Pros:
How many stages of mediocrity can one course have? Let's play Scottish Hills and find out.
- The basket for hole 3 was in good shape. It's a nicely designed hole.
- The tee shot for #5 is nice. A slight downhiller to a basket on the edge of the woods.
- Thankfully this monstrosity of a course is only 9 holes. Or 10 if the hidden hole remains.
- If you've ever heard Nikki Glazer at the Roast of Rob Lowe go off on Jewel's teeth: your teeth are like the Spice Girls. They're different colors and they're all doing their own thing. This is the disc golf equivalent to that: dwarf baskets, broken baskets, baskets missing chains, and a basket that's not even a basket.
Cons:
If you like anything resembling disc golf, this isn't the course for you. Let's just say, seeing the bad layouts and tiny baskets on #1 & 2 are far from the worst things on this course. By default, #2 is in the top half of quality holes on this course.
- By not having a hole #4, that alone makes it better than some holes on this course.
- UDisc kept trying to push the tee for #6 in someone's backyard. Based on the hole lengths listed on this site and UDisc, I'd venture to guess that the tee for that hole actually was in someone's backyard. Instead, you throw, then hop over a creek.
- Was there actually a fairway for #7?
- Did any of the chains actually connect on the cage for #8?
- What is that freak of a basket/object on #9?
- The sign beyond #6's basket mentions the frisbee golf course. Seriously, when was this course installed?
Other Thoughts:
Scottish Hills was worse than even I could have imagined. It's like finding a broken down, old trampoline or swingset in someone's backyard whose kids are grown up and moved out years ago. I don't think anyone has given this course any thought in years. Decades, maybe?
- You think I'm exaggerating? The picture of #9's target was taken 8 years ago (2015) and it's just as decrepit then as it is now. So, this isn't a sudden change.
- With the greenway right there, why even bother having a 'course' right here? Or, because there's a greenway right here, why not try to improve the course?
- When then tiny baskets on #1 & 2 are better than at least 3 other baskets, that's bad. When there are essentially 5 different varieties of baskets on 8 holes, that's even worse.
- Out of my 530+ played courses, this is in my bottom 10. Just the bane of all disc golf existence. And, I couldn't think of a more fitting review than this one.