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Fair Oaks, CA

Miller Park

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elvenschool
Experience: 42 years 12 played 12 reviews
2.50 star(s)

6 Out of 9 is Not Bad 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 15, 2020 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

Great practice on playing holes with significant elevation changes.
A few holes bring the small creek into play.
Grassy fields on most of the holes.

Cons:

A couple of blind holes are annoying and require an advance scout.
One hole is nearly ridiculous with shrubs, side incline and trees and includes a shared tee box.

Other Thoughts:

As the title suggestions, 6 enjoyable holes out of 9 is not bad.
Well-maintained park.
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Wiggyjiggy
Experience: 2 played 1 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Beginners/Intermediate course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 11, 2021 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Perfect for beginners and intermediate players
Great for working your accuracy in your short game
Good mix of traditional length and short holes
The wooded portion really uses the landscape well in providing some tight fairways especially on hole 9


Cons:

It does share the land with a playground, tennis ball courts, and a couple little walking paths. Not necessarily a con but just something to keep in mind when it comes to weekends
Small course means crowded on weekends especially with other disc golfers

Other Thoughts:

For what this course is and who it's more targeted for it's a fairly good place. Holes 1-3 get your arm stretched out. 4&5 are a lot more shorter but work your short game especially with the OB behind hole 5. Hole 6 really puts your technique to the test with a rising fairway that flattens out about 120ft from the tee and then dips back down to the basket. Hole 7 plays more favorable towards RHFH players with a downhill shot that ends either 30ft from the creek or up in the trees on the hill. Hole 8 is a short triple mando down the gut with OB down by the creek. Last is hole 9 which also plays a little more favorable towards RHFH players. In the short it's possible to get a birdie but in the long par feels like a birdie.
Keep in mind that there is a playground so there are children that might run out on holes 1,2,3,7, and 8. Be patient and just try to educate other people about the sport. Signs are posted and sure everyone should be reading them but it's a two way street. Another thing to note is typically on weekends the course gets a lot of foot traffic. If you're looking to play here on a weekday your chances are pretty good you'll get through with hardly any hold up.
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BobbyB
Experience: 3.9 years 10 played 3 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Early mornings 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 27, 2020 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

This is a great course for beginners/intermediate players. Holes 1-3 share the same field, and one should be mindful of other players. Hole 4, 5, 6 and 9 are in the wooded area. Be cautious on hole 6 as it goes up hill and is a blind spot for pedestrians who are walking through. Hole 7-9 share the same tee platform. Be cautious on hole 8 to not overthrow as disc may roll into creek. The cages are in great condition and easy to find. Navigating through the park is easy. The signs at the beginning of each tee platform are legible. There is a warning sign for pedestrians to watch out for Flying Discs.

Cons:

Course can be crowded in the afternoon. Non-disc player pedestrians are ignorant and think some parts of the course is an appropriate place to walk their dogs through and get in the way. Some tennis balls have polluted the field on holes 1-3.

Other Thoughts:

Best time to go is early mornings between 7 and 9 am, where you practically have the entire course for yourself. One of my favorite courses to play as practice and develop accuracy.
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GVDiscr
Experience: 19.9 years 109 played 21 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Beautiful 9 Hole Course in Jam Packed-Park! 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 21, 2020 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Let's focus on the positive things about Miller Park shall we? I will be reviewing this from a Disc Golf perspective on the course itself.
First off, the Teepads are very nice for being in such a small park. Some with gravel that looks like it will drain well during rain. Each Hole has a vibrant tee sign with animated fairways and Hole distances as well as a marker for the pin placement. There appears to be 2 pin placements per most of the holes.
The first 3 Holes are in a wide open grassy meadow with mandatory's on each one of them to direct players shots away from potential pedestrians/other players. Holes 4 through 6 play into the wooded area on the hilltop in the park near the small power plant. Holes 4 & 5 are both shorter but technical and Hole 6 is probably rivaled with Hole 9 for the most difficult on the course. Hole 7 shares a tee-pad with Hole 9 and it's possibly one of the widest cement tee-pads on any course I've played - very cool! Hole 8 is a super short pitch with an elevated basket on a slight downhill slope and requires a conservative drive or you could be in the creek at the bottom of the hill. Hole 9 played down a tight fairway with the basket guarded by a many trees, the green is a sloping hill with hard packed dirt allowing any upshot or drive to roll away if it catches an edge. It's probably my favorite Hole on the course for the overall challenge of getting to the green off the tee. Overall I think the course provides a challenging 9 holes to iron out the kinks in your approach game with the opportunity to let loose on quite a few holes.

Cons:

Now onto the cons of the course. Which it seems most of these prior reviews seem to focus on.
Holes 1 through 3 all use the SAME meadow as their fairway. This easily could cause a logjam on busy days.
Pedestrians also could be an issue if they wander through the fields, but as more people get used to the course being here I think that will diminish over time, (For example, Carmichael Park). Hole 4 and 6 are semi blind shots, if you don't walk up the fairway and check before you throw you could potentially hit a pedestrian. HOWEVER, the majority of Disc Golfers will always check their fairways before just walking up to the tee and throwing blindly. (See Other Thoughts below).
Some could say 7 & 9 sharing a tee-pad is a con, but with the land provided, I don't see this being an issue. What would be an issue is an 8 hole course; so I'm thankful for the creative thought process that went into installing and providing this course to the public!

