Movement in top 10

[The Valkyrie Kid]

I try not to let it influence my rating but the difference between a beautiful summer evening and a crappy, windy, rainy day makes all the difference to me.

 

[Lazerface]

I was actually a bit disappointed by Beaver Ranch. I was expecting something more, for some reason. I enjoyed a couple of the courses I played in BC more.

We're going back out there in September to play the whole area, though...we'll see if my thoughts are the same.

Agree 100%.

 

[Stardoggy]

Expectations are another thing. Most of us try to be as objective as possible, but we're still human. It's hard not to be influenced by your expectations (one way or another) after reading a few reviews, or even how far you've travelled to get to a course... or how exclusive it might be.

You might even be influenced by the people you're playing with. If you're really enjoying their company and having a great time, you're already in a good mood... and vice-versa. I'm not saying it makes a huge difference, but I can see it swaying things for a course you think is borderline between two ratings.

All of this is why # of reviews is very important. Volume/large sample size is the great equalizer.

I feel like I'm pretty good about not having too many preconceived notions about a course influence my thoughts on it.

I have played the Selah and Trey Ranch disc golf courses twice now with one year between each visit. After my first visit i had Selah Ranch as being superior in the rating I had made up in my head. But a year later last thanksgiving was my second visit and i have come away thinking the course I liked least, Trey Twist, has now become my favorite.

Rating a top 10 course cannot be done by first impressions I believe. Rating a disc golf course seems to be almost as confusing as trying to master the game of disc golf itself... "I got a pretzel in my head".

Trey Twist was my favorite course of that trip as well, cowpies be damned.

Agree 100%.

Somebody gets it.

 

[Stardoggy]

I try not to let it influence my rating but the difference between a beautiful summer evening and a crappy, windy, rainy day makes all the difference to me.

I was at Beaver Ranch on a slightly cool, but beautiful morning. I was the only person on the course, and even ran into a couple fully grown male deer around hole 14. The serenity of the place, atmosphere, or weather wasn't the problem that day. The holes alone were fine....there just wasn't anything that made me go "ooooooooh" on that course. I thought it was a fine course...it just didn't knock my socks off.

 

[Mushin No Shin]

but if par 4 and par 5 holes aren't present on a course, that feels like more missing to me than not having concrete tees, nice signs, or maybe even 18 holes.

Par 4s and 5s!!!!

 

[Mushin No Shin]

I'll take Bailey over Beaver. Over Bucksnort and Phantom too, but those kinda go into a different category

I LOVE BAILEY!!!

 

[dreadlock86]

I'll take Bailey over Beaver. Over Bucksnort and Phantom too, but those kinda go into a different category

I LOVE BAILEY!!!

totally
:hfive:

 

[HeavyCritters]

I have played the Selah and Trey Ranch disc golf courses twice now with one year between each visit. After my first visit i had Selah Ranch as being superior in the rating I had made up in my head. But a year later last thanksgiving was my second visit and i have come away thinking the course I liked least, Trey Twist, has now become my favorite.

Rating a top 10 course cannot be done by first impressions I believe. Rating a disc golf course seems to be almost as confusing as trying to master the game of disc golf itself... "I got a pretzel in my head".

Definitely my favorite out of that whole area.

 

[nate22]

We have a site in Australia to review courses too and it allows only whole numbers out of 5. So creating differentiation is so hard.

Any top notch 18 I have to give a 5,and no 9s deserve a 4 even, so left giving them a 3, despite some being way better then others.

I've also noticed that my personal course rating's bar has creep up over time. The first course I ever reviewed started out at a 4.0 but within months I lowered it to a 3.5. When I played it this last summer I dropped it to a 2.5.

As for courses without multi-play holes, I'd agree, its just not the same to me. Currently my highest rated par 54 is at 3.838 - Cliff Stevens. Every course in my current top 10 has several par 4s and most have a par 5. That stated, I'm fairly certain that if I ever had the opportunity to play an all par 3 course like Bucksnort, I'd rate it at least a 4.5. That one just looks so awesome, in so many other ways.

