I really like this small 9 hole course. It has some slight elevation change with 1 blind shot down hill. 4 holes are 300+ with dirt tees. Saw the baskets have been taken out to repair this winter so wait for spring if you want to play there.
That's a pretty good round. Looks like we'll have to bump you to Pro pretty soon.
:D
Wooooo I shot a 22 yesterday! I know its not to difficult there but I was putting and get this I was making my putts too!!!!!
:-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-)
/me sticks his tongue out and goes Blah!
too bad it was on 9 holes huh :-) LOL
here was my round...
Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Score 3 2 2 2 3 2 2 3 3
Bruce and I were out there yesterday. Played a couple of holes and then practiced throwing for distance in the soccer field. I haven't played there since last fall, and I realized how good playing in the winter at Bevier was for my game. A lot of the holes seemed shorter and easier. The trees that I always judged as being the markers for my putting range were "closer" to the basket. Of course Bevier is so much more of a technical course and BG is very open in comparison.
this and clark park r my home course. they r both small and nice.... last summer there was a problem with kids stealing disc and riding away on there bikes. but that was in the summer so watch out i lost a disc that way it kinda sucked.
best i have shot there is a 20. i ace 7 on the second round.
Was just there for my first time today.
Felt like I was shooting midrange everytime I teed off but it was alot of fun
Played two rounds there today. If I have a "home" course, this is it. They have started putting in forms for new tees. They look like the kind of forms that you'd take out after finishing the tee, but I don't know for sure what they will put in the forms.
Saw some guys out there that looked like they were playing best shot. I was going to talk to them, but they let me play through and I thought it would be a bit lame to start up a conversation with them while they were waiting for me. If any of them are lurking out here and you want to invite more people to play, this is a good forum to do it. Just post the time, day, place and format.
hey guys new here i played in leagues 2 weeks ago and then went to wildwood u guys. they put in new tee pads here. they r nice really big
I played on 8 of the 9 new tees yesterday and today. When the tees were put in, the HS kids from senior ditch day did a little vandalizm. They buffed out some of it but #6 needed to be redone. It was poured Wednesday, I think. The tee pads are HUGE but they are great to play on![/font]
hey, ive been lurking around here for a while... never really found anything to post about but i figured id introduce myself. I play buffalo grove almost every day after work, i wouldnt be suprised if ive played with some of you- i drive a red miata and i'm usually around between 5:30 and 7:00. anyone here play there regularly?
Quotehey, ive been lurking around here for a while... never really found anything to post about but i figured id introduce myself. I play buffalo grove almost every day after work, i wouldnt be suprised if ive played with some of you- i drive a red miata and i'm usually around between 5:30 and 7:00. anyone here play there regularly?
I do. I'm the big guy with the cart.
I'm heading out that way tomorrow after work. My grandfather stays at The Claremont nursing home over on Weiland Rd., and I usually visit him on Thursdays. Turns out that Willow stream is right around the corner from him.
Is there a map of the course anywhere or anything I should know about the course?
Thanks,
John B.
QuoteI'm heading out that way tomorrow after work. My grandfather stays at The Claremont nursing home over on Weiland Rd., and I usually visit him on Thursdays. Turns out that Willow stream is right around the corner from him.
Is there a map of the course anywhere or anything I should know about the course?
Thanks,
John B.
I'll be there tomorrow John. You don't really need a map of the course. Once you find #1 it's easy to follow. The parking lot off Old Checker Road is NOT where you want to go. The entrance is on the pool side of the park. The name of the road is Farrington or Fairington or Farthington or something like that. The first time you get there by wandering around in the subdivision until you find it. Otherwise you can do a mapquest search from the corner of Elmhurst Road and Buffalo Grove Road. Look just south west of the intersection for the course.
Hi Jon,
Thanks for the tip. I'm not sure what time I'm going to be there. I might play first and then go see my grandpa or vice-versa. The earliest I would be there is 4:30-ish.
I'm gonna print up the map right now.
Thanks again,
John B.
Well, went out today to try out the BG course. Was a little hard to find, but I didn't drive around too long.
Lots of players, some of which didn't exactly portray disc golfers as the happy polite group we like to think we are. One guy was actually perched on the basket on #9 like a damn monkey, goofing with his buddies.
2 other guys saw some of their friends and let me play through, that was nice of them.
The course is deceptively long for my noodle arm. Holes in which I thought I'd blow past on my drive, were WELL short of the basket. :huh:
#1 was difficult for me, I'm no good up hills, always throw short. 4 was my best. :(
#2 was pretty cool. Got a 2 the second time around.
#3 was interesting with the trees and bushes. Got a 2 the second time thru.
