MacGregor Park

This review is for the disc golf course. The course has potential. It’s pretty technical which is fun. There are some long shots. The problem with the course is that it’s hard to tell what launch point goes with each goal. The grass could be shorter as well.

I visited this park in order to volunteer at the annual Easter Egg Hunt Festival. I The festival was going to start at 10;30am.I arrived around 8;30am. I saw a lot of people playing tennis. I arrived the festival venue. I started preparing for the festival. I put candy in eggs. Some people said that this is the largest Easter Egg Hunt festival in Texas. At least, I saw countless eggs.
It seemed to me that the most volunteers were from churches. They were nice. They didn’t say anything to me when I ate candy.LOL.I ate only 2 or 3 candy. At 10;30am, kids started running for hunting eggs. We needed more eggs. Again, I started putting candy in eggs.
Around 11 am, a volunteer manager asked me to wear a Easter Bunny costume and play with kids. I put costume. I was excited. But It was heavy and hot! Some kid came to me.” Bunny. I can get candy for you’. How nice he was! But it was too hot and heavy. I was almost down. I saw some word” He (Jesus Christ) is risen”. The word encouraged me. I started working again.
Another volunteer manager came to me. Mark, «Please pick up trash».I walked around the park. I saw a lot of people enjoying carnival, music and egg hunts. It was a great park and festival. A man at McDonald booth asked me to clean the booth. he told me «I will give you some free food». I cleaned Mac’s tent. It was true I got something, but it says’ Buy Egg muffin, get one free”. This was my real Easter Egg Hunt!
Around 2pm, I left the festival. People praised my hardwork. I saw people who were cooking BBQ. I asked them «Are you selling BBQ?» They said yes. I bought BBQ for $ 7. That was the best Texas BBQ! I love BBQ! I will definitely return the festival in 2015!

The city should be ashamed of themselves, but if they are hardly policing the drug infested parks near downtown, why would I expect them to patrol through a park that is minutes from two colleges and just steps from a neighborhood. This is my second time here, in as many months and there are dice games in the parking lot, drinking at every bench, and every tree is a urinal.
Darn, I’m probably going to get beat up when they find out I posted this.

For a long time I was deeply annoyed with the disc golf course here. It is exceptionally biased towards right-​handed players. Not just in the usual sense that the obvious flight path for the throw favors the right arm, but in the more profound sense that on at least two baskets there is a significant risk of losing a disc in the bayou — if you’re left handed.
But, having spent a lot of time at Tom Bass and Agnes Moffitt recently, I can at least say that MacGregor is way ahead in terms of maintenance of the course, quality of the tee boxes (Tom Bass doesn’t even have them), and variety of link design — it is the only course with proper beginner, amateur and pro level tees.
I think Agnes Moffitt is still my favorite in so far as there is no risk whatever of losing a disc in water, there, and that makes for a more relaxed day, but MacGregor is quicker/​easier for me to get to, and given that I almost exclusively play in the afternoon during commuter rush, that matters a lot.
The only real complaint I can make is that I nearly got mugged there, yesterday (hooray for street smarts and spider sense). The non-​disc golf patrons of this park can vary a great deal from very friendly families to the clearly criminal.

This park has a very decent disc golf course. Not many places in Houston can you find an 18-​hole course with plenty of open spaces. The one complaint I have about this park is the surrounding areas and the crowd the park brings once the sun goes down. I would not feel comfortable with my wife being here by herself during the day or night. I wouldn’t personally be there without some form of personal security.

This isn’t a bad park. It is next to UH, which should be a plus for people who live on campus. It is however in the Ward, and there have been shootings there, so I wouldn’t go after dark. It has a decent disc golf course which has recently been updated. It has picnic tables, oddly located in the middle of the course at times, but otherwise, that’s good. It also has a playground and a covered pavilion, where while visiting the park, I have seen many birthday parties hosted. It’s dog friendly and generally quiet.
The Verdict: Decent disc golf course, and inside the loop. Score!