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Milby Park DGC - Old Layout reviews
4
15
jimjohnmarks
Experience:
12 played
12 reviews
A good start, long way to go 2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Updated:
Played on:Jun 8, 2015
Played the course:5+ times
Pros:
The closest thing to a downtown course in Houston. One of the only courses inside Beltway 8.
A more varied selection of lengths, lines, hazards, technical difficulty and elevation than any other course in Houston.
Unpoured tee boxes aren't mud bowls. Yet.
A more varied selection of lengths, lines, hazards, technical difficulty and elevation than any other course in Houston.
Unpoured tee boxes aren't mud bowls. Yet.
Cons:
DISC EATER. Dense undergrowth, toxic water, heavy tree lines at water's edge.
Tournament level difficulty in a location totally unfit to host a tournament. (Smelly, local fisherman don't speak English and are always in the way.)
Despite being the closest course to downtown, it is impossible to get to after work because it is just beyond two major highway junctions which jam daily at 3:30p.
No course map.
Baskets aren't numbered.
No direction indicator for next tee pad.
No distances on tee posts.
COMPLETELY right handed bias.
NOT a viable substitute for MacGregor, which has been permitted to be largely dismantled.
Tournament level difficulty in a location totally unfit to host a tournament. (Smelly, local fisherman don't speak English and are always in the way.)
Despite being the closest course to downtown, it is impossible to get to after work because it is just beyond two major highway junctions which jam daily at 3:30p.
No course map.
Baskets aren't numbered.
No direction indicator for next tee pad.
No distances on tee posts.
COMPLETELY right handed bias.
NOT a viable substitute for MacGregor, which has been permitted to be largely dismantled.
Other Thoughts:
I feel bad about this review. I know Derek, who designed it, and I know he's a conscientious guy who does his best to create excellent courses.
But this was a bad choice of parks. The industry nearby produces serious water toxins and serious air toxins. It reeks here constantly and really isn't safe. To bring the water into play required making all the water hazards a much bigger LHBH risk than RHBH which makes the course useless for tournaments.
The three technical, wooded pins (13, 14, 15) may have a fairway, strictly speaking, but they don't have a line to the basket. It's basically dumb luck to do well on them.
#18 is simply ridiculous for an "all par 3" course. Even right handed.
The language-barrier-as-a-weapon-to-do-as-I-please crowd use tee boxes and fairways as picnic areas and fishing grounds and basically pretend you don't exist (until they decide you're too close to their daughter while you try to figure out how to throw around them).
It would have been effort much better spent to revitalize MacGregor or build new at Willow Water Hole than to shoehorn this course in here.
But this was a bad choice of parks. The industry nearby produces serious water toxins and serious air toxins. It reeks here constantly and really isn't safe. To bring the water into play required making all the water hazards a much bigger LHBH risk than RHBH which makes the course useless for tournaments.
The three technical, wooded pins (13, 14, 15) may have a fairway, strictly speaking, but they don't have a line to the basket. It's basically dumb luck to do well on them.
#18 is simply ridiculous for an "all par 3" course. Even right handed.
The language-barrier-as-a-weapon-to-do-as-I-please crowd use tee boxes and fairways as picnic areas and fishing grounds and basically pretend you don't exist (until they decide you're too close to their daughter while you try to figure out how to throw around them).
It would have been effort much better spent to revitalize MacGregor or build new at Willow Water Hole than to shoehorn this course in here.
1
12
Crazy Buffalo Guy
Experience:
17.1 years
61 played
2 reviews
Disc golf by the refineries 2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:Aug 21, 2014
Played the course:once
Pros:
A few nice shots but nothing special. Not much elevation but this is Houston. Also not very well marked. I am sure signs will be coming and make it better. Hopefully they will have a clean up day.
Cons:
Surrounded by polluting factories and more trash than I have ever seen at a disc golf course.
Other Thoughts:
Waste of time,wont be back.
