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Sauk Rapids, MN

Mayhew Creek Park

3.895(based on 9 reviews)
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Der Kuru
Experience: 8.9 years 3 played 2 reviews
4.00 star(s)

My favorite course to date 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 4, 2017 Played the course:once

Pros:

• Diverse terrain (open fields, hills, woods, river, etc.)
• Huuuge, beautiful, well-maintained course
• Challenging
• Plenty of bombers (several holes >700 ft.)

Cons:

• Not easily accessible (the course begins in the corner of a huge parking lot for a high school in the middle of nowhere)
• The openness makes for a windy course

Other Thoughts:

This course blew me away both in its diversity and the sheer scale of it. Every hole seemed like a new experience because of the terrain, and there was an excellent array of technical and open bomber holes. I had such a blast and felt tested on all fronts with this course, and I can't wait to go back again.
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Dswedburg
Experience: 16 played 1 reviews
4.00 star(s)

A little bit of everything. 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 4, 2017 Played the course:once

Pros:

This course has a ton of variation.
-Elevation Changes.
-Long Wide Open Shots.
-Tight Wooded Lines.
-Dog Legs.

All in all this course shows a player the areas they need to improve.

Cons:

Signs are on the short tee pad so from the Long tee at times it's hard to know the true layout of the hole. ( Especialy Hole 5)

Other Thoughts:

This was definitely the most fun and challenging course I have ever played.
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notapro
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Premium Member
Experience: 20.8 years 569 played 284 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Intermediate/Expert 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 22, 2012 Played the course:once

Pros:

- Course is set on the back side of a high school, which has PLENTY of room to spare. There are some houses in the distance, but otherwise the area is free and clear for disc golf.
- There are a few patches of forest that are in play here, with a handful of holes completely enclosed by the woods. #3 is a wooded RHFH hyzer, #4 is a slightly downhill wooded RHBH hyzer, and #5 is a dogleg left that has the second leg almost 5x longer than the first (kind of odd, truthfully). #13 is in a different section, a very skinny, long LHBH flex shot with lots of jail on either side. There aren't too many wooded holes, so they are tighter/tougher.
- Some other holes have the odd patch of forest/rough that gets in the way, or provides trouble to get into. #6 starts open, but the basket is tucked through a very tight gap, located on the left side of the fairway, with the basket on the right. #10 is a long hole with nasty rough on the left, and a patch of guardian trees with rough behind the basket. #13 also starts in the open, with a small gap into the forest well off the tee. Very important to hit the gap or at least have a good look at it. #15 has an interesting tee shot through a gap, and over a small valley of shrubbery.
- The rest of the holes are set in the prairie, with tall grass being the only real obstacle and source of punishment. To make up for it, the holes are brutal. Long and grassy. #1 is a pretty easy uphill, and #2 is a fun downhill, #8 is a shorter uphill shot, and #16 isn't too bad with an open uphill shot. Then you have holes like #7 at 815' and #18 at 729'. #10 is a huge hyzer around the grass at 435', an anny around the hill on #9 at 430'. #17 is a blind dogleg left at 600', these are big boy holes for big boy arms.
- Some hazardous areas here, on top of some gnarly rough and nasty tall grass. There is also water behind #12's basket (easily reachable with an overshoot), and to the left of #13, and maybe even way left of #14. Definitely something to worry about.
- Very nice brick teepads, great baskets, good signage with basic ones at the longs and detailed ones at the shorts. Navigation signs also present, the only tricky spot might be finding #15. Not too bad at all getting around.

Cons:

- While the prairie holes are nothing to sneeze at, they are pretty wide open. Any kind of shot that lands in the open is fine, no line shaping needed with a few exceptions. A lot of nasty spots to search through on shots that are marginally off the fairway as well.
- Pretty minor elevation changes here; the first basket and second tee are located on a hill, but everything else is pretty much gradual. Though #18 feels pretty far uphill after a full round here.

Other Thoughts:

- How 'bout those long pads! This course is a monster at 8354', with forgiving fairways but brutal rough in the warmer months. Some mega-bombers out here, some with tough hazards to worry about. The forest holes do provide challenge as well; two are shorter, while the other two are long and much tougher. Even from the short pads, it is tough to score well out here. Beginners might want to steer clear for a while, everyone else should enjoy a championship-length course.
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Axx3d
Experience: 26.1 years 50 played 6 reviews
4.00 star(s)

beast 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 31, 2012 Played the course:once

Pros:

Nice Tee pads
Wide mowed fairway
Elevation and a little water in play
good signs for each hole and directions to next tee
Well laid out course over all with not alot of walking in between holes.
Long holes.

Cons:

I really didn't see real any con's. You need a spotter for a couple of the holes. If you go to deep off the fairway the weeds/woods can be thick.

Some may say the over all length is too much but after seeing a lot of pitch n put courses put up.. i like the length.

could be bad on a windy day, today was ssw 5 mph and it was fine.

Other Thoughts:

If your going to enjoy this course you need an arm. It is not for beginners even at the AM tee's. You can see they have done a lot of work on opening up fairways since last year, they have widened every single one.

I gave it a 4 overall because it is refreshing to see a course that requires you to drive 400+ feet more than once a round. The layout is done well and it was a great course.

I'LL BE BACK !!
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Zamascus
Experience: 21 years 1 played 1 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Hardest course I played in St. Cloud area 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 3, 2012 Played the course:once

Pros:

Long holes - most over 450, challenging course, good variety with elevation on a couple holes, woods on 3-6 and 14, and a stream comes into play on a couple holes, good tee pads and signage - overall in great shape for a brand new course.

Cons:

Very narrow fairways - talking 20 feet wide on 800 foot fairways with tall grass and shrubs on about 15 of the holes causing the need for a spotter on almost every throw. Fairways should be 3X wider, but it was day 1 of the course so maybe this will improve. Also the pin location for 15 is very unclear - it is over a small hill in front of the teebox - on the other side of the hill is water. You have to walk a good 100 feet around this hill to see it is way out in a field on the left hand side of a row of trees.

Other Thoughts:

This kind of reminded me of some of the highbridge courses - very long, lots of tall rough. You won't be happy with your score if you play all as par 3's - this course will most likely test your nerves on a windy day.
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