Central Park Schenectady

Pros: Well kept course, great baskets, fun "loop style" layout where you get to really explore the park, technically difficult, lots of parking space, great use of signs for navigation from hole to hole as well as individual hole layout signs. This town is proud of this course. It is relatively new, and it is well taken care of. There are some really exciting "risk/reward" shots throughout the course. Here are some of my favorites: Hole 8 - Short uphill par 3. Pin located on the edge of ...
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Pros:
Well kept course, great baskets, fun "loop style" layout where you get to really explore the park, technically difficult, lots of parking space, great use of signs for navigation from hole to hole as well as individual hole layout signs.

This town is proud of this course. It is relatively new, and it is well taken care of.

There are some really exciting "risk/reward" shots throughout the course. Here are some of my favorites:
Hole 8 - Short uphill par 3. Pin located on the edge of steep drops where a missed 25 footer can lead to a 3 putt.
Hole 10 - Relatively long par 3 slight dog-leg left where the approach goes over a muddy creek at about 290 feet. If you try to snake a drive up close and miss even slightly, you'll either find hazard or be in woods trouble on the left.
Hole 14 - Relatively short par 4. Elevated tee shot into a mess of trees. The risk comes on the approach assuming you have a descent tee shot. You often have to bend a 180' throw through trees to get close and if you end up hitting one of them, you have a 120' up and down just to save par.
Hole 17 - Short dog leg right par three. Definitely a forehand thrower's hole, but if you turn over a midrange flick and lose it to the left you fall off a huge ridge with moderate vegetative growth, making for a super difficult par.

Cons:
The course is built into an existing park so it is not uncommon to encounter fellow park goers just "hanging out" in the middle of fairways or walking their dogs through the course, etc.

There were very few trees cleared for the course (if any), so a lot of drives are sort of just "rip and pray" situations. Often times you'll throw an excellent throw that just doesn't fortunately avoid the numerous trees downfield (holes 1 and 11 particularly.

The course is also somewhat short, and even the long holes require a combination of short controlled throws. Not a single hole where you can really let one fly.

No trash cans, No convenient bathrooms that I could find :(
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