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The Cedars

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itsRudy
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Experience: 7.8 years 74 played 63 reviews
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A Disjointed Course 2+ years

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jul 25, 2018 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

-Private Property that spent the time and effort to make a Disc Golf course happen.

Cons:

-Course doesn't quite know what it wants to be in terms of skill level nor does the Church seem to want to really take care of the current design. Mother nature has overtaken many parts since its inception. It should be redesigned into a beginner course using areas that are already actively mowed.
-Tees don't seem to exist for #2, #3, #7, #8, #9 anymore. Tee#1 is overgrown to the point of being unusable. Forest tees were framed dirt or wood chips.
-#3 is around 400' of pure disc loss potential. #8 is more disc loss potential in the same swamps. Disc hunting rather than disc throwing is a theme of this course anyway.
-Tee signs use google maps snippets but because it shows mostly green forest cover, it's pretty unreadable. An illustrated hole guide with bright arrows and basket logos would have been better in this instance.
-Knee-high vegetation on the tight fairways in the forest.
-Past construction eradicated the old #8 and #9 and the new basket placement isn't thought out.

Other Thoughts:

tldr; I would recommend any nearby course over this one. If you do attempt it, try it when it's been dry for a long while (or frozen ground) in late Fall or Winter after the vegetation is dead. Bring discs you don't mind losing.

The course has changed quite a bit since the photos from 2011, tees gone, or vegetation taking over swaths of course in and out the forest.

First tee is located 40.317136, -75.479698 on (google maps), which is the right side of the church past the parking lot by the tree/bush line. The tee is there but rather overgrown and not usuable. Basket#1 is on the front lawn 430' away, near the street. I'm not know sure why half of it is mowed and the basket half arbitrarily left to grow but it's been that way forever. You're supposed to not throw over the parking lot but it makes it pretty hard for RHBH.

Tee#2 is supposed to be closer to the driveway but isn't there. The throw is a shorter hop over the driveway to the corner of forest. For some reason, the uprooted tee sign/pole was by the basket.

I couldn't find tee#3 as marked by wooden pegs in the photos (seems overgrown now) but on the map it looks like somewhere between basket#2 to the start of the first retention pond. It's a very ambitious 400'+ hole and something you'd might find on a high end course for much more advanced players but it simply just doesn't belong here. After the first 130' of narrow land, there's a 140' long and deep swamp pit overgrown with cattails. A narrow land bridge (with repositioned basket#8). Then another 110' pit, sometimes dry and mowed, sometime just as filled with water. After that is a narrow triangular strip of land with the basket at the end. Walk on the path on the left up to the landbridge, then past that will be a single mowed lane somewhere on the left among the brush. This is pure disc loss, especially in the summer.

#4-7 are typical forest fare, 200'ish distances, with knee-high vegetation to hide your discs and tight fairways bordered by brush. The paths between holes need major maintenance. Tee#4 is to the right of the basket#3 and there's some swampy ground around this section. It's a right curved hole. There was a fallen tree at the end that needs to be removed. Tee#5 is to the right of the basket up along the narrow path. Another right curve. Tee#6 is to the right again, it goes back towards the church and uphill with the basket off right. Take the path upwards and you'll have to muddle through brush. Tee#7 disappeared, but throw from the corner of the forest and it's a straight shot.

#8-9 were moved from their original spots due to construction and right now are, at best, mere afterthoughts to whoever, if anyone, is now managing the course. #8 in its present form is a short putt onto the narrow land bridge, maybe 110' or so, but an easy loss into the swamps on either side for beginners. #9 uses the same tee, afaik, just an unmarked patch of dirt among the grass with the basket near to the parking spaces. Similiar short distance.

This course is just incoherent. #1 and #3 are only throws that advanced players could make. #8 and #9 are casualties of construction and repositioned badly, barely pitch and putts now. If this course ever gets redone, they should keep #4,5,6,7 and clean them up well. Those holes are relatively okay and it loops back in a circle. Completely raze #1-3, #8-9 and reposition the baskets beside and behind the church away from the street so the church kids can play. Just avoid the retention ponds at this skill level. Make some 150-250' semi/open beginner holes that seamlessly connects to existing #4-7 and on ground already mowed so it won't get overrun by nature again.

I pass by this course a lot but hardly feel like playing it. It's pretty joyless most of the year but the absolute worst in wet summertime.
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