Aurora

[Dan Michler]

This is a very nice course with great terrain for disc golf.  Its in a huge park with pretty flat ground and a couple water hazards.  Holes are well designed with alot of challenging deuce holes to go with some long holes as well.  I really had fun playing this one.

[CEValkyrie]

Very fun course with long and short tees. We played the longs and were able to air it out.  The tees are very well marked by big rocks painted yellow & red. There is a wide variety of shots required. The park is very beautiful with a nice lake & creek as a hazard. There is also a road that is OB that comes into play on several holes.  

[Chainmeister]

I played the shorts on a gorgeous fall day.  I want to go back to this course.  I also shot my best ever round there.  Sounds like you guys had a little road trip today.

[CEValkyrie]

Sounds like you guys had a little road trip today.

Yes. 6 courses, 90 holes. IL courses #41 thru 45 for me today.  

[Dan Michler]

Just was thinking about this course today.  Maybe one of the IOS tournaments could be moved to Aurora in 2006.  This is a pretty nice course.

[D]

since we have one in kenosha, maybe we should have one at valparasio?

[CEValkyrie]

Just got off the phone with the Fox Valley Park District. There are now cement tees for the short tees. They are 12 feet long & flarecd. 6 feet wide in the back & 4 in the front. They are going to be pouring the long tees in the next few weeks.

This course is fun!

[DougEDawg]

IOS#8 in 2006?

[adoni]

I haven't been to Aurora yet but plan to in the next few weeks.  Gary Lewis asked me to develop some scorecards with aerial maps.  He has been in discussions about holding the Glow-In-The-Dark tournament there.  I don't believe it's sanctioned, but it is a lot of fun.  As soon as I get the scorecard completed I'll post it.

[distantdg]

This tournament is on the 22nd of October...first round at 2:30, then second round when the sun goes down...

[distantdg]

What kind of scores do you guys shoot here?

[Dan Michler]

What kind of scores do you guys shoot here?

sounds like fun.  its definitely a deuce course for int./adv./pro players.

[adoni]

For all interested, I finally made it out to Jericho Lake.  It's a pretty course and Dan's right ... dueceable for int./adv/pro players.  I finished the scorecards here's a .jpg file of the map.

W A R N I N G!  T H R E A D    D R I F T !

Jon, Bruce, Brett ... I'm willing to do maps/scorecards for next years IOS.

[Cannon Boy]

Let me guess the Longs in the Daylight round and the shorts in the night round?  Looks like some fun I might go.

[CEValkyrie]

I got this e-mail from my contact at Auroura.



Brett

Good News!

I just got confirmation that all the pro tees will be finished by mid
summer at Jericho Lake.  So for the tournament, we will have all cement
tees!!  Secondly, I may try to get some alternate pin placements so we
can change some things up if we need too.

[distantdg]

sweet, some of those dirt tees are brutal. What alternates are they thinking of?

[Mike S]

I played this course this weekend.  Honestly, I dont know why people talk so highly of this place.  The cement tees were awful, they were so short.  It seemed like half (or more) of the holes were just putter shots.  You could play this whole course with a roc and putter, except for a couple holes where they throw in a ridiculous dogleg on a <200' hole and youre throwing 50% with a firebird.  The back tees were good, when I could find them.  MUCH better than the cement tees.  The yellow rocks seemed to be missing from a few holes, judging by the map above.  I played maybe half of the alternates and they were all solid.

Overall - Good terrain and baskets, but I thought the holes were too close together and a lot of the shots were really similar.  If youre gonna drive all the way out there, dont bother playing the cements.

[CEValkyrie]

Could a course local of Aurora take pictures of this course?

If possible they should be taken similar to this ->http://discontinuum.org/course_directory/illinois/fairfield/fairfield-hole1.html
1 from tee
1 from fairway
1 taken behind basket back to basket

[distantdg]

ill do it sometime this week...

[Abelardo Arenas]

With the new pin placements flagged at Jericho Lake, #14 will be about 750 feet long from the pro tee.

The #1 pin gets moved all the way back to within 15 feet of Blackberry Creek. And #8 is on the slight slope beyond the wide oak...which could land you in the lake, if you miss.

I'll get a map and upload it under this thread. If you are in the area, look for the flags in the ground. Those are the new secondary pin placements.