#4 seems short, but it's a decent toss for me. 3 was best I could manage.
#5 Basket doesn't seem that far away. My second shot was so short, it was embarrassing. :rolleyes:
#6 throw right to avoid the trees, and got a 2 the second time around.
#7 Second time, tried a sidearm over the running path, scored a 2. Have to keep watch for runners and bikers.
#8 Darn trees...
#9 More of the same. :(
After my second time thru, a guy driving on #1 missed my car by 2 parking spots...time to go.
Went back later about 7pm, place was packed. Headed for home.
All in all, I'll play it again next time I'm out to see grandpa, but I doubt we'll make a special trip. Still a decent short course.
Thanks Jon for the heads up!
John B.
It's not a special trip kind of course. I play it because it's minutes away from home. I try to talk to the kids there and teach them to take care of the course. I clean up after them and I hope they notice--I know they don't litter when I'm right there picking stuff up. I've picked up about 20 cans and cups in just one round at that course some days.
I did notice a lot of trash, but it was at least piled near the tee-pads for easy pick up. Not sure if that was your doing or not.
Yea, it's a nice course. If it wasn't packed at 7pm, I would have played until dark. But then again, I'm a bit anti-social. <_<
i really like the BG course, i've met a lot of really cool people there, and the only people that seem to make problems are the dumb high school kids...
if I dont ace 7 by the end of the summer i might go crazy, i've hit the pin 3 times with forehands over the path.... and i can finally drive past the trees on 8, which is a major improvement from my first time playing there... see you guys out there
Quotei really like the BG course, i've met a lot of really cool people there, and the only people that seem to make problems are the dumb high school kids...
if I dont ace 7 by the end of the summer i might go crazy, i've hit the pin 3 times with forehands over the path.... and i can finally drive past the trees on 8, which is a major improvement from my first time playing there... see you guys out there
That's the only hole that I have multiple aces on. Both aces were right-hand, back-hand anhyzer's down the path.
Mike, say hello to me if you ever see me. I'm the fat guy with the cart...hard to miss me if I'm there.
Yeah, Willow Stream is not a bad course. It doesn't have the longest or most challenging holes, but at the same time it's not too easy. I am quite happy with it. You will find me playing there almost any weekday after 5pm. I get off work in the heart of rush hour, and every day I have to make a choice between sitting in traffic for an hour or playing some disc golf while the traffic dies down :rolleyes: Oh, that's a tough one.
As for aces there, I gave up. Every one I know has aced at least one hole there. Even the people that don't really know how to play have aced the third hole by throwing it through that tree by the basket. I've hit chains on #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, and #7 on a few occasions, but I can't make the damn disc stick! So I guess that's just not for me ;)
played a round yesterday, ended up -1 after missing 5 putts within 10 feet or so.... so if i could get my head together on those close ones i'm putting together some pretty good rounds- i even had it within 10 feet on my first throw on hole 5, which is definitely a first for me
oh and i hit the pin on 7 AGAIN, and on 17 at west park... its gonna go in somewhere eventually
New to the sport of disc golf. Was an ultimate player 20 years ago in college but never played disc golf. I just discovered this course minutes from my house while launching model rockets with my daugther (a stray rocket landed in the number 2 basket -- Wow!! a real disc golf course -- fist real one I've ever seen), and I was immeadiately pscyhed to take up the sport.
I've played at least a dozen times in the last month since I discovered the course. I'm usually there late afternoons on the weekends (when my daughter is napping) and usually playing alone (I drive a blue Acura MDX (SUV), and always looking for a group to join in with (figure the only way I will get better -- since right now I stink big time)). Fortunately this seems like a forgiving course for a beginner.
Hope to see some of you out there.
Rosh
BTW, if any one cares, the south side of the park (old checker road entrance), near the playground, as a map of the course, not sure why they have it there when the course is at the north entrance to the park.
We'll look for you. We live 5 min from the course and play there intermittently. I'll be going more regularly in prep for Women's Nationals.
Enjoy!
Played this course for the first time in years yesterday on the way to help my parents set up for the Jewish Holidays. I do not live nearby. I was heartened to have a duece each time through but should have had more. The PDGA site says the wind can be tough and it sure was. I had to drill my putts even from close range to make sure they did not float.
Either I was strong or the distance marking are not accurate. I was right near the basket on a couple of holes marked over 200 ft with throws that did not seem that strong.
What goes around comes around... while looking for an errant tee shot on the long hole (7?) I found a Cyclone in the bushes. I saw two kids playing and only holding one or two discs each and threw the cyclone to one of them.
