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Preston Miller Park

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Shadrach3
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Experience: 5.6 years 319 played 310 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Choose the Tree or the Tree Chooses You 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Dec 8, 2021 Played the course:once

Pros:

An apparently-forgotten course with little to offer.

-Amenities: Concrete tees, DGA baskets, minimal tee signs (like Lover's Lane).

-Solitaire: The park as a whole doesn't seem to get a lot of use, at least during the off season. This keeps it quiet, so it might be a good getaway destination.

-Woods: If you're into woods beauty and highly technical lines, Preston Miller might hit the spot. The majority of the course plays in very thick woods, where needle precision is necessary to carve up the course. Someone with a great putter game might enjoy it.

-Shot Shaping/Gameplay: A fair assortment of extremely tight shapes under 250'. This includes right-finishing shots, straight ones, doglegs left, and gradations of all of these. Mixed in are open holes on (1) and (11)-(14). This is a welcome reprieve with more distance (still mostly under 300') that allows more free throwing and a little bit of variety. On the whole, it will be a constant battle with the trees, which will inevitably win sometimes. However, being so short, scrambling will virtually always be a possibility.

Cons:

A little *too* technical.

-Lines: Frequently, somewhat unbelievable. The gaps sometimes resemble a walking trail, while at other times the twists can't be made with a single shot. Add to this that the margin of error is tiny throughout, and Preston Miller doesn't present an appealing mix for most players. The number of trees you'll hit will change any baseline plastic into a roller in one round.

-Length: I think there's one hole on the entire course that gives you the chance for a full send. Other than that, shots will be smooth and soft only.

Other Thoughts:

Preston Miller is here in the woods, and it's not the worst example of this I've ever seen. However, it has a long way to go to create a challenge with good lines. It's Reasonable, but nothing more than a woodsy pitch and putt.
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ChrisWoj
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Experience: 19.2 years 158 played 27 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Rhymes & Slant Rhymes 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 7, 2006 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

This is a good practice course. Everything is short and manageable distance wise for almost any player. You're going to get a lot of good work scrambling - and if you go there intending to get in a round of practice, using the tee shots to work on your short game you're going to get a lot of useful golf out of the experience. Additionally - they have added new teepads and baskets which brings the course from the 0.5 that it was to the 2.0 I'm giving it.

Cons:

Rhymes & Slant Rhymes, the title of the review, refers to the fact that this course has some holes that are definitely spray and pray. Poke and hope. I hope you get what I mean. One reason I call it a good practice course is because precise shots like the ones required on this tiny course are what you'll see out of the schule on many longer courses. Additionally - the open holes on the course just don't provide any real challenge, distance-wise. They're short and open with minimal real purpose other than to fill out the course (I'm looking at you, hole 14).

Other Thoughts:

This could have been a fantastically done 9 basket course, with 18 teepads playing through and around the woods. There's not a lot of variety in terms of distance, the open holes don't provide variety as much as they do filler - overall I didn't enjoy playing this course very much. On every other BG course I can remember some great or terrible shots, some cool holes that I enjoyed playing.

On this course I don't remember any holes as standing out above the rest, any cool shots. My only real memorable moment was missing a putt from about a foot and a half. That's unfortunate - the land has some potential. This is, sadly, the worst of the nine Bowling Green area courses I played.
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