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Kiwanis DGC reviews
9
0
Get outta herrrrree 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Nov 30, 2019
Played the course:once
Pros:
Kiwanis DGC is an 18 holer in a great disc golf area. The Johnson City/Tri-Cities area has phenomenal terrain, and great courses. This one is... not one of those great ones, but it's kinda fun.
The course starts off with some tight holes, then some open long holes, then some very tight very short holes, then some open short holes. There are a LOT of holes around the 200' or less range, so it's very putter/mid friendly.
The signs on the tee's are informative. The baskets are old discatchers. They do pretty well.
The land this course is on is pretty nice. I played in the fall when the leaves were thick on the ground in the wooded holes.
The course starts off with some tight holes, then some open long holes, then some very tight very short holes, then some open short holes. There are a LOT of holes around the 200' or less range, so it's very putter/mid friendly.
The signs on the tee's are informative. The baskets are old discatchers. They do pretty well.
The land this course is on is pretty nice. I played in the fall when the leaves were thick on the ground in the wooded holes.
Cons:
The wooded holes are just not memorable, too short, too tight, just a little bit of everything. Hole 1 (a blind uphill into a tight alley) wasn't a great starting hole. Hole 2 (downhill straight shot) was maybe the best hole and would have made a WAY better starting hole.
The whole mishmash of design concepts weren't blended into a whole course, but segmented. The short length of the holes was almost stifling. Some holes could've just been combined, or redesigned for longer holes.
The morally crushing part was walking downhill from 14 to 15, and then 15 to 16. It's so deflating to throw uphill a few times, start licking your lips thinking there must be downhill coming, and then you just have to walk the whole way downhill.
The walk to 16 is also so long. Navigation wasn't too much of an issue until you get to 14/15, and then to 16. If the designer wasn't concerned about walking, then I really so no reason for hole 1 and why hole 2 isn't the beginning of the course.
oh and the tees were... well not great. paved, but shifted and cracked.
The whole mishmash of design concepts weren't blended into a whole course, but segmented. The short length of the holes was almost stifling. Some holes could've just been combined, or redesigned for longer holes.
The morally crushing part was walking downhill from 14 to 15, and then 15 to 16. It's so deflating to throw uphill a few times, start licking your lips thinking there must be downhill coming, and then you just have to walk the whole way downhill.
The walk to 16 is also so long. Navigation wasn't too much of an issue until you get to 14/15, and then to 16. If the designer wasn't concerned about walking, then I really so no reason for hole 1 and why hole 2 isn't the beginning of the course.
oh and the tees were... well not great. paved, but shifted and cracked.
Other Thoughts:
I was about to give this course a 2.0, but then saw that the rubric calls that "Reasonable," when I truly resonated more with a "Passable" description at the 1.5. The course is just too short, with too many holes that you don't really like from the tee.
I think with this land, a great 9-12 hole course would be so much better than a truncated 18. I think I thew one or two drivers the whole time. There's a great opportunity to maybe thin some trees out, widen the fairways, put in some top-of-the-world tees or just general downhill shots. This place could be great with the right redesign.
I think with this land, a great 9-12 hole course would be so much better than a truncated 18. I think I thew one or two drivers the whole time. There's a great opportunity to maybe thin some trees out, widen the fairways, put in some top-of-the-world tees or just general downhill shots. This place could be great with the right redesign.
2
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lammersk
Experience:
11 years
37 played
12 reviews
Replayed: Still Dangerous 2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Updated:
Played on:Aug 30, 2014
Played the course:2-4 times
Pros:
Starts with three short control pins and then goes into several nice longer pins (new 4 through 8) which make the course much funner than it was. 7 is particularly good as it plays over a rolling field at 468 feet.
Cons:
Here's what I wrote when this was a nine pin course:
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"5 is poorly laid out and dangerous. In order to get to 5's tee you have to climb an overly steep mudpath. I slipped three times and the third time I might have ended up tumbling if a tree hadn't been handy to grab. Once I reached the tee, it was framed with wood and filled with wood chips. The shot is across the side of the hill - not up or down. I tee'ed off poorly from the chips and my disc fell short and just to the left of the path to the basket. The path to the basket is not a flat path. Instead, it is just a mudpath on the same, somewhat steep angle as the hill. I slid along it, trying to walk on the leaves around its edges and staying close to trees I could grab. However, none of that helped me when I threw the disc. The leaves and mud under them slid away and I went down. Getting back up, I went to the log across the path which had stopped my disc and putted from there. Then I basically climbed up the side of the log, my feet sliding and my hands pulling me up using a couple branches, and walked down the mudpit around the basket to get my disc. This mudpit was also on the same angle as the hill and I leaned on the basket to stay in place.