Just wondering everyone's thoughts on this course. It's my home course and I think it has a great mix of long, short, left and right holes. It can get quite crowded on summer weekends but for me, that's just a reason to play off-peak times. Also I love the new signs, and the HUGE concrete tees. #'s 1, 5, and 8 really give you a chance to air one out.
It used to be my home course as well. I learned DG on that course. Wide open which makes it a good learner course. I only played on it twice last year, but I did try the new tee-pads. I wish it were an 18 holer, but the property is not big enough for soccer, baseball and DG.
QuoteJust wondering everyone's thoughts on this course. It's my home course and I think it has a great mix of long, short, left and right holes. It can get quite crowded on summer weekends but for me, that's just a reason to play off-peak times. Also I love the new signs, and the HUGE concrete tees. #'s 1, 5, and 8 really give you a chance to air one out.
It is the closest course to my house. I don't think of it as having distance. I also don't think of it as having left and right holes. I like it for a nine hole course. Adler has 9 better holes but Adler is 9 good holes looking for a layout.
Hole break down:
1) Medium to long uphill. Can be played up the middle, hyzer or big anhyzer. Tough to deuce with length and the protective trees around the basket. Easy 3. I am ambarrased to say that I carded a 5 on it the last time I played.
2) Medium length--again can play up the middle or hyzer/anhyzer. No obstacles on this hole. If you have an accurate drive it's an easy deuce.
3) Short--the anhyzer is better protected on this hole unless you spike it. Up the middle playing into the protective tree is the way to go on this short hole. Easy deuce.
4) Somewhat protected hyzer, just go up the middle on this short hole for a deuce.
5) Medium long hole. I like to throw something just a little understable straight up the fairway and let it get a slow fade (gentle anhyzer) to the basket. A good accurate pull will get you the deuce.
6) Short. Play up the middle for an easy deuce.
7) I used to throw the slow anhyzer on this one but have recently switched to the hyzer. There used to be another tree in the fairway that made the hyzer harder to hit. Should be an easy hyzer deuce.
8 ) Medium long. I've only gotten the deuce on this one once but I don't have a big drive. I have only driven basket long on this one once after a lucky path skip. The trees shouldn't come into play on this one except the two trees protecting the 375' hyzer throw. Tough deuce except for the long accurate driver. Easy 3.
9) Lame technical hole to finish the round if you take the hyzer. Good chance to practice the forehand here. If you have a good forehand it's an easy deuce. The technical shot up the path is 50/50 unless you have good accuracy. Should be an easy 3 any way you play it as long as you don't bounce into the woods off a tree.
I like Buffalo Grove. Not great, but an acceptable disc golf experience. If you like Buffalo Grove you will love Waukegan.
Yeah, this course is less than a mile from my apartment (better than nothing I guess ;) ). I agree with everything Jon said about the holes. 1 and 8 are out of most players ranges unless you can throw 380 feet. To reach Hole 1 I'd estimate you need to be able to BOMB. I've found a roller up the hill gives me the best chance to get close because you can't play a big S shot due to the trees. 3, 4, 6, 7 are ridiculously easy. 9 is deceptively hard I think because its tough to stop your disc near the basket with the hard ground and path to the right of the pin.
why can't parkside be across the street?
QuoteYeah, this course is less than a mile from my apartment (better than nothing I guess ;) ). I agree with everything Jon said about the holes. 1 and 8 are out of most players ranges unless you can throw 380 feet. To reach Hole 1 I'd estimate you need to be able to BOMB. I've found a roller up the hill gives me the best chance to get close because you can't play a big S shot due to the trees. 3, 4, 6, 7 are ridiculously easy. 9 is deceptively hard I think because its tough to stop your disc near the basket with the hard ground and path to the right of the pin.
why can't parkside be across the street?
Number 1 is closer than you think if you can throw a big anhyzer. Even with my arm I've been able to get close enough for something you'd call a putt by throwing the big annie off the tee. I've never made it...only hole I haven't ever deuced out there.
i said if you can bomb then you can reach 1 jon. obviously you are a big bomber :) i would trust anything jon says over me when it comes to this course though. i've only played it about 10 times at the most.
Quotewhy can't parkside be across the street?
That was the main selling point of my current apartment, it almost makes up for the idiot that lives below me.
i love this course only because it is basically where i learned to play. Last time i played was on new years eve, i shot even in gale force winds. Ive deuced every hole there too many times to count (except 8, ive only deuced it 3 or 4 times), and ive aced 5 with a champion valk forehand.
edit: what kind of scores do you guys normally get there? I would say I average about 3 down in 9 holes, my best day was this august, I played around twice and shot -13 for the day.
bump.... merging three threads together made the final one drop off the map.
dude they must have changed hole 1 then. If you have only deuced 8 a few times but gotten 1 too many times to count. It should be the other way around. 8 is much easier.
