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Salt Lake City, UT

Roots DGC

3.175(based on 15 reviews)
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sillybizz
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Experience: 22.3 years 427 played 413 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Magic Number Again?! Yup....

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 6, 2023 Played the course:once

Pros:

Infrastructure is all sound with good, newish baskets, tee signs with distance and map, par, etc. Multiple pins and little circular discs they move around and lock in place to show you which position the basket is currently in. It's a good course for throwing rollers and practicing drives as the obstacles are seldom. Parks people were out here on the morning I was playing cleaning up the fairways and doing other course maintenance, it shows they care about this place, it's in good shape currently.

Cons:

The Magic Number:

I've ranted and raved before and I'm sure I will again. This course suffers from the idea that a course has to be a specified number of holes BEFORE determining if the available land is large enough to accommodate it. Usually this is the idea that a course must be 9 or 18 holes or be a multiple of three, 12 holes, 27 holes, etc. I believe a course should have any number of GOOD holes that are also SAFE when multiple groups are estimated to be playing on it at the same time like in city parks. This is probably my biggest pet peeve that see so often in course design and it is prevalent here. Give me 13 good holes over 5 good holes and 13 fillers!

This place has fairways overlapping, crossing, and having you walk from the last basket into the fairway you just played or another fairway to get you to the next tee. Dangerous layout indeed.

I felt as if all of the shots kind of felt and looked the same. Throw an open shot that's straight, then a dogleg left, then a dogleg right, then repeat. All of the distances are close enough that even 50 feet of difference still felt like the same hole especially with very little obstacles and no punishment of bad throws.

Navigation is a little weird if you don't use Udisc. There are many baskets and tee pads within sight and it's not always obvious which one you should be going to.

Other Thoughts:

I've always hated playing disc golf on ball golf courses and don't really understand why people keep doing it. The challenges are different, the game is different, and what is fun and challenging to a golfer is boring to a disc golfer. If this is your cup of tea be my guest but I will avoid this course and others like it in the future. It's totally fine for driving practice if no one is around otherwise be ready to keep your head on a swivel.
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flatline
Experience: 23.4 years 1 played 1 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Lots of potential 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 4, 2018 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

-relatively uncrowded
-good baskets
-good variation on R/L doglegs

Cons:

-lack of tee maps <- really frustrating when first playing here
-cramped
-no elevation changes
-it is a hot spot for casuals atm, expect families and people playing with traditional frisbees on occasion, and plenty of people roaming the course with no idea what order the holes go, not their fault there are almost zero indicators save for numbers on the tees and baskets

Other Thoughts:

I have no idea why somebody bothered to put in cement tees but didn't bother to install maps/signs. The course is literally impossible to navigate for a first-timer. I would have preferred the rubber mats with some kind of map so that noobs aren't constantly roaming the course, jumping in on holes in front of people without knowing.

BTW, don't trust the maps in the photo section on this site, while a couple are still accurate, most are not. The foliage is completely different as well.
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kyleocean
Experience: 26.4 years 184 played 12 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Needs Improvement 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 1, 2017 Played the course:once

Pros:

Variety of holes of distances. Beautiful park. Nice baskets. Pretty easy to find. Nicely manicured park and fairways. Easy to find discs. Benches at many holes.

Cons:

Teepads need replaced as soon as possible. No teesigns. No map anywhere to be found. Horrible layout, fairways crossing each other all over and then next teepad is rarely in an obvious walking direction. I found myself constantly checking the map online just to figure out where the next tee was. No distances marked anywhere.

Other Thoughts:

I played this course while traveling through and I have now officially played all the courses in Salt Lake. I think this course is worth playing, especially if you have already played everything else and want to see them all. I saw some reviews and expected this course to be better than it was but was not overly impressed. Am I glad I stopped to play? Absolutely. However from here on out I will play creekside instead. This course needs a lot of improvements but has a ton of potential. If the caretakers got cement pads poured, simple teesigns in, and just rearranged the layout using the exact same holes but in a better order so you are not crisscrossing around walking through fairways, this could be a 3.5 or 4 easily. Also, I played on a Monday morning at 9AM and ALL of the sprinklers were on, my feet were soaked and I was constantly avoiding the grounds keepers or park workers. So that was interesting.

Other Other Thoughts: I am pretty decent at disc golfing and usually shoot around 3 or 4 under on average. I shot a -8 on this course only using a Teebird, Buzz and putter, and also not putting well this day. So its kind of an easy course in my opinion, you will be more challenged by creekside for sure.
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