Garvin Park

@moneyshot

73

The rough is rough, hit the fairways or find yourself navigating through every species of thorny bushes in the state of mn, or wandering around in prairie grass hoping to find your disc. The fairways are fair, but often times you find yourself throwing around a blind corner and then having to figure out where your disc went into the abyss of you didn't hit the fairway. Pads are super short by at least 2 feet, very limited garbages out on the course. Some decent shot variety offered with big hills involved. The first two holes navigate through some awesome oak forest, just to get let down after that when you realize most of that is used for a horse trail. If they ran half this course through those beautiful oaks this course would be an absolute gem as it would also them avoid the thorns and grass more. Plenty of needless walking from one hole to the next and limited arrows to send you in the right direction after cashing your putt. A few his requiring you to basically throw at the pad of another hole. Hole 3 is the worst with this design flaw. Not a lot of foot traffic doesnt open the door for poor design with safety concerns. All around i didn't find myself having fun throwing this course to the point I almost decided to bail on the last 3 boring holes. Decent course for the locals, but not worth traveling too far out of your way to hit imo. I won't be back and won't lose sleep over that. Id give this course a true rating of about 3.75, but will go on the higher end because the maintanence was on point for the most part besides hole that had a branch hanging clearly in the line off the tee. Nothing a pruning saw couldn't quickly fix though.

@billthecrusher

770

A gem. Very hilly with technical but scorable shots. Everything is nice. Flow first time is interesting with long walks between some holes and seeing later tees early. Overall I'd highly recommend