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Patriot Hills reviews
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No Frills At Patriot Hills 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Jun 28, 2020
Played the course:2-4 times
Pros:
+ All 9 holes have tee signs with distances and pars and an illustration of what's ahead.
+ This course has a surprising level of elevation challenges.
+ The course takes places in a quiet and peaceful series of fields surrounding the high school's athletic areas.
+ Because it is on school grounds, the course is very well upkept. However....
+ This course has a surprising level of elevation challenges.
+ The course takes places in a quiet and peaceful series of fields surrounding the high school's athletic areas.
+ Because it is on school grounds, the course is very well upkept. However....
Cons:
- ...Because it is on school grounds, the course's window of playability is limited to when there are no students or athletes on the premises.
- All holes, except for the second half of hole 6, play within wide open areas, so there are almost zero course navigation puzzles; just throw far.
- Tee areas are just lumpy grass with a red, white and blue painted wooden beam serving as the upper edge of the tee.
- No 'next hole' indicators at all.
- All holes, except for the second half of hole 6, play within wide open areas, so there are almost zero course navigation puzzles; just throw far.
- Tee areas are just lumpy grass with a red, white and blue painted wooden beam serving as the upper edge of the tee.
- No 'next hole' indicators at all.
Other Thoughts:
My favorite hole to play here is hole 6 because of its multi-tiered hill climb before taking a sharp left into a nice tunnel. It is the hole that most incorporates woods. My favorite hole to look at here might be hole 3 because the player's back is to the school, parking lot and sports equipment. All you see is a mighty hill, a cornfield and a disc golf basket. My least favorite hole here is hole 4 because of the solar panels in the middle of the fairway. (For the record, a champion-plastic orange Innova Thunderbird doesn't damage them!)
Patriot Hills was a delightful surprise. It's missing basic tee pads and next hole signage, but infrastructure doesn't make the whole disc golf experience. Of the dozen or so 9-hole disc golf courses I've played so far, this course has one of the most dramatic shifts in elevation. Hole 9 especially feels like a happy finale throwing from the top of a hill to a guarded basket below. It's amazing what elevation can do for a course.
It nearly makes the player forget that just about all of these holes are wide open and mostly short. Many birdies are possible with most holes playing 350 feet or (much) shorter until the middle two holes that slap you with a sudden 400 and unexpected 485! The hills and inclines give the player something to focus on other than the plain and direct nature of most of the holes, but they're still rather straightforward. In this case, I think that's a good thing.
I say that because, despite how underwhelming it might seem to a seasoned player, Patriot Fields is a good beginner's course. It introduces the newbie to distance and elevation in a plain wide-open setting instead of overwhelming them with elevation, trees, distance, water and OB all at once. Actually, there probably is some OB in the form of the roads and the solar farm, but the tee signs don't say so. (The fence is easy to climb, anyway!)
In closing, Patriot Hills is a fine beginner's course for those new players who really want to improve under somewhat demanding conditions. True novices may find the course's challenges a bit unfair at first, but that can be overcome with persistence and repetition. And experienced players may be impressed with the hills here, but maybe it ought not be your main destination. Still, if you're in the area and have time for 9, then come fight like a patriot on the hills.
Patriot Hills was a delightful surprise. It's missing basic tee pads and next hole signage, but infrastructure doesn't make the whole disc golf experience. Of the dozen or so 9-hole disc golf courses I've played so far, this course has one of the most dramatic shifts in elevation. Hole 9 especially feels like a happy finale throwing from the top of a hill to a guarded basket below. It's amazing what elevation can do for a course.
It nearly makes the player forget that just about all of these holes are wide open and mostly short. Many birdies are possible with most holes playing 350 feet or (much) shorter until the middle two holes that slap you with a sudden 400 and unexpected 485! The hills and inclines give the player something to focus on other than the plain and direct nature of most of the holes, but they're still rather straightforward. In this case, I think that's a good thing.
I say that because, despite how underwhelming it might seem to a seasoned player, Patriot Fields is a good beginner's course. It introduces the newbie to distance and elevation in a plain wide-open setting instead of overwhelming them with elevation, trees, distance, water and OB all at once. Actually, there probably is some OB in the form of the roads and the solar farm, but the tee signs don't say so. (The fence is easy to climb, anyway!)
In closing, Patriot Hills is a fine beginner's course for those new players who really want to improve under somewhat demanding conditions. True novices may find the course's challenges a bit unfair at first, but that can be overcome with persistence and repetition. And experienced players may be impressed with the hills here, but maybe it ought not be your main destination. Still, if you're in the area and have time for 9, then come fight like a patriot on the hills.
