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Greendale, WI

Root River Parkway DGC

3.025(based on 24 reviews)
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CConnors3
Experience: 19.9 years 197 played 17 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Root River Remixed 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:May 24, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

New long tee pads, fresh cut fairways that will still be very challenging when everything settles down from foot traffic, new hole designs/layouts, better usage of the acreage available, P2P MKE County Parks Department

Cons:

Course needs a parking lot.

Other Thoughts:

Thank you to all the hard work and dedication from the GLDGC, MAD, Milwaukee Count Parks Department, Todd Farnham and all the other volunteers who work their butts off to transform this course into one of the most challenging courses in Southeastern Wisconsin.
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wisconnyjohnny
Experience: 23.9 years 21 played 3 reviews
4.00 star(s)

The Beauty and The Beast 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Oct 12, 2014 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

"The Root" as I affectionately call it has come a long way since its ground breaking in the spring of 2013.
Great concrete tee pads, awesome Baskets.
#1 Is The Beauty, several large trees to avoid while hitting a hole shot in the woods, to a Basket placement that utilizes a raised base of a willow tree.
Rad Placement very creative, course takes on some more woods after this an opens up at #6 again. On #9 you are tempted to hyzer another hole shot into the woods. 10 has a woods placement and then you are at "The Beast" which requires just a 220 ft hyzer into woods and a lil annhyzer of 200 ft down a very very narrow fairway, #11 comes in at 423 ft, awesome tough hole that will challenge anyone. #13 is the signature hole up a large mound, beware the rolling disc as you can get stuck with a double bogey or worse here.

course is clean and well maintained, light disc traffic unless you are hitting it at peak times. The Root is known for its ever present deer meandering the grounds and eating deer things like grass and popcorn.
this course utilizes the woods 50% of the time as nine of the holes are in woods.great course thats only getting better with two other new placements coming real soon utilizing the root river, with dare I say an Island green?

Play it now while its still a sleepy course

Cons:

some people are too lazy to pack it in and pack it out so it could use an extra trash can or two.

The signage isnt the best, and no map up. It can be very wet after large amounts of rain but not too muddy

Other Thoughts:

Great challenging course, thats both fun for the rec discer and pro types alike, natural beauty
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jmterlap
Experience: 32.7 years 97 played 10 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Short then Long 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 14, 2013 Played the course:once

Pros:

Really great driving holes for 350-450' holes. Great use of the limited elevation in the middle of the course. Threw all types of shots: Short, long, Hyzer, Anhyzer, Tight, Open.. Great risk reward with a few of the two shot Par 4's. Most greens seemed to be in very good locations and had rough on one side so drives/approaches had to be accurate. With better mowing, some of these holes will be great roller holes. Hole 18 was very good requiring a solid drive to stay out of the rough on the right and stand of trees on left.

Cons:

First four holes were very similar, but I think they left room for longer tees on some and moving the greens longer or side to side. Rough is very rough right now on those holes, but with the amount of traffic I saw on the fourth day it was in the ground, that rough will be trampled down quickly.

Other Thoughts:

Course design seemed to allow for much longer championship tees and for much harder greens tucked in the rough as it thins out in the future. It will be very interesting to see if this transforms over the next few years.
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