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Disc Golf Related => Courses => Topic started by: Bruce Brakel on June 28, 2009, 10:04:56 PM

Title: Roscoe Ewing, Medina Ohio
Post by: Bruce Brakel on June 28, 2009, 10:04:56 PM
We played three rounds at Roscoe Ewing Park in Medina, Ohio, this weekend, a practice round and two tournament rounds.  If you ever knew this course but haven't played it lately, you don't know it anymore.  The Jenkins family has built bridges over all the creeks, added benches, and there are long and short tees on most holes.  They have also extended the basket locations on several holes to give the course more teeth.  From longs or shorts it is par 3 disc golf throughout, but the longs have more of those 3.5 to 3.7 kinds of holes where three is a good score.

The course is a fun, technical course from the short tees.  If you know and play all the local o.b. rules it rates 950 to par from the shorts and 1000+ to shoot par from the longs.  It is a technical course but all of the holes have fair fairways.  The Champion "River" winds through it and provides o.b. on many holes.  If you play it at low river times, like during next weekend's A-tier, all your errant wet throws will be retrievable.   From the longs it is more of a righty power technical course.  Lefties are at a serious disadvantage throughout the course. 

The course has a few design errors, like baskets 15  or 20 feet from the water that can be reached on the drive.  The water does not offer a risk/reward scenario when the consequence for an o.b. drive is a short putt for 3.  And there are some holes that are ridiculously too close to other holes.  They play artificial o.b. lines between those holes to help speed play by discouraging folks from throwing in each others' fairways. 

Overall, it is a very good course.  A lot of players think it is one of the best in northern Ohio.  It is the best I've seen in northern Ohio, but my list is limited to four courses in that area.  Worth the stop if you are south of Cleveland and the river is not likely to be up.