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The Shire reviews
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Recently renovated, good beginner course 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Oct 17, 2020
Played the course:2-4 times
Pros:
Welp, here's the first review since renovations were made in February 2020:
- Plenty of parking right by first tee.
- Good use of the few scattered trees to make the holes more intriguing than open field holes, and with the new longer hole lengths birdies aren't easy to come by even for intermediate players.
- #9 is back, with the new basket tucked by the tree line with a water hazard about 20-25ft beyond it.
- Nice Discatcher baskets.
- Thanks to new renovations (more about that below), every hole now has a tee sign again, so there's no longer any confusion about where to throw from.
- Nice city park, with the course isolated away from all the other park amenities.
- Plenty of parking right by first tee.
- Good use of the few scattered trees to make the holes more intriguing than open field holes, and with the new longer hole lengths birdies aren't easy to come by even for intermediate players.
- #9 is back, with the new basket tucked by the tree line with a water hazard about 20-25ft beyond it.
- Nice Discatcher baskets.
- Thanks to new renovations (more about that below), every hole now has a tee sign again, so there's no longer any confusion about where to throw from.
- Nice city park, with the course isolated away from all the other park amenities.
Cons:
- Very marshy the day I went, and from prior reviews and the course description it sounds like that's a very frequent problem here. Had to get my feet wet multiple times just walking the fairways or to pickup my disc, but I suppose all the puddles do make for additional makeshift "water hazards".
- The basket for #8 is really tucked back into the edge of the woods, making it really hard to spot. Completely blind from the tee, which is fine, but it seems silly to have the only way to get to it be by literally making a U back towards the tee. Why not just move the basket 30ft out towards the flagpole? For those playing here for the first time, just throw straight at or beyond the flagpole, then wander towards the woods and you'll eventually see the basket tucked back in there...
- No formal tee pads, just grass. However, a number of holes (#2, 4, 6, 7, and 9) do have a landscaping timber anchored deep into the grass to mark the tee line. They don't stick up much at all, so they work ok.
- The new homemade tee signs, now about 8 months old I believe, are already fading from the sun. And only some of them list the hole distances. Would be nice to see more permanent tee signs and distances listed for every hole, as the distances are hard to judge with as few of trees as there are.
- The really open and flat terrain isn't particularly interesting. Good opportunities to bomb it, but you don't need much creativity here. Guess that makes it good for beginners to learn the basics.
- It's a kind of long walk from #9 back to the parking lot or to the first tee to play it again to make a round of 18.
- The basket for #8 is really tucked back into the edge of the woods, making it really hard to spot. Completely blind from the tee, which is fine, but it seems silly to have the only way to get to it be by literally making a U back towards the tee. Why not just move the basket 30ft out towards the flagpole? For those playing here for the first time, just throw straight at or beyond the flagpole, then wander towards the woods and you'll eventually see the basket tucked back in there...
- No formal tee pads, just grass. However, a number of holes (#2, 4, 6, 7, and 9) do have a landscaping timber anchored deep into the grass to mark the tee line. They don't stick up much at all, so they work ok.
- The new homemade tee signs, now about 8 months old I believe, are already fading from the sun. And only some of them list the hole distances. Would be nice to see more permanent tee signs and distances listed for every hole, as the distances are hard to judge with as few of trees as there are.
- The really open and flat terrain isn't particularly interesting. Good opportunities to bomb it, but you don't need much creativity here. Guess that makes it good for beginners to learn the basics.
- It's a kind of long walk from #9 back to the parking lot or to the first tee to play it again to make a round of 18.
Other Thoughts:
- Have to really thank Shrop856 for the great work revamping the course earlier this year!! Great to see tee signs installed, and contrary to all the prior reviews, the brambles/undergrowth seem to all be gone now. Like the new longer distances too.
- Also exciting to hear that a back nine will eventually be built in the woods here, can't wait to see what those will look like.
- The first tee is actually at the corner of the lake closer to the parking lot (not where it's shown on the course map uploaded here). It's not hard to find, but just giving everyone a heads up.
- Also exciting to hear that a back nine will eventually be built in the woods here, can't wait to see what those will look like.
- The first tee is actually at the corner of the lake closer to the parking lot (not where it's shown on the course map uploaded here). It's not hard to find, but just giving everyone a heads up.
