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Liberty, MO

William Jewell DGC

2.785(based on 16 reviews)
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Surge5
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Experience: 9.8 years 167 played 167 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Roughed up.

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jun 4, 2021 Played the course:once

Pros:

9 very functional DisCatcher baskets are joined by 9 tee pads with signs.

Lots of distance for a campus course. Over half the holes are 350+ feet. Combine this with some tricky basket placements (on a hilltop, around a sharp bend, across a small creek) and you have an above average course if we're going strictly by college courses.

Uses a lot of land that would otherwise be unused. With this, it stays out of the way of almost everything else. It even comes with a little elevation on 2-5!

Some options to play island greens on 7 and 8.

Cons:

Maintenance seemed to have completely forgotten about the course! The trees you have to shoot through on 3 were grown to the point there was almost no line. Hole 8 had grass/wheat up to the waist halfway down the fairway before you cross the creek... and then you have to swim back through that to get to hole 9's tee.

Navigation is very clunky. To get to 3 you'll backtrack across the end of the soccer pitch, the path to hole 4 from 3 was overgrown, to get to hole 7's green you have to go around all the bushes to the left of the fairway, and as mentioned above, you walk all the way along the fairway of 8 to get to the tee of 9... which isn't 75ft away from 8's.

The tee of 6 wasn't that nice gravel mix like most of the other tees. It looked like it used to have it, then the concrete under that became exposed and got really slick. I slipped twice and it hadn't rained in 4 days.

Throwing something over the soccer pitch on holes 1 and 2 is an option, but kind of renders those holes unplayable if a game is going on.

Other Thoughts:

This course is showing a little age and feels kind of shoehorned in. It might mean sacrificing some of the distance, but a few of these holes would be better if they were in a different location (1 and 2 mostly).

I know it was summer, and I know it's not the top priority for the college, but groundskeeping must improve to get any improvement in score from me. The rough is rough, sure; but having no path through any of that tall grass on hole 8 proves that it needs to step up.

Is this worth your time? Of the five courses in the Liberty area, it is the second-weakest (although calling the high school a "course" is a stretch). But if you want a challenging little 9 that requires control and a little wading through waist high grass, give it a go.
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Dale W
Experience: 23.3 years 104 played 10 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Not bad, but could be better 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 25, 2013 Played the course:once

Pros:

For a 9 hole course, it has great distance, elevation change, and use of trees. Extremely clean (as you would expect on a college campus), and relatively easy to navigate once you find hole 1. Excellent signage

Cons:

Tee pads are small and uneven gravel. Layout was not really thought out very well, especially on 8 and 9 - you throw down a hill and then walk back past the tee to 9's pad. Some trash cans, but no benches.

Other Thoughts:

Could easily be a 12-18 hole course. Most holes have a 300' + walk between pads. Would love to have seen this course designed like that. I would have given it at least a 3.0 to 3.5 if that were the case.
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