Burlington, MA

Simonds Park

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hawk12
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Experience: 33.7 years 272 played 28 reviews
1.00 star(s)

Could be better.... 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 11, 2017 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

There are 9 baskets, and it has tee signs. SO that's a start

The park is clean and easy to find.

Not a lot of positives, and I'll get to the negatives.

Cons:

Where to begin, well hole 2s basket is leaning so badly the outer ring is way against the post, another basket had a slightly less lean. Easy to fix, just needs some love.

Here's where I got a surprise, around hole 3 -5 it gets way bad. UNSAFE galore, and there are easy fixes by moving baskets to relieve some of the unsafe design/layout.

Here goes, Hole 3 basket has a very ppor lane of a fairway to it, and is 24ft feet from one of the tees for hole 4 AND only 62 feet from the fence of the kiddie pool in the park, yup next to the kidde pool - seriously, this is not a joke; a bad shot could go in the kid pool and a good shot could easy hit the next tee in the back of the head... This could be easily fixed by moving the basket about 200 ft to the right, in the middle of a nice lane from hole 3 tee - common sense not followed here people
Hole 4s basket is 9 feet from one of the tees on hole 5, yup 3 paces till back of the head smack... Sad, just plain sad, no lack of safety considered at all here. It may be a later tee that was added, and should be taken out, period.
Hole 5s basket is 35 ft from hole 7s basket playing in opposite directions, so a 16 foot green is where you draw the safe distance from your pin? No this is unacceptable as well. Not to mention when I played hole 7, hole 6s tee was not far off either...
Hole 1 plays alongside a tennis court and basket ball court - and really felt like it was an 8 hole course with hole 1 way long of a walk across the parking lot to a separate 1 hole warm up area between the baseball field, tennis and basketball courts... No flow, extreme safety concerns, and bad fairways in the woods....

I could get to the rutted stone dust tee pads with roots in them, but that was really an afterthought.

I'm really glad I play it on a Monday morning when nobody else was there...

Other Thoughts:

It's a course, but there are basically 10 lbs. of crap squeezed into a plot of land that can hold 6 lbs.... Bad design, bad (no make that total lack) of safety concerns, and poor fairways.

Shortening the course, each hole being made shorter, and having the baskets placed in the natural lanes between the large mature pines could easily improve this course as far as fairness and shot shpaes go, massively decrease the safety concerns, and make this course a place designed for the kids that are at that park...
IMO this course was extremely poorly designed, and for the wrong target audience. I know this review is rough, but after nearly 300 courses and 27 years playing, I thought I'd seen just about the worst as far as unsafe design goes - this lowered that bar sadly.
These problems could easily be fixed, by shortening the holes, allowing the kids that go to the pool and playground in the park to have a nice short 9 holes all in the same area of the woods that would develop the game for the youth that go to the park. But the holes are squeezed in, and too long for kids, and far to close to the next tees and other baskets, the fairways are unfair.
Enough said, hope a local heeds these words and goes and asks to make some changes.
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