Best/Worst smelling holes you've played

[Um...]

I know, I know... bear with me here (and TRY to keep your minds out of the gutter!).

I was playing my local course the other day (KCDGC) and one hole (16) plays through a little orange grove that seems to constantly produce orange blossoms that permeate the air in such a pleasant way, it's hard not to notice how good it smells. Got me thinking what some of the best and worst you've played are...

Best:
Escondido Rotary DGC - Hole 16 - Seemingly always smelling like orange blossoms!

Worst:
Pier Park DGC - Hole #18 (or #4 for winter layout) - You can catch some serious sewage stench here every once and a while (from the Columbia Water Treatment Plant??)

Whachu got?

 

[Monocacy]

Best:
Seneca Creek State Park when flowering winter honeysuckle perfumes about half the course in April. Like disc golfing in a perfume factory.

Worst:
Seneca Creek State Park - Hole #13. One of my favorite holes in all of disc golf, and absolutely beautiful with mature hardwood forest along the creek. But - the old combined sewer system leaves the creek smelling like sewage after heavy rain.

 

[c_a_miller]

Worst : Windwood Presbyterian Church - Hole #13. It plays right next to a pig farm, and if the wind is just right, it is a terrible smell.

 

[JC17393]

The original course in Maine, Beaver Brook Campground, has a couple holes that play near the leech field where they pump out the RV septic systems. So on holes 3 and 4 there's usually a fairly consistent stench, made better or worse depending only on wind direction. It's been a long time since I've been there so maybe it's changed but I doubt it.

For best smell, it's isn't a hole but the shop. Cranberry Valley at Ricker Hill Orchard has its disc golf shop in its bakery. Everything you buy there, including any disc that's been on the shelf for longer than a day, is imbued with the smells of apple cider donuts and other fruits and pastries. The smells don't carry on to the course, unless you are holding a disc or the scorecard under your nose as you play.

 

[Karl]

Eucalyptus smell in central CA (like GGP, SF) is always nice!

 

[blake833]

Worst : Windwood Presbyterian Church - Hole #13. It plays right next to a pig farm, and if the wind is just right, it is a terrible smell.

what about that hole that plays by the dumpster in Lafayette?

 

[brutalbrutus]

Mason Sports Park is one of the best 9holers around... too bad it shares a property line with a sewage treatment plant...:gross:


But the worst was a temporary situation at Idlewild. At an event I played there a few years ago, old Hole16(now 22 and is no17 for Idlewild Open) had a bloated dead deer right above the short basket location. It was so bad, I had to hold my towel over my face while I putted and still was gagging...

 

[GMcAtee]

Mason Sports Park is one of the best 9holers around... too bad it shares a property line with a sewage treatment plant...:gross:


But the worst was a temporary situation at Idlewild. At an event I played there a few years ago, old Hole16(now 22 and is no17 for Idlewild Open) had a bloated dead deer right above the short basket location. It was so bad, I had to hold my towel over my face while I putted and still was gagging...

Yes! I remember that dead dear. Someone in my group had to throw their second shot from near it.

 

[brutalbrutus]

^It kinda feels wrong to nice that post, lol.


I guess the best smell would be one of the dozens of times I've played at Mt Airy while a group of picnickers was using the grills...

 

[Jay Dub]

A tree by #13 basket/#14 tee at Mt Airy has this fruit that when it ripens and falls off it smells like dog poop.

 

[brutalbrutus]

A tree by #13 basket/#14 tee at Mt Airy has this fruit that when it ripens and falls off it smells like dog poop.

Cant believe I forgot about the stinkberries… Those things are horrible. There is one of them on no12 too but for some reason, they usually don't smell as bad..

 

[Ryan C]

I just want to say that I really enjoy the thread title.

 

[whitefedora]

For @odrb both answers are the same

 

[Moose33]

Gascione Park always smells good if you like salt air and Spanish moss, poor course though.

Right now some of the standing water in the cave at Etowah Park hole 4 smells like something died in it, but there are several courses I've played by water treatment facilities that were worse.

 

[sisyphus]

I once mentioned the smell at Arboretum/Spiker Park in a review (...the disc eating ponds really hold such a murky odor, I took to calling the one at 6 & 14 "the bog of eternal stench"...), but the dead deer in the creek ravine at Idle was worse for a while.

Can't recall thinking too much about a best smelling course, but once played a solo round at Cabin Creek on a beautiful spring day with all the flowers in bloom...

 

[BrotherDave]

Worst: Hole 9 at Barber Park, Greensboro NC. Double whammy of sewage manhole within feet of the tee and a very ugly creek not much farther away, that you have to perilously cross to get there.

Best: All I can think of is hole 5 at North Asheboro park, NC. It has a few persimmon trees that smell nice until they start rotting.

 

[Moose33]

I once mentioned the smell at Arboretum/Spiker Park in a review (...the disc eating ponds really hold such a murky odor, I took to calling the one at 6 & 14 "the bog of eternal stench"...), but the dead deer in the creek ravine at Idle was worse for a while.

Can't recall thinking too much about a best smelling course, but once played a solo round at Cabin Creek on a beautiful spring day with all the flowers in bloom...

Two points for Labyrinth ref. RIP goblin king.

 

[Monocacy]

Oh gosh I forgot about dead deer. Turned over my drive on Clark's Run hole #7, and scared a big vulture into flight.

Went to find my disc in the undergrowth, next to and downwind from a rotting deer carcass. Gawd that was revolting.

But the dog thought it smelled amazing.

 

[Jimb]

Best.... Knobley Mountain, right about now. Lilacs are right by multiple baskets. When they don't get cut back at the wrong time they smell awesome.

Worst... Temp course at Fairfax Station, VA a couple years ago. Some drunk guy playing in the doubles tourney kept getting in random people's faces for some reason, mine included, and just wreaked of a hangover and a fresh start to the next day of drinking. That boy needed to sleep it off, brush his teeth, and get a bath.

 

[Countchunkula]

Worst: The course in Summit, IL is next to a particularly fragrant body of water. The course is located near an industrial area and not far from the sewage treatment ponds in Hodgkins. Not sure whether the ever present stench is due to one of the factories dumping something the shouldn't or a leak in the sh!t ponds, but I really don't think it's natural. The whole course stinks, but a couple of holes near the end of the front 9 play along the polluted waterway. The stink is definitely stronger over there. I wouldn't go into that water for my favorite disc.