The courses are amazing! They're very challenging, but soo well designed. Beautiful holes and spectacular views without a ski hill climb. The Des Moines courses are somewhat comparable, especially Pickard, but the Highbridge courses are at another level. There are big and small ponds scattered throughout the courses and once the waterfalls and streams are installed, which you can already see where some of them are going, I doubt that there will be anywhere to compare this place to. Especially after all 10 courses are in. I recommend everybody to go there. I wish them success and hope it's there for many years to come.

Sounds awesome. I continue to hear great reviews regarding this complex. Definitely looking forward to seeing the courses next year! :)

After playing Mid nationals a few weeks ago, I have to say this place is better than first two times I was there last summer. Played Gold, Blueberry and Woodland Greens and they were each incredible in their own way! I was a bit worried about playing the Gold course, but it played tough and fun. It's cool to play a course with real par 4s and 5s.

The people were all super cool, the weather was awesome and folks playing Pro Worlds there next year will have a blast ! The facilities there have been better each time I've been there, too: showers, restrooms, porta-toilets, the campsites are shaping up nice, swimming hole up the road.

<font size=5> <u>Highbridge Hills Course Review</u> </font>

As many of you know, I run a course review website where I review and rank the disc golf courses I've played. Last week at Pro Worlds 2007 was my first visit to Highbridge Hills, and as a disc golf complex, imo Highbridge beats the two courses at Marshall Street, Warwick Town Park, Circle R Ranch in Wimberely, and narrowly edges my former personal favorite, the two courses at Paw Paw. Individually, the Highbridge Gold course may now be my favorite of all time. With its combination of gold level length, big elevation changes, woods/open balance, variety, and AWESOME VIEWS, it trumps everything I’ve ever seen. It’s one of the few courses in my life that I was emotionally moved by, as there were several “ooo-ah” moments when I saw the views from the tees or came over ridges to see polehole locations, several of which were tucked down in beautiful hollows.

If you want to see pictures of the courses to give a frame of reference, click here: http://www.playdg.com/

Individually, Blueberry Hill and Granite Ridge are definitely in my top 20. Blueberry Hill is a little shorter but has a great balance between open and woods. The par 5 hole#8 is the signature hole on that course (I was enthused to score a birdie 4 on it) and the par four 12th hole is fantastic as well, which I also birdied. I also love the gem that is hole#2, and the "peek-a-boo" sightline on hole#3. On the flip side, holes#14 and #16 may be my least favorite on the entire complex, and it’s annoying that you finish hole#17 at the top of the hill but are forced to play the short downhill#18 and then walk back up again.

Granite Ridge is longer and more open; maybe a little too open for my tastes. Hole#3 is a spectacular 580-ft. par 3 with a huge elevation drop. The par four 12th hole may be my favorite on the entire complex which is really saying something considering the number of awesome holes on the Highbridge Gold course. On the flip side, holes#8 and 11 are right next to each other and play very, very similarly, and the uphill slog on holes#17 & 18 to finish is a grind. As opposed to hole#4 on the Bear and hole#8 on Blueberry and most of the par 5s on the Highbridge Gold course, Granite Ridge#18 is less about placement and more about throwing as far as you can.

The front 7 holes of the unfinished Bear course are what I pictured a course in the woods of northern Wisconsin would look like - simply gorgeous. They play as long holes over rolling terrain through woods with generous fairways and dense rough off the fairway - imagine what a cross country ski trail might look in the summertime. The par five 4th hole is a masterpiece! Chuck Kennedy reports that hole 8 is 1000 ft slow turnover downhill with the pin perched on the right side of a ravine with a view toward the north on the approach, and it's descriptions such as that which have me excited to return some day to see a finished Bear course.

I saw holes 8-18 of the Woodland Greens course but didn't get to see the front 7 or the Chestnut Grove course. From what I'm told these are excellent green and red level holes that will serve as an introduction to disc golf for new and recreational players. Even from the shortest tees, the Blueberry Hill couse might be too much course for some novice players.

Again, I can’t say enough about the Highbridge Gold course – it was simply spectacular. There’s hardly one “clunker” on the entire course. The first pro par five, #3, just has so many options it’s not even funny, which include hyzer or anhyzer off the tee, and on the second shot: hyzer, anhyzer, or sky hyzer over all the trees. The second par 5, hole#6 has just a simply marvelous polehole position where the basket lies in a bowl at the bottom of the hole. The view from the elevated ball golf teepads of the par six 8th hole is just unreal. At 1335’ it’s supposedly the longest permanent hole in the world. Hole#11 has another really neat polehole position in a bowl that had me ooing. Same with hole#12 which is simply sublime with an approach through hemlocks. Not much to say about the island hole#16 except that it will look sweet when the pump is installed and water flows from the river on hole#17 down into the moat surrounding the basket of 16. The pro par four 18th hole is just about everything you could ask for in a finishing hole with scenic ball golf tee pads, woods on each side to catch errant shots, and OB near the basket which is perched in a picturesque spot.

About the only negative to the Highbridge Gold course, and the complex in general, is the second class condition of the shorter tees. Whereas the longest tees on most Highbridge courses are wide, flush with the ground, and have tees signs, many white tees at Highbridge are unlabeled, skinny, cracked, and in some cases still have the wood framework and/or metal poles around them. PDGA Course Design Guidelines stipulate that “on courses with alternate tees on some holes, the tees in the shorter positions should always be better or at least equal in quality to those in longer positions. For example, avoid designs where the long tee pads are cement and short tee pads are grass or dirt.” The alternate tees seem to go against these guidelines.

But all in all, I can't say enough good things about these courses which are the premier ones in our sport. In time, I predict Highbridge will be known as the "Pebble Beach" or "Augusta" of the disc golfing world. If you've been to Winthrop, Warwick, Paw Paw, Circle R Ranch, Delaveaga, Idlewild, etc. but haven't had the opportunity to make it out to Highbridge WI you owe it yourself to see and play these courses ASAP. :cool:

From: http://www.highbridgehillssc.com/


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