+ well-maintained in clean park setting
+ several intimidating holes test players to throw near or over OB water
+ uncrowded and often empty

- one third of course is flat and featureless, offering no challenge except distance
- holes #2-6 provide tough challenge due to close proximity to pond with narrow, sloped fairways and greens from which discs often skip or roll OB into water, especially for LHBH throwers
- four wooded holes (#7-8 & #11-12) are extremely narrow, short ace runs which would benefit from being combined together into longer, wider holes
- a few long walks between holes
- fairways for a third of the holes overlap sidewalks frequently in use by pedestrians
- course lacks a welcome sign to direct players new to the course in determining the layout or where to begin
- several natural tees are uneven, especially on #5-6 which slope sharply towards the pond
- wild flower areas which are not mowed during spring season crowd the fairways and greens of #5-6 & #15-16 with tall grasses which can be a nuisance to play through
- good chance to lose disc(s) throughout course to one of three ponds or a creek in the woods

INFO
Course plays alongside three ponds, around two baseball fields, beside meandering sidewalks and through wooded creek banks on far east side of popular multi-use city park. Moore Road dead ends into park from surrounding neighborhood, leading to parking adjacent to #9 basket and #10 tee where front nine and back nine loops converge. Course layout forms a horseshoe around parking lot with tangents extending along sidewalks out toward ponds. Restrooms available at recreation center in park located much farther west of course.

EVAL
Despite daunting water hazards on early holes #2-6, the overabundance of unimaginative holes plus the inclusion of paltry short, wooded holes makes this course feel monotonous after only one round. The few exceptions to the general lackluster design skew rather punitively with risky shots that heavily favor RHBH throwers and often prove more frustrating than challenging due to threatening OB water near those fairways and greens.

Beginning players will be overwhelmed by the OB water holes while experienced players will find the challenges unfairly risky and the course lacking in variety. All will quickly tire of repeatedly throwing uninspiring shots and fretting over losing discs in the pond despite best efforts or cautious play. The natural grass tees show little sign of wear which indicates just how seldom this course gets played. I only recommend playing here to practice field work, to get in a quick round or as an occasional diversion.

NOTE
Andrew Brown is a bit of a misnomer now as this course is actually located in Moore Road Park. It was originally installed at Andrew Brown Park East in 1994 as a 9-hole course around ponds and a play area. The the course was expanded, redesigned and eventually relocated farther east along Denton Creek to adjacent Moore Road Park which has its own entrance distinct from Andrew Brown Park East.

LAYOUT
Walk east from the parking lot up towards a sidewalk atop a berm to the first tee. The course starts with a short toss toward the neighborhood on hole #1 plus a bit of a walk along the sidewalk and past a stormwater channel to the next tee. The next five holes, #2-6, wrap around a pond with risky OB water hazard all along the right made even more perilous by fairways and greens sloping down to the water. Holes #2-3 play out in the open, hole #4 features a hidden green tucked in woods beside the pond and holes #5-6 are flanked by woodlands to the left of their narrow fairways. Across the sidewalk very short holes #7-8 double back through the woods with a lengthy walk required thereafter to reach next tee #9.

Holes #9-10 play back and forth across an open field near the parking lot. Across the sidewalk two more very short holes, #11-12, follow curved trails through woods. (These hidden holes uphill from the sidewalk are easily missed, especially as #13 is clearly visible nearby and often mistaken for the next tee.) The reaminder of the holes all play out in the open with holes #13-14 lying beyond the outfield of ball fields to the left and holes #15-16 playing along a small hillside near a second pond. A short walk doubles back to hole #17 which skirts the pond on the right. Final hole #18 throws to a green near a third pond on the left.

It's the closest to my house
some short, tight fun holes

Holes 3 & 4 are on a slope that rolls into the deep lake
Wide open holes are boring

Agree with everybody else, drive the extra couple minutes, but don't go to the lake because it's getting too crowded

Had a good time playing 12/12/09 on this course. It was cloudy and the wind wasn't blowing very hard. The course was well maintained and some of the holes (5 and 6) are different than any of the other courses I've played. Being the middle of December and 45 degrees, there weren't that many people there. Our group was the only people playing the course = a fun pace. On the open part of the course, the grass was mowed. On 5 and 6 that are right next to the pond, the grass was about a foot tall... keeping discs from rolling into the pond. In the wooded area, it wasn't badly overgrown as I would imagine it would be in the summer. A lot of birds at the park... the ponds were nice to look at.

There is a very good chance of losing a disc in the pond (especially on holes 3, 5, 6 and 17). The basket on 14 was leaning pretty bad... if you went past it to the right, you couldn't put it in the basket because the chains were hanging straight to the edge of the basket causing spits on direct hits on the chains. The open holes were just flat fields with no trees. The wooded holes were really short. Quite a few doggy land mines near the path. A little too easy.

Update: Played again 8/13/11 and baskets 7 and 8 are gone. This downgrades the rating of this course. It wasn't as fun this time. More people to wait on.

It was fun playing this course, so I gave it a good rating. It's not one the best in DFW, but far from unplayable. The course was in good shape making for a nice round. I can see how a lot of joggers, dog walkers, baseball games and a lack of mowing or overgrown wooded areas would severely lower the score. It might not be as much fun in the wind either, but the scores under 1.5 are really unfair. If you want a waste of a course, try Springfield Park in Rowlett. That course is the example of a waste of your time. This course is certainly playable and hole 6 in particular was challenging and fun to play (even with the limited tee area and the pond).

Update: played in the summer. Not as much fun. Too many people to wait on. Missing baskets.

Like I said an interesting course... A mix of some VERY EASY holes, with a few that were nearly impossible.

The holes that were nearly impossible to me were that way because of lack of care, hole # 6 for instance plays along the lakeside and the teebox allows for nearly no runup and is completely overgrown with tall weeds all the way to the basket with no route to walk on without "busting brush"... Hole #8, I believe was supposed to be down a narrow cooridor... But guess what??? There was next to no cooridor!!! and the path to the basket was strewn with Poison Ivy and Poison Oak, and all sorts of other prickly type bushes. If you got off the path your lie was generally very unforgiving... Even the so called "easy" holes had their challenges, most of them had the walking path or some part of the multiple softball fields coming into play, which could definately slow or interupt play depending on the time of day you play...

"Interesting" but not so much that I will go out of my way to play this course again...