Green Bay, WI

Triangle Sports Area

Seasonal course
3.195(based on 27 reviews)
Filter course reviews

Filter reviews

Filter reviews

Triangle Sports Area reviews

Filter
10 1
GB Phil G
Experience: 23.9 years 119 played 15 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Home turf 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Aug 30, 2009 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Tricky elevation. Best elevation in town. Almost every hole is an ace run. Beginner friendly. Parkway has nice scenery. This course gets played over and over. Pads are dirt and very worn in and they are undefined. Its just crusher gravel spread out in an oval far bigger than the typical 5 x 10 ft area.

Cons:

Pads are natural, crusher gravel does pack down to provide some flat surface and grip is loose but it works. Adolescents trash the place like its a competition. Pavilion renters have no idea what a fairway is and won't understand english when you tell them. Trash cans are rare. Many signs are broken and footage inaccurate. Course barely gets enough maintenance. You won't get a peaceful round if high schoolers are being rowdy.

Other Thoughts:

Every beginner in Green Bay loves this course. Hopefully city of GB will give the course some more TLC. Disc dude hasn't given up on it. GB park dept recognizes the popularity so I expect the course to get the attention its been lacking. I've played this course more than any other course in my career (for now). I'll also get the best score here. Two rounds back to back takes less than two hours (if you're in shape) and you're bound to rock the house once. Play this course and enjoy!
Was this review helpful? Yes No
9 0
superberry
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 26 years 342 played 98 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Best in GB, but that isn't saying much 2+ years

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jun 2, 2009 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

This course is decent because overall it is pretty sound. What brings the rating down is mainly based on the experience as a whole, what could have been with the surrounding land, and other intangibles. The uphill and downhill runs are not long bombers but pretty strategically placed so that you need some control over distance. The course makes good use of trees in the area, but could be much better by simply diving 200' or so into the immediate woods. The balance (left, right, straight) is great. Uphill, downhill, acrosshill is a good balance.

Cons:

The park itself is run down and full of slobs and worthless useless idiots who vandalize and generally do nothing useful for the course or society. The tee areas SUCK. They are huge eroded dirt areas with no clear edge or sides. They are also rutted and muddy after any kind of rain. There are also quite a few soft wet low spots you almost have to walk through to get from hole to hole. The tee signs are in poor shape. There is garbage and broken glass everywhere. Baskets are generally poor and bent up due again to those idiots I mentioned.

Course design is adequate at best though, mainly based on the features. Yes, triangle is more fun to play than the other courses in my opinion, but without tight holes and obstacles, it is a deuce or die course. What I mean is that if you are off on your drive, your recovery/layup will be easy as cake because there are almost no obstacles mid fairway or off the fairway - just wide open hills. I dislike any course that plays this way.

The number of non-players, punks, garbage, vandalism, etc just completely takes away any chance at an enjoyable round here.

The Baird Creek parkway is a ginormous park system with some unbelievable monster terrain and features! This course could have tapped into a bit of that if the planning parks people had the nerve way back when. Not a con to the course, but Traingle could remain the beginner/idiot friendly course, and if the city of GB built an entire new 18 hole course elsewhere in the park people would be RAVING!

Other Thoughts:

The overall experience is definitely lacking and generall sucks due to the human factors. The course itself is sound, but not challenging in the least. The park system could yield a MONSTER course in anyone's book.
Go to Kewaunee and play Winter Park if you're travelling to the area!

I play Baird more than any other GB course because I think they all suck, but at least you get a workout at Baird, may as well have some benefit to the round. If you run the hills while speed golfing, you can get in a round in just over 30 minutes and have one heck of a workout.

The mountain bike trails in the parkway are pretty extensive and fairly challenging, but highly eroded and rooted.
Was this review helpful? Yes No
13 1
jhgonzo
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 25.9 years 92 played 46 reviews
3.00 star(s)

The Course Where I First Fell in Love with Disc Golf 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Sep 20, 2008 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

1. Makes good (but not ideal) use of the land's features. There's lot of woods and Baird Creek by the end of the Front 9 that I would LOVE to see utilized out here. Plenty of elevation comes into play, and the baskets are strategically placed near what few trees you'll encounter.
2. Great beginner course. True, it's a workout going up and down all those hills, and small children, the elderly, and plain ol' lazy folks will NOT appreciate this at all. This is where I threw my first round ever and subsequently started learning how to play (when I lived in GB, this was the only course there at the time). You can play this entire course with a single stable midrange disc, but I'd recommend bringing a few more than that; I'm just saying it IS possible to do so.
3. The downhill shots on #4 and #14 are really fun, and I frequently throw a few discs on these holes just for the hell of it. Hole #13 is probably the best risk/reward hole out here, as overshooting or throwing too high or flipping your disc could very likely wind up in you rolling all the way down by #14, leaving a not-too-enjoyable couple shots back up the hill. The finishing hole also carries a similar risk, as you play across the top of a hill (dropping sharply downhill to your left). As a beginner, I'd usually skip this hole since I didn't know how to throw straight.

