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Mulligans Creekside DGC

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aphilso1
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 6.6 years 52 played 50 reviews
4.00 star(s)

The 'Other' Home of 2021 Pro Worlds 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 29, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

While maybe not as heralded as The Fort, Mulligans is also set to co-host the next Pro Worlds. Mulligans has a lot of things going for it, including:
-Two sets of concrete tee pads, Blue (plenty challenging) and Gold (open-level tournament layout)
-Immaculately manicured grounds, as you'd expect on a ball golf course
-Brand new DD Veteran baskets are in the process of being installed, and frankly the Prodigy baskets that they are replacing are still in fantastic shape. Currently, the front 9 has the DD baskets installed in the long positions and the Prodigies in the short positions. Only the Prodigies are currently in place on the Back 9. It appears that in the long run, there may be two baskets on every hole.
-Very good variety of layout options, when you consider the ability to play from either the long or short tees and either long or short basket placements. You could play 36 holes here and not feel like the round was overly repetitive.
-The mandos are logical and not at all gimmicky. The O.B. (water, fences, and ball golf greens) and hazards (bunkers) are very challenging but fair.
-basket placements are tough and are well thought out.
-The mountain views are great!
-Lots of risk/reward shots. Every hole can be safely played for par as long as you have at least 250' of accurate power, but playing for birdies requires real power and also brings a lot more O.B. into play.

Cons:

-Tee signs are serviceable, but not up to the same quality standard as the rest of the course. For a pay to play course, I was expecting better.
-Very few trees, which makes the course less fun and also can be quite exhausting on a hot and sunny summer day.
-Related to the previous point, not a lot of holes force you to throw a specific line or shot shape. I am RHBH dominant and the guy I was playing with is LHBH dominant, and neither of us really had to use a forehand during the round.
-There is a fee to play which I know is a turn off to some players. However, it is only $5 which I feel is very reasonable.

Other Thoughts:

The review by jasonandsharon in 2016 is fantastic and still is very accurate today. I only disagree with one point, which is when they state that "This is a course that forces certain flight lines through landing zones." I strongly disagree with that; while a precise throw is required on most holes in order to avoid lost discs and penalty strokes, you can do so on pretty much whatever line you are most comfortable with. RHBH, LHBH, RHFH, and LHFH dominant players will all feel equally capable on this course. Mulligans favors those who have power and precision, regardless of which discipline you use to release your disc.
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SuperBorg
Experience: 13.1 years 18 played 16 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Long and challenging (and wet) 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 20, 2018 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Great design. Lots of water and challenge.

Cons:

Open with very few trees. Cost (price is fair, but there are free courses nearby, so the price is not often justified.

Other Thoughts:

A very good course for skilled players looking for a challenge, long holes with lots of water. No other course like this in Utah. A real one of a kind.
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jasonandsharon
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 39.9 years 498 played 66 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Open Pro Tournament Level Course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 4, 2016 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Mulligan's Creekside/Toad's Fun Zone is a destination unto itself. Part executive ball golf course, part amusement park/arcade, there is something for everyone. Let us break it down, there is a 9 hole executive ball golf course, a two story driving range, there are two 18 hole miniature golf outdoor courses, one 18 hole miniature golf indoor course, one ¼ mile go-kart track, multiple batting cages, one laser tag arena, a large Chuck E. Cheese style arcade, pro shop, and of course a restaurant and bar. And into all of this family fun they have added an impressive 18 hole professional tournament level disc golf course. The property itself would be extremely picturesque with beautiful mountains framing the background, if it weren't for the giant driving range and its netting blocking the views. I know these days, that these huge driving ranges provide much of the profit for golf courses, but their huge netting rising into the sky and visible for miles is such an eyesore.

Love it or hate it wide open, long bomber, packed with OB/Hazard courses have come to be the forefront of modern professional disc golf. And Mulligan's Creekside is the epitome of those modern courses. The land for the course itself is completely flat with small man made golf mounds decorating the landscape and water flowing everywhere. There are at least 7 or 8 large ponds located on the course and a small canal, that I don't know where it runs from or to I'm assuming to circulate water in the ponds, that are very easy to lose a disc into. I know I dropped a driver in one.

This is a monster of a course:

Hole 1 is a 500 foot long drive down a fairway with ponds on the right and the massive driving range to the left to a pin up on a hill with an OB sand trap surrounding.

Hole 2 is a slightly smaller 375 foot hole but with OB sand traps, greens and water everywhere.

Hole 3 is a 405 foot hole to a pin tucked between the cart path on the left and a sand trap and green on the right.

Hole 4 is a 425 foot shot over a pond to a pin tucked between a OB cart path and an OB fence.

Hole 5 is a 567 foot shot with a pond all the way down the left side of the fairway with the pin tucked up against it, and with several sand traps on the right.

Hole 6 is finally a short 267 hole but wait it is surrounded by everything. A mandatory "island" that is surrounded by two ponds, a green, and a sand trap.

