My wife and I are heading over to the Seattle are this weekend. She has a 2 day conference and I have to days to fill with disc golf at courses I've never played. We will be staying in Sumner and it looks like the closest courses are Riverside, White River, and Steilacoom with SeaTac and a few others a little farther away. I want to play Steilacoom bad but am wondering which other course/courses are kind of the must plays. I have not played anything on the west side. Thought and opinions would be appreciated.
SeaTac is a bruiser but is awesome. Seatac and Steilly for sure.
my buddy trevor is runnin a dubs league fridays at 5pm at seatac fyi...
http://www.discgolfscene.com/courses/Seatac_DGC
^pics from teepads, course description
I got to play the NW and SE courses at Steilacoom yesterday. Each course was very fun with some nice tough holes, some pretty easy ones and some that could go either way. I think of the few people I ran into no single group was playing the same layout as me and many were confused when I asked about being in the right spot. With the courses I played they were pretty easy to follow with the map I had with the exception of a couple holes. I'll have to play the 27 hole layout some other time. On both courses I got a couple early birdies then nothing after and dropped off. I was +6 on the SE course with going OB 2x (+4 without OB) and +2 on the NW course with no missed Mandos or OB. Could have played better for sure but the goal was just the experience not a stellar score. I am planning on hitting up White River and Riverside today.
Well, I got to play 4 new courses in 2 day last weekend. On Sat. I played the NW and SE courses at Steilacoom, what a great place for disc golf. I had to battle the rain a little bit but that was not unexpected. I played OK but had fun, I am now trying to work the Steilacoom Open into my summer plans, it would be my first A-Tier.
On Sunday I got to play White River in Aubern and Riverside in Sumner. White River is a great course in a great setting. It really reminded me of a much longer Timberbeast. It had some great holes - some short and technical and some long fun ones. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone. I was a little confused insome spots because they modify some holes for the summer and winter layout but overall it was pretty easy to follow and had a red course (shorter) and a blue (longer) course. I played blue and think I shot +3 because of a couple of OB and missed mandos that I counted even though I was only playing by myself. Great course.
I was less than impressed with Riverside, it was just a confusing cluster with discs flying everywhere depending on which of the poorly marked layouts people were playing, if they were even playing an official layout or just throwing from one random tee to one random basket. I started following the blue course and promptly lost it after the second hole so I decide to play the red course which I did manage to find all 18 holes on but was still confusing. I actually would probably not go back and play there again unless I was with someone who really wanted to play it.
I'll have to save the 27 hole layout at Steily and SeaTac for another time.
Definitely play the two courses at Steilacoom. The NW course especially is a amazing, but the SE course is very good, too.
Seatac is a solid course, but be ready for a lot of par 4 holes. It is the toughest course I've ever played.
Lakewood is a short drive up I-5 from Seatac, and is a pretty good course. I think it was an old golf course, but it translates well to disc golf. Its a good course, and you should play it if you have time, but it isn't as good as Steilly or Seatac.
I haven't played Riverside or White River, so I'll leave the opinions up to others on those two.
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