Pulaski Community Park reviews
6
0
2+ years
Reviewed:
Updated:
Played on:Nov 25, 2011
Played the course:2-4 times
Pros:
This is a challenging and interesting course. It has nice metal tee signs and dirt tee pads.
There are some tough but fair wooded holes to start out the round that force you to hit your line to get a birdie. Venture off the fairway and struggle to get your par. After that are a couple open holes, then about 6 holes near water and the course finishes up with some open holes.
When I played here around Thanksgiving the rough was all dead, but I can see how it could be bad on the first 4 holes in the summer.
With the exception of the 4 open holes, this course requires a lot of accuracy to score well and is quite challenging.
Hole 11 is hands down the signature hole here. It's 588ft long with a roughly 50ft wide fairway, trees on the right and water on the left. After going about 400ft you're past the lake and the pin is tucked into some woods down a tree lined fairway, excellent hole!
There are some tough but fair wooded holes to start out the round that force you to hit your line to get a birdie. Venture off the fairway and struggle to get your par. After that are a couple open holes, then about 6 holes near water and the course finishes up with some open holes.
When I played here around Thanksgiving the rough was all dead, but I can see how it could be bad on the first 4 holes in the summer.
With the exception of the 4 open holes, this course requires a lot of accuracy to score well and is quite challenging.
Hole 11 is hands down the signature hole here. It's 588ft long with a roughly 50ft wide fairway, trees on the right and water on the left. After going about 400ft you're past the lake and the pin is tucked into some woods down a tree lined fairway, excellent hole!
Cons:
I don't even know where to start talking about this course. First off it has dirt tees marked by a small piece of painted wood and the tee sign is not always near the tee pad marker. The worst part is there's no set relation between them, meaning sometimes the tee pad is 20ft ahead and to the right of the sign, other times it's behind and it makes them difficult and annoying to find.
Hole 5 is a few feet away from a field and you have to throw over the corner of the field. Hole 18 is in the middle of a field. These two holes seem extremely strange to me. It was late in the year when I played here so nothing was planted, but what happens in the growing season, do you walk into a farmers field and throw? I ran into someone out walking who claimed there was corn growing in the field where 18's basket was earlier this year, although there were no signs of it when I was there.
There are 4 holes in a completely wide open field.
There are about 7 holes around two shallow, man made lakes. The lakes are on the left of every shot and most of these holes feel identical.
Not very good shot variety here. The wooded holes are straight shots except one that's a turnover. The water holes require a straight shot basically, one is a turnover. There's one anhyzer shot in the back 9.
There's along walk from hole 7 to 8 and an extremely long walk from hole 18 back to the parking lot. On the way back to my car I found the practice basket.
***UPDATE***
When I played here 11/25/11 I couldn't find about half of the tee markers so I threw from close to the sign. Also the open field on holes 6, 7, 16 and 17 was completely overgrown with grass and brush between knee and waist high.
Hole 5 is a few feet away from a field and you have to throw over the corner of the field. Hole 18 is in the middle of a field. These two holes seem extremely strange to me. It was late in the year when I played here so nothing was planted, but what happens in the growing season, do you walk into a farmers field and throw? I ran into someone out walking who claimed there was corn growing in the field where 18's basket was earlier this year, although there were no signs of it when I was there.
There are 4 holes in a completely wide open field.
There are about 7 holes around two shallow, man made lakes. The lakes are on the left of every shot and most of these holes feel identical.
Not very good shot variety here. The wooded holes are straight shots except one that's a turnover. The water holes require a straight shot basically, one is a turnover. There's one anhyzer shot in the back 9.
There's along walk from hole 7 to 8 and an extremely long walk from hole 18 back to the parking lot. On the way back to my car I found the practice basket.
***UPDATE***
When I played here 11/25/11 I couldn't find about half of the tee markers so I threw from close to the sign. Also the open field on holes 6, 7, 16 and 17 was completely overgrown with grass and brush between knee and waist high.
Other Thoughts:
Overall this is a challenging course that I would not recommend to newer players or those without much accuracy. Losing a disc in water or cat tails is easy to do. The first four wooded holes are the highlight of the course, but the wide open holes and repetitive lake shots really hurt the rating.
7
1
Intimidating course for its location 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Aug 11, 2009
Played the course:once
Pros:
-Good baskets
-signage
-big course sign at beginning
-signage
-big course sign at beginning
Cons:
-Where do you tee off? Oh there it is...
-Short tees?
-Short tees?
Other Thoughts:
It's a surprisingly intimidating course for where it is. Pulaski is a bit in the middle of nowhere, disc golf-wise, so I was surprised at the level of skill required just to keep from losing discs on the course, plus the absence of shorter tees for recreational players.
While I appreciate the signage, the actual tees could be improved over the 2x4 boards set in the ground.
Holes 1-4 are a bit tight for opening holes. Dense underbrush makes for a long search for discs.
When there is a soybean field in play, make sure you hit the fairway (#5).
Not a fan of the wide-open, flat field holes, of which there are several.
The pond holes... very difficult early in the morning when you haven't properly warmed up. Dense trees on one side and tall cattails and water on the other, with 25' of fairway to hit. Plus, the fairway is the top of a dike, sloping to either side, to make things even more difficult.
Final hole plays to the middle of a corn field.
Then there's the long walk back to the parking lot.
In summary, I appreciate some of the holes but the bulk of the course was just not very fun to play.
While I appreciate the signage, the actual tees could be improved over the 2x4 boards set in the ground.
Holes 1-4 are a bit tight for opening holes. Dense underbrush makes for a long search for discs.
When there is a soybean field in play, make sure you hit the fairway (#5).
Not a fan of the wide-open, flat field holes, of which there are several.
The pond holes... very difficult early in the morning when you haven't properly warmed up. Dense trees on one side and tall cattails and water on the other, with 25' of fairway to hit. Plus, the fairway is the top of a dike, sloping to either side, to make things even more difficult.
Final hole plays to the middle of a corn field.
Then there's the long walk back to the parking lot.
In summary, I appreciate some of the holes but the bulk of the course was just not very fun to play.
