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Delray Beach, FL

West Delray Regional Park - Main

2.795(based on 12 reviews)
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thrembo
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Experience: 49 years 242 played 195 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Rustic And Somewhat Unfinished 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 22, 2019 Played the course:once

Pros:

New layout in a mostly dedicated area of the large multi-use park. The course is scenic featuring tight techy wooded holes long more open type holes and some fair water hazards holes. The course generally has one tee per hole and 2 baskets. The laminated tee signs are adequate for the most part. There are next tee arrows now to aid with the navigation. The course is very rustic, at first with a wealth of wildlife and plenty of fish in the clean lakes. The course has a great vibe and very friendly locals eager to show off their course and give navigation tips, like playing hole 9a and 9b at the same time and calling them 9 and 10 instead.

Cons:

The tees here run the gambit between rustic natural, Durarock, and asphalt. Hopefully, they will be all concrete someday. Also, better tee signs with updated hole info would be nice.

Other Thoughts:

So what we have here is a gorgeous park at the edge of civilization that will probably be getting higher reviews in the future and if all of the nags are worked out could become one of the nicest courses in the area. Even with the new navigation aids, I would caution first-timers to play with a local the first time around.

And yeah: BRING BUG SPRAY if planning on playing it March thru November.
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Monocacy
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Experience: 24 years 501 played 75 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Much better than expected 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 9, 2019 Played the course:once

Pros:

Nice variety, including short and tight woods holes, longer woods holes with challenging lines, and a few open bomber holes with OB and water constraints. Hit your lines in the woods and you will be loving life; get a bad kick off an early tree and you may be scrambling for bogey or worse.

Wind can be a big factor on the open holes, especially where OB is tight (note: most of my drivers are in the 150s). Even on some of the woods holes tricky winds that you don't feel on the tee can affect shots down the fairway. Reading the wind was essential when I played, but I see this as a pro (added challenge) rather than a con.

Alternate baskets and tees have been installed on many holes. Water and OB near the basket frequently add danger to approaches. Fairways were cleaned out nicely of brush and trash when I played.

I enjoyed my round much more than expected. From what I hear the locals have done quite a bit of work on the course recently, and it shows.

Cons:

Course map and tee signs need updating. When I played we either scouted ahead to see where the basket was, or played to the first visible basket.

Several baskets are situated near park roads, and parked cars can interfere with playing these holes. We were unable to play one hole because of a car parked by the basket, and had to play modified versions of two or three other holes to avoid parked cars or non-disc golf activities on the fairway.

If you get off the often narrow fairways the rough can be pretty rough in places. Reasonably high chance of disc loss.

Natural tee pads were decent, but better tee pads would improve the course. The course is mostly flat, but so is most of Florida.

Other Thoughts:

Normally I play a course multiple times before reviewing, but I decided to review this course after one play because the quality of the course seems much higher than the current rating. Clearly the locals have done a lot of work. The course has the feel of a work in progress - in a good way - so I will be interested to play here again to see if the course continues to improve.

I did not experience any problems with insects, snakes, or gators but I played in March. Can't speak to what it is like to play here in summer.

I had a local guide, but for the most part navigation was fairly intuitive either by following the trail or by using the red arrows that point the way to the next tee.

To reach the parking lot for the course, drive way back and right into the park, past the RC car course and near the archery range.
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