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Lubbock, TX

Mae Simmons Park

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Pizza God
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Experience: 36.1 years 1717 played 574 reviews
4.00 star(s)

What fun 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 20, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

Tee signs on all the holes
Cement Tee boxes
Basket art is different on every hole, very cool
Both wooded and open shots

Cons:

Not a fan of raised baskets, has 2 of them.
Not a fan of mando's, has 2 clowns mouth holes.

Other Thoughts:

What a fun course. Dedicated park to disc golf, no others should get in your way out here. Parking lot is a little hard to find the first time, but it is right off 19th street at the bottom of the hill. Then drive down the single lane road to the parking lot behind the building.

Hole one tee's off up at the fence line near the parking lot. it has a steel mando clowns mouth that is not too hard to miss. The basket is down the small hill and just past a road/fence line.
Hole 2 is a tight little birdie hole. Notice the artwork done in steel in the fairway.
Hole 3 had the raised up basket, but only by a few feet, I have seen much worse. Still don't like them.
Hole 4 is fun, tight fairway to an open green. Get past the trees for the easy 3.
Hole 5 A little bit of a walk around a smelly blackwater spot, an little uphill hyzer shot just past the row of trees.
Hole 6 is probably one of the signature holes in that I have seen this basket before. The tee is around the corner of the pool (past tee 8) and throws downhill to another art project raised basket. This one is actually pretty cool.
Then over to tee 7 and back up the hill. Open hole, but up a steep hill
Hole 8 throws back down the hill into the trees to a flood control area. you don't want to overthrow this one and be in the water. Not sure I am putting my hand in that crap. But the green area is really cool with a sideways tree in front of the basket. Unfortunately, there was a lot of trash on this hole when I played it.
Then to another signature hole, only because the clownsmouth mando has signs all over it. Very cool looking. Still don't like it for a regular course. To putt putt ish in my opinion. However, I enjoyed throwing it. The basket was in the long position, way to the left.
Then you have several wooded holes, 10 and 11 are almost parallel, 12 is a very short pitch to a hill with the creek behind the basket.
12 shoots down with the creek as the fairway. Sign said this water was casual. Basket is down the creek and up on the bank.

Hole 14 is a nice little short shot, get out of the trees for an easy 2.

Then you get to the more open holes, 15 throws with the pond on the right, all the way down to a corner.
Hole 16 is a wide open shot across a field.
Hole 17 has you climbing the hill and throwing across the road to a basket under 2 large trees.
Then 18's tee is just to the right of 17's and throws all the way across the field, slightly to the right into the trees/creek area.

There are 2 alternate holes. One tee's off from the damn to 9's basket. The other throw from past 18's tee back to the practice basket.

Would I play here again?

Oh yes, this is high on my list of fun courses to play. it has a little of everything. If I am ever in the Lubbock area again, I will be playing here again. I highly recommend you play here over all the other courses in the area. It is the most fun course to play in West Texas.
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Alan01
Experience: 6.9 years 12 played 12 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Bring your bug spray 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 30, 2017 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

Lots of technical shots and great diversity of hole challenges. There are a few long holes that favor powerful drivers, and there are several shorter holes in heavy trees that favor players that are more technical...evens the playing field.

We were first timers, and the signage was generally good enough to find the next tee box (with the help of a digital map I'd downloaded before we went), each tee box described which direction to go to the following tee box. A few baskets/tee boxes were a bit tough to identify.

Tee boxes were cement and the baskets were all double-chain and in good order.

Cons:

About half or more of the holes are located in heavily wooded areas along the river, this means LOTS of mosquitos. But bring your bug spray and apply liberally - you'll be fine.

We had no idea where to park or even find hole #1. We later learned that you need to pull into Mae Simmons park off of 19th Street (the drive is very rough...4x4s preferred). We parked by the pavilion at the other end of the park our first (and second) time started midway through playing back to the same hole.

Other Thoughts:

Some holes are so heavily forested that even excellent players have to rely on a good dose of luck to par. Miraculously, we didn't lose any discs.
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Notorious21
Bronze level trusted reviewer
Experience: 13.7 years 103 played 48 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Unique Basket Art 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:May 25, 2014 Played the course:once

Pros:

- Concrete tee pads, adequate signs
- Mostly shaded
- Great use of elevation
- Variety of open and tight holes
- No easy holes, no impossible holes - every one is challenging, yet accessible
- Interesting sculptures and artwork on top of the baskets
- Water hazard in play on several holes, but easy to avoid
- Hole 6 - The Hunger Games!

Cons:

- Litter everywhere. Some from disc golfers, some from flooding and water run-off
- Would have liked to have more of a bomb to throw on the elevated teepads (6, 8, 17)
- Layout is confusing... bring a map

Other Thoughts:

Played during the rainiest weekend in recent Lubbock history, I think. The ground was a little muddy, but I can't hold that against this course. The litter was really bad, but if the community would come together and help clean it up, they'd have an excellent little course.
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