From the 5th basket to the 6th tee was another adventure. The path leads steeply downhill from the basket. I started to try to walk it slowly and the mud gave way. I barely grabbed the basket in time to stop. Then I aimed myself at a small tree and slid/walked down. Thankfully, I hit my target. However, this was not the end of the trek to the 6th tee. The path went on - again a mudpath which was not flattened, but the same angle as the hill. I made it almost 2/3d of the way before my carefully slow walk was not enough and I went down again.
Look, I understand they are trying to make an interesting/more difficult basket. However, 5 needs some work. (1) Stairs going up to 5 and down to 6. Nothing fancy, 4X4's with a couple of feet of flat land behind each would be perfect. (2) Flatten the paths on the sides of the hills. (3) Flatten the area around 5's basket. It won't do any good to fix the other problems if there still a mudpit around 5 to slide down from."
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5 is now 13. The mudpath up to it is gone because you play around the hill through the woods to get to it. Otherwise, it is still the same dangerously laid out pin that it was before. This time I made sure I came after there had been a week without rain and playing across the side of the hill was not as bad. However, the area around the basket is still extremely slanted and the path down to 14 (previously 6) is slanted at far too steep an angle. Someone had put wood chips on the trail down to 14. I presume they were there because someone thought they would provide traction, but at least on this dry day they made the footing more treacherous. 13 & 14 are still dangerous and need to be fixed.
Minor: If this course gets crowded the 4-9 could be problematic because they are close to each other and those without excellent control will end up in each others' fairways.
Minor: Could use better signs getting people across the parking area to where the last few pins are located.
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"5 is poorly laid out and dangerous. In order to get to 5's tee you have to climb an overly steep mudpath. I slipped three times and the third time I might have ended up tumbling if a tree hadn't been handy to grab. Once I reached the tee, it was framed with wood and filled with wood chips. The shot is across the side of the hill - not up or down. I tee'ed off poorly from the chips and my disc fell short and just to the left of the path to the basket. The path to the basket is not a flat path. Instead, it is just a mudpath on the same, somewhat steep angle as the hill. I slid along it, trying to walk on the leaves around its edges and staying close to trees I could grab. However, none of that helped me when I threw the disc. The leaves and mud under them slid away and I went down. Getting back up, I went to the log across the path which had stopped my disc and putted from there. Then I basically climbed up the side of the log, my feet sliding and my hands pulling me up using a couple branches, and walked down the mudpit around the basket to get my disc. This mudpit was also on the same angle as the hill and I leaned on the basket to stay in place.
From the 5th basket to the 6th tee was another adventure. The path leads steeply downhill from the basket. I started to try to walk it slowly and the mud gave way. I barely grabbed the basket in time to stop. Then I aimed myself at a small tree and slid/walked down. Thankfully, I hit my target. However, this was not the end of the trek to the 6th tee. The path went on - again a mudpath which was not flattened, but the same angle as the hill. I made it almost 2/3d of the way before my carefully slow walk was not enough and I went down again.
Look, I understand they are trying to make an interesting/more difficult basket. However, 5 needs some work. (1) Stairs going up to 5 and down to 6. Nothing fancy, 4X4's with a couple of feet of flat land behind each would be perfect. (2) Flatten the paths on the sides of the hills. (3) Flatten the area around 5's basket. It won't do any good to fix the other problems if there still a mudpit around 5 to slide down from."
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5 is now 13. The mudpath up to it is gone because you play around the hill through the woods to get to it. Otherwise, it is still the same dangerously laid out pin that it was before. This time I made sure I came after there had been a week without rain and playing across the side of the hill was not as bad. However, the area around the basket is still extremely slanted and the path down to 14 (previously 6) is slanted at far too steep an angle. Someone had put wood chips on the trail down to 14. I presume they were there because someone thought they would provide traction, but at least on this dry day they made the footing more treacherous. 13 & 14 are still dangerous and need to be fixed.
Minor: If this course gets crowded the 4-9 could be problematic because they are close to each other and those without excellent control will end up in each others' fairways.
Minor: Could use better signs getting people across the parking area to where the last few pins are located.
Other Thoughts:
The improvements to this course make it more fun and when the mudpath up to previous 5 was no longer there, I started to hope that the other problems I previously noted were fixed as well so that I could recommend this course to others. Sadly, they were not. Because of this, the best I can rate this course is passable - if the weather has been dry for a few days.
