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Optimist Park reviews
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redbaron88
Experience:
8.8 years
5 played
5 reviews
OK, Mountain Home Could Do Better 2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:Aug 9, 2015
Played the course:5+ times
Pros:
- easy to navigate
- almost all holes are wide open field, Hole 7-9 offer more challenge with trees
- almost all holes are wide open field, Hole 7-9 offer more challenge with trees
Cons:
- most of the course is grassy field that is over watered
- no actual tee boxes, some are swampy grassy areas from over watering
- cannot play if fields are being used
- BMX course is chained up unless being used, be prepared to leave disc or trespass by climbing over or under the fence
- Hole 4 unless you make it over the gravel lot, discs will get chewed
- Hole 8 twice had to tee off not on teeing area because horse trailers were parked on/close to tee box
- Hole 9 if you go into livestock pens during use, probably wont get disc back
- no actual tee boxes, some are swampy grassy areas from over watering
- cannot play if fields are being used
- BMX course is chained up unless being used, be prepared to leave disc or trespass by climbing over or under the fence
- Hole 4 unless you make it over the gravel lot, discs will get chewed
- Hole 8 twice had to tee off not on teeing area because horse trailers were parked on/close to tee box
- Hole 9 if you go into livestock pens during use, probably wont get disc back
Other Thoughts:
- Mountain Home Parks and Rec could easily find a better place to put a Disc Golf Course and/or increase the playability of this course
- all holes are Par 3 over 300 feet so beginners will have issues making par
- all holes are Par 3 over 300 feet so beginners will have issues making par
2
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Strange Course Lacks Personality! 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Jul 25, 2014
Played the course:once
Pros:
Optimists Park is a large county type park with soccer and baseball fields, rodeo grounds, a BMX track and I think what is Tractor Pulling event grandstand viewing area?
The course starts out front near the street with the first three holes, then the next three holes are boring and play across large open expanse of soccer fields, then the final three holes play over by and around the rodeo arena area. These last three are the most interesting holes on the course.
There are big tee signs for each hole with a course map on each. However, they're confusing because they don't have the hole # on the front. I did finally figure out that the hole number is on the back of the sign in big numbers. There are no tee pads so I was mostly guessing as to where to throw from. The course has decent DGA baskets.
By the time I had played the first six holes, I was bored out of my mind. Between the ever present wind, the obnoxious gnat population and trudging back and forth across the soccer fields, I was about finished.
Luckily the final three holes offered some challenge and variety from the first six.
# 7 forces you to throw a low tunnel shot under the trees. # 8 plays back to the bathroom/concession area and then # 9 tees off by the bathroom to a basket tucked into the rodeo and parking lot fences. I kinda enjoyed this hole.
The course starts out front near the street with the first three holes, then the next three holes are boring and play across large open expanse of soccer fields, then the final three holes play over by and around the rodeo arena area. These last three are the most interesting holes on the course.
There are big tee signs for each hole with a course map on each. However, they're confusing because they don't have the hole # on the front. I did finally figure out that the hole number is on the back of the sign in big numbers. There are no tee pads so I was mostly guessing as to where to throw from. The course has decent DGA baskets.
By the time I had played the first six holes, I was bored out of my mind. Between the ever present wind, the obnoxious gnat population and trudging back and forth across the soccer fields, I was about finished.
Luckily the final three holes offered some challenge and variety from the first six.
# 7 forces you to throw a low tunnel shot under the trees. # 8 plays back to the bathroom/concession area and then # 9 tees off by the bathroom to a basket tucked into the rodeo and parking lot fences. I kinda enjoyed this hole.
Cons:
Windy!
Gnats! Mosquito city!
First 6 holes range from bland to flat out boring.
The soccer fields were saturated with water.
Course would not be playable during soccer games or rodeo events.
Gnats! Mosquito city!
First 6 holes range from bland to flat out boring.
The soccer fields were saturated with water.
Course would not be playable during soccer games or rodeo events.
Other Thoughts:
If I lived in Mountain Home, I'd play this course regularly and embrace it as my own. As far as just passing by, I played it once and wouldn't go out of my way to play it again. Those soccer field holes were way too tedious for me.
