The Disc Golf Streak, Day 1772 (Echo Valley DGC)

Day 1772

After weeks of trying to find a day with no work, activities, rain, etc . . . we finally made it to Echo Valley. Technically a Dayton-area course, Echo Valley is only 35 minutes from us.

The park (Patricia Allen Park) was very nice. Newly paved roads, playground, tennis courts, soccer fields . . . all nicely mowed and maintained.

We played the blue (presumably "advanced" tees) rather than the gold pro tees. It was long and challenging enough for us doing those tees.

We had heard a lot of good things about the course and it did not disappoint. Overall the feel was woods with grass fairways, similar to Harmony Bends. It's a mix of wooded and open and there are decent elevation changes. Length varies but there are a lot of holes around 500' . . . which is just fine since they were golf holes that required some strategy.

Everyone compares everything to Idlewild and in some ways it is similar (long and challenging and requires you to play golf to score well), but it is its own course and doesn't need to be compared to anything.

It has some memorable holes -- the two that stood out the most in my mind were the downhill tee shot on Hole 5 (fun for both of us) and the evergreen forest on Hole 6 which had a Paint Creek feel to it.

The course flowed well, was immaculately maintained and enjoyable to play since it required execution on multiple shots to score well (i.e. there were a lot of legitimate Par4s).

Par for the blue tees was 64 and playing doubles our first time we shot a 60. It was the best I've ever seen him throw, he was dissecting the course. There were a bunch of holes where we used all of his shots, wouldn't be surprised if half the shots we used were his.

Very enjoyable course, we'll go back again for sure. Only areas for improvement would be addition of some benches and a few "next tee" signs for navigation (not that it was bad). Only other quibble was the design on Hole 14 where many discs will ricochet onto private property. But that doesn't take anything away from a wonderful course that was a pleasure to throw.

Traditional new course picture. Think this is our 60th course?

Putting on Hole 1 (drilled it for a 3):

Hole 2 I think. He threw the hyzer line. I went straight up the gut. We used his drive.

Hole 5, massive downhill hole. Me: "you don't need a driver." Him: "I want to throw a driver." Me: "Okay." Him: <about to massively overthrow hole but hits tree and falls down for putt> We use his drive . . .

Me: What are you doing? Him: You'll see. Me: You see that hyzer line, right? Him: Yeah, just watch . . . anny flex forehand . . . I got closer but he had the better putt . . .