Wales, WI

Wales Community Park

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foren
Experience: 5 played 4 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Love / Hate this Course drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 16, 2022 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Free

Excellent Pads & hole signage good.

Front 9 lets everyone warm up, with out and back holes.

#6 & #17, way harder than you think.

#8, 9, 10, 14 Require your Beast mode

Cons:

No shade, use sunscreen

Finding #10 is a long, long walk to the South
(left when facing the 1st hole)

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Kegelexercise
Silver level trusted reviewer
Experience: 29.9 years 56 played 25 reviews
2.50 star(s)

If you just want to get out there... 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jun 9, 2016 Played the course:once

Pros:

It's the only 18 hole course within probably a 10-15 mile radius (a few shorter ones closer), so there's that.

It's also a good place to come practice if you want to hone your skills with airing out drives or throwing on a windy day, because the course is about as wide open as it gets, and there are enough long-ish holes that beginner to intermediate level players can air it out. One hole does play over a retention pond - RHBH throwers may have to choose different lines to avoid it. Decent use of elevation throughout.

EDIT: Over the years, new (basic, but competent) signage has been added to holes to replace the old, crappy signs, and the missing baskets have been replaced. Some care has gone into this course to improve it to at least respectability. Single concrete teepad on every hole, all in decent condition.

Solid option in winter/spring - they don't pull the baskets, and it dries out pretty well here.

Cons:

There just wasn't much to work with on this course, so I suppose the designers did what they could, but this course was nearly devoid of variety. There's not a lot of line shaping you'll have to do on the front 9, with everything being pretty wide open in the 200' to 325' range (there's one random 400'+ downhiller) and the back 9, though it does incorporate a bit more variance in terrain, and does incorporate more of the forestry that's present, is still very wide open.

Other Thoughts:

Someone one time posted a safari-type setup where you'd be tossing at different baskets (like, say, toss at basket #6 from tee #1) from much longer lengths, and this setup honestly seemed more compelling, and incorporated more obstacles than the actual course itself...that's the general feel of this course.

Again, I think the course designers did what they could with the limited ammo they had to work with (full disclosure: this safari setup I mentioned above crossed fairways a ton of times, so it isn't really viable for full-time play), so this course isn't complete garbage, but a lot of the value of this course is tied up in either A) practicing contending with strong winds, B) adding artificial challenge by something like calling unmowed prairie grass "OB" or C) bagging every area course.

Lot of better nearby courses, but I was probably kind of hard on this course on my original review. This course isn't anything you'll want to go significantly out of your way for, but if you're around the area, it's cromulent enough disc golf.
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knivile1
Experience: 13 years 60 played 25 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Beginner Friendly 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 25, 2016 Played the course:once

Pros:

Very well maintained and clean course in a diverse city park.

Well defined fairways and rough. Rough was decently thick but not so bad as to make a disc irretrievable.

Beginner friendly and would make a great course for kids and new players just learning the sport. All baskets were visible from the teepads.

Interesting handmade wood stump tee signs with hole number and distance. "Ace" posts also provided at each teepad so that graffiti is not placed on tee signs or baskets.

Minimal non-disc golf traffic on course.

Cons:

Teepads short on most holes.

Lack of benches and especially trash cans. Ended up picking up quite a bit of trash during my round; typical water and beer bottles/cans and food wrappers.

Lack of updated course map and information on the kiosk before hole 1. Map shows only the front 9 and no mention of a back 9.

Missing basket at hole 16. Guess it's been gone for quite some time now.

Other Thoughts:

Very well maintained multi-use park with typical baseball/softball and soccer fields as well as playground equipment and other facilities. Non disc golf traffic on the course was non-existent as the course starts on the opposite side of the main parking lot.

Wide open shots on all holes, with no real danger or risk/reward potential. Wind was up the day I played so it made putting interesting on the front 9 but still not difficult.

Water really doesn't come into play unless you are a beginner with a problem of hyzering out too quickly.
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Horsman
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 17.7 years 222 played 100 reviews
2.50 star(s)

18 Hyzers 2+ years

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jul 27, 2015 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

+ Concrete Teepads, the pads do vary in length but they are all big enough. Most would be Conrad approved.

+ Navigation is very simple for the most part, only 1 walk is non-intuitive.

+ Very easy to get to from the Freeway and pretty easy to at least find the course.

- A lot of open holes, so if you like the hyzer shot you are going to be in heaven

Cons:

- The length of the teepads isnt as bad as a lot of the people are saying. Im 6'6" and have a big stride and they were not an issue for me. What was an issue though was the step up to the teepads. Almost all of the teepads are not flush with the ground so it is quite annoying to not be able to throw a comfortable shot.

- Baskets. Mach 2's are never a confident catching thing. Some seem to be slightly updated to Mach 3's but only maybe 2 of them.

- Teesigns - They give you the hole number and distance and that is about it. You really dont need much else but they could be better

- The back nine is a pretty long walk away from the front nine. No arrows pointing you the right way. No help getting there at all. If you dont have a guide or uDisc then you will probably wander around for a bit before you find hole 10.

- The course lacks individuality in hole design. Most are just hyzers, not too many difficult shots out there. I threw a firebird on 15 of the 18 holes.

Other Thoughts:

Overall I didnt mind the course but there needs to be some upgrades before I would ever consider going back and playing. I would not travel out of your way to play here but if you are looking for a laid back round and want to work on your hyzer game and give your ego a little boost then this is perfect.
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