West Lake Park

A world class course with an amazing variety of holes and a very challenging layout. This course is *not* recommended for the faint of heart or beginners with a lack of plastic, you will lose discs o ... show more ›

A world class course with an amazing variety of holes and a very challenging layout. This course is not recommended for the faint of heart or beginners with a lack of plastic, you will lose discs out here and a floating disc and a retriever are required equipment.

The course itself is 24 holes and covers a LOT of real estate, if you come with a group be prepared to spend 3+ hours to get through a full round and with any more than 3-4 I strongly suggest playing best disc. There are a lot of shots where water is in play (as you'd expect from the name) and a surprising number of tight shots with wooded areas as well. Even the open holes require precise shots to avoid picnic tables and big old trees.

This isn't a course you generally play a lot, but it is easily one of the coolest ones in the area and a MUST play for anyone visiting. Make sure you bring your best game and extra discs though!

As a side note: don't get in the water, the lake is a protected habitat and the park rangers are within their rights to remove you from the park if you go in after a disc, not that I would know from personal experience or anything.

I have never attempted the pro tees, but they look brutally hard! I will be reviewing the amateur tees only. This course has multiple holes that would be "signature holes" on most other courses. Some ... show more ›

I have never attempted the pro tees, but they look brutally hard! I will be reviewing the amateur tees only. This course has multiple holes that would be "signature holes" on most other courses. Some pruning is needed but not a lot...#2 safe landing area has become 90% blocked by tree foliage as opposed to 6 years ago when you had a wide open look and an ace try. An apple tree hanging directly on the entire tee prevents use of the tee on 14. Still the biggest problem with this course is the amount of fishermen and picnickers that you can expect to encounter on literally HALF of the holes on a nice day. The park is just so popular. Unfortunately you end up skipping more holes than you play because of this. You would be lucky to only have to skip 5 or 6 holes. Im sure if the weather was terrible this problem wouldnt exist but then again you would be disc golfing at a championship course in terrible weather : / Due to the difficulty of the golf course and the high risk of losing discs in the lake this course seems to always have very few golfers on it. In my 2 rounds played here I have seen only one other group. The park sits on approximately 250 heavily wooded acres so you definitely will want to print a map. Tee signs are at Pro tees only but both pro and am have nice long concrete tee pads. Nice Innova DisCatcher baskets with their high visibility yellow rings are nice but many do have rusty chains. Hole 13 is windy and requires two PERFECT shots to reach the basket and I would bet any amateur a dollar at the start of the hole that they will lose at least one disc in the lake on this hole. It is long, narrow, windy and elevated. There are a lot of holes here that offer deuce possibilities. At least six you will step to the tee looking for a deuce with a handful of other holes that are short enough that if you thread the needle it could go in. I am rating and A based on beauty and potential although the amount of people in the way, the need for pruning and the likelihood of feeding your plastic to the lake means that I will not be playing here often.