Fairborn Community Park

what a course and it's new. The Fairborn community hit a home run with this course. Lots to work with in the future and it's a challenge. The course has a great mix of short and long holes, wooded and open. Once it wears in, I think this place would be an A+. I like that the underbrush was removed, but I think the club should remove a few of the smaller trees and more of the vines and low hanging brush (say up to about 20 feet). That will allow for more high anhyzer shots in the woods an ...
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what a course and it's new. The Fairborn community hit a home run with this course. Lots to work with in the future and it's a challenge. The course has a great mix of short and long holes, wooded and open. Once it wears in, I think this place would be an A+.

I like that the underbrush was removed, but I think the club should remove a few of the smaller trees and more of the vines and low hanging brush (say up to about 20 feet). That will allow for more high anhyzer shots in the woods and would produce some of the 'S' shots that I think the designers are trying to achieve. I had a blast and met some really cool people on the course. Other than that, don't think anything else needs to be tweeked, maybe adding a bridge or something to walk on from 11 to 12, but that's it.

Thanx again to my tour guides for both my rounds of golf.
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Overall I love this course. It's just not a good as it can be. The par's from the shorts is way to high. I believe it should be around 56-58 not 66. The par from the longs (67) seemed fair from the longs in there current condition. The tee sign distances seemed to be off. All the issues I have are problems that can be fixed. I look forward to visiting here again. 1: Great hole from the shorts and longs. 2: Good hole from the shorts, just not a real clear route. Poor from the longs. There ...
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Overall I love this course. It's just not a good as it can be. The par's from the shorts is way to high. I believe it should be around 56-58 not 66. The par from the longs (67) seemed fair from the longs in there current condition. The tee sign distances seemed to be off. All the issues I have are problems that can be fixed.
I look forward to visiting here again.

1: Great hole from the shorts and longs.
2: Good hole from the shorts, just not a real clear route. Poor from the longs. There is no route from the longs you pretty much throw a midrange from the long tee to get to the so called fairway for the shorts.
3: Great hole from both tees.
4: Good hole from both tees.
5: Great hole from both tees.
6: Good hole from both tees. The longs could use some trimming of the bushes by the shorts.
7: Ok hole. The nasty swamp really takes away from the hole. If the water was flowing, filled with less debris and not so stagnant it would be an awesome hole.
8: Ok hole. The same swamp water is in play on this hole and has the same story. There is only one tee and that also takes away from the hole. There are plenty of options for a short or long tee.
9: Decent hole not really a defined route from the shorts and definitely not the longs. The spacing of the trees makes the hole playable if your confident in your accuracy. I love the basket placement here.
10: Very good hole from both tees. Longs just need some more clearing up to the shorts.
11: Ok hole. No routes from either tee. From the longs you just throw into a bunch of trees and hope is sneaks through. About 3/4 down the fairway the hole gets pretty good.
12: Great hole. It just needs a short tee. There is plenty of room for one.
13: Great hole. Not much of a route from the longs.
14: Good hole from the shorts. Awful from the longs. There is no route from the longs. Once again you throw a midrange over to the short tee route.
15: Great hole from both tees.
16: Great hole from both tees.
17: Ok hole. Not much of a route from either tee.
18: Ok hole. I like the layout and how it plays down the hill but there are no routes from either tee. Also it is really close to the road and pedestrians and cars come into play.
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One of the toughest courses I've played, this course requires precision in tight quarters. The park uses the geographic features in the park; Holes 1, 4 and 14-18 play up, down, and across a pretty large hillside; hole 5 is set on the bank of a pond; and holes 6-9 play along/across a creek. Distance-wise, it's not the longest course; shortest holes are 220, longest push 660 (from the long tees). Most holes are between 275 and 345. The defining characteristic of the Fairborn course is tha ...
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One of the toughest courses I've played, this course requires precision in tight quarters. The park uses the geographic features in the park; Holes 1, 4 and 14-18 play up, down, and across a pretty large hillside; hole 5 is set on the bank of a pond; and holes 6-9 play along/across a creek. Distance-wise, it's not the longest course; shortest holes are 220, longest push 660 (from the long tees). Most holes are between 275 and 345.

The defining characteristic of the Fairborn course is that every hole but hole 12 requires you to hit at least one gap less than 25 feet wide...and the double mando on 12 is about 26 feet wide. This is an excellent course for practicing control shots; less so for practicing long bombing throws. If you want to practice your distance, though, there are several baseball and soccer fields in the park, so there is plenty of room.

Holes 6-9 play across or along an OB creek (where, if your disc goes in it is more than likely GONE) and holes 4 and 18 bring OB road/paths into play if you go long.

If you play the long tees expect to add about 7-8 strokes. Many/most of the long tees take the hole from "a great shot gives you a chance at a deuce" to "it takes a great shot to have an easy upshot for the 3."

The Emerald Ash Borer has hit this park hard; many of the large/mature trees are ash, and are dead/dying; as a consequence of this, several fairways have opened up quite a bit in recent years as large dead trees fall/are removed and smaller ones grow up.
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