Day 1953
After months of my hinting and cajoling Danny finally decided that today was the day for us to go and throw Caesar Ford Park DGC. It has been open for a year or two now and it's a long championship level course. We thought it was fairly open so we put it off for quite a while since "long and open" courses are not on the top of our list.
The weather was cold and sunny with a high of 42, so it was nice for January. Long drive up to CFP, it's nearly an hour away in Xenia, OH. Of interesting note to me is that it starts and ends at the amphitheater they used for the play "Blue Jacket" about Simon Kenton, Blue Jacket and Tecumseh . . . which I once saw as a small boy. The main thing I remember from it was the amphitheater seating and *booming* cannons during the play.
We played from the white tees today and didn't expect too much since we thought it was a long, open course, but we ended up loving it. There are a few more open holes than at Echo Valley, but overall it has plenty of wooded holes and wooded entries and exits to make it fun and challenging. Way more wooded and technical than I expected. The layout is well designed using the woods and creek(s) to good effect and they even managed to do the "Infinity symbol" loop where the front 9 and back 9 both go out and return from the starting point so you can start with the front 9 or back 9.
Naturally we enjoyed the more wooded holes the most, but the whole course was enjoyable. I particularly liked Holes 2, 4, 17 & 18. 17 has an elevated basket inside of a fenced area and to get there you have to drive/approach through a gauntlet of trees. 18 is like Idlewild's 18 where you have to get through a long wooded area to get out of the gap (while starting by throwing over a creek). Very challenging.
We played doubles and shot a 60 which I think is pretty good (shows as 9-under on the course pars) considering we were playing it blind.
Beautiful course, great design, perfect 1-2 punch for Dayton-area disc golf with Echo Valley. I have to imagine they are dreaming of making a bid for Worlds someday with two championship level courses and the amphitheater seating overlooking Hole 18.
Is CFP better than Idlewild, equal or worse? I don't know, at some point how much you enjoy a course is subjective so it is enough to say it is in the same fantastic class as Idlewild and leave it at that.
One con: no benches -- CFP is a *long* course to have no place to sit down. Same thing for Echo Valley.
Best pic I took, this was Hole 4, basket is way up there on the hill:
This was his out-of-the-car drive on Hole 1:
Putting out on Hole 6 -- there is a pin position much closer to the creek, this one isn't too scary:
Pics of the aforementioned amphitheater. This would be the perfect place to finish Worlds with 1000 people watching in the "stands."
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