Hole 7 is a 363 footer with pond and green to the left and sand trap to the right with a cart path beyond.

Hole 8 is a 330 foot shot over a pond to another well protected basket up on a mound.

Hole 9 is a 600 foot fairly safe throw to a pin surrounded by trees with OB sand trap quite a bit to the right.

Hole 10 is a 300 foot shot through twin mandos over an OB cart path. Overall a fairly safe shot.

Hole 11 is a 303 foot throw with a directional mando that changes it from a hyser to an anhyser around a guardian tree to a pin. Again, another fairly safe shot.

Hole 12 is a 348 foot throw with the driving range net crowding the right side of the fairway down a long mandatory tunnel with a cart path right up the middle.

Hole 13 is a 402 foot throw with a pond crowding the left side of the fairway and the small canal crowding the right with several large trees in play.

Hole 14 is a 327 foot throw with the pond again on the left the canal on the right and a sand trap in the middle to a basket that is fairly wide open.

Hole 15 is a 354 foot throw over a pond to a basket tucked between OB cart path and an OB fence and a small part of the canal to the right.

Hole 16 is a 492 foot throw with water and sand traps to the left and water and sand traps to the right to a pin protected by a guardian tree.

Hole 17 is a 375 foot throw with once again all the hazards in play on both the left and right to a pin tucked up against the ponds edge.

The finishing hole is a 180 foot throw over the pond to a basket that is perched atop a pretty little rock mound that screams out for an ace. It's the cover for the 2016 Innova calendar.

Did I mention that all of the above are Par 3's?

Did I mention all of the above are the blue tees?

Did I mention there are gold tees to make this even harder?

You get the point. This is one hell of a challenge.

This is a course that forces certain flight lines through landing zones. You can throw rollers on some of the safer holes for better placement. I personally prefer a more wooded than open course, but I do get the appeal. I only played the gold tees one time, I found the blues to be more than enough challenge for me.

It's a golf course and more so there are plenty of amenities. They have golf carts to ride in and absolutely manicured fairways and rough. The teepads are solid rubber mats or play from the cart path and signage gives all relevant data with maps as you can see in the photos.

Cons:

Disc Eater. I lost a driver on this course!!! It is pretty rare these days for me to lose a disc. Oh occasionally I will lose a disc on some crap course with weeds up to my waist where I just can't find the disc, but it's pretty rare that I lose one on a manicured fairway where I can see where I'm throwing. I've been playing long enough to know my lines and know where I'm throwing, but this course is a disc eater extraordinaire.

Water. There is a lot of water on this course, and the biggest reason for the con above. Water definitely adds beauty and challenge to a course but these deep ponds are killer. There are a couple of guys called the Waterdawgs that dive the ponds looking for discs, I added their Facebook page under the links, that may be able to recover your disc.

Wind. The wind picks up across here and can really blow a disc offline adding quite a bit to the difficulty, as if it wasn't hard enough already.

Cost. The cost to play is only $5 per person $7 if you want to add a cart for two, so $17 for two people. It seemed really cheap to me considering how much California ball golf courses cost, but I would imagine this will be a turn off to many.

There are not a lot of cons here other than the fact that it's easy to lose a disc here, which brings me to a con that I would normally never put down.

Challenge. Not just Challenge, Challenge that Punishes. This course is designed for the upper echelon of open tournament disc golfers. It is designed for the top 10% of all players. The other 90% are really going to struggle here. This course is for pro level players only, anyone else is probably going to be miserable here and go through a lot of plastic. This course was designed for the Utah Open, which the TD is trying to get classified as an A-Tier. Of course, there's a lot more to running an A-tier than just the course, but they have the course down that's for sure.

Other Thoughts:

This is the first disc on ball golf course in the state of Utah, and the local scene was very excited by it, everyone was in a rush to know what I thought about this new experiment, with half weighing in for better or worse. Combo courses are quite common in California with land being such a premium, so I arrived with a pretty good understanding of what to expect, but I found this course to be much more challenging that most, owing mostly to the multitude of water hazards here. There is a lot more water here than you are going to find on most California courses. Also you don't see a lot of kids zones at California ball golf courses. From the moment we arrived my son was drooling at the other side. We had a great day here playing; we went and did everything, spent globs of money. Truth be told if it wasn't for the disc golf we never would have stopped at this type of place on a vacation. The go karts were kind of average but the miniature golf courses were actually quite good.

