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@eyewreck

100

I admit that this may be a situation where familiarity breeds contempt because I played here almost exclusively during Covid several times a day when there was nowhere else to go, but this is my least favorite course in Chillicothe. There are positive aspects to this course: -Most of all Yoctangee is a nice local park, when they invented the phrase “A Walk In The Park” they could have been talking about here, A Grade setting. -Holes 1, 6, 13, 14 and 18 I can confidently say I enjoy playing. -Much like pizza, 18 tee pads and baskets with a bag of discs has an incredibly high floor and this course offers that. Some of the things I don’t like: -Prodigy baskets. The reputation is earned. -Goose poop. Not the course’s fault, we occupy nature and we do not own it. Doesn’t make it any more palatable. -This is Chillicothe’s preeminent public park, you gotta keep your head on a swivel, again no one’s fault but another thing to deal with. -Hole 2 is bad. If this was a gold-level layout or a course built for tournament play then whatever, but a wooded tunnel shot with a pond lining the right side of the fairway gobbles countless discs and is ecologically irresponsible. -4 is the worst hole in Ross County. We have our share of Poke-and-Hopes around here, but for me this is by far the least-engaging and needlessly frustrating. -15 is the second-worst hole in Ross County. Just the most annoying tee pad placement I could conceptualize given the terrain of that part of the course. I don’t find a birdie particularly rewarding, either I got the hyzer around the wall of trees in my face or I didn’t. A fun yet challenging hole is a beautiful thing but this just feels like homework. Overall, you may not gather this from what you’ve read but I would actually recommend checking this course out. A lot of these criticisms fall under the personal preference category, I just do not jive with this course. But it has a high variety of shots and takes you through every corner of an excellent park and you very well may have a great time here.

@battlecat81

7

Just trying to figure out what the thinking was to put such a nice course under so much bird scat. I don’t enjoy the constant possibility to hit wildlife (or a kid enjoying them with family). There’s a whole wide world of park beyond the dang lake to play around in. Why on earth did this course have to be where it is? I know I don’t have to play it. In fact, I never have because the design just doesn’t make any sense to me. What really chaps me is that I am within walking distance to a course, love disc golf, but the design is so misplaced I just have to drive somewhere else. Sorry for the rant, but there is better potential in the park than what has been done, but I know town approval for things is always up to someone else who probably never threw plastic in their life. I’ll keep my discs and my dignity out of the bird crap, thank you. Also please know I am not dogging the actual designer here, it’s a well made run of baskets, truly. But I am curious why the whole downtown poultry migration zone was chosen as the ideal spot for a round of circle chucks. I imagine the idea was everyone suit up in plastic wrap and hazmat gear for an apocalyptic round but no memo was given. Doomsday Discs might be a good sponsor, however (sorry Doomsday!). Really, this is fine. Everything’s fine.