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Stanwood, WA

Kayak Point - Gold

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4.25(based on 5 reviews)
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Breh
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 14 years 191 played 189 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Aug 29, 2023 Played the course:once

Pros:

Beautiful resort with amazing pro shop and bbq restaurant on site. All 4 courses compliment each other well. The golf course has some amazing fun downhill throws with good tee signs and turf pads. Hole 1 and 2 are fun downhill bomber par 3s. Course layout is very well done. On ball golf course and it's golf means you can throw drives as far as you can, friendly staff and good add to Washington disc golf

Cons:

Very wide open for the most part, and outside of a couple holes feels kind of repetitive. I feel like I could play most the course with just a couple drivers and mid/putter. They did a good job with the land I'm just not a huge ball golf course kind of guy

Other Thoughts:

The elevation change is great here, and the course is well designed worth the 4 stars but for some reason just dosen't have that wow factor the other top tier courses posses for me
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Dadio
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 39.7 years 174 played 75 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Mixed Feelings 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Feb 18, 2022 Played the course:once

Pros:

This course is set on a former ball golf course a ways off the beaten path of the I-5 corridor. It is in a beautifully wooded area with alot of mature forest that it wends through. I like that it starts with a couple medium long par 3s going down hill to lull you into a false sense of security. The difficulty quickly ramps up, especially if your average drive is in the 275-300 ft range. That being said, I feel that most holes were possible to par on a good day with the exception of 17. This was the most memorable hole, 825' par 4 doesn't sound bad, except there is a deep gully that those of us with shorter drives will end up on the bottom and need to climb out. Brutal but I liked it.
Other very memorable hole was 12. Shortest on course but had to do a blind shot up a steep enbankment with very difficult lines to the pin. Pro and con, cool tough hole put in for variety and flow but about need a spotter, be pretty easy to lose a disc going for the pin.
Course made very good use of the elevation available and for the most part signage was on point.

Cons:

Not too many. Signs were occasionally misleading. There are no numbers on the baskets or any high vis to help you find them. Not normally a problem, but with long holes can be hard to spot pin and on hole 6 basket is up out of sight on left side of hill but basket for 7 is in a plausable if long place from looking @ tee sign. I didn't realize I had messed up until I got to tee for 9(didn't look close @ sign on 8) and had to back track. Group behind me was doing the same. we found the hole together and continued but there wasn't much to indicate a basket was up on hillside.
The astroturf pads were better than I expected but a few were a little short for the hole and were raised just enough couldn't start behind them.
Only other big one for me was price. It is a cool place with 2 (soon to be 3) good courses, but only offering a day pass makes me pay too much since I will only ever be able to play one of these long courses in a day without hurting myself. When I talked about this to one of the owners he indicated it would be too hard to keep an eye on people so they didn't play more than one. My impression over the years that I have played is that this community is pretty honest so this struck me as a poor excuse to overcharge people.

Other Thoughts:

This was my 4th time trying to play here and it finally worked out. It was mostly worth the trip but I don't know how often I will go out of my way to play this one. That being said, I am glad I did and am very glad to have a true (bleep) you pro course in the Seattle area. This one should give you all you want. Couple changes making some of the pins easier to locate and pars slightly better this is a easy 4.5, some of the other planned changes may make it a 5
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stimko12
Experience: 9.6 years 74 played 3 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Long, fun course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 25, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

The Gold Course is a 10,000+ ft, open course designed to be the most challenging of four courses at the Kayak Point Disc Golf Resort. This is the big brother to the Red course, with mostly wide open fairways. The fairways are a little tighter on some holes than on Red, and the distance is significantly longer. The main challenge in this course is the elevation change. The majority of the holes play downhill either the whole way or downhill off the tee and back up to the basket. The elevation change provides challenge in shot selection and angle control. I went on a relatively calm day and it was a challenge, so I can imagine a windy day being very tough. Basket placements are also done well, with lots of elevation utilized on the green and guardian trees on a number of holes.

-Tee pads are nice turf
-Tee signs are professional and informative
-Fairways are a fair width
-Grass in the rough is kept long, which is nice because it makes for more challenging footing and adds a degree of punishment for missing the fairway
-Pin placements are interesting utilizing trees and elevation to challenge putts
-Elevation change makes for challenging shot selection and angle control
-Location is beautiful, course is well-maintained

Cons:

Hole 12 seems out of place and is not a very well designed hole. It is similar to Hole 6 on Reds, but feels much more like a hole that was put in just to regain some elevation and get to the next tee. From the tee you are staring at a 15' vertical wall of dirt, and have to throw some sort of trick shot up and over to a fairway with low hanging branches...so reaching the pin is nearly impossible on the shortest hole on the course.

On many holes, the cart paths that cut across the fairway play as OB...I'm not opposed to OB on or over cart paths that line the fairways (like most of the Red course), but having OB 'rivers' that run through the fairway seem arbitrary and annoying.

Not a huge deal, but there are four 600+ ft par 3s on the course...while I can see a big arm getting all the way to Hole 1 off the drive due to the severe downhill slope, the other holes have an extremely guarded green (3,6), or a tunnel that starts 400' down the fairway (8). These are all great holes, but the par may need to be adjusted.

Other Thoughts:

If you don't have a huge arm, ignore the par on this course and you'll have a great time, but if you want to score well, play the Red course. Fun long shots with more elevation change than most (any?) course in Western Washington.

I walked the course and logged 5.3 miles in a 2.5 hour solo round. Carts are available at the pro shop for rental.
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