On a final note, this course seems oddly out of place here, like hosting a medical convention at a McDonalds kind of out of place. This is a family friendly, bring the kids to the amusement park kind of place, you've got batting cages and arcades, and yet they have installed this high-tier course that the majority of players on Earth are not going to be able to play. And it's definitely not a casual round kind of course which is what everything else here is geared toward. I would wonder if the owners understand the juxtaposition of what they offer, and wonder if they might be better served with saving this layout for tournaments and designing something a little more recreational for everyday play.
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AeroPurt
Experience: 15.7 years 59 played 29 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Beautiful, well-kept course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:May 22, 2016 Played the course:once

Pros:

- Course runs alongside/through an existing ball golf course so the landscaping is top notch.
- Good amount of hazards/OB to keep you on your toes.
- Course map is available at the clubhouse. It came in handy when trying to find the next tee (there were a few times where you had to walk around the water hazard to get to the next tee.
- The Discatcher baskets were in great shape.
- Course was pretty wide open so there are plenty of opportunities to air it out.
- Nice variety of short and long holes.

Cons:

- Pay-to-play. It was only $5 and I'll say it was worth it for me. But still...part of the greatness of disc golf lies with the fact that playing recreationally is free.
- Not many trees so there aren't too many opportunities for threading the needle.

Other Thoughts:

- Being from Oklahoma, I don't get to play many rounds with snowcapped mountains in the background. I could get used to that.
- This is a great course...I'm glad I spent $5 to at least give it a go.
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bstullis
Experience: 5 played 1 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Challenging, Expect to lose discs 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 20, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

difficult hole placements
groomed fairways
Pro level course

Cons:

Murky water
cost of carts too much for the casual golfer
still waiting for the pro shop

Other Thoughts:

I played this course as a Par2 Prodigy challenge. the course was setup for short pins (p1&p4s were the disc offerings). I liked the difficulty of the pin locations and was able to practice on a couple of the "actual" holes prior the the challenge starting. the location is great, just off the freeway in north/west Ogden but can be very windy (think: practice for the GBO type wind). I will be playing a full round soon and will update my review if only to add more info on signature hole and actual difficulty.
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slcscooter
Experience: 16 played 3 reviews
1.00 star(s)

Pay to play should be better 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 22, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

No waiting on each hole.
Groomed fairways.
Cart rentals.

Cons:

Hole placement is not great.
Tee boxes are awkward, and do not always face the basket. In fact some do not even reflect the basket location.
Too many holes near ponds that eat your disc.
Cost of admission is not worth the number of potential lost discs.

Other Thoughts:

We payed $12 per person when you factor in a cart rental. The cost of the cart rental for 2 people was more than the round cost for each player.
When you factor in the cost of $24 dollars per player it doesn't make it worth it to play. Especially after losing 2 discs for our group. For pay to play the layout was not well thought out. They had plenty of room and could have made pin placement to avoid the water and inevitable loss of discs.
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TheGrim
Bronze level trusted reviewer
Experience: 13.6 years 75 played 45 reviews
4.50 star(s)

Discing On A Golf Course? Hell Yeah! 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 15, 2014 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

Any time you're playing disc golf on a golf course it's a good thing!

This is an extremely well designed course which utilizes the most difficult aspects of the ball golf course. From elevation changes and long fairways to tight greens by nasty water hazards, this course will challenge every aspect of your game.

The tee pads mostly utilize the concrete path, which is good for the most part. There are a couple that are more slippery, but playing a few feet behind the end line usually mitigates that. The artificial grass tee pads are great as well.

Intermediate and Advanced tee pads make the course more versatile. It certainly is not beginner friendly though.

The course is absolutely beautiful. Playing on a golf course means that it's extremely well maintained. The short grass allows for rollers on the longer holes as well, which is extremely rare in Utah.

Golf carts are the best when playing! Not having to tote your bag around is the best way to play disc golf when you're an old man like me.

Inexpensive to play ($5) for such a nice course.

Cons:

The water hazards are nasty for losing your discs in. The water is extremely hazy and more often than not your disc is a goner if it goes in them. There are several volunteers who regularly search the ponds for discs, which is awesome, but even still it sucks to lose them. I'm 0/2 on having them retrieved too.

The slick parts of the tee pads can suck. A couple of the tee pads are a bit tricky on footing as well due to sloping or short paths.

This is not a very beginner friendly course due to long and technical holes. That being said, you only improve if you play challenging courses, so this is really just a minor con.

Golf carts are spendy! At $7 for rental it's more expensive to rent one than to play the course.

Some of the golfers are ignorant to the fact that there's a disc golf course and can be a bit rude. This will get better with time, but for now you have to realize that they aren't used to having disc golfers around so be extra courteous and respectful. It is a golf course first, after all.

Other Thoughts:

This is truly a gem. It is easily one of the best courses in Utah! You want to play this course for sure!
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thenewguy
Experience: 11 years 16 played 6 reviews
4.50 star(s)

Awesome! 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 1, 2014 Played the course:once

Pros:

Awesome course with a great lay out! Very challenging and very rewarding. I believe they are putting in a pro shop soon

Also they fish your lost discs out of all the ponds

Cons:

Not super beginner friendly, maybe if they added some closer teepads in the future. lots of water hazards and sand traps.
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