Ashland, WI

Ashland School Playground

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wolfhaley
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Experience: 19.9 years 970 played 542 reviews
1.00 star(s)

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 14, 2022 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

Ashland school playground course is actually located behind Lake Superior elementary school, which is easier to look up when trying to find it.

There's apparently 9 baskets here, but I was only able to find 8 of them. These are older Innova Discatchers. These are all still in pretty solid shape and catch alright. They have black numbers on them indicating that there is or was an intended sequence to play them in.

The course is open year round outside of school hours and free to play. Highly unlikely they will ever be much for other users here (though there was 1 other person today).


Cons:

As others have said before, this is more a practice area/safari course with no defined tee areas.

To go along with the above. No tees or signs.

The school garden can come into play but other than that the course is totally wide open.

The baskets are starting to show their age a bit. Not terrible by any means, but chains are getting rusty and a few were leaning.


Other Thoughts:

Decent place to practice drives in the wide open section and some putts I suppose. I played this course years ago, over a decade. I could not for the life of me remember anything about it.

Went back today, mostly to add pictures here, and started to remember it a bit. Not really worth your time, unless local. Below average WI school course.
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jeremyhilss
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Experience: 11.5 years 50 played 30 reviews
1.00 star(s)

Safari Course With Baskets 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 15, 2014 Played the course:once

Pros:

-Not much rough to get lost in

-Innova Baskets

-Good for practice

Cons:

-Difficult to find

-No signage

-No tees whatsoever

-The only obstacles are a large school garden plopped in the middle of the course with fencing all around, swingsets, and jungle gyms
-As you could've guessed from last con - dangerous to playground users/gardeners

Other Thoughts:

Good for some practice, not much fun as a course itself. Take the 15 minutes do drive to Highbridge.
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Silhouette
Experience: 14.8 years 9 played 5 reviews
2.00 star(s)

2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:May 31, 2012 Played the course:once

Pros:

This course is in a field behind the Ashland Elementary school. It is great for new to the game players. I am from ashland, and this is where i developed my technique. Almost impossible to lose a disc. It's a free course, but you get what you pay for... you can make your own custom holes. Making it great to work on any shot you are having troubles with.

Cons:

The tee pads are very hard to find...consisting of a worn down 2x4 in the ground. because it is on school property, it is only accessible after 4:00. there is no challenge to this course. if you are looking for a course to make you feel good about yourself, this is the place to go to

Other Thoughts:

all things considered, it is a great course to have in my home town. only takes half an hour for me to complete 9 baskets.
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coreyhibbing
Experience: 15.8 years 1 played 1 reviews
1.50 star(s)

for the school kids 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 19, 2011 Played the course:once

Pros:

small course for elementry kids during recess

Cons:

slightly hard to find ( behind school), no parking by course, no tee areas, not for players that can through with any length.

Other Thoughts:

would be nice to see a 18 hole longer course, town is great to visit.
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tallpaul
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Experience: 35.8 years 934 played 133 reviews
1.00 star(s)

little better than most pitch and putts 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:May 30, 2010 Played the course:once

Pros:

Had been led to believe that this was a roc and a putter course. Was pleasantly surprised to find some length to holes here.
Innova buckets in good shape.
Course to ourselves on the weekend. Other High Bridge players in town for something to eat; and interested in crossing this one off the list are probably, most of the players you may encounter here. Even these will be very minimal.
I did use a fairway driver on most holes (playing bucket to bucket). Using baskets as tees; number nine is actually a pretty long hole (@350 ft. ?).
I played this course barefoot and enjoyed it.
Cross one off your list in less than 30 minutes.

Cons:

A couple of worn away tee areas; but no real tees. We played basket to basket; which seemed to add length to what the school kids and locals may be playing. There were only a couple of these worn areas; most holes seemed to have absolutely no marking for tees.
No signs for where tees may supposed to be; and thus, no lengths of holes listed.
School courses always get a bit of a con in terms of opportunity to legally play them. No play during school hours.
Open holes.

Other Thoughts:

Chances are very slim that I will come back here. There is nothing wrong with this school layout; and it is actually better than many; if played bucket to bucket. However, there is absolutely nothing to encourage a return trip; unless a few ace runs to alleviate the high scores you have posted at High Bridge proper; is your thing.
Difficult for me to call a course poor; but, there are really no redeeming qualities to this course; other than the opportunity for school age players to play. Bomber holes could be created by making your own layout to practice such.
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