Cons:

1. Worn out tees. I don't know if the Parks/Rec Department just doesn't want to commit to better tees, but you'd think with how popular this course is, how long it's been there, and with nearby courses with MUCH better teeing areas that they'd at least add something. Some tees are so rutted out and eroded that instead of risking rolling an ankle or worse, I'll just tee off to the side on the grass.
2. Litter. Beer bottles/cans, broken glass, hardly a trash can in sight. They do have clean-up days out here occasionally, but there needs to be a more concerted effort to keep this park beautiful, as I'm sure it once was.
3. Crowds. While you usually won't have to wait excessive amounts of time to tee off (people seem to be good about breaking into smaller groups), this course does get heavy use. The "crowds" that particularly concern me are those that rent out the pavilion on the top of the hill near Tee #1 and Basket #18. While this is a public park with several attractions, there's been WAY too many instances where a bunch of kids from a party or barbecue at the pavilion are just hanging out in the fairways, rolling down the hills, and occasionally even trying to snag your disc from the ground. The barrier here is that the folks renting the pavilion are frequently (not always) large Hispanic families, so either they don't speak English and can't understand, "Hey, could you move your kids so I don't hit them?" or even, "Fore!" or they just don't care because they rented the place and feel they can just sit wherever. Please don't take this as a racist comment; that couldn't be further from the truth. Perhaps the City should put up multi-language signs in English, Spanish, and Hmong that there is a real risk of being injured if you're just hanging out in the fairways and near baskets. Kids climbing all over a basket while their parents just watch, laugh, and drink beer is such an annoyance that it's almost enought to turn me away if I see a pavilion party occurring when I pull in.
4. As I stated above, there's not enough of the land used out here. Some holes near the creek, to add a real hazard factor to the course, as well as in the woods, would be most appreciated. There are bike trails back in these areas, but then again there's bike trails on a lot of wooded disc courses, and these two activities CAN co-exist together with proper signage and warnings.
5. Not year-round. As far as Green Bay Area courses, I like this one more than UWGB (unless they expand to 18 and make it worth the drive), and far more than Pamperin. Of course, it's understandable that it can't be year-round what with the ski/tubing areas, but Green Bay needs a better year-round course.

Other Thoughts:

Check it out if you're in Green Bay. It's a relatively short, not wooded course, and can be played fairly quickly on a moderately busy day.
Was this review helpful? Yes No
6 2
Snowdog
Experience: 31 years 25 played 6 reviews
4.50 star(s)

Home sweet Home Wisconsin 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 5, 2008 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Beautifull scenic park built naturally in Baird creek , power drives and straight line throws with some spectacular uphill and downhill runs, beautiful oak ,and birch trees ,great exercise, amazing view

Cons:

some spectacular uphill and downhill runs, yes you will have a bit of a up hill climb,might be a challange for some, at one time was the only disc golf course in the green bay area

Other Thoughts:

Yes this is an all around fun park, disc golf in the spring ,summer, fall, skiing ,cross country skiing, sledding,hiking,snowshoeing
Was this review helpful? Yes No
8 2
cydisc
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 28 years 257 played 85 reviews
3.00 star(s)

More elevation than you require 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 27, 2006 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Elevation, trees, variety

Cons:

dirt tees (marked with concrete discs), some erosion, not in year-round

Other Thoughts:

You're getting a workout playing this course. It's on the side of a huge ski-sledding complex, so that give you an idea of the elevation and slope you are dealing with and the course makes use of every bit of it. There are a couple of fun downhill bombers but the uphill throws are reasonable and you're not required to throw straight uphill. There are plenty of trees along the edge of the sled runs, so there is no wanting for obstacles to throw around or through.

Overall, it's a well balanced course with some really fun and challenging shots available. It does get some knocks for non-permanent tees and the fact that since it is a winter sports park, the course is removed in the winter months. Who says you can't play golf in the winter?
Was this review helpful? Yes No
4 7
FoleyT
Silver level trusted reviewer
Experience: 18.9 years 86 played 85 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Elevation 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 12, 2008 Played the course:never

Pros:

Beautifully scenic, lots of elevation, some spectacular downhill runs, dual tees for more challenge

Cons:

can be a bit strenuous for the unprepared, a few of the holes were confusing to navigate due to misplaced signage when we were there.
Was this review helpful? Yes No
3 10
Dahminator
Experience: 18.9 years 24 played 24 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Triangle Sports Area Review 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Feb 26, 2008 Played the course:never

Pros:

Very large course with lots of elevation changes. You'll like it if you like throwing downhill throws.

Cons:

Be prepared to do a lot of walking...especially uphill.
Was this review helpful? Yes No
Top