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Memorial Park reviews
11
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A Discraft Zone zone
Reviewed:
Played on:Aug 27, 2022
Played the course:once
Pros:
-Concrete teepads
-Innova DiscCatcher baskets
-Nice new, graffiti-free tee signs
-Intuitive layout
-Was virtually deserted during my round
-Innova DiscCatcher baskets
-Nice new, graffiti-free tee signs
-Intuitive layout
-Was virtually deserted during my round
Cons:
-Overlaps with baseball diamonds, so I'm sure there are times its unusable
-Short teepads
-Some inaccuracy on tee sign distances
-Short in general
-Short teepads
-Some inaccuracy on tee sign distances
-Short in general
Other Thoughts:
First off, I want to give this course a little love. Nicely laid concrete teepads, permanent tee signs with line and distance, and top-tier baskets - all of that stuff together bumps a course at least a star for me. It's not a given that stuff is included in a little public park 9 like this, in fact usually it isn't the case. Look, you know what you should be expecting when you pull up to a course like this - the holes are all pretty short (longest hole is like 270 with the rest much shorter, <200 I think), it's pretty easy. But there's still some fun on this one! They didn't have a ton of room to work with, and I thought they did surprisingly well with what they had. A short course is better than no course! There's even a bit of water in play on hole 5, and hole 6 is a very unique hole, which I don't say much about these style of courses.
Now, on to the criticisms. While there's some fun short course action on the first 6, it really peters out on the last 3 holes. Its kind of just throwing back and forth to an open basket to finish. While the permanent tee signs are great and a nice touch, some of the distances are wildly inaccurate. Hole 7 I believe, is off by like 70 feet compared to what is on UDisc (which seem more correct to me). Hole 1 is pretty wrong too. They are also positioned weird on a few holes. This combined with the shorter than standard teepads makes for awkward runups in a few spots. On one hole the teesign post is literally touching the back right corner of the teepad, ie. where I start my runup. Thankfully, most holes are so short you probably don't need much run up. The overlap with the baseball diamonds is unfortunate, though it didn't affect my Friday afternoon round and again, they had to work with the space they had.
Overall is this course anything special? No, but it did exceed my very modest expectations based on it's current rating. I've played much worse 9s. Perfect course for beginners just learning the game. Fun spot for ace runs. Or do what I did and use it as a warm up round for HA Meyer, a nice 18 hole that's just 10 minutes up the road.
Now, on to the criticisms. While there's some fun short course action on the first 6, it really peters out on the last 3 holes. Its kind of just throwing back and forth to an open basket to finish. While the permanent tee signs are great and a nice touch, some of the distances are wildly inaccurate. Hole 7 I believe, is off by like 70 feet compared to what is on UDisc (which seem more correct to me). Hole 1 is pretty wrong too. They are also positioned weird on a few holes. This combined with the shorter than standard teepads makes for awkward runups in a few spots. On one hole the teesign post is literally touching the back right corner of the teepad, ie. where I start my runup. Thankfully, most holes are so short you probably don't need much run up. The overlap with the baseball diamonds is unfortunate, though it didn't affect my Friday afternoon round and again, they had to work with the space they had.
Overall is this course anything special? No, but it did exceed my very modest expectations based on it's current rating. I've played much worse 9s. Perfect course for beginners just learning the game. Fun spot for ace runs. Or do what I did and use it as a warm up round for HA Meyer, a nice 18 hole that's just 10 minutes up the road.
