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Riverside Park reviews
10
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Hammond Ho-Hum 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Oct 27, 2018
Played the course:once
Pros:
- Plays in a nice little park in and around a lot of areas for other activities like a dog run, baseball field and somewhere out there is an ice rink.
- The baskets are all Innova Discatchers of some sort. Some are REALLY old and some appear to be the pro 24 chain variety. All appear to be in good shape.
- I appreciate what the course designer has done here. They could have just made one wide open hole after another in this flat as a pancake landscape but made as much use of trees and obstacles as possible.
- Most of the tees are brushed concrete. Nicely done if a little short.
- Navigation on most of the course was acceptable. The white tape on the spoke of the basket pointing to the next tee was there on about 13 or so of the 18 baskets. More on that in the cons.
- Signage was pretty good and the distances seemed fairly accurate.
- The baskets are all Innova Discatchers of some sort. Some are REALLY old and some appear to be the pro 24 chain variety. All appear to be in good shape.
- I appreciate what the course designer has done here. They could have just made one wide open hole after another in this flat as a pancake landscape but made as much use of trees and obstacles as possible.
- Most of the tees are brushed concrete. Nicely done if a little short.
- Navigation on most of the course was acceptable. The white tape on the spoke of the basket pointing to the next tee was there on about 13 or so of the 18 baskets. More on that in the cons.
- Signage was pretty good and the distances seemed fairly accurate.
Cons:
- Many of these holes play in and around picnic tables that are strewn helter skelter all over the park. Looks like the squirrels have setup a walnut chop shop on the #5 fairway picnic table. They were giving me that "Wrong neighborhood MF'er" look. Anyways, I'm not sure how busy this park is during the summer months but if it is hoooo boy is that ever going to be a safety issue.
- Not really a con but more of a wtf moment for me. Right by hole one there is a sign that states "No horseback riding" and "No Hunting." Is that really that common an activity in this Chi-town burb that warrants prohibitive signage? Seriously?
- The first few holes - namely 2 through 6 play in a sketchy zig-zag pattern at the back of the park. These fairways are really close to throwing directly at each other so exercise some caution with other players on the course.
- Many of the holes have those icky rubber tees made by Fly18 or whatever abomination brand it is like #9, #11 and #12. Kill these tees with fire.
- #10 has no tee. So...tee off the parking lot I guess???
- #12 is a complete mystery to me. There are 2 #12 signs out there a yellow band basket labeled 12 and a red banded basket labeled 7. I think the right way to play this was from the tee nearest to the 11 basket to the yellow 12 basket...I guess???
- 9 plays really close to a bike path on one side and a parking lot on the other.
- 13 goes right next to the roadway on the right and a dog park on the left. Too close to this stuff IMHO.
- There are newly planted saplings EVERYWHERE. Someone raised a lot of money and went through a lot of trouble to get these planted. I seriously think most, if not all of these little trees are going to get decimated in the very near future if some precautions are not taken soon. Would be a shame to throw all that work away. Unless their name is Groot, baby trees do not like discs.
- Not really a con but more of a wtf moment for me. Right by hole one there is a sign that states "No horseback riding" and "No Hunting." Is that really that common an activity in this Chi-town burb that warrants prohibitive signage? Seriously?
- The first few holes - namely 2 through 6 play in a sketchy zig-zag pattern at the back of the park. These fairways are really close to throwing directly at each other so exercise some caution with other players on the course.
- Many of the holes have those icky rubber tees made by Fly18 or whatever abomination brand it is like #9, #11 and #12. Kill these tees with fire.
- #10 has no tee. So...tee off the parking lot I guess???
- #12 is a complete mystery to me. There are 2 #12 signs out there a yellow band basket labeled 12 and a red banded basket labeled 7. I think the right way to play this was from the tee nearest to the 11 basket to the yellow 12 basket...I guess???
- 9 plays really close to a bike path on one side and a parking lot on the other.
- 13 goes right next to the roadway on the right and a dog park on the left. Too close to this stuff IMHO.
- There are newly planted saplings EVERYWHERE. Someone raised a lot of money and went through a lot of trouble to get these planted. I seriously think most, if not all of these little trees are going to get decimated in the very near future if some precautions are not taken soon. Would be a shame to throw all that work away. Unless their name is Groot, baby trees do not like discs.
Other Thoughts:
This is by no means a great course. Don't get me wrong, kudos to those that installed it. Looks like they did the best they could with what they had to work with. There was just nothing that really struck me as anything impressive - at all. Just another ho-hum course in a multi-use park with lots of other crap going on. Now, if you want to practice your roller game, this is the place with the closely mowed grass and rock hard ground.
