The West course at Northend Park presents some of the most uniquely challenging golf I've ever seen. Huge, open distance shots, touchy woods lines, ace runs, thick rough, slight elevation, and much more. While there is room for improvement in this course, and it remains fairly rough, it is barely a year old and will continue to get better. I personally love huge distance shots and some holes allow for that while still forcing you to sculpt clever lines for placement on the next shot. The woodsy ...
continue reading ›The West course at Northend Park presents some of the most uniquely challenging golf I've ever seen. Huge, open distance shots, touchy woods lines, ace runs, thick rough, slight elevation, and much more. While there is room for improvement in this course, and it remains fairly rough, it is barely a year old and will continue to get better. I personally love huge distance shots and some holes allow for that while still forcing you to sculpt clever lines for placement on the next shot. The woodsy hole reward players who can hit specific lines, and punish players with often treacherous roughs if missed. There are a few potential rollaway opportunities on baskets which adds some challenge. In the fall and early spring this course is at its best because the ferns in the open areas are dead. This makes for less stress about lost discs. There are fewer deciduous trees on this course than the east course making for fewer leaves on the fall time. Some players may complain about shortened cement pads on some of the shorter holes but I personally only find this to be a problem on 13. This course does not quite have 'it all' with benches and substantial signage and trashes, bathrooms, landscaping etc. But the course will only improve with time and volunteer work from the enthusiastic disc golf community which supports it. Overall an excellent course with so much potential to be even more.
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