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Houston, TX

Nottingham Park

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reezyF
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Experience: 15.5 years 278 played 40 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Nottingham Park

Reviewed: Played on:Dec 28, 2022 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

My Three pros:

- good beginner course with good access for nearby families and gettable short holes. The short tees can be played in ~30 minutes if everything is flowing smoothly.
- nice use of trees in the park for some shot shaping and low ceilings on a couple holes
- good mix of hole length ranging from ~250 - 450. The short tees play about ~250', the long tees around 300' with a couple longer holes mixed in.

Cons:

My three cons:

- I have only played on busy afternoons and the non-player course traffic is pretty heavy at times. Mainly liots of kids overflowing from the playground area nearby running about around 1,3,4,11, 12 etc. A walking path is very close to several holes and was typically busy with walkers. The fairways of 3-4 seem to always have someone having a picnic or taking a nap. Come early in the day or be prepared to allow other to obliviously pass. Its a strange feeling at times to be at a busy disc golf course, and the only one playing disc golf.
- Dirt tee pads, usually more worn in at the long tees. IDK i like concrete tees, even for unremarkable dinker courses like this one. Baskets are old, strange type that dont catch all that well at times. Baskets and tees could use a revamp at some point.
- Navigation can be confusing through the first few holes without a map of some kind. All tees are marked with little green posts with a tee #, but a few holes are close together so it can be hard to tell where to throw and where t o go next the first couple times around

Other Thoughts:

I want to like this course as it has a couple of nice holes and is most convenient for when I'm in Houston - but the folks running through the course doing myriad things from flying kites to playing soccer makes the course tough to enjoy at times. The holes are fun and flat. A fairly easy course that's good for a beginner.
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gouch
Experience: 15.8 years 61 played 3 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Lightly Used Solid Practice or Beginner Course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Dec 26, 2015 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Enjoy playing both the short and long tees making this a 24 hole course.
Relative to other courses this course is very lightly used; typically our group is the only group on the course.
The grass is typically well maintained.
Parking is ample with a rest room with water onsite.
Losing a disk is nearly impossible as the course is mostly open field with scattered trees, free of any dense vegetation.
Fairly easy to navigate even without a map since the baskets are visible from the tee pads; would recommend a map to first time players - the first tee pad is near the practice basket.

Cons:

Tee pads are next to tee markers with distance on the marker; would be a better course with concrete pads.
Nottingham has been missing a basket for the past year - currently hole 8 but previously hole 2 and then hole 3. Can adjust by playing one of the nearby baskets instead e.g. from tee pad 8 can play to the basket on hole 5.
This is a multi-use park which tends to be busier in the summer though families and runners use the park all year long.
The course is flat and only has 12 (11) holes.

Other Thoughts:

This is a fun practice course with birdies possible from most of the short tees and some of the long tees. The course drains better than it's neighbor, Agnes Moffitt due to strategically placed storm drains in several places in the park. When Agnes Moffitt is too wet to play, Nottingham is typically in much better shape. Fairly large Magnolia trees were recently planted near holes 9-11 adding more interest to these tee shots.
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