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Olympia, WA

Scott Lake Golf Course

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The Valkyrie Kid
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Experience: 46 years 1562 played 1507 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Very Typical Disc Golf Course On A Ball Golf Course! 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 18, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

If this course was a Broadway musical, it would be met with a scattering of polite applause. It if were a movie, two stars. If it was a girl, she would be a 5. And so on and so on. I'm fairly certain that you get my drift.

The almost new course (2019) charges $10 for 18 holes ($7 if you are a South Sound DGC member) and $7 for a cart. I would have driven but they didn't have one available (and I would have been the only person on the course driving a cart.) For a new course the baskets are antiques. They have been painted several times (currently red), some have the number on the plate, some don't. All are old, rusty and not real attractive. The tees are marked by two yellow bricks. None have a number but they're mostly fairly easy to locate. There are no signs.

The lady in the pro shop had a rather challenging time trying to explain the basket situation to me. Most of the nine golf holes have two baskets as in the # 1 and # 2 disc golf holes are both located on the # 1 golf hole. Do you have that? The lady kept trying to explain to me that were two baskets on each hole, I'm thinking like maybe a short and a long # 1 or perhaps a # 1 and then a # 10. Luckily, I figured it out mostly with some help from an employee on a golf cart. He may have been the course designer. I don't think it was Paul McBeth.

The course is all-so-typically disc golf on a ball golf course. Lots of mostly 400'-600' holes set on either side of the fairway with perhaps a tree or two to navigate around. My two favorite holes were 16 and 17. They are both around 300' BUT….. both have the feel of real disc golf holes, you know with trees and everything.

The golfers I encountered were super friendly and interested in what I was doing. After I fired off a booming 250' drive, one golfer asked me if that was an average drive. I had to reply that many disc golfers would be probably being throwing a mid-range on that particular hole

Cons:

First, it would so easy to put a hole number on the yellow brick roads. One could probably use a sharpie. Anything would be appreciated.
No signage.
Grass tee pads.
A lot of Ho-hum disc golf to be played here.
The course is flat and mostly wide open.
No course map although the course is listed on the UDisc Ap.
Parts of the disc golf routes were underwater today. We did have some torrential rains a couple days ago but the regular part of the course appeared dry.
$7 for a South Sound member isn't going to break anyone but there are plenty of free courses around.

Other Thoughts:

I would think that most disc golfers would find Scott Lake to be one long series of drive, approach and putt holes. It's not the most challenging or stimulating course but it's not the worse either. It does not require every disc in your bag!
But I believe the owners/disc golf people might be open to some modest improvements, signs or numbers on the yellow bricks. They genuinely seem to want our business.
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