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Pinelands Regional DGC reviews
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Bagged, with no interest in playing again
Reviewed:
Played on:Dec 29, 2023
Played the course:once
Pros:
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+ A new 18 hole loop around the perimeter of school grounds and athletic fields. Almost entirely open, but they've managed to cut a few short holes out of the bordering woods (purposely sending high schoolers into the woods? Man, things have changed…)
+ Good DGA Mach 5 baskets. Tee signs indicating length and par only (almost all baskets are visible from the tees, so diagrams would be helpful, but not mandatory). Natural (grass or sandy soil) tees
+ There are several holes that encourage RHFH or BH turnovers.
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+ A new 18 hole loop around the perimeter of school grounds and athletic fields. Almost entirely open, but they've managed to cut a few short holes out of the bordering woods (purposely sending high schoolers into the woods? Man, things have changed…)
+ Good DGA Mach 5 baskets. Tee signs indicating length and par only (almost all baskets are visible from the tees, so diagrams would be helpful, but not mandatory). Natural (grass or sandy soil) tees
+ There are several holes that encourage RHFH or BH turnovers.
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Cons:
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DANGEROUS HOLE AWARD:
Hole #2 (see pic) is straight, wide open, and slightly raised above the busy main road that lies along the right side the entire way. The road is so close that the property-defining fence is no more than ten feet to the right of the tee. That fence is low - so it's entirely useless for preventing discs from traveling into oncoming traffic. This hole is a danger to motorists, and to players retrieving their discs. I'm still amazed that it's been laid out on school property. Seriously: skip this hole and pay #15 twice (similar length, but with woods along the right instead of a busy public road).
DUMB HOLE AWARD:
Hole #4 plays around the backside of the high school running track (picture a clock face with the tee at 3 and the basket at 11). The basket is placed in a narrow strip of grass between the fenced edge of the track and the property perimeter fence. Oh - and there's a huge scoreboard at 1 on the clock face, that's a mando you have to go around. Oh - and it's a 272' par 3, so you have to figure out how to go around the scoreboard and fade hard enough (and far enough) to have a birdie putt without going off the property.
There are two Runners-Up to the Dumb Hole Award: 9 is a very short wooded dogleg left with a huge spreading evergreen tree entirely blocking the line, and 10 is throwing out of a wooded chute with a large tree branch blocking the middle of the chute. That's easily fixed with a saw, but it made me wonder if the school's staff is at all supportive, or even knows they have a disc golf course on the grounds.
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DANGEROUS HOLE AWARD:
Hole #2 (see pic) is straight, wide open, and slightly raised above the busy main road that lies along the right side the entire way. The road is so close that the property-defining fence is no more than ten feet to the right of the tee. That fence is low - so it's entirely useless for preventing discs from traveling into oncoming traffic. This hole is a danger to motorists, and to players retrieving their discs. I'm still amazed that it's been laid out on school property. Seriously: skip this hole and pay #15 twice (similar length, but with woods along the right instead of a busy public road).
DUMB HOLE AWARD:
Hole #4 plays around the backside of the high school running track (picture a clock face with the tee at 3 and the basket at 11). The basket is placed in a narrow strip of grass between the fenced edge of the track and the property perimeter fence. Oh - and there's a huge scoreboard at 1 on the clock face, that's a mando you have to go around. Oh - and it's a 272' par 3, so you have to figure out how to go around the scoreboard and fade hard enough (and far enough) to have a birdie putt without going off the property.
There are two Runners-Up to the Dumb Hole Award: 9 is a very short wooded dogleg left with a huge spreading evergreen tree entirely blocking the line, and 10 is throwing out of a wooded chute with a large tree branch blocking the middle of the chute. That's easily fixed with a saw, but it made me wonder if the school's staff is at all supportive, or even knows they have a disc golf course on the grounds.
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Other Thoughts:
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~ Drainage might be an issue. I played several days after a rain and there was a fair amount of standing water in spots. Also because of the open layout, you're going to have to be prepared for winds whipping across the fields.
~ In order to create the single loop, the layout includes some long walks between holes.The course is so spread out that it's hard to imagine using it for gym class, except to maybe play just a few holes.
~ Give the designers credit for this: they did build in some short holes. They did build in some woods holes, and they did create an 18 hole loop that returns you pretty close to the first tee. But it's a course with holes that are mostly boring, sometimes dumb, and occasionally dangerous. As much as I want to like any course at a school, I don't see how this is better than a 2.0, with at least half a point subtracted for the danger presented by hole 2.
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~ Drainage might be an issue. I played several days after a rain and there was a fair amount of standing water in spots. Also because of the open layout, you're going to have to be prepared for winds whipping across the fields.
~ In order to create the single loop, the layout includes some long walks between holes.The course is so spread out that it's hard to imagine using it for gym class, except to maybe play just a few holes.
~ Give the designers credit for this: they did build in some short holes. They did build in some woods holes, and they did create an 18 hole loop that returns you pretty close to the first tee. But it's a course with holes that are mostly boring, sometimes dumb, and occasionally dangerous. As much as I want to like any course at a school, I don't see how this is better than a 2.0, with at least half a point subtracted for the danger presented by hole 2.
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