I'd say averaging 3 down per 9 holes is pretty good. i haven't played it enuf to give you an accurate average of what I would shoot, but i'd guess around 3 or 4 down for an average.
Quotedude they must have changed hole 1 then. If you have only deuced 8 a few times but gotten 1 too many times to count. It should be the other way around. 8 is much easier.
I'd say averaging 3 down per 9 holes is pretty good. i haven't played it enuf to give you an accurate average of what I would shoot, but i'd guess around 3 or 4 down for an average.
I always think that I should be shooting 4 or 5 down every time, but I probably average 3 down.
On whether 8 or 1 is harder I think it is just how you throw. 8 is longer but 1 is up hill and with more trees. I can see how 8 might be easier and my own experience supports that. I've never actually gotten the deuce on 1, I've always missed the putt. But I've had more opportunities on 1 than on 8. I've deuced 8 twice, I think...maybe 3 times. But one was on a "fairway ace" and the other one or two were on putts within 75 feet. I've only driven to within 75 feet of number 8 two or three times, but I've driven within 75 feet of number 1 much more.
1 is a closer hole than 8. If i throw a big enough forehand just to the right of the trees and I can get it to make a nice long S-curve, I can land it next to the trees up by the pin. Ive only put it that close on 8 one or two times and I have no idea how I put the disc that far.
Man, you guys are good! You all average between 3 and four down. I used to play the hell out of that course, and I averaged about 1 down. My best was six down. I birdied all the holes except 1, eight and nine. I missed a 20 footer on 9.
it seems that on some of the 9 hole courses ive played
ive been able to duece most of the holes at one time or the other
but only been able to score between -2 & -5
this happens to me all the time at oly fields
ive duece all the holes got several aces
but my best there still is -7
in a T - once i shot lights out to win
but i play a lot there casually
in best shot -14 is the score to get stepping out of the car
little bit of thread drift
so the question is "how to play consistantly ?)
Same way you get to Carnegie Hall! ;)
QuoteMan, you guys are good! You all average between 3 and four down. I used to play the hell out of that course, and I averaged about 1 down. My best was six down. I birdied all the holes except 1, eight and nine. I missed a 20 footer on 9.
Well Jon Brakel is the Northwest Suburban Doubles Champion. So yeah he's pretty good!
QuoteQuoteMan, you guys are good! You all average between 3 and four down. I used to play the hell out of that course, and I averaged about 1 down. My best was six down. I birdied all the holes except 1, eight and nine. I missed a 20 footer on 9.
Well Jon Brakel is the Northwest Suburban Doubles Champion. So yeah he's pretty good!
I always say that Dan Michler is the NW Suburban Doubles Champion!
Check out http://www.pioneerlocal.com/cgi-bin/ppo-st...-05-653828.html (http://www.pioneerlocal.com/cgi-bin/ppo-story/localnews/current/wh/08-11-05-653828.html) for an article about a smoking ban at Buffalo Grove parks.
FYI NW Suburban Doubles is Labor Day weekend.
QuoteBut Rylko said he still frequently sees "three or four senior ladies puffing on their weed."
Hmmm, did anyone else read anything strange there, or is it just me?
thanks for pointing that out. made the article worth reading! :)
Buffalo Grove Park District has added a map of the Willow Stream Park Disc Golf Course. Although it is an easy course to follow I thought I'd post it here. The map is reasonably accurate.
http://www.bgparkdistrict.org/images/WS_north.jpg (http://www.bgparkdistrict.org/images/WS_north.jpg)
Streamwood, Willow Stream, whatever... :P
streamwood ?
New course in the works at another BG location
http://www.bgparkdistrict.org/presidentsletter.htm (http://www.bgparkdistrict.org/presidentsletter.htm)
I played the course that Tom Christiansen designed there 10 years ago. Tom and I met out there and took a walk around and he showed me the course that the park district asked him to design. It was a fun little course...it would be nice to see it actually get in the ground.
Just curious - has anyone proposed a redesign of this course. I'll bet you could get a decent 18 hole course that would be much more of an interesting course if you popped in and out and through the grove of trees that is in the middle of the course.
The park district is always asking for input on their courses. I see the park district guys out there from time to time walking the course asking players what they want to see in the park. I believe the request for the holes going through the woods has been made, but nothing really came of it. That being said, I don't know if anyone actually went to the park district to ask. It's mostly the park district walking around asking people that are playing.
all ways looking to play with soneone im new and am not very good but im getting better so if you want to play sometime leave me a message i can only play after 5 pm i have a 22 mo son and i cant always bring him with ps he can throw but not very far lol