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Eugene, OR

Stewart Pond

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3.585(based on 6 reviews)
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fantomhockey
Experience: 18.3 years 69 played 4 reviews
2.50 star(s)

A Step in the Right Direction 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 12, 2016 Played the course:once

Pros:

-Teepads. The pads are level concrete. They get wider at the release edge, face the right direction and are nicely grippy.
-Baskets. New Innova Discatchers are in good condition and can be easily spotted if not right from the teepad then from a short walk down the fairway.
-Two practice baskets. It's definitely a nice way to warm up, throwing from one to the other vs. throwing at one basket, collecting and repeating.
-Course is on BLM land, I'll add more on this in the other thoughts category but it is a sweet thing for disc golf to start a relationship with the agency that manages so much public land.

Cons:

-Repetitive. There are 2-ish holes where a RHBH anhyzer or LHFH shot is the only way to access the green. Every other hole is some form of hyzer. Long hyzer, uphill hyzer, downhill hyzer, straight with a hyzer finish etc.
-Poison oak. I started to notice a few plants on hole 5 and it just got worse from there. I had a great drive on 7, landed on the fairway 40-50 feet from the pin in poison oak. It did lighten up after about hole 10 or 11 but something really needs to be done. A sign or billboard that educates the public on identifying poison oak and what to do if you come into contact with it would be a great idea here. More work should be done to clean it out of the fairways and greens.
-Maintenance. This course is going to take a lot of mowing and there's clearly no way to keep up with it. Playing this course will mean budgeting extra time to locate discs.
-Navigation. Hole 1 is difficult to find as is navigating between several holes even with the map on DGCR. In addition to quality tee signs, signs showing where the next tee pad is at the end of the hole would go a long way to make this course more enjoyable.

Other Thoughts:

Disc Golf forming a relationship with the Bureau of Land Management is huge. Part of the agency's mandate is to manage these public lands for multiple uses. Large, organized recreation groups such as dirt/mountain bike groups are heard by the BLM and accomodated. The bikers have tons of trails on BLM land in the coastal range. It is great to see disc golf going in this direction and hope that support for this grows to the point that more courses appear on public lands.
As a final note, if you are going to play this course please follow the advice on the tee signs and pack out what you pack in. Today there were empty glass beer bottles at many teepads, trash and other things present on the course that shouldn't have been left. Help disc golf put its best foot forward!
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