Minot, ND

Polaris Park

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2.15(based on 10 reviews)
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ACE Ventura
Experience: 13 years 105 played 24 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Decent City Park Course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 3, 2013 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

This 9 hole course is located in a residential neighborhood park which is very well maintained. The majority of the holes have no elevation changes (except hole 8, slightly uphill) and only on a few holes does any foliage come into play.

The hole layout is ambidextrous friendly on every hole except #6 which has a dogleg right around the fenced in tennis court. Aside from that all you really need is to be able to throw straight. Most holes are parkable with just mid-ranges but a couple of them allow for you to pull out your drivers and get after it.

The overall course layout is done pretty well, with most tee pads being a few yards from the previous basket. It plays back and forth around the park with hole #9 bringing you back fairly close to hole #1's tee.

The tees are all dirt but are marked with posts stating the hole number. Little to no extra information is provided on the poles but the baskets are blatantly easy to see (except #8 and #9). The baskets are unique, not sure what type they are but they are in good condition and colorful.

Cons:

The biggest con for this course is the very close proximity of the following hole tee pads to the current hole's basket. Almost every hole I had to wait for the group ahead of me to tee-off on the following hole before throwing since the people were within yards my target basket.

I feel like they could definitely improve hole #9. First the tee post is missing, although it's easy to see the markings from thousands of drives for where it is. Secondly, the hole is located behind the row of tall pines and there is no alleyway to aim for to get a good placement. Basically you just huck it at the pines and hope it goes through. Not a great philosophy IMO.

Even though it's expected for an inner-residential park, this place was very busy. I admit I was only there for a couple hours playing, it was packed.

Other Thoughts:

I hate to include this in a review because I'm sure it doesn't apply to everyone playing, but the players I did encounter on the course were lacking on some common disc golf etiquette. Mainly not waiting to allow a faster player play through and then when I finally asked and they let me through, I was thrown on MULTIPLE times before I even reached my disc! Sorry but yelling "heads up" doesn't mean it's okay to throw on someone who is walking away from the tee.

I think this course deserves the rating of 3.0 because although it's well-maintained and in good shape, it lacks challenges and is packed with people who lack good DG etiquette. I would recommend this to anyone passing through the area, just keep your head down or wear a helmet.
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