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Sioux Falls, SD

Tomar Park

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wolfhaley
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Experience: 20.1 years 1020 played 588 reviews
1.00 star(s)

2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 18, 2021 Played the course:once

Pros:

Tomar park has all the elements one could ask for in a disc golf course. It's technically attached to a very nice 9 hole course (Spencer Park) so that it can be played as an 18 hole loop. Spencer Park is a solid 2.5 to 3 rated course. Tomar is a 1 at the moment.

The baskets are beautiful Discatchers. Nice, shiny brand new ones at that. These things look awesome and catch great. One per hole and as far as I could tell one pin position. Hard to get a read here, but that was the feel.

There are decently sized, level and grippy concrete pads here. These are more than sufficient for a course of this length. One tee per hole.

The park has all the elements you'd want or need to make an above average 9 hole course. The course is flat as flat can be, but there are tons of trees, a creek and beautiful natural fairways through the woods.

The course starts and ends by the parking area. Course was generally clean, is permanent and is free to play.

Cons:

I'm going to grade this as it was when I played it. And it was in rough shape to say the least.

There were 2 baskets missing. Holes 3 and 5 had no baskets. Just not even there. Poof, gone. I wondered why my scorecard was off when I got to hole 7. It's because we played what was supposed to be hole 5 plus hole 6.

That was after walking over the bridge and scouting for hole 3's basket. Which is nowhere to be found. Oh well, just head to hole 4. That means walk back across the bridge and throw over the creek. Except there's no "fairway" to 4. I'm looking at the basket from behind the pin. Amazon jungle looking rough surrounding the pin.

Hole 7, we're over the awful nonsense playing over the creek now at least. Nope. There's a huge branch hanging off a tree in the fairway blocking basically any reasonable shot. A roller won't even work here, BH or FH. Another wasted hole.

The rough consists of pricker bushes the likes of I've never seen before. Hell, the fairway was made up of these too. The actual rough was more of these, downed trees and some of the nastiest nettles known to man. Yay.

Other Thoughts:

My playing this course is a small snapshot in time. I don't feel that this course is usually this awful. But I can only go by what I encountered. And it wasn't a pleasant experience. There's 2 other courses nearby, Spencer and Tuthill that are in such better shape. I'd suggest playing those before this one.

Like I said to start, this one has all the attributes you'd want for a good to great niner. It's not there yet though. Skip this one and play the others and you'll still have a solid day of discin'.
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