Baytown, TX

Jenkins Park DGC

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3.835(based on 21 reviews)
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lyleoross
Experience: 28.3 years 2 played 2 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Pitch and Putt 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 9, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

The city clearly cares about this park, and put some real effort into the tee pads and signage.

Cons:

While this course has some positives for beginning players, no player rated over 940 is going to enjoy playing here. Most players between 880 and 940 are going to get multiple birdies. If you have an arm, and low accuracy, this is the course for you.

1) In DG, trees are not for shade, they are there to challenge the player. When you don't have a lot of trees, you need to use them judiciously, not to shade the tee pads.
2) Almost every tree'd hole has a back door hyzer route, a route that is easier than the direct route by far. The one exception is a hole set up as a hyzer, here the forehand shot is an easy 200 foot lob that drops you at basket's edge.
3) If there is an open field, with some trees at the end, and a fifty foot wide hole in the trees, an advanced player will hit that hole 100% of the time.

Players should be forced to make decisions on shots. In this course, there is always one way the designer wanted you to go, or in many cases, a clear alternative, but very little thinking is involved.

Other Thoughts:

It seems clear that the designer built the course for beginning players. The designer added in some long holes, maybe because the space was there? Movement of tees to better utilize trees and tighter spacing will move the real rating of this course up. The designer might go out to Tom Bass, another course with big fairways, where the designer used the few trees to great advantage, forcing players to think and push their games.

If you want a very clean park, that is really well maintained, for a very casual round of golf, this is it.
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