out of the woods back into the rolling hills
Hole #4 - Striaght shot over a hill
Hole #5 - Straight shot
Hole #6 - Straight shot
Hole #7 - Straight shot
Hole #8 - Straight shot with power line poles as very minor obstacle
Hole #9 - Straight shot, just decide if you want to go to the left or right around a line of trees and more power poles, with a small swamp on left which is a non factor
Really just a course to practice long drives or are passing through, not a destination course.
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smarkquart
Experience: 18.9 years 185 played 8 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Hassan Course 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 23, 2011 Played the course:once

Pros:

1) Relatively few spots to lose discs. There is some tall grass right up against the basket on Hole 4 and the wetlands running against Hole 8 is tall as well. Otherwise, fairly open and short wild grass.

2)Very easy to navigate even without a map because being new all the signs are in great shape and everything is marked.

3) Despite being very limited with what they have to work with, they tried their best to incorporate something so no hole would be just a straight ahead forward shot. Even the open field shots try to work in a little elevation change.

4) Distance. Several shots are 500 feet or more. Several more because of the tee boxes (explained in the con) while are only 350 feel like over 400. Basically, if you want to do open field practice, you might as well do it here because you will have a target to shoot at.

Cons:

The designer of the course worked with what they had. So while losing stars for things that are out of their control like more wooded holes, line shaping, cement tee boxes, etc, there is nothing about the course itself that is uniquely a con except the tee boxes. However, there are several issues with individual holes.

Tee Boxes) The crushed gravel was still very loose and not packed down. This will come with time as more play, but for the time being it was more treacherous and uneven to tee off on that just playing on the natural ground. Some were also too short, forcing to start my run-up behind the box, and then having to worry about my first step as the gravel was an inch or two higher than the ground.

Hole #1) The tee sign and the sign explaining the rules of disc golf are on both sides of the gravel tee box. While on the backside of the tee box, it still got into my mind that my arm on a follow through my strike them.

Hole #2) The property has a very small patch of woods in which the basket sits in. The opening to this patch is perpendicular to your first shot. An incredibly well placed anhyzer, forehand, or left handed throw may be able to penetrate the opening, but most likely since it is 340 feet away, you are better off just aiming for the opening. Too early or late and the angle to approach into the forest closes quickly. What would be ideal is to move the tee box closer by 40-60 feet and swinging it a little closer to Hole 1's fairway.

Hole #3) Just a warning, the tall grass sits behind the basket and is a blind shot. Use spotters or do not throw a driver and purposely come up short.

Hole #8) This is a long shot. There is an OB path on the left and OB protected wetlands on the right. This creates a playable but narrow strip of fairway for anyway who can drive over 330 feet. While the OB is not the issue, how long you can fly over OB is. In either case, you can go OB early despite actually making it most of the way to the basket. Also, the curve of the beginning of the wetland also makes it difficult to determine exactly where you went OB. A drop box would be ideal for this hole.

Hole #9) Tries to use the power lines and the trees around it as an obstacle. It gives you two lines to attempt to reach this otherwise open hole. The only issue I had was how close the tee box is to the first power pole. It is literally on top of the first pole. I would rather see it moved back by 10 feet to allow a safer follow through.

Other Thoughts:

You can hear the power lines while you are out there but they are never an issue. The poles, however, are used as obstacles, which are actually a good thing because the course has so little in other obstacles. I can see where wind can be an issue.

I do not think this will make a good winter course because of the distances involved and how much open area there is.

If the softball/ baseball field, which is very rough itself, is ever in use, Hole 2 becomes dangerous and likely unplayable as you are driving into center field.

Finally, like I said about driving practice, if you are itching to just get out and do field work, this actually is a nice place to do it because you will have a target to shoot at, at least an obstacle or two to give you something to think about, and the likelihood of losing a dics is very low.
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