6800 Rowland Road, Eden Prairie
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
(763) 694-7764

When you drive into the Park there will be a guard shack but don't worry it's free to play. 

As you enter the park (just after the shack) you will have to take a left for parking.  Hole one is to the right of your left turn and up some wooden stairs.  If the first parking lot is full there is another one a little further down the road and visible from the first parking lot.  Park on the left hand side of the second parking lot because there is a chance your ride will be hit by a disc from Hole 11 tee box located up the bluff from the two parking lots.

All of the tee boxes are conctrete, all holes have a long and short tee box and the course always leads you to the long tee first.  The course mostly flows and makes sense.  If you have issues it is a busy park and people are very nice.

The short tee box on hole one has score cards and a map of the course.  Holes 1,2 and 3 are pretty straight forward.  The course course has definite fairways and rough.  The rough is mostly wild grass, golden rod and random sucker trees.  For tall cotton it's not that bad to find your disc.

Hole one is a straight shot, Hole two is a slight dog leg left and blind.  Hole three has a grove of scrub trees to the left and it front of the basket.

Then there is hole four.  From hole three walk into the trees up the path. Quickly the path will make a hard right to the long tee box.  Hole four is a dog leg right and has good gradual incline up a hill.  If you ca't stay on the fairway stay to the right.  The rough isn't bad to find a disc.  If you go left into the woods especially to the left of the tree clump in the middle of the fairway, half way into the hole the landscape goes down a steep hill.  Also the land behind basket four drops down pretty steep.

Hole five is also up a hill, blind from the long tee box.  It's not too difficult but don't over throw the basket.  Another steep hill awaits discs that are over thrown.

Hole six is one hell of a view.  you can see the Bloomington skyline, the steeple of one of those mega churches and a lake. You have two options on this hole Throw a boomer straight down the big hill and chip to the left.  Or you can try your handy dandy Dog Leg left blind shot.  We saw people posted half way down the hill to mark the blind shots.  It's a fun hole.

Hole seven is a slight dog leg left with tree branches overhanging to give you a challenge. 

Hole eight is a somewhat blind dog leg left.  There is a swamp to the left but you would really have to choke the shot to go in the swamp. 

Once you hit the basket on eight it seems like the course is over.  This is where I think the course has flow issue.  You start heading back towards your car and easily find hole nine.

Hole nine and ten are nothing more that a way to get to hole eleven.  I'll explain in a minute.

Hole nine is a throw up a rocky hill with 10 year old elms.  You are basically working your way up the hill.  The hole is fine but it just feels forced.

Hole 10 is a nusance hole.  The hole dog legs left and there is a big clump of trees that blocks you shot to the hole.  The area to the left is a steep ride down a ravine.  Basically people were doing a very short chip shot lay up to get around the trees.  On cool thing about the hole is the glacial rock formation sitting near the basket.

Then there is eleven.  This hole is a big booming shot off a big hill.  There is a parking lot to the right (at the bottom) and a large tree to the left.  This tree can grab your disc messing up your shot.  It's is a fun shot and is similar to hole eighteen at Elvers Park in Madison.  The main difference is that Bryant Park has built really nice stairs whereas Elvers is a walk down through tall cotton.

Hole twelve is the final hole.  People are under the perception this course will be going to 18 holes but who knows.

Hole twelve is a deceivingly long hole.  Some what boring but you don't have a lot to worry about in regards to losing your disc.

Bryant Lake Park get's a lot of use.  Yesterday alone a high school kid played through.  Two Civil Engineers in dockers, polo's and dress shoes played a round one was limping from achillies tendon surgery.  He didn't look like a tuff guy but that is not a surgery I want to put on my list.

Then back at the parking lot a kid who looked like a young Bob Weir was strumming his accoustic guitar.  He had lamb chops like Neil Young circa 1972.  I couldn't hear what he was playing.  I like to think if he was playing Neil Young.  It should have been either, "I am a Child" or "A Man needs a Maid."

Earl and Pablo didn't want me to review this course.  Everything you read about this course lives up to it's billing.  Though I still think it has flow issues.  But hey, if this is your neighborhood park it's a hell of a lot better than most.

I give Bryant Lake Regional Park a three out of five discs.  If you disagree get back to me when this is an 18 hole course.   Also, since nine and ten are laughable holes you are really talking about a ten hole course as is.

Johnny Rocket. 

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