While I was in the Metroplex last week for programming training I had a chance to play the course at Bear Creek park in Grapevine.
This is a heavily wooded park with lots of creeks and poison ivy and other chances to lose discs. I managed to lose my one really overstable disc (a KC Banshee) off the first tee on my last round. However, while hunting for other wild throws I found an old red Polaris and a new orange Champion Eagle.
Despite the dangers, and yes, because of them, this was a fun course to play. Drew and I played the front twelve on Saturday afternoon and the full eighteen on Sunday morning. It was Thursday evening before I made my final round on my own. I was plus a lot on Saturday but ended both full rounds at six over. If my short game wasn't so pathetic I would have had at least three fewer counts against me.
The really challenging thing about the course is that they move the baskets around a lot. Between the time Drew and I played, and when I played later in the week, a couple of the baskets had moved. This is okay when they move from one visible position to another. But really annoying when you curve the disc nicely around one stand of trees only to find that the basket is now behind another stand of trees on the other side of the "fairway" about twenty yards further on.
All the links had standard and advanced concrete tees. Mostly we played the standard tees, but occasionally the advanced ones beckoned and I answered. On Sunday I managed a birdie at twelve from the advanced tee. This is a really cool hole that goes through a foliage bound window and across a lightly wooded maze of deep creek ditches. Hard to describe the joy of watching a disc curl just through and around to fall within putting distance on the other side. My birdie throw actually involve a lucky glancing blow on its way out of the window.
Thursday (if I recall correctly): 011 011 010 - 901 910 010
Posted to Games and Sport at August 23, 2005 1:45 PM