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Soldiers’ Row DGC reviews
8
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RodneyHavens
Experience:
10.7 years
145 played
6 reviews
Soldiers Row drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:Aug 2, 2023
Played the course:once
Pros:
Pros:
A good course for beginner and advanced players.
- Very challenging, open and wooded disc golf requiring a variety of different shot types that can challenge you to throw shots you normally don't throw.
- Beautiful property.
- For the advanced players, several longer par 4 holes.
- For the beginners, several shorter par 3 holes.
- For a newer course it is well beat in and I anticipate it just getting better, with relatively moderate to heavy underbrush, but if you get off the fairway it can be punishing with very little outs!!!!
- The course is well-maintained and has good signage.
-Holes along the creek are very scenic and flow well with the course layout.
- Cart Friendly!
A good course for beginner and advanced players.
- Very challenging, open and wooded disc golf requiring a variety of different shot types that can challenge you to throw shots you normally don't throw.
- Beautiful property.
- For the advanced players, several longer par 4 holes.
- For the beginners, several shorter par 3 holes.
- For a newer course it is well beat in and I anticipate it just getting better, with relatively moderate to heavy underbrush, but if you get off the fairway it can be punishing with very little outs!!!!
- The course is well-maintained and has good signage.
-Holes along the creek are very scenic and flow well with the course layout.
- Cart Friendly!
Cons:
-STAY IN THE FAIRWAY
- Could get fairly busy when the weather is nice because of the walking path along the creek.
- Could add a hole between 7-8 to fill the longer walk between those two holes.
- Looks like it has the potential to flood or stay wet for long periods, but was dry and in great shape when I was there.
- On the first part of the course, some of the baskets are difficult to see.
- Could get fairly busy when the weather is nice because of the walking path along the creek.
- Could add a hole between 7-8 to fill the longer walk between those two holes.
- Looks like it has the potential to flood or stay wet for long periods, but was dry and in great shape when I was there.
- On the first part of the course, some of the baskets are difficult to see.
Other Thoughts:
There maybe signage but I don't recall seeing any...Would like to see signage at the course entrance to let you know what position the pins are in.
overall I really enjoyed this course and can see myself visiting again real soon!!
overall I really enjoyed this course and can see myself visiting again real soon!!
13
0
A difficult course to rate drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:Oct 16, 2022
Played the course:once
Pros:
Good tees and baskets
Excellent signage
Multiple pin positions
Water on three holes
Excellent signage
Multiple pin positions
Water on three holes
Cons:
Hard to get to
Multiple pin positions
Some long walks
Multiple pin positions
Some long walks
Other Thoughts:
This is an early review, so some details may change. Probably not with the course, since it has tees and signs in (though you never quite know with new courses), but I definitely hope there are changes to parking and the way to get to the course.
The first thing you notice about this course is why it's named what it is. The only way I see to get to it, unless you live near enough that you can walk, is by going through a cemetery. It's a nice pleasant cemetery, in if you come in on the easternmost road in, you pass by several rows of soldier's graves. The roads are one car's width wide, making it awkward if someone trying to pay their respects to the departed is coming in a different direction. Once you get through the cemetery, the peaceful feeling ends, as the service road in one direction has imposing signs forbidding unauthorized vehicles, and the other direction has big signs warning you that you're on camera. I find it ironic that the graveyard is the least spooky part of the trip in.
The course itself is very flat. Most of the holes have a reasonable number of trees, with a few more-open throws, and a few tunnel shots. Water comes into play on three of the holes, but it looks shallow enough that you could retrieve errant disks if you don't mind having soaking pants afterwards. If you looked at the course as a whole, you would probably say it has a good mix of throws--varied distances and appearances. But going hole-by-hole, it's less varied, as you get clumps of shots that look the same--the three water holes, for instance, look similar to each other, and a few holes after them, you get several straight tunnel shots in a row. Also, make certain that your most overstable disk is with you, as there are two U-turn holes (both to the right), and one long continuous left hook hole. Fortunately, they don't clump together, but I still think that one hole like that per course is plenty good--maybe two, if you want one going each direction, but definitely no more than that.
