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1.50 star(s) Short 'n easy Despite the low rating, I really enjoyed this course for what it is and I'm very glad it's here! My ratings are based on the challenge and design of courses for recreational to advanced level players, so this course suffers on that scale. That said, this is a great place to...

2.50 star(s) Wide open spaces The back nine has some fun shots through trees with a moderately low canopy and a tunnel-ish shot or two. This half of the course provides some interesting challenges and pushes you to throw some straight shots. The front nine is pretty wide open, but has a couple fun basket...

Haven't been around much lately but saw this mention. Peanut's old but not dead! And sorry Discette ;), Ashleigh has played every one of the courses on my list (and another ~20 unlisted courses), we've never played a course without each other. I haven't been able to find a woman with a higher...

1.50 star(s) Nice campus course The course plays on a fairly open piece of land with some lightly rolling hills and scattered mature trees. A small creek runs through the property, it was dry when I played but could be played as an OB area on a few holes. A couple baskets use nearby trees nicely to keep the...

Wizard Roc Comet PD Destroyer All are very versatile, can be powered up or down, and handle a wide range of wind conditions.

Thanks sisyphus!

Players can't opt to throw from next to or behind a rubber pad unless that option is provided by the TD.

The wife and I have played in pretty much every kind of weather, -10 to 120 with every kind of precipitation. That said, give me a sunny day in the 60s and I'm happiest.

Talked to an x-ray guy about that when he said the same to me. Apparently the metallic salts used for weighting agents show up as metal on the scanners. My wife's 150 class discs don't show up that way, they're clearly plastic to the screeners so my bag almost always gets an extra look and hers...

Perhaps, but I still hate having to run up on an angle. The plant and follow through just feel super awkward.

That's a very different point from saying there's no advantage gained. There's a reasonable conversation to be had about how we handle foot faults, but saying that missing your mark doesn't confer an advantage is just plain wrong.

I really, really disagree with this attitude. The advantage gained on a fairway shot is in not putting the effort into hitting your lie exactly. When someone else is putting that effort in and you don't have to, that's an advantage.

I don't have a citation, but in practice hole-specific OB is used all the time. A ton of courses have "on or over" OB rules about sidewalks or roads that run through the park where the OB is a mirror image for holes on either side of the path or road. Your interpretation would make that pretty...

This time it might be permanent at Marana from what I was hearing, a levee broke and there are no imminent plans of repairing it. There might be a move to the flood layout that stays out of the low areas of the course, but I don't know the status of that.

That's the opposite of what happens at Fountain. That course has lots of long holes with OB, so the top players who can throw 400' hyzers accurately are able to open a wider gap between themselves and the people who have to flex something out or throw distance lines to have a chance on those...