Arcadia Lake disc golf courses very playable
Arcadia Lake disc golf courses very playable

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By Micah Gamino
Published: July 24, 2008

EDMOND — Maintaining one disc golf course costs money, much less two courses.

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So when I had to pay $7 to play Edmond's two 18-hole disc golf courses at Arcadia Lake recently, I didn't complain — particularly because Edmond is proud owner of the only 36-hole disc golf park in Oklahoma, according to the Professional Disc Golf Association's Web site.

What's more, the $7 constitutes an all-day pass to Arcadia Lake and all it has to offer — from camping and fishing to swimming and boating.

When I asked Earl London, Edmond's superintendent of park operations, why Edmond has one of the state's few pay-to-play disc golf courses, he reminded me of another important fact: the cost is $7 for a car load. Next time, I will bring some of my disc golfing buddies to help foot the bill.

But on to the most important bit of information: the niceness and the playability of the two courses. I like the courses at Arcadia. The holes are short. The tee boxes are well marked and the fairways are nicely mowed.

The problem is the narrowness of the holes. I incurred a penalty stroke each of the three times I lost a disc in the dense shrubbery that lines the fairways.

London agreed the biggest complaint he hears about Arcadia is that the fairways are too narrow, and the shrubbery too dense.

Justin Barr, one of the founding members of the newly formed Edmond Disc Golf Association, pointed out, however, that some golfers like the courses to be kept as "wild and wooly” as possible to preserve their natural feel. But I don't buy it. At $7 to $10 a pop, discs aren't cheap.

In the end, though, I survived a full round of disc golf in 95-degree heat, but only one 18-hole round. The heat kept me from taking on all 36 holes. And, in my opinion, I was doing well just to be out there.


 

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