 

[NDABRUSH]

We have a site in Australia to review courses too and it allows only whole numbers out of 5. So creating differentiation is so hard.

Any top notch 18 I have to give a 5,and no 9s deserve a 4 even, so left giving them a 3, despite some being way better then others.

Seems you are pretty much dependent on the reviewers to specify the their opinion. On this site, their have been a number of reviews with the title "Really a 4.25 or 4.75". It's cool that the site exists for you guys.:thmbup:

 

[PoorPutter]

I have played the Selah and Trey Ranch disc golf courses twice now with one year between each visit. After my first visit i had Selah Ranch as being superior in the rating I had made up in my head. But a year later last thanksgiving was my second visit and i have come away thinking the course I liked least, Trey Twist, has now become my favorite.

There is no Trey Twist!!! hahahaha! There's Trey Deuce and Texas Twist.

My group had a bad experience at the Trey Ranch. The Deuce course was swamped, so we walked off after 3 holes. Twist was navigable, but not overly enjoyable. Relevant to the recent discussions here, 55 degrees and windy and swampy made me not like those courses much. If it was dry and 70 and sunny, I bet I'd rate them a lot higher. But I don't see us ever passing up Lakeside and Creekside to give the Trey courses another shot.

 

[Mando]

What's the world coming to... letting Hawk Hollow into the top 10 with cow paddies instead of concrete pads ?
This is an outrage. Someone call the amenity police, quick.

 

[PMantle]

There is no Trey Twist!!! hahahaha! There's Trey Deuce and Texas Twist.

My group had a bad experience at the Trey Ranch. The Deuce course was swamped, so we walked off after 3 holes. Twist was navigable, but not overly enjoyable. Relevant to the recent discussions here, 55 degrees and windy and swampy made me not like those courses much. If it was dry and 70 and sunny, I bet I'd rate them a lot higher. But I don't see us ever passing up Lakeside and Creekside to give the Trey courses another shot.

I almost had heat stroke on one of them. I was not in a good frame of mind to rate it. lol

 

[DavidSauls]

If this doesn't get remedied, looks like there'll be an open spot in the Top 10:

http://bucksnort.healthtrains.net/

 

[blazerico]

Any idea what happened? It is my personal favorite and would hate to see it disappear. I'll guess not enough revenue...

 

[DavidSauls]

In another thread, someone hinted about zoning issues, and the website indicates a complaint felled it. Reading between the lines, sounds like neighbor problems---and perhaps something that can eventually be worked out.

So it might have been too much revenue. Baskets might not have been a zoning issue; being a business might have been. Just speculation on my part, of course.

 

[DiscGolfCraig]

In another thread, someone hinted about zoning issues, and the website indicates a complaint felled it. Reading between the lines, sounds like neighbor problems---and perhaps something that can eventually be worked out.

So it might have been too much revenue. Baskets might not have been a zoning issue; being a business might have been. Just speculation on my part, of course.

Sounds eerily similar to the demise of the original Bracketts Bluff.

 

[culinarywiz]

I had an tee time for later this month.

The email I received from Paulie on 5/3 stated that he was given a cease and desist order from Jefferson County Planning and Zoning.

As David said above, sounds like neighbor problems. Complaint(s) dialed in action from the county.

 

[DavidSauls]

Sounds eerily similar to the demise of the original Bracketts Bluff.

Scott Papa's course closed due to zoning issues, too.

The original Brackett's Bluff's story was a bit more convoluted, but you're right, in the same vein.

 

[BogeyNoMore]

If this doesn't get remedied, looks like there'll be an open spot in the Top 10:

http://bucksnort.healthtrains.net/

Wow. Just ....wow.

I'd really like to know more about what happened, but...

If complaints had ANYTHING to do with this, then people's perceptions of DG'ers (whether deserved, or not) is something we really need to work on.