Twin Falls, ID

Rock Creek Park

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3.185(based on 14 reviews)
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TheGrim
Bronze level trusted reviewer
Experience: 13.6 years 75 played 45 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Rock River 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 28, 2013 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

The location of this course is by far the biggest pro. The scenery is beautiful with the black rocks and the river running through it. I don't think the pictures for the holes do it justice.

As mentioned before hole 1 is it's signature hole. The downhill toss with the river behind it is exceptional.

The course offers several other unique and fun holes as well. I didn't get to play hole 10 while it is up on the cliff, but I can see how that would be an awesome one too.

There is good use of the terrain, elevation and trees to make for some fun technical play. Tunnel shots, big forehand and backhand shots around blind corners. It offers a ton, though the course is lefty or flick heavy.

Tee pads and baskets are in good condition for the most part. I only saw a couple baskets off kilter or damaged.

Signage was pretty good and helped a lot with locating the baskets.

Flow is simple, down and back.

Cons:

Tragically there are some major cons that really lower the rating of this course to me pretty significantly.

First of all I am extremely harsh on courses that overlap holes. When you are throwing directly at the tee pads for the next hole, or crossing fairways, it is not only poor design, it's dangerous. Add blind shots all over the place and a walking path to the mix with pretty good traffic and this course is a disaster. I watched a handicap guy get drilled with a disc because an inconsiderate asshole golfer couldn't take the three seconds to make sure it was clear.

That isn't the courses fault you say? Well when there are so many holes that put people in peril it's bound to happen, particularly with lazy or inconsiderate golfers or people who don't understand proper etiquette.

Having the pathway and beyond as OB for virtually every hole is just ridiculous and causes people to lose a ton of plastic. The course is technical enough without having OB on EVERY hole. I can understand when you have conflicting fairways to attempt to protect other players, but not for every hole.

Gnarly weeds make searching for you disc in rougher areas quite unpleasant.

The river is extremely unforgiving. If your disc goes in there it's not likely you will ever get it back.

Other Thoughts:

Overall I think the course designers were a bit pretentious with making an already difficult course downright miserable. It's like they want you to lose plastic. Play it safe, take the OB.

It is still worth playing, for sure, particularly for the scenery, but it's not worthy of a high rating.

This is not a course for beginners.
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DaKineSurfer32
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 23 years 577 played 57 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Fun Canyon Course 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 28, 2009 Played the course:once

Pros:

- short, fun, beginner friendly course
- some very pretty pin positions
- I counted at least 9 waterfalls that cascade the canyon walls as you play
- decent, descriptive tees signs with pictures
- tees in decent shape

Cons:

- some really long walks between holes
- semi-poor layout due to the fact that it is an 'out and back' course
- even with the tee signs, some baskets are hard to locate because the distances are not accurate
- some tees are poorly placed and have bad footing

Other Thoughts:

If you play after any sort of rainstorm, or while the creek is in full flow, DO NOT throw a disc anywhere near it. It will get swept away in the raging current, and the water is a milky white, so you'll never see your disc again.

Because this course is set down in a canyon, it provides a unique environment to play in, but doesn't really provide any good options for only playing some of the holes. Once you commit to playing some, you're pretty much committed to playing or walking them all, because hole after hole #8 is where you turn around and start walking back in a straight line to where you started.

Overall this was a very fun course, mostly short holes with a few quality long ones thrown in for good measure. I wouldn't say it's worth going out of your way to play, but if you're passing through Twin Falls with a friend, stop and give it a toss and you'll have fun. A great course to play Ript! on.
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Starwraith169
Experience: 21 years 48 played 21 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Disc eater 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 18, 2009 Played the course:once

Pros:

Well, the only real pros I can say on the course is that it has some pretty cool shots (7, 10, 11) and it is in a really interesting but beautiful park

Cons:

Well, my cons are long because that couse ate three of my disc the only time I played it. It is not very forgiving, and if you are playing without a spotter, beware. The holes tend to weave in and out of each other and some of them, especially 14, just dont have a route to get to the basket. Maybe they moved to teepad recently, but from where we were throwing, it was just a wall of trees.

Other Thoughts:

It is very hot down there in the summer. I bet it would be a decent place to play if not for the thorns, water, and well, water
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