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Taylor, MI

The Hill DGC

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2.00 star(s)

The View From The Hill? An Average DG Course

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 20, 2023 Played the course:once

Pros:

- large, dual concrete tees on every hole
- above average length on most holes with a few short ones mixed in
- some good mature tree hazards on a fairly open course
- a few holes ("the hill") with notable elevation change in an otherwise flat park
- Innova DISCatcher baskets in good repair
- well maintained park with port o potties, picnic tables, garbage cans, etc.
- basic but serviceable tee signs with maps
- some small next tee indicators are helpful
- navigation is mostly pretty intuitive
- long tees don't always add a different line but do increase difficulty, adding 1000 ft to the course

Cons:

- notable safety hazards with walking paths throughout park
- multi-use park situation is not ideal, but at least avoids playground
- no hole numbers on baskets
- fairly long walk between holes 4 and 5
- parking situation (on street with restrictions) is not ideal
- mosquitoes were pretty thick in mid-September
- a few tee signs face the wrong direction
- would be nice if tee signs indicated which tee was which (same at both tees)
- no particular uniqueness factor

Other Thoughts:

The Hill appears to be an infrequently trafficked disc golf course in a well-maintained park in the Detroit suburbs. The park is nothing out of the ordinary but has basic park amenities and mostly decent equipment. Tees and baskets were excellent here, and signs were serviceable. A few more next tee indicators wouldn't hurt. Sometimes on a mostly-grass course like this navigation isn't as clear since there isn't as clear a fairway/trail to the next hole, but it was fairly intuitive here.

The parking situation here was probably one of my least favorite I've seen outside of true urban courses. It's all street parking, and a lot of it says no parking during park hours (8 AM - 11 PM). I took this to mean I could park there before park hours (7 AM), although technically that meant I was in the park when it was "closed"... along with tons of dog walkers, ordinary walkers, etc. If you are there during normal hours I'm not sure exactly where on the road you're supposed to park but this didn't seem rigidly enforced.

The other main issue here is safety. Holes 1 and 2 play between the road and the walking path and it isn't the most ideal corridor unless you have pretty good control of your drives. Several other holes throw over walking paths which slowed me down a bit on what is otherwise a fairly quick, but not necessarily short, 9 hole course.

You will use your drivers here, with some holes over 300 or ever 400 feet. Some shorter sub-200 ft holes are mixed in for variety (all of this is playing from the short tees). The elevation change of the hill and a few other parts of the park is nice and adds some variety. Some holes here (1 and 2 in particular) were fairly wooded and have more technical challenge, but several are much more open and don't have anything particularly unique about them. Hole 3 would probably be hard/impossible to play if the football field was in use. There is a mando to go around the goalposts but you'd still be too close.

This park is full of black squirrels which I absolutely loved... we don't have black ones in Illinois for whatever reason, but they're all over Michigan. In suburban/urban parks you don't usually see much wildlife, but even this close to Detroit I found something unique which is why I love traveling to play disc golf.

Overall, I had a fun time here. It's a good, shorter round that still provides some challenge above and beyond the most rudimentary 9 hole park courses. If you are passing through it's worth a stop, but with dozens of courses in the Detroit area this isn't going to be top tier. I would probably rate this a 2.5 without the safety hazards; it is a good course but I don't think it warrants more than a 2 due to those issues and the overall level of unique play.
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