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Walter Lyman DGC reviews
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PastorofMuppets
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Experience:
4.9 years
163 played
124 reviews
Off the Beaten Path
Reviewed:
Played on:Jul 14, 2023
Played the course:once
Pros:
1) Quaint little small park course on the side of a massive reservoir.
2) Lightly wooded with tons of beautiful cedars. Excellent use of the existing trees and natural elevation to create short yet challenging holes.
3) Most holes range in the 175 to 225 feet range. Hole #3 comes in at 315 feet but is severely downhill and plays similar to the rest of the course as far as power required goes.
4) Despite the very small footprint, each hole does an amazing job of having its own identity. You don't ever feel like you are playing the same redundant holes over and over again.
5) Cart friendly, quick to play, plenty of shade provided by the Cedars, cool breeze coming off the reservoir made this extremely enjoyable. (It was 106 the day we played but we barely broke a sweat and played the course in under a half hour)
6) Every hole is an ace run (if you enjoy that sort of thing) with the chance for optional OB or Mandos if you really want to toughen up your round and challenge yourself. There aren't any instructions or hole maps on the tee signs, so nothing is clearly or intentionally OB. There were a few trees with red ribbons wrapped around them which very well could indicate mandos, but they weren't on U-Disc on either.
7) There were a few on property campground site locations, complete with concrete foundation and permanent grill and firepit setups, but they looked long abandoned and in disrepair. Assuming from the old concrete foundations and camp sites that this maybe used to be a camp ground before and then was later converted into a disc golf course.
8) Solid execution of left, right, straight, up and over, and down and around shots that will test all aspects of your short game. Wonderful course for beginners in the area. Extremely well designed for the limited space allowed. Designer did an amazing job of not having fairways cross over each other and generally keeping flight paths from bad shots being able to interfere with others, thanks in part to the many trees on the course.
2) Lightly wooded with tons of beautiful cedars. Excellent use of the existing trees and natural elevation to create short yet challenging holes.
3) Most holes range in the 175 to 225 feet range. Hole #3 comes in at 315 feet but is severely downhill and plays similar to the rest of the course as far as power required goes.
4) Despite the very small footprint, each hole does an amazing job of having its own identity. You don't ever feel like you are playing the same redundant holes over and over again.
5) Cart friendly, quick to play, plenty of shade provided by the Cedars, cool breeze coming off the reservoir made this extremely enjoyable. (It was 106 the day we played but we barely broke a sweat and played the course in under a half hour)
6) Every hole is an ace run (if you enjoy that sort of thing) with the chance for optional OB or Mandos if you really want to toughen up your round and challenge yourself. There aren't any instructions or hole maps on the tee signs, so nothing is clearly or intentionally OB. There were a few trees with red ribbons wrapped around them which very well could indicate mandos, but they weren't on U-Disc on either.
7) There were a few on property campground site locations, complete with concrete foundation and permanent grill and firepit setups, but they looked long abandoned and in disrepair. Assuming from the old concrete foundations and camp sites that this maybe used to be a camp ground before and then was later converted into a disc golf course.
8) Solid execution of left, right, straight, up and over, and down and around shots that will test all aspects of your short game. Wonderful course for beginners in the area. Extremely well designed for the limited space allowed. Designer did an amazing job of not having fairways cross over each other and generally keeping flight paths from bad shots being able to interfere with others, thanks in part to the many trees on the course.
Cons:
1) Dirt Tee Pads. There is no improved tee area here. You have complete dirt, rutted out, unlevel teeing areas. Each tee sign had two separate well loved tee areas on either side of the sign, so I'm assuming locals play an 18 hole loop and tee from the opposite side of the tee sign on the second loop. This did however make it hard to know which is the intended tee pad location if you are just playing 9 holes.
2) Signage and Baskets. Tee signs were simple posts in the ground with the Hole # and Distance on it. Simple but left you searching for the basket. Baskets were extremely old DGA's, one layer of chains. They still caught well, but you had to be very gentle and deliberate with your putting. There were no next tee signs, no course kiosk, and there was no course map on U-Disc to help us. Navigation ended up being pretty intuitive because the course more or less plays in a counter-clockwise circle, but it was difficult at first to find Hole #1.
3) Not a big arm course, not even a recreational or intermediate level course, and certainly a course beginners will quickly grow out of. While it does it's thing as a stellar beginner and family friendly course, I could see locals playing this a few times and never returning.
4) WAY off the beaten path. This course was over 4 hours from the Grand Canyon and roughly 100 miles from anything resembling civilization through some pretty hot and moonscape dry Arizona high desert. This little Oasis town was fun to stop in, but certainly not worth the effort to get to.
5) You can't see the reservoir or the scenery. The course is built in kind of a bowl shape behind the huge levy for the reservoir. While this is great for shade and breezes, you miss out entirely on the aesthetics of the reservoir and the surrounding area. We climbed to the top of the levy just to take in the view and take some pictures. Big miss for this course not being able to somehow incorporate at least one hole to take in the beauty.
2) Signage and Baskets. Tee signs were simple posts in the ground with the Hole # and Distance on it. Simple but left you searching for the basket. Baskets were extremely old DGA's, one layer of chains. They still caught well, but you had to be very gentle and deliberate with your putting. There were no next tee signs, no course kiosk, and there was no course map on U-Disc to help us. Navigation ended up being pretty intuitive because the course more or less plays in a counter-clockwise circle, but it was difficult at first to find Hole #1.
3) Not a big arm course, not even a recreational or intermediate level course, and certainly a course beginners will quickly grow out of. While it does it's thing as a stellar beginner and family friendly course, I could see locals playing this a few times and never returning.
4) WAY off the beaten path. This course was over 4 hours from the Grand Canyon and roughly 100 miles from anything resembling civilization through some pretty hot and moonscape dry Arizona high desert. This little Oasis town was fun to stop in, but certainly not worth the effort to get to.
5) You can't see the reservoir or the scenery. The course is built in kind of a bowl shape behind the huge levy for the reservoir. While this is great for shade and breezes, you miss out entirely on the aesthetics of the reservoir and the surrounding area. We climbed to the top of the levy just to take in the view and take some pictures. Big miss for this course not being able to somehow incorporate at least one hole to take in the beauty.
Other Thoughts:
On our road trip home from Flagstaff we decided to detour North after visiting the Grand Canyon and get in a Utah course. This little gem happened to be the closest one to us, so we gave it a shot. While I'm happy we got to experience it, unless you are in the immediate area, and maybe not even then, would I recommend visiting this course. You can get this type of course almost anywhere and there is nothing special about this course. Unless you are just trying to bag them all, stay on I-40 or I-70 and bypass this camp course.
