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Westport, CA

Westport Community DGC

2.55(based on 6 reviews)
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The Valkyrie Kid
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Experience: 46 years 1562 played 1507 reviews
1.00 star(s)

The Westport Course Has Gone To Seed! 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Feb 23, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

First of all, incredible views of the Pacific. Secondly, this course was once someone's pride and joy. Then that same someone somehow found the finances for the baskets and poured his heart and soul into this project. But currently, this course is a total and complete basket case.

The course sits on a steep hillside which is basically a pasture. The grass is 1-2 foot tall over much of the course. The ground is really hard to walk on as it's very uneven with lots of tripping vines throughout. There are also lots of scratchy plants.

There's a long steep walk up to the first tee. The tee pads are mostly dug out holes and then leveled. # 1 and another later hole have large plants right in front of the tees which have grown and now obstruct your view. I teed off on # 1 and then spent about 15 minutes searching and cursing myself for being so stupid as to throw my favorite driver here. I was much more cautious after that.

I'm not sure if this project course here on this steep, pastures hillside was ever a good idea. With the way the wind blows off the ocean, the tall grass and the overall steepness of the property, I can't imagine anyone being desperate enough to play here. I think the best and only solution is to pull these baskets and look for another more suitable piece of land in the Westport area.

Cons:

Just about everything. The steepness of the site, the high grass, the strong winds, the over grown plants, the rough terrain and the likelihood of losing your discs.

Other Thoughts:

When I saw I was coming to play a course rated over 2.5, I thought this was going to be a decent little course, maybe in a city park. Boy, was I surprised! The early ratings were better but those in the last few have proven to be more accurate. In it's current state, this course is not worth playing, even for us hard core course baggers.
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chaingrabber
Experience: 8 years 6 played 6 reviews
1.00 star(s)

Beginnings of a course or the end... 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 21, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

Unobstructed views if it's clear
friendly small town store to purchase refreshments and the like close to course
practice basket

Cons:

basically overgrown so that it's impossible to truly play the entire course.
tee pads are basically somewhat cleared dirt areas (with thin amounts of long grass) for basket 1, 2, 3.
Wear gaiters for thistle protection and bring a tractable disc like a Tobu

Other Thoughts:

I'm from out of town and camped in the area to check out the courses. This was the first of three that I went to and by far the worst. It looks as if someone started mowing and put up makeshift wooden signs to basket 1 and 2 which was good, but after that it's very much wtf? It's almost like they started mowing, ran out of gas and said meh, oh well ( will try and add some photos for reference.). Where the tee pads are supposed to be they have a good tee sign for the basket, but for example on 3 I walked up from the tee pad area, but could not locate the basket. I found what I believe was 4 and 5, but where the tee pad sign was there was so much overgrowth is was dismal to say the least to throw to the basket.
The grass and bushes are so thickly overgrown there that even with the mowing you are walking through mowed grass over your shoes.
Suffice it to say, unless I know for a fact that they will continue to mow and clear the place for actual use(which would really make a difference in it's playability) player beware. I
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