Muse Park reviews
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Not Amused Park
Reviewed:
Played on:Oct 29, 2023
Played the course:once
Pros:
+ Practice basket near the parking lot.
+ There is guiding signage to help you find your way.
+ Tee signs are old yet reliable and visible.
+ There is guiding signage to help you find your way.
+ Tee signs are old yet reliable and visible.
Cons:
- Concrete tee pads present, but they are small and uneven.
- Tall grasses, gangly roughage and tough walking in numerous places.
- A lot of the infrastructure is damaged or destroyed!
- A significant number of fairways are functionally unplayable due to fallen trees and/or unkempt conditions.
- Tall grasses, gangly roughage and tough walking in numerous places.
- A lot of the infrastructure is damaged or destroyed!
- A significant number of fairways are functionally unplayable due to fallen trees and/or unkempt conditions.
Other Thoughts:
It's always sad to see a course like this.
I can tell that some real effort went into this place several years ago. I can see the fairways that used to exist. I can see the challenges of trees and elevation that perhaps used to make Muse Park a course to look forward to. I can identify which links would have been explosive fun to play back in its heyday. But now the course remains in a state of neglect and disrepair. The course is littered with fallen trees. Undergrowth shrouds all of the fairways.
Put simply: this course is a mess.
From the very start, things look icky. A huge branch has completely destroyed basket1 into a tangled mass of metal. Tee2's sign is bent and buckled, and that fairway is cluttered with multiple deadfall trees. Link3 has been overtaken by tall grasses and quite a few tree limbs and tilted trunks of its own. It was at that point that I mentioned aloud, "Oh, I don't know about this place..." Links3 - 7 were unplayable because of huge fallen limbs, calf-high grasses and generally bad conditions. That's a shame because links3 and 4 look like they could have been awesome! They are both deep valleys that are striking to look at, but the fairways themselves are just so FUBAR. Special mention to link7 for having not one but two fallen tree trunks right in front of the tee pad! Things didn't improve until the back nine. But even then, baskets 11, 13 and 14 were damaged, and the tall grass never truly goes away. The whole course really does feel ignored and/or forgotten.
On the bright side, links11 and 15 were great fun to play. 11 was an adventurous dogleg left within some challenging woods, and 15 was an enjoyable dual tunnel with a noticeable slant in its elevation. Also, the final three links were the cleanest of the whole course because they are out of the woods, but it's too little too late.
For a least favorite link, I am spoiled for choice. I could pick any of the fairways that I was forced to skip because of the unplayable conditions. But for the fairways that were playable, link10 was my least favorite because of how wide-open it was.
All told, I have no doubt that Muse Park used to be a great place to play back in its early years. I hate being this mean to a course that clearly has the skeleton of a fun layout with so many hills and theoretically satisfying tree challenges. But as of late October 2023, it is so run-down and neglected that I honestly cannot recommend it to anyone except for the most local of players and those serious course baggers who are fiercely fixated on their pursuit of plenty. If this course does have a future, it would require some determined folks to perform the repairs, replacements and removals of dead trees to bring it back from the brink. That will be an uphill battle, and I do want to see it succeed. However, facing facts, the time may have come to let this course go.
I can tell that some real effort went into this place several years ago. I can see the fairways that used to exist. I can see the challenges of trees and elevation that perhaps used to make Muse Park a course to look forward to. I can identify which links would have been explosive fun to play back in its heyday. But now the course remains in a state of neglect and disrepair. The course is littered with fallen trees. Undergrowth shrouds all of the fairways.
Put simply: this course is a mess.
From the very start, things look icky. A huge branch has completely destroyed basket1 into a tangled mass of metal. Tee2's sign is bent and buckled, and that fairway is cluttered with multiple deadfall trees. Link3 has been overtaken by tall grasses and quite a few tree limbs and tilted trunks of its own. It was at that point that I mentioned aloud, "Oh, I don't know about this place..." Links3 - 7 were unplayable because of huge fallen limbs, calf-high grasses and generally bad conditions. That's a shame because links3 and 4 look like they could have been awesome! They are both deep valleys that are striking to look at, but the fairways themselves are just so FUBAR. Special mention to link7 for having not one but two fallen tree trunks right in front of the tee pad! Things didn't improve until the back nine. But even then, baskets 11, 13 and 14 were damaged, and the tall grass never truly goes away. The whole course really does feel ignored and/or forgotten.
On the bright side, links11 and 15 were great fun to play. 11 was an adventurous dogleg left within some challenging woods, and 15 was an enjoyable dual tunnel with a noticeable slant in its elevation. Also, the final three links were the cleanest of the whole course because they are out of the woods, but it's too little too late.
For a least favorite link, I am spoiled for choice. I could pick any of the fairways that I was forced to skip because of the unplayable conditions. But for the fairways that were playable, link10 was my least favorite because of how wide-open it was.
All told, I have no doubt that Muse Park used to be a great place to play back in its early years. I hate being this mean to a course that clearly has the skeleton of a fun layout with so many hills and theoretically satisfying tree challenges. But as of late October 2023, it is so run-down and neglected that I honestly cannot recommend it to anyone except for the most local of players and those serious course baggers who are fiercely fixated on their pursuit of plenty. If this course does have a future, it would require some determined folks to perform the repairs, replacements and removals of dead trees to bring it back from the brink. That will be an uphill battle, and I do want to see it succeed. However, facing facts, the time may have come to let this course go.
