St. Louis recommendations?

[spike]

i'll be in st. louis for a few days, and i haven't disc golfed there in years.  anyone have any recommendations?

thanks

[drdye]

Try to hit lincoln park on your drive down in Springfield IL.  Great course worth the play time!!!

In St Louis, there are prolly about 8 or 9 courses in the area.  Some to hit:

Sioux Passage Park

Jefferson Barracks Hist. Park

Bluebird Park (if I remember right this is a pay to play and the 1st disc golf course in the state of Missouri)

These are the ones that stick out in my mind that were fun to play.  

[Chainmeister]

I agree with the doctor's presription. I drove to St. Louis last year and stoped to play Lincoln in Springfield. if you are driving stop to eat at the Ariston Cafe at mile 52 between Springfield and St. Louis.
Great home cooked food in an old Rte. 66 roadhouse. It is 1/2 mile east of the interstate. I used to travel to St. Looey for biz a lot and would always try to play Sioux Passage. It is a pretty park with lots of elevation changes. it is worth the trip to play there. It is the best of the 4 area couses I have played.

[damonshort]

I agree with the doctor's presription. I drove to St. Louis last year and stoped to play Lincoln in Springfield. if you are driving stop to eat at the Ariston Cafe at mile 52 between Springfield and St. Louis.
Great home cooked food in an old Rte. 66 roadhouse. It is 1/2 mile east of the interstate. I used to travel to St. Looey for biz a lot and would always try to play Sioux Passage. It is a pretty park with lots of elevation changes. it is worth the trip to play there. It is the best of the 4 area couses I have played.

I played one course in St. Louis a few years ago; I think it was Sioux Passage (?) - The front and back 9 were really separated; it was even suggested you take a car between them, as I recall.

[drdye]

Damon, I know what course your talking about, not Souix Passage, either white birtch or wattson somethingorother.  That course sucks!!!  simple due to that walk/drive half way through the course!!!

[spike]

thanks for all the input, friends.  

[airspuds]

http://pdga.com/course/courses_by_city.php?id=529

this is the course i played when i was around St Louis

pretty flat and open if you are golfing with someone else (tag along or newbie)
this would be a good course but otherwise i think you might skip it unless you were near it

on the springfiled issue


i played lincoln and douglas several times

lincoln is a must  douglas  you might not find worth your time
locals are cool  there is a map for lincoln on the springfield website
some tees have changed recently so beware of that

[shawn]

I recommend that you go Keep going south to Tulsa, OK....  Just kidding, St. Louis has some nice courses, just not as many as Tulsa.

[damonshort]

I'm going down this Wed thru Sat for a big music project... should also have some time for DG. I vaguely remember Sioux Passage from 8 or 9 yrs ago, also maybe Jefferson Barracks. What else is worth hitting for a 3rd course in the immediate area?

[CEValkyrie]

I really like Collinsville if you get the chance to play it.

Jefferson Barracks is pretty good too.

[stpitner]

JB was fun, and if Gateway is open, stop in their shop while playing

Sioux Passage as you have already mentioned is a great course with a bunch of long holes and the most elevation that I've ever played...

... until I played Endicott.  Endicott is just as much elevation but a lot shorter and some of the holes are very tight.  I'd highly recommend checking out these 3 courses.  I played them all once at the St. Louis Open, and they were all VERY impressive!

[Tom McManus]

I enjoyed JB the most. Collinsville was fun but tough. If the water is up, it is tough to get around the Collinsville course, unless they put in some bridges.

[airspuds]

cohokia mounds   oh no  they didnt let me throw a disc from the top

creve courve  in mo   its been resigned since i ve played

spring field is  a good 1/2 way pt

[ziggy]

Pay to play course is white birch. Bring just a putter.

If I was coming to st. Lou after springfield's lincoln park

In this order of travel

1) Collinsville
2) White birch
3) Sioux passage
4) Endicott
5) Creve coeur
6) Bluebird (9holer)
7) Jefferson barracks

If I had to pick

Jefferson barracks - well balanced aethestics and the gateway shop for the newcomers.

Sioux passage for the sheer distance and elevation. Bring an umbrella for shade if it's a sunny day. Expect at least 3 hrs of walking and please drive from #1 to #10 to save a lil energy. I think the pins are rarely in the C position so that'll make the course smaller. C position is usually a couple weeks around gateway open in may.

Endicott during broad daylight. Nikko lives a couple blocks from there and hustles his discs at this park.

Creve coeur only if u have a buddy. Course is flat as heck and the largest in the midwest.

If you got time and a guide. Quail ridge off the far west end of st lou is a course to touch simply because it offers a unique (note: bag o tricks) perspective outside of chicago area. But guide is needed or will spend time looking for the tees.

[JCthrills]

Sioux Passage has alot of wild flowers planted this year that was used /marked OB in the St. Louis Open earlier this year, lucky for us it was freshly planted at the time & OB shots did not have to be searched for.  So you may want a buddy here too unless you just play safe & stay in the short grass.  with pins in the long position I'd think this was longer than Creve Coure?

Endicott park has a hole they call the blair witch (12 i think), very narrow & if the pin is in the long placement a real par 4.  Other nice hole stoo, the Gateway blog has some video of SLO final 9, they played some wicked long safari holes durign that.

Jefferson Barraks is the only course I've managed to get back to after the tourney this spring (pretty much because I wanted to stop by the Gateway shop) it has some very holes, nearly aced #10 on my last stop (hit side of the basket very loudly)

If you throw any Gateway plastic & want to stock up, you'll get awesome deals there.  the shop is just off the 18th fairway.

[damonshort]

thanks for all the suggestions. Endicott is about 20 min from my hotel and with the rehearsal schedule and miserable construction traffic around St Louis it's probably the only course I'll get to. Played a round today, and while it's probably average for the StL area, as usual it's light years beyond what we've got in NE Illinois....

A couple of guys were carrying around a couple of large turtles they found in a creekbed. Didn't see Nikko though.