Victory Park

Beautiful course on the edge of Albion, MI. There are two personalities to Victory. Dr. Jekyll: Civilized, old growth city park setting with good elevation change. No rough or other trouble. Very nice and fun. This is "perfect" disc golf property in the eyes of many. Holes 1-8,16-18. Mr. Hyde: Water craziness builds slowly on hole 9, then you are hit with it full frontal on hole 10. You think really? when you step up to the teepad. One of the signature holes in all of Michigan, an ...
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Beautiful course on the edge of Albion, MI. There are two personalities to Victory.

Dr. Jekyll: Civilized, old growth city park setting with good elevation change. No rough or other trouble. Very nice and fun. This is "perfect" disc golf property in the eyes of many. Holes 1-8,16-18.

Mr. Hyde: Water craziness builds slowly on hole 9, then you are hit with it full frontal on hole 10. You think really? when you step up to the teepad. One of the signature holes in all of Michigan, and this course is very young. The next five holes have serious water OB and precarious pin placements.

Only downside to this park is the other non disc golf players sometimes getting in the way. It's happened to me on hole 17 with picnickers and some of the water holes with people fishing.
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This course is awesome; the first couple holes are deceiving to what the back has in store for you. Start with some wooded shots and progressing to wide open bombs. Then the water holes and massive open arm hole after 8. Park staff is very friendly and actually stopped mowing to wait for us to drive and asked for advice on tree trimming and its impact on the play of the course. If there were tee signs this course would get an A+ from me, add those and I would play it weekly. A few of the ho ...
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This course is awesome; the first couple holes are deceiving to what the back has in store for you. Start with some wooded shots and progressing to wide open bombs. Then the water holes and massive open arm hole after 8. Park staff is very friendly and actually stopped mowing to wait for us to drive and asked for advice on tree trimming and its impact on the play of the course. If there were tee signs this course would get an A+ from me, add those and I would play it weekly. A few of the holes play over roads, pathways and picnic areas so on a nice day it would be a tad difficult to play and not peg a bystander. Still top notch course for a small town.
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no one here playin the course! No one!!! That was a plus! Awesome design! “Take hole 12 out!!!! Make it different!!!!Awesome course so sickkk! But hole 12 is the worst. I hit a car!!! Parkin lot and **** on right, huge pond that is nasty that kids swim in!!! Terrible literally worst hole everrrr. So dangerous!! My advice dont play hole 12!!!!! U have to throw over people!! Families! Such a awesome course besides that. Awesome wooded shot all kinds , rollers, sick hyzerz, water holes all over ...
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no one here playin the course! No one!!! That was a plus! Awesome design!
“Take hole 12 out!!!! Make it different!!!!Awesome course so sickkk! But hole 12 is the worst. I hit a car!!! Parkin lot and **** on right, huge pond that is nasty that kids swim in!!! Terrible literally worst hole everrrr. So dangerous!! My advice dont play hole 12!!!!! U have to throw over people!! Families! Such a awesome course besides that. Awesome wooded shot all kinds , rollers, sick hyzerz, water holes all over, so amazing! . Fuc that, and i know it was designed before people started swimming in it. Change the hole and the course is perfect!! Decent elevation changes. Two long pad on 5 and 12. Lots of water! Take a look at 9 like by the basket! There is a stream! lots of road and over ob! Awesome pin placements!Do not miss out!!!!
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The course is absolutely gorgeous but there are two ways to play it. 1st way: Wear sneakers and/or jeans, get frustrated by the water hazards, and have a lousy time. Because unless you play the water holes incredibly conservatively, you're likely to end up in water at some point. And then you're going to have to decide between playing the rest of your round with uncomfortably soggy feet or abandoning your discs. Neither choice is fun. 2nd way: Wear shorts and waterproof shoes of some sort, ...
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The course is absolutely gorgeous but there are two ways to play it.

1st way: Wear sneakers and/or jeans, get frustrated by the water hazards, and have a lousy time. Because unless you play the water holes incredibly conservatively, you're likely to end up in water at some point. And then you're going to have to decide between playing the rest of your round with uncomfortably soggy feet or abandoning your discs. Neither choice is fun.

2nd way: Wear shorts and waterproof shoes of some sort, like fivefingers or flip flops. Then you can accept the challenges of the water hazards which makes the round a blast. Because if/when you try to clear the water and don't make it, you can just wade out and retrieve them without it ruining the rest of your round.
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Absolutely beautiful piece of property. Just driving into the park I was impressed how clean and well groomed it is. It took me a few minutes to locate hole 1, but once I discovered the course map I knew I was there. The front was pretty fun with good use of elevation changes and o.b. The back had some pretty wild holes. The whole river front was very impressive and challenging. From what I saw Albion is a beautiful town and the course fit perfectly. From a first time playing perspective ...
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Absolutely beautiful piece of property. Just driving into the park I was impressed how clean and well groomed it is. It took me a few minutes to locate hole 1, but once I discovered the course map I knew I was there. The front was pretty fun with good use of elevation changes and o.b. The back had some pretty wild holes. The whole river front was very impressive and challenging. From what I saw Albion is a beautiful town and the course fit perfectly.

From a first time playing perspective: No tee signs or direction around the course. Not good. Had this been several years ago before the age of smart phones I would have gotten pissed off and left not knowing how to navigate the course.

If I was a local or at least a second time player: No tee signs or direction would be just fine.

However I did see a few downfalls. Basically the typical problems with putting a course in a city park. Hole 2 is a shorty but goody, I really dig the pin placement just wish there wasn't a road (and possibly a sidewalk, I didn't look down) that would probably come into play with an errant shot. I did have to skip hole 11 because there were people fishing, Not 30 feet from the pin. Looked like a fun hole. But not worth pissing locals off. Hole 12 was pretty sweet besides having a beach in the middle of the fairway, luckily schools still in session so I was able to play. I imagine that this only takes the hole out of play a few months out of the year. Hole 13 took me a few minutes to locate. Based on the pictures I took of the course map it looked like the tee pad should have been near the road, this was not the case. Hole 17 has picnic tables in the middle of the fairway.

Overall I'm glad I got a chance to play Victory Park. Wish I could rate it higher, but feel safety is a huge issue in Disc Golf. I'm not going to throw around pedestrians, its just not worth the risk. I imagine this would be an excellant winter course. If I can remember correctly the sledding hill did not come into play.

side note: Did only one hole not have a RHBH hyzer shot(18)?
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The course is layed out in what appears to be a park that already existed before the course. So you can tell the disc golf course was an after thought. Because of this you will be throwing next to people, over people. One of the water holes two people were leaning against the basket with fishing rods so we just skipped this whole (it was 150 feet and we gave ourselves a 3). One hole is 990 feet and goes over water twice. Other than the water the hole is quite boring. Once you make it past t ...
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The course is layed out in what appears to be a park that already existed before the course. So you can tell the disc golf course was an after thought. Because of this you will be throwing next to people, over people. One of the water holes two people were leaning against the basket with fishing rods so we just skipped this whole (it was 150 feet and we gave ourselves a 3). One hole is 990 feet and goes over water twice. Other than the water the hole is quite boring. Once you make it past the first 7 or 8 holes you get into the water and there is goose poop everywhere! This is because of the river that runs through a decent amount of these holes. There are no signs indicating where you have to go but if you walk around you can find the cement pads and all the pads have numbers on them. I felt like this would be a good fall or early spring course. I say this so you dont have to deal with the goose poo and people walking around the course.
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