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Cupertino, CA

Villa Maria

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Fukui San
Experience: 3 years 14 played 2 reviews
4.00 star(s)

My new home course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jul 27, 2021 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

A well thought out and executed course featuring tight lines, wooded disc golf, and friendly little lizards scurrying around everywhere. (I've seen no sign of the rattlesnakes we're warned about on a sign on Hole #1, and I've played here a lot.)

-Not usually crowded, though I mainly play on weekdays.
-Course layout that challenges your ability to throw straight and flat or on a slight RHBH anhyzer or forehand. Decent variety, though you're not going to use your big RHBH hyzers here much.
-Solid concrete tee pads and good baskets.
-Disc golf course is only for disc golf, don't have to dodge ball golfers or pedestrians. Good bathroom facilities on premises. Nearby field where you can practice and putting area as well.

Cons:

There are two pin locations for every hole. Some holes rotate between the locations frequently, but some seem to stick in one (usually the longer) placement.

Also not sure why #7 remains missing. The space where it should be seems like a fine place to have a hole. Maybe too many errant tee shots from #7 hitting people putting on #6? In the same vein there's too much overlap between the fairways of holes #1 and #12.

Tee Pads are a little too short. I have to start a step behind them and step up onto the pad.

Other Thoughts:

I moved here a year ago and this has become my home course, worth the 25 minute drive and $6 parking fee. I really should spring for the $95 annual pass, but I'm not quite sure how it works, calendar year or year from date of purchase. Since I've been here we've been in drought and I only know this place with a hard, dusty ground which allows skips, but I know from pictures it can grow grass if it were to ever rain.

It's currently a 11 hole course with hole #7 missing for reasons I do not know. The space where hole #7 should be seems fine. My only guess is that maybe drives from #7 hit people putting on hole #6.

Rundown of the holes:
1. Relatively open and flat. Long pin position is straight ahead. Short pin is way to the left. Both guarded by trees.
2. Long pin have to curl around a tree or two and veer left to get to it. Short pin nearly halfway shorter.
3. Uphill drive, short position is to the right and tree guarded. Long position is straight ahead and open. This is where trees begin to close in on you.
4. First tunnel hole which dumps out downhill left. Depending on pin position you want it to slide a little or a lot.
5. Tight tunnel you want to keep as straight as possible. Shots to the left will slide downhill into woods. Pin will either be 197' straight ace run or a curl uphill to the right around a corner.
6. Tunnel that finishes a little to the left of fairway. Your shot could slide downhill far past the basket. Never seen short pin placement.
7 is missing, but would be a downhill drive through woods.
8. RHBH players would want a controlled anhyzer that finishes left at the end and fights through trees slightly uphill. Makes me want a better forehand. A recent clean up has opened up the lefthand side of the fairway a bit.
9. Kind of open and straight but with some bottlenecks that attract discs and a little uphill. Long pin is guarded well by trees. Short pin is to the right.
10. Steep downhill finishing to the right behind trees. Shorter placement is blind to the extreme right. Be careful you don't hit people on #11's tee.
11. A little more open but the trees that are there attract discs. Slight downhill.
12. Not long but the tee shot makes you navigate the tree directly in your way. If you have a RHFH with enough power that'd be ideal. A ring of little trees have been planted around the basket to eventually become a formidable defense ring. Short placement is to the right through even more trees but gaps easier to hit.

I'd like it if they added a few holes, though I'm not sure where they'd put them. There is space, certainly. A more feasible hope might be to put a second basket on each hole to have long and short pin positions available permanently instead of rotating them. It's about a half stroke or more difference per hole on average to my noodle armed self between long and short positions.
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Nick Ferchau
Experience: 18 played 5 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Technical course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 10, 2018 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

Lots of tight tunnel shots and challenging tee shots which require multiple throwing styles.

Well maintained park and restrooms

Good use of space to allow for several 300' plus holes along with shorter more technical holes between 200-300'

Beautiful environment

Cons:

Poison oak off the fairway, but not terrible

No big open tee shots if you are looking for max distance throws
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