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Houston, TX

Victory DGC

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ken1645
Experience: 19 played 6 reviews
4.50 star(s)

2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jan 13, 2022 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Amazing baskets, really beautiful old trees throughout the course and the St Augustine grass is really nice. The course gets mowed monthly by a couple big tractors and a crew of the red zero turn mowers. The lines are diverse and a few holes are really long, which is nice to have some room to throw hard.

Cons:

Multiple reports of catalytic converters being stolen. The neighborhood area is very poor, Acres homes is hood.
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blake833
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 14 years 160 played 140 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Fun in the neighborhood 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Dec 28, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

Out of all the abandoned neighborhood courses I've played in Houston (3 I think?) this one is my favorite. It's less spooky than White Oak, there are still a couple houses that I guess decided not to sell and live in the flood plain till their place gets destroyed, and there are more trees and less trash than the others.

The holes are all a pretty comfortable length, to very lengthy par 4 or 5. No one is going to come out and here and feel like they never got a chance to throw hard. There was some great integration of the roads, offering some risk/reward shots, like water hazards you can skip off. I think there may have been one or two where I was like, "Huh, this might be asking a bit much," if the gap was sharp, or small, or just around a large bushy tree or something. But overall pretty good

Navigation, I'm not sure if I can comment on. I had a local guide (c_a_miller) who knew his way around, but I did notice the spray paint on the basket cage in the direction of the next tee. I feel like I could have done it on my own with just a little effort.

Tees were natural, marked with bricks or stone. Maybe posts. Honestly if I can't remember now, they weren't great but weren't bad either.

I do remember the baskets. They were good. Not shiny new, but got the job done. A mix of different models, cannibalized from other retired courses. They had all their chains, weren't damaged, and if I threw at them they caught the disc. That's all I can ask.

Cons:

I mean there was nothing particularly wowing about this course. The tees could've been better.

I would normally knock a course for throwing over the road so much but this place is so abandoned it really is more of a feature.

there's not much I can really ding this course for, other than it's blatant averageness.

Other Thoughts:

It's worth playing a round here. There are some parts that make you go "oh cool!" and some parts that make you go, "yeah, that makes sense." but nothing that makes you go "wtf" or "WOW AMAZING!" It's not beautiful, but it's not ugly. It's not easy, but it's not overly challenging. Honestly I almost think this could be the course all courses are judged by for whether they are better or worse than average.

It really is a good course. It's really not a bad course. I just can't find any compelling reason to rate it higher, or any fault big enough to rate it lower. It's like a good bowl of cereal- you know what you like about it, but you're not going to brag about it later.
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c_a_miller
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Experience: 12 years 299 played 209 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Another abandoned neighborhood course in NW Houston 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 28, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

Victory DGC plays in an abandoned neighborhood (abandoned due to flooding) similar to the recently installed White Oak Bandit Course nearby. The course has 18 Patriot baskets that were originally at Watonga before the course was pulled, great catching baskets.

The course spreads out across six blocks. There is plenty of space between baskets and being a popular course, you won't feel like you are throwing on top of others. Being spread out, the course is fairly easy to navigate, each tee has pavers in the ground marked with the hole number and temporary white flags.

Being an old neighborhood, there aren't too many trees but the trees that do exist help add a bit of challenge on what is a shorter course. Three holes are over 400' while the others hardly hit 280', not much opportunity to bomb, but plenty of opportunity to work on your shorter shots.

Cons:

Between this course and the Bandit course, this is the lesser of the two. There is much less shot variety and distance here than its bigger brother.

Many of the holes throw over the road. You don't really have to worry about cars, but the neighbors that still live in the area have essentially converted the street into a walking trail, and there were plenty of cyclists, runners and walker utilizing the road while disc golfers throw literally over them. It could lead to an incident in the future.

There are also no great places to park your car as the street near hole 1 plays very close to the fairways on 17 and 18. I actually hit my own car (thankfully, I guess) when finishing up on 18 due to where I was parked.

Other Thoughts:

I'm not much of a fan of the current trend in Houston disc golf community of putting courses into the ground without prior approval. This course, Bandit currently exist without approval, and Watonga and the short-lived Coyote Crossing were courses that were removed because there wasn't permission given to install the courses.

In the case of this course and Bandit, the neighborhoods are MOSTLY abandoned, but there are a smattering of homes throughout, and disc golfers are essentially playing in people's backyards, and I am sure the homeowners never had a say in if the course should be installed; people just went and did it anyways.

If you were to put this course in a vacuum, it's just okay. The land doesn't lend itself for a super solid course, but it is decent and worth the stop at least once especially being in an area of Houston that has recently become dense with courses.
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