The majority of the holes are pretty good, but there were a few mediocre ones and a few that it felt like they were focusing on being difficult at the expense of fun. Though the course isn't excessively challenging (a bit above average difficulty for a rec-level course, but not much more than that), enough of the holes are sufficiently beginner-unfriendly that I would recommend taking new players somewhere else first.
Tees are concrete. Baskets are blue-rimmed, which does blend in a bit until you know where to look. There are a number of blind holes, and a number where the signs show the basket being in an alcove over in that direction, but it's sometimes hard to figure out which of the four possible alcoves the basket is actually in. Other than that problem, the signage is rather good, each basket has a next tee arrow under it, and all the long walks (there are a couple) have at least one sign pointing the way (on the really long walks, another sign is posted just about at the point where you start wondering if you missed the tee somehow.)
Each basket has two tee positions listed on the signs, and some of them have the second basket position marked on the ground. I'm not a fan of multiple pin positions overall (in my experience, after half a year the baskets migrate to the long position and stay there, making the whole thing pointless), but I know that other players enjoy having this, so I'll let you determine if that's a plus or a minus for yourself.
In the end, I had troubles figuring out what I wanted to rate this course. There is a lot to like about it--and a lot to get irritated about by it. I don't think there's anything so exceptional about this course that it's worth going out of your way to play, but on the other hand, it's definitely worth hitting at least once if you're in the area. As this is currently the only course in the city, I do wish that it was more beginner-friendly, but hopefully down the road there will be more courses in the city.
The first thing you notice about this course is why it's named what it is. The only way I see to get to it, unless you live near enough that you can walk, is by going through a cemetery. It's a nice pleasant cemetery, in if you come in on the easternmost road in, you pass by several rows of soldier's graves. The roads are one car's width wide, making it awkward if someone trying to pay their respects to the departed is coming in a different direction. Once you get through the cemetery, the peaceful feeling ends, as the service road in one direction has imposing signs forbidding unauthorized vehicles, and the other direction has big signs warning you that you're on camera. I find it ironic that the graveyard is the least spooky part of the trip in.
The course itself is very flat. Most of the holes have a reasonable number of trees, with a few more-open throws, and a few tunnel shots. Water comes into play on three of the holes, but it looks shallow enough that you could retrieve errant disks if you don't mind having soaking pants afterwards. If you looked at the course as a whole, you would probably say it has a good mix of throws--varied distances and appearances. But going hole-by-hole, it's less varied, as you get clumps of shots that look the same--the three water holes, for instance, look similar to each other, and a few holes after them, you get several straight tunnel shots in a row. Also, make certain that your most overstable disk is with you, as there are two U-turn holes (both to the right), and one long continuous left hook hole. Fortunately, they don't clump together, but I still think that one hole like that per course is plenty good--maybe two, if you want one going each direction, but definitely no more than that.
The majority of the holes are pretty good, but there were a few mediocre ones and a few that it felt like they were focusing on being difficult at the expense of fun. Though the course isn't excessively challenging (a bit above average difficulty for a rec-level course, but not much more than that), enough of the holes are sufficiently beginner-unfriendly that I would recommend taking new players somewhere else first.
Tees are concrete. Baskets are blue-rimmed, which does blend in a bit until you know where to look. There are a number of blind holes, and a number where the signs show the basket being in an alcove over in that direction, but it's sometimes hard to figure out which of the four possible alcoves the basket is actually in. Other than that problem, the signage is rather good, each basket has a next tee arrow under it, and all the long walks (there are a couple) have at least one sign pointing the way (on the really long walks, another sign is posted just about at the point where you start wondering if you missed the tee somehow.)
Each basket has two tee positions listed on the signs, and some of them have the second basket position marked on the ground. I'm not a fan of multiple pin positions overall (in my experience, after half a year the baskets migrate to the long position and stay there, making the whole thing pointless), but I know that other players enjoy having this, so I'll let you determine if that's a plus or a minus for yourself.
In the end, I had troubles figuring out what I wanted to rate this course. There is a lot to like about it--and a lot to get irritated about by it. I don't think there's anything so exceptional about this course that it's worth going out of your way to play, but on the other hand, it's definitely worth hitting at least once if you're in the area. As this is currently the only course in the city, I do wish that it was more beginner-friendly, but hopefully down the road there will be more courses in the city.
