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218 River Rd
Unionville, CT 06085-1051
(860) 675-GOLF

Price: $5.00

Par: 48

Difficulty: 8

Creativity: 4

Atmosphere: 7

As far as atmosphere goes on this course, you can’t get much of a better surrounding. The Farmington River runs right by the outer edge of the course muck like, but much bigger than, the river running past the Olde Sawmill course. The course also has a wonderful new carpet that, when matched with the rest of the landscaping, produces a pleasant sight to the eye. However, this course also lacks a tee spot on the nice carpets, which makes it tough to have a uniform starting spot and is a general dislike of our rating group. Other than these major point, there is nothing hat really adds or subtracts to the atmosphere except for the proper upkeep of the course which is always a plus.

Like about half the courses we play, creativity here relies on the use of different contoured land, small obstacles such as bricks and rocks, and the use of water. In particular, this course relies heavily on integrating its water system with ponds to avoid, streams to jump and waterwheels to roll your ball down. On about half the holes that use water, it is used as a penalty, whereas on the other half your ball will still end up on the carpet, albeit not in the greatest of locations.

On the whole, this course is on the difficult side. There are some easy holes and with a good string of luck or skill, it is quite possible to do well. Most holes have a couple of ways to approach them, giving you the choice between easy but possibly more strokes or hard with possibly less strokes. This is the way a good course should be designed. One particularly nasty hole had a cup on the top of a bump. Missing the cup still gave you a good run at the actual cup, but if you hit the first cup you were practically guaranteed a hole-in-one. The only real deduction is that there are a few areas in which one should hit the ball hard but doing so will likely result in hitting it off the mat because of the way the edge is designed.

All told, we ran across another good mini-golf. It definitely is one of the better courses we’ve played, although not quite as good as some of them. It’s only about 5-10 minutes down the road from Farmington Mini-Golf, and playing both those courses in the same day will surely provide a for some pleasant fun.

Reviewed by Pat, Mandy and Scott

Reviewed in 2004

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Course Pictures (click to enlarge)