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Calgary, AB

Old Refinery DGC

3.675(based on 3 reviews)
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thePiRaTE
Experience: 13.9 years 20 played 7 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Rising star 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Oct 26, 2013 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Well placed in the landscape to make good use of available features and with clean fairways recently mowed in by the city, the course offers interesting challenges in a good mix of holes from 200-500+ feet. Pro's will get to use all their tools and recreational players will find the fresh fairways generous enough to keep from spending too much time in the rough searching for discs. The course also starts and ends against the parking area, which is nice.

There isn't much around the park itself, so most users aren't passers-by thus parking is ample and relatively safe.

Cons:

The park is shared with a lot of dog walkers who often let their dogs run free. If you have a phobia of dogs, you and your favorite driver have been warned. Pre-mow, the course was mostly rough: often tall or thorny and unpleasant, even off a good drive in the middle of most 'fairway's. Although there are stones marked with hole # and length, finding the next tee is not easy unless you are familiar with the course, although again, being mowed-in aids in navigation as well. I'd go so far as to say the course mowed is +1.5 points of score, in my opinion.

There is a fenced in, off-limits area where the old refinery proper once stood which factors into play on #'s 14, 15 and 18. There are ways under the fence in the advent of throwing over, but it's annoying and wears on the fence. It's a nice mando challenge, though.

Other Thoughts:

Has all the potential to be the best disc golf course in town. I understand the city will mow it three times per year starting in 2014, here's hoping.

Hole #12 can be a beast - if you're playing this for the 1st time, it might blow your mind. Tip: The fence line up to the last tree before the pathway on your right is off-limits mando. Shoot straight/left over the bramble to get an angle on the approach alley. The bramble looks bad, but opens up nicely if you can clear it.

I'd love to see signage and/or poured tees. I also wonder when the city is factoring on removing the inner fenced-in area. This could add to the course greatly someday.

No outdoor washroom facilities here, but lots of bushes. There are plenty of fast food restaurants a short drive away as well.
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