Dallas: now 18 baskets - Dallas City Park

kilowan · #1 April 19th, 2010, 06:56 PM

The course is now 18 baskets. Flow seems a little smoother. 5 and 6 are both over the river on either side of the foot bridge. 4 and 7 are long a narrow right on the parking lot.

Vector_2008 · #2 April 19th, 2010, 08:05 PM

18 baskets sounds good!!

Are they easy to find?
Any chance of a map?

kilowan · #3 April 19th, 2010, 08:26 PM

The flow is a little easier to follow.
There is a true front and back nine, 1 and 10 both start a the same parking lot.
1 and 2 are the same as before, then all the new holes. Tee area for 3 and 4 are right next to the basket for the previous hole. 5 and 6 are across the river on either side of the foot bridge, 7 is along the parking lot in the ivy, which they cleared out a fairway. 8 is a short walk across the parking lot near the Japanese Garden, with 9 being the practice basket. 10 starts behind the park sign going @ the Japanese Garden, with the basket on top of rise behind some shrubs. 11 is the old hole 3, then the rest is the old lay out, until you get to 18 which is also new. Basket for 16 (was 8) was moved to be straight across the field, with the 17 (was 9) now going along the road, which was in the original plan. 18 is just behind the 17 basket and going across the road toward the river. The river should not be a factor on this hole.
There is no maps yet, still have the 9 hole layout in the kiosk. Think every thing is still a par 3.
Hope this is not confusing. Walked it today, talked w/ a few groups that where playing it and they liked it.

runnaman · #4 April 19th, 2010, 08:42 PM

I hope to get out there tomorrow. Whenever someone's driving through Monmouth to disc golf, let me know and I'll come with. Haha.

Vector_2008 · #5 April 19th, 2010, 09:47 PM

Thanks for the info Kilowan.
I'll try to make it out there this week, maybe tomorrow.

Adam Schneider · #6 April 19th, 2010, 10:32 PM

So #5 and #6 actually throw across the river?

kilowan · #7 April 20th, 2010, 06:00 AM

Yes 5 and 6 are across the creek.
I heard the course rule would be a 2 stroke penalty per hole is skilled. But a that is a rumor not sure.
Hope the town gets the new signage up at the kiosk soon.

runnaman · #8 April 20th, 2010, 03:50 PM

Alright, headed out there right now. If anyone wants to join me, I'll be teeing off around 4:45

Vector_2008 · #9 April 20th, 2010, 04:10 PM

Don't get to excited about throwing over the creek.

It's bank to bank both times.
145 feet and 105 feet.

Get your putter out.

Adam Schneider · #10 April 20th, 2010, 04:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vector_2008

Don't get to excited about throwing over the creek.

It's bank to bank both times.
145 feet and 105 feet.

Get your putter out.

Oh, I know it's not huge... but so few courses around here have any water at all. And it psychs you out a little, even when it's a short throw.

runnaman · #11 April 20th, 2010, 06:19 PM

It was fun. The creek shots were fun. Little branches hang over the creek that can swat your disc down. I really like hole 7, 400+ feet with a lot of trees. I was a little confused after that as to where to go, but I figured it out quite easily. I'll write an actual review on dgcoursereview after I play it one more time.

kilowan · #12 April 21st, 2010, 07:16 PM

Map from kiosk.

KevinW · #13 April 25th, 2010, 10:43 AM

The new course is ok. I feel like it's actually not improved at all. The 2 new "water" holes is basically Russian roulette to even play them. The 100 foot throw isn't worth the risk of it dropping into that creek which at the moment is a small river. Then to even get to the water it's a 10 foot drop to rocks that look like they're straight from mordor. Basically 5-6 arnt worth playing, it's 2 sad holes.

Sorry I'm a negative goose at the moment. Bad and long day of work.

kilowan · #14 April 28th, 2010, 10:25 AM

City added marker arrows under the baskets to the pipe with direction to next hole and distance.
City is really making this look good.

T_hyzer · #15 April 29th, 2010, 12:33 AM

i heard that the holes across the creek are going to be par 2

kilowan · #16 April 29th, 2010, 05:59 AM

I e-mail the person with the city that is in charge of setting the new part up and she wrote back that everything is a par 3.

T-Bird · #17 May 2nd, 2010, 12:59 PM

Played the new layout today and loved it.
I actually like the short water holes. Just make an ace run at them and you should be fine.
Nice mix of short/long, easy/difficult, open/wooded holes.
The basket area of 10 needs work and several holes would be unplayable if there were cars or people on picnic benches but it was a decent Sunday and I had the place to myself pretty much so maybe no big deal.
All in all it's a BIG improvement.

Adam Schneider · #18 May 2nd, 2010, 08:40 PM

I played today too. Very nice. I do think the second over-the-creek shot is a bit TOO short, but it's still fun.

I also worry about safety on #3 (playground) and #4 (parking lot).

kilowan · #19 June 11th, 2010, 06:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by T_hyzer

i heard that the holes across the creek are going to be par 2

According to the score card that I got at the Dallas Chamber, hole 3, 5, 6 and 18 are all par 2.
But I was told by the city that every hole on the course is a par 3 back in October.
Guess the pars will be up to the group.
Keep Hukin'

runnaman · #20 June 11th, 2010, 03:15 PM

In all seriousness, there is no such thing as a par 2.

Here is a link to a helpful document

You can see at the bottom that is says "Designing Par 2 holes is not recommended. The lengths are shown as cautionary indicators that a hole is likely too short for that player level."

So according to this chart, the short holes are either par 3 because of their length and folliage, or too short because of a player's rating.

Hole Length Par
3 - 156 - 3
5 - 145 - 3 (Because of water)
6 - 105 - Shouldn't be a hole
18 - 180 - 3