Today we ventured far to the north to play the Rivery Park Disc Golf Course in Georgetown. This was the first time for most of us to play this course. Today's players were: Steve, Mark, Lif, Keith, Brian and Heady. Temperatures were in the mid 90's, sunny skies and the wind was not a factor. Course conditions were mostly dry and we saw only one other group playing.
This is a very interesting, challenging, technical course. It is moderately hilly and heavily wooded with lots of rough. After playing the first two holes we thought this course was going to be birdie city. Holes one and two are only 166 feet and 95 feet long, respectively; but they are no way indicative of the course in general. After that, the holes got a little longer and trickier. The rough was very overgrown in some places and we spent an inordinate amount of time searching for errant discs. One of the big cons we had with the course was the decision to put the tee signs in the concrete tee pads. What were they thinking?
I played about average today, I had a few drives that went awry, but I could recover for the most part. This was the kind of course were placement was more important than distance. I would not mind making the trip to play this course once a year, preferably in the spring or fall, when it is not so overgrown.
Only five birdies were made today: Heady(2), Steve(1), Mark(1) and Brian(1). No discs lost, two discs found.
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| Rivery Park |
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| Standing around the first tee pad |
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| Steve starts us off! |
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| Keith's second shot on #1 |
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| Lif with a pressure putt for par on the 96ft #2 |
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| Keith driving on #3. Things got a little tougher |
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| Mark driving on #4. The kid's got some distance! |
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| Brian with a jump shot! |
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| Brian trying to split the trees |
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| Steve with an uphill putt |
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| Lif with extra style points on this throw |
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| Keith trying to avoid the trees with this drive |
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| Steve slams his putt home |
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| Mark with a nice drive on #10 |
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| Brian with a birdie attempt |
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| Mark makes his birdie on #10 |
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| Very scenic hole #11 |
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| Keith's second shot on #11 |
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| Lif with an anhyzer |
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| The San Gabriel River |
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| Keith driving on the par 4 #12 |
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| Brian putting on #13 |
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| Mark on #14. This hole was very overgrown |
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| Steve driving on #15. Tight fairways |
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| Mark with a long putt attempt on #16 |
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| Lif had some putting issues on this hole |
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| Keith makes his par |
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| Mark on #18. This hole was tight and rough |
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| Brian's second shot on #18 |
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| Mark and Steve |
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| Official Scorecard. Recorded by Steve. Compiled by Rob. |
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