Other Thoughts:

The park itself has so many different amenities, which some seem to think is a bad thing ? I think this is wonderful, maximizing the use of the small amount of beautiful land they have. I see a lot of resident locals are concerned with pedestrians getting tagged with discs, but I can assure you, there aren't many Disc Golfers out there that aren't aware of the etiquette of the game. To most this may just seem like a leisurely activity we "Disc Golfers" go out and do, but we take our rounds seriously and wouldn't compromise by throwing when a pedestrian is in a potential landing zone. Give the disc golf community a little bit of credit! We take things just as serious as the regular walker, jogger, tennis player, picnic'er, or basketball player that uses the amenities of the park, we're all out there to have fun! Cheer up, grab a disc and get out there and enjoy it!
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jasonandsharon
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 40 years 498 played 66 reviews
0.00 star(s)

Beautiful but unsafe 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Dec 2, 2019 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Miller Park is a beautiful +/- 6 acre park (yes you read that right 6 not 60) with 8 tennis courts, a basketball court, playground area, horseshoe pits, restrooms, and picnic and BBQ areas throughout, also there is a small power substation in there as well. And into all of this has been put a 9-hole disc golf course. Now some of you are going to see a huge potential problem with this simple listing of amenities, others will not, but we will get to that in a moment.

The course has 9 brand new Mach X baskets and mostly concrete pads. At least one of the pads was a crushed stone pad, not sure why, but it did the job just fine. The course is obviously quite small with hole 7 and 9 sharing a teepad but the design is decent for what it is.

It is a beautiful park and a very busy park, and it is enjoyed by lots of park-goers, we will get to that in a second as well.

The course is actually quite fun to play sans people (again we'll get to it). It features 9 recreational friendly holes weaving though quite a bit of obstacles. The park features a nature area in the back that the course winds through and it actually has a fair amount of elevation shifts for such a small property.

And now for the meat of the review:

Cons:

HOLY COW! THERE IS A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE! So apparently somebody thought it would be a cool idea to try to put every park activity available into this little tiny park and see how it would work out. Now, they have put out signs saying the course is closed during times when the school next door is out and you have a couple 100 children wandering through the park, but honestly who reads.

Most of the course winds its way through the most unused least populated portions of the park although it only takes a second for someone to change that. Most of the holes are fairly short and easy to see what is crossing your fairway, although they all play in areas where people tend to wander through. Holes 4, 5, and 6 though are somewhat blind and back in the woods and real easy for someone to wander in your fairway.

Now to be fair I have played a number of courses that have all the town's outdoor amenities in a single small central park, but those are normally located in far remote locations where the town maybe has a 100 residents tops and everyone know everyone. This is not in some remote location, this park is in the middle of the capital city of the most populated state in the country

Other Thoughts:

This is a beautiful park and the terrain absolutely calls out for a disc golf course IF nothing else was here, but it is.
"Beggars can't be choosey, so take what you can get" is definitely the mindset at play here but in any setting safety should be the primary decision maker and here it seems to take a backseat. There is a huge disc golf community in the area with the Shady Oaks disc golf course only a short distance further down Hazael and a lot of people looking to avoid the crowds and hole backups that occur there. That being said it falls on the Parks and Recreation Department to find a more suitable place for a disc golf course that takes everyone's safety into concern.
I know you will be able to find a time when there is hardly anyone in the park, and there will be many that argue that's a good enough reason to keep the course in, but it's still a matter of one errant throw doing a lot of damage that can't be fixed.
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LindanJoeR
Experience: 2 played 2 reviews
0.00 star(s)

NO, NO, NO 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 25, 2019 Played the course:once

Pros:

There are no pros, you would think that their being a disc golf course would be a pro but not here. No that's a ...

Cons:

There is a disc golf course. In a crowded park with lots of other things going on. A kid has already been hit. The course is dangerous. Just waiting for what will inevitably be a black eye for the entire sport. The parks department should be ashamed of themselves for putting a course here and deserve the litigation that will inevitably come.

Other Thoughts:

PULL THE COURSE, PULL THE COURSE, PULL THE COURSE
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FatLarry
Experience: 12.1 years 34 played 3 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Watch your head! 2+ years

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Nov 23, 2019 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Decent use of the small park. Hole 6 is a great challenge. The shared tee pad on 7 and 9 is the spot. Decent parking.

Cons:

The first 3 holes are stacked on each other pretty bad. When shooting hole 3 make sure hole 1's basket is clear, easy to shank. Black ace opportunity a plenty. Hole 5 is kind of blind if someone walks behind when you're throwing. The school borders the wooded area you play through. You know, other folks kids.

Other Thoughts:

Fun little course. Has been crowded for the first couple weeks. Once the newness wears off it may get better. Wet weather will be an issue. I hope it lasts. moving one of the first 3 holes may be a good idea, start on 2 by the bathroom and get rid of 3? This other guy reviewing seems a bit up right. Probably his kid not paying attention that got hit.
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