Maple Hill Reopens!

[Tom Southwick]

It's a Christmas miracle! Maple Hill is open for play. Bring your skates for pond hockey.

[Dave Hickson]

I asked for a longer drive for Xmas. Well I went to maple to play golds and found out I didn't get it.

[Kevin Gardner]

Staying open??
A friend of mine is home from college, he:
a) has discs in the lost and found
b) needs a christmas present from me aka a new epic
c) may want to get a round in if possible there...

[Mike Davis]

how much snow you guys end up with there?

[Tim Carter]

How are the tees looking up there? any shovel action? were they clear before this week's storm anyway? I'm weighing options for tomorrow's round. (what else do people think about at work on friday?)

Might be breaking out the snowshoes AND the shovel...

[Caesar Palache]

What time are you heading out T. Carter? Maybe I'll grab my shovel and give you a hand.

[Tim Carter]

Yes Mike! I will be taking my usual six on the practice basket around 12. Could do earlier if you prefer. I say white course, seems appropriate. Anyone want to join us in paradise? Anyone care to wager on whether we will finish within three hours?

[Kevin Gardner]

I could be there on Sunday...
I'd shovel all the tee pads for a free round

[Tom Southwick]

I don't think you know the scope of the snow situation here. I highly doubt you would finish a round with no shoveling, but if you want to try, its free- but only if you finish the round! Muahhahaahahhahah.

[Jeff Burrows]

Yes Mike! I will be taking my usual six on the practice basket around 12. Could do earlier if you prefer. I say white course, seems appropriate. Anyone want to join us in paradise? Anyone care to wager on whether we will finish within three hours?

T.Carter, you've never finished any round in 3 hours, even without shoveling. Or you'd lose the shovel somewhere.

[Tim Carter]

I drove up today; I now understand the scope of the snow. I would estimate the snow in the parking lot at 4 feet. Conservative estimate. I could not envision getting to the first tee. Where did you guys get so much snow? Kevin if you get through a round there tomorrow, like woah.

But hope springs eternal in leicester. There are paths tromped through the silver layout at Pyramids and the tees over there are shovelled courtesy of some hard core lunatics. Snow is waist deep in many places. Very fun.

[Craig Cutler]

Is Maple Hill playable these days?

[Aaron Ala]

100% There might be 1 or 2 red tee's that we missed otherwise it's playing great, and after the crazy melt we had the past 2 days I'm sure snow pack is a little more manageable.

A bunch of played the Whites on Saturday with no issues.

[Joe Yaskis]

Looking to possibly play here on Wed or Thursday of this week around 315. Anybody interested?

[Jeff Wiechowski]

OK who's the goofboy? 1 of 5 discs rating??!!! I haven't even played the course and I KNOW this is just wrong............

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/reviews.php?id=119&page=1&mode=rev#29134

[Matt Stroika]

OK who's the goofboy? 1 of 5 discs rating??!!! I haven't even played the course and I KNOW this is just wrong............

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/reviews.php?id=119&page=1&mode=rev#29134

Its an honest review from a beginner and I would agree. This is not your town park pitch and putt course.

[Matt Heenan]

OK who's the goofboy? 1 of 5 discs rating??!!! I haven't even played the course and I KNOW this is just wrong............

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/reviews.php?id=119&page=1&mode=rev#29134

Its an honest review from a beginner and I would agree. This is not your town park pitch and putt course.

Red Course is.

[Jeff Wiechowski]

Its an honest review from a beginner and I would agree. This is not your town park pitch and putt course.

But 1 of 5 rating? I was under the assumption that the rating should be based on the course amenities(tees, baskets, signage, etc) not the perceived difficulty of a beginner. Borderland kicks my azz every time I play it but I'd give it 4.5 of 5 because the course pretty much has it all.

[Matt Stroika]

Never played the red course so I wouldn't know.

There are no set rules for how you assess a course at DGCR. I am not defending the 1 star rating just saying that he gave an honest assessment of the course from a beginners perspective. His advice, go to Pyramids and take it easy on yourself and your disc supply if you are not proficient at throwing yet. I agree.

[Karl Molitoris]

And thus is the whole problem with "ratings".

While dgcoursereview has a lot of good things going for it, one of the weakest parts (IMO) is the ratings. It quantifies these ratings using numbers basically 0 through 5 inclusive, and allows only for 0.5 point increments.

Also there is the matter of what one feels is a 4 might be another's 3, etc. (subjectivity at its finest ).

And of course there is the inherent bias as to what one person believes is "worthy" (of a criteria parameter...and how much weight to place on that one aspect) and what another person believes.

But the biggest travesty of it all is that it really only gives the 'rater' 1 task - rate THIS course.
In our sport, this is akin to someone rating both the best Little League field in the world AND applying those same criteria to rating Fenway Park. Think Mr. LL field will get the same grade as Fenway?
Yet the LL field actually may be much better FOR WHAT IT WAS DESIGNED FOR; it was just designed for something that now - in a person's life - seems "inferior".

And remember, ALL anyone really sees (in the dgcr rating scheme) is "what's the number?"

Karl

[Matt Stroika]

Exactly Karl. This is why you need to read the words. I have my favorite reviewers who basically have the same likes/dislikes as me and I trust their words as well as their numbers. It just takes some time to get a feel for what is and is not BS.

[Jeff Wiechowski]

The way i interpreted goofboy's review is that he rated the course based on how he played it, not what the course had to offer as a disc golf course.

[Karl Molitoris]

While YOU may take the time to read, discern the wheat from the chaff, know "trusted reviewers", and the like, the fact is that MOST people - especially looking for a "new place to play" - just look at the number.

And while I understand that this (dgcr) is just one source of dg information, the fact that they've taken the time to set up such an elaborate web site with such a great amount of information and have NOT taken the time to figure out further deliniations as to "what IS the purpose of said course"...and rate off of THAT, proves an injustice for those potentially excellent "learning courses".

No skin off my head...just a bummer. Oh well.

Karl

Aw, and maybe we should get back on the thread theme....

[Craig Cutler]

Joey, let me know the conditions, thanks, Is the Vibram layout playable? got some scores to settle.

[Aaron Ala]

The Vibram layout is playable.

[Craig Cutler]

NICE. THANKS. 8 AM TEE SUNDAY MORNING 3 13 IF ANYONE IS LOOKING

[Dave Jackson]

course is looking tit.