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The Quarry at Rotary Park reviews
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Steve Gantz
Experience:
44 played
9 reviews
Greatness awaits
Reviewed:
Played on:Apr 5, 2024
Played the course:once
Pros:
A broad quarry is the setting for this new course. You drive in at the top of the course and when you get out of the car the magic has already begun. You can see the entire course spread out below you. Really no trees to deal with at this point. The quarry is probably 100 feet deep, I measured a 50 foot drop from tee at the rim to #10 basket and there was at least another 50 feet down to the next lower parts.
Any bomb shot is made up for the climb back up out of the quarry. 1-9 plays down and back up and 10 does the same so the designers used the terrain well.
18 is a special hole. Or terrifying. Over 600 from the short tees and uphill, the entire way. I had to stop after 12, another great bomb shot, so I wasn't able to play 18.
13 is a great risk, like risk of losing your disk in a pond. The basket stands about 10 feet above the water and a near vertical dirt bank down to the water will surely cause your disk to find a watery grave if it's thrown short. It is a short hole at least.
15 also plays across the water but I didn't see it so can't comment on it.
A final positive among many is that the course is just off of I-80, a very easy course to get to and if you're visiting the very popular and nearby Starved Rock State Park you can really make a great day of it. You can also disc the Starved Rock disc course to really make a great day of it and you might as well visit Matthiesson State park and totally wear yourself out like I did.
Any bomb shot is made up for the climb back up out of the quarry. 1-9 plays down and back up and 10 does the same so the designers used the terrain well.
18 is a special hole. Or terrifying. Over 600 from the short tees and uphill, the entire way. I had to stop after 12, another great bomb shot, so I wasn't able to play 18.
13 is a great risk, like risk of losing your disk in a pond. The basket stands about 10 feet above the water and a near vertical dirt bank down to the water will surely cause your disk to find a watery grave if it's thrown short. It is a short hole at least.
15 also plays across the water but I didn't see it so can't comment on it.
A final positive among many is that the course is just off of I-80, a very easy course to get to and if you're visiting the very popular and nearby Starved Rock State Park you can really make a great day of it. You can also disc the Starved Rock disc course to really make a great day of it and you might as well visit Matthiesson State park and totally wear yourself out like I did.
Cons:
The course is not for those who will struggle walking up and down some rather steep hills.
Springs leech water onto the slopes of the course making them wet but when I played after a week of rain, it was manageable.
I imagine in the summer as the grasses grow that you'll spend some time searching for your disk. The course seems to big to be kept up with a mower.
4 (?) soccer fields might make parking a problem on weekends when the soccer moms and dads of the world show up to win championships. I guess a pro is if your kid is playing soccer and you don't like it you could play disc!
Springs leech water onto the slopes of the course making them wet but when I played after a week of rain, it was manageable.
I imagine in the summer as the grasses grow that you'll spend some time searching for your disk. The course seems to big to be kept up with a mower.
4 (?) soccer fields might make parking a problem on weekends when the soccer moms and dads of the world show up to win championships. I guess a pro is if your kid is playing soccer and you don't like it you could play disc!
Other Thoughts:
I really think this course as word spreads is going to be on the list of places you must play among many in Illinois. It's really just opening this spring so good things are to come as word gets out.
