Rochester, MN

Slatterly Park

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lazy42
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Experience: 14.8 years 40 played 39 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Creek makes it interesting 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Oct 20, 2010 Played the course:once

Pros:

Multiuse city park with various activities available. Nice walking path through park. Ball fields. Playground area. Paved parking lot with quite a bit of room. Trash cans in various locations throughout park. Shelter building on grounds too. Nice area of trees and brush that helped keep the wind at bay (the day I played there were 30-40 mph gusts) for the first 7 holes.

Dual concrete tee pads, good sized too. Creek that either comes into play directly, or on an errand throw on holes 5, 6, 7, 9. Though mostly wide open, trees used as obstacles through course. Navigation on course was fine, no real issues except the red tee on hole 5 is hidden by a large pine tree over by the bridge. Dual Tee's.

Cons:

Nobody seems to use the trash cans. Lots of trash by the tee on 4, broken bottles too.

Very basic tee signs, just a large post (railroad tie) with the hole #, unless you count all the writing and carving (vandalism) important, there isn't any other information.

Because of the size of the park, the holes on the west side of the course are close together, though wasn't an issue picking the correct pin once play started.

Basket on hole 3 was different than the rest, only having on set of outer chains.

A couple of the white (Am) tees were so close to the red tees that it didn't change the line at all. Just reduced distance by 30' - 60'.

Other Thoughts:

Couple of holes to note: 5 uses what little elevation available (on the red tee) and places you down along the creek, throwing with the creek. Longest hole on the course @ 488'. Hole 9 (red tee) has you throwing angled across the creek towards pin. Nice grouping of trees over there too. The creek isn't that wide, but since you don't throw perpendicular to the creek, in increases the difficulty and required distance to clear it.

Designers did what they could with area given to them, and used the creek very well. Course would benefit from a couple of extra trash cans maybe over on hole 4 to help with the trash. Good course for midrange work. Not much need for anything beyond a fairway driver here.
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Schwinn2
Experience: 23.9 years 51 played 4 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Home of the Goose 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 24, 2006 Played the course:once

Pros:

Concrete tee pads and decent baskets.

Cons:

Goose poop everywhere! Shoes and discs needed cleaning when the round was done. Lacked elevation change, distance, and variety.

Other Thoughts:

Rochester could use an 18 hole course! The city's 9 holers just don't do the sport justice.
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