Quivira DGC - Marquette

July 8, 2016
8:15 AM
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Quivira DGC is a 9 hole course in Marquette, Kansas. It was installed in 2016 and the ribbon cutting was on July 4 of that year. Each hole has a sign, 8’ cement pad, DISCatcher basket and nice bench. Interestingly, the course was totally financed by a previous city clerk…who doesn’t play disc golf.
 
I’d never been to Marquette before so I wasn’t sure what to expect. Like a lot of my travels, I always wonder about small town disc courses, but I’ve stopped judging before I see them. I was able to see pics of the tee signs before I got there and wondered about all the trees. It was easy to assume that if there were ball fields and ball diamonds in the immediate area, it would be a fairly open course. Boy did I set myself up!
 
I met a friend, Bentley Richert, at the course to show me around. He was nice to have along simply because there are a couple of walks from baskets to tees I didn’t have to spend time on. I could have figured it out on my own, but it’s more fun with someone else. Having played it several times, he was of great help my first time through. The permanent signs will have arrows for Next Tee.
 
The first three holes are open fairways and are the only holes with marked OB.
 
Hole 1 (314’) throws down a line of trees on the left to an opening on the left and a slightly elevated basket with trees around it and a drop-off behind.
 
Hole 2 (252’) tees out of trees across the corner of a football field and back into an opening in trees to the left.
 
Hole 3 (315’) is mostly open and a baseball field comes into play. I only saw one way into the fenced field and it was a ladder over the fence close to the tee. Bentley thought they were working on a second entrance closer to the basket. Noted after my drive ended up 5’ inside the fence close to the basket!
 
The rest of the holes are in the trees and I do mean trees. Every fairway was somewhat congested. I remember thinking on 3 holes there was no way to get to the basket on my drive. After two times around that was proven wrong by either Bentley or myself.
 
Hole 4 (217’) started the tree madness. It actually had a couple of old telephone poles as well. The fairway was straight, the line was not.
 
Hole 5 (319’) looks longer than it is and the closer you get to the basket the more trees you see. While it is a par 3, I believe that par is going to be a really good score on that hole for a lot of people.
 
Hole 6 (107’) is ‘short’ and it goes from high to high with a deep drop-off to a creek in between and of course some trees. There is also a deep drop-off to the right of the basket. The second time around, Bentley and I both had drives that made it through the trees to the basket, but hit a tree behind it and ended up down in that drop-off.
 
Hole 7 (176’) is fun to look at from the tee. You’re staring through a bridge that has a triple mando looking at a fairway with trees and a dry creek on the right.
 
Hole 8 (169’) has a big ‘Finger’ tree about a quarter of the way to the basket. The creek runs in a shallow dip across the fairway with thicker shrubby trees to the left of the basket. Amazingly, I made it to the basket my first time.
 
Hole 9 (294’) has lots of trees, one mando and two paths; one to the left and one to the right. Where those two paths meet is a few trees lined up like a fence to go through, but it’s not so tight you can’t get through. The first time I went right and got a bit deep and ended up in some shrubby trees and there was no good path out. The second time I tried an anhyzer down the left path with some good success, but a got a bad bounce off a tree at the end.
 
I really enjoyed playing Quivira DGC. Most of the course is technical and overall not very long. It reminds me a bit of Cowskin Creek DGC in Colwich on a smaller basis. I remember walking up to tee 15 (Hole 7) and thinking, “I can’t wait to come back and give this another shot.” If you’re in the area, you definitely want to stop and give this course a play, but leave the big guns in the bag and bring your finesse game.
 
Note: You do need to be aware of poison ivy and deer ticks. I did not have either of those problems, but I am glad I brought some good bug spray to help with the mosquitos!