Tracy Glidden and I set up a proto-course at Willow Brook golf course today and played a couple of test rounds.
We only set up 8 holes because the ninth basket went shopping for shoes. The nine hole course would have had a length of about 5,550 feet, for an average of about 615 feet per hole. We used the existing ball golf routing, generally teeing from the paved cart path next to the white or red tee on each hole. The baskets were placed long, short, left or right of the greens, where ever there was an interesting place to finish the hole.
Hole Distance Par
1 -- 800 ----- 4 (hard 4)
2 -- 900 ----- 4 (huge elevated tee on a hill)
10 - 400 ----- 3 (down hill. Righty birdie hole)
11 - 700 ----- 4 (easy four if you can resist the temptation to fly the pond on 2.)
12 - 800 ----- 4 (hard four. We'll probably make it 950 - 5, instead
16 - 350 ----- 3 (lefty birdie hole)
17 - 650 ----- 4 (lefty drive, lefty second drive. Tough for a righty)
18a-450 ----- 3 (tough 3 but too easy to call it a 4)
18b-500 ----- 4 (birdie hole)
18 a and b will probably be combined to make a boring and difficult par five if the course ever gets installed. We want to get it up to par 70.
I shot two rounds at +3 playing well so the pars are probably about right. I can imagine shooting par on the course, but it would take a perfect round for me to shoot par. I got all my extra strokes failing to park upshots on the par 4s.
Like all disc golf on ball golf courses, this course is about long drives and lots of two-drive holes. There are really no par two holes. Both of the par threes offer a chance to really screw up by throwing o.b. onto the green or o.b. in a bunker.
Most of the holes offer a chance to get in trouble with a bad throw or an ill conceived throw but trouble is usually avoidable. There are no holes where the tee puts you in trouble to start, like Hole B at Bevier or A at Kensington. There are several holes where you can take on a little trouble to take a shorter route to the basket.
I hope to get back up there in a couple of weeks to look at the rest of the course.
Sounds awesome. Are you speaking of Willowbrook, IL, western suburb of Chicago?
There's too many willow brook golf courses returned from Google to divine!
QuoteSounds awesome. Are you speaking of Willowbrook, IL, western suburb of Chicago?
This is just a wild guess but I'm assuming that Bruce would be talking about a course in Michigan.
LOL :D
I was just teasing you all by calling it Willow Brook without mentioning that it is in Byron, Michigan. They don't have an internet website but you can find some course information on the internet.
If you like to throw long and don't like holes that are random pokes in the woods, you've got to take a road trip to a Fly-18 style course.
Played Kensington doubles today and drew Diana for a partner. We had fun. But not as much fun as being able to air out nine long drives on nine holes!