Variety and shots required to score well:

Although not a very long course or super treed course it still offers challenges in line shaping and placement. Many holes look straight off the tee and basically are but then the fairway either bends slightly affecting your approach/putt or has more obstacles on one side or the other. On top of that, many of the baskets are placed near a tree or to one side of a tree which make you think about how the end of the flight of your disc should be. One of the strongest parts of my game are BH and FH rollers and found myself throwing them on a majority of holes thanks to the mowed grass and no underbrush.

Tee pads/signs/navigations:

Tee pads are plenty wide, long and flat enough for a course that has a majority of its holes under 300 feet. There is a large course available at hole one and though I took a picture of it with my phone, I only once took my phone out to look at it so navigation isn't terrible but more on that later. Signs give you distance in feet and meters so you Europeans aren't left out!

Aesthetics and accessibility:

This course features green grass, nice large trees that produce shade (which is a big deal in this area) and an overall calming experience IMO. The course is visible from the freeway, and the exit has options for gas and food so this is a perfect stop for course bagging road trippers. The course plays right next to the freeway and some maybe find this less than ideal when trying to putt I find it soothing for some odd reason.

Other park activities:

There is a walking path that circles the edges of the course, most of the time it shouldn't interfere much with the golf, maybe hole 6. There is a lake behind the parking lot next to the course that people swim in in the summer months. There was a little shop in the park selling drinks and ice cream that looks nice. There is a nice playground and slide for the kiddos, floating docks, all sorts of cool stuff here for a small town park.

Magic Number issues:

My biggest pet peeve is when course designers have a number of holes in mind before they start that they have to hit (usually 18,9, or multiples of 3) and take little or no consideration of if the space being used can handle it. Sure you can put 18 holes in any space but is it going to be the best course? Safe for multiple groups? NO! Personally I would rather play 7 or 9 or 10 or 13 or whatever awesome holes than 4 or 5 decent to good holes and a bunch of filler. Quality over quantity; the number of holes is far less important. When you start with the magic number you end up making bad holes that aren't safe for multiple groups and do a disservice to what you were given. Apparently this used to be a 9 hole course and was converted into 18 - 9 seems much MUCH more reasonable.

Safety concerns:

Kind of continued from above, the magic number issue here has many, many tee pads, fairways, and baskets using the same space. So many holes follow the same pattern of throw to basket and then walk backwards into last the hole's fairways in order to get to the next tee pad which is also in the last hole's fairway. Trying to navigate you find what you think is the next logical tee pad in front of you only to find it's a few holes away and have to use a few more fairways to other holes first. This course just isn't playable if there are more than a few groups on it which is insane for an 18 hole course. Although I doubt this course was built for tournaments in mind it would be impossible to even play doubles here with any decent turnout. I played this on a Tuesday morning and there were a few other people out and had to wait for people who were 4 holes ahead of us which is ridiculous - can't imagine playing this on a Saturday afternoon.

Although this course was slightly disappointing from the perspective of what could have been or maybe what once was I still had a really good time and appreciate that this little town put in a course here in an area that's pretty nice looking. I wouldn't make this a mandatory stop or anything but if you like to bag courses its 30 seconds off the freeway and takes an hour probably. This review felt a little more negative than I wanted it to so just want to say that I appreciate whomever thought of it and got it approved. The basket, tee pad, and signs all took a good amount of work and probably in the hot sun.

- 18 Permanent DISCatcher 28's all with a level mounting.
- 18 asphalt tees of adequate size.
- Beautiful, old growth trees through most of the course.
- A good amount of shot shaping requirements. Some holes allow more options, some only a couple and a few where a specific line is the right choice.
- Well kept park. Grass was mown, almost no garbage(what was around likely came from the adjacent freeway - see cons)
- Fairly easy to follow navigation. Not great but we didn't have a map of the new layout and never had to do more than a little double checking.
- Good extra infrastructure such as the railroad tie protection walls and rock ring around 18's green.
- Course located at a park with a nice lake beach access.
- Free to play.
- Good intermediate level course with lots of shorter to mid range hole lengths and a few longer and more technically challenging holes mixed in.
- While in the worst part of the course they have added a double mando to hole 14 and an island on Hole 16. Looks like they used weed killer to make the circle for the island about 6" wide around the basket. Pretty neat idea.

- This Course is packed in an area that's way too tight for 18 holes. While no holes actually criss-cross, the fairways are very tight together and many tees and greens are on top of each other as well. Would be scary to play with more than 6-8 groups out there. I actually had a friend hit his line on a tee shot but black aced because of how packed in it is. It was pretty funny actually.
- No elevation. Like, a hump of ground or two.
- Lots of holes in the 220'ish range. Fortunately the trees help those holes from getting too repetitive.
- No course Map was available and at times, with how packed in the course is, you see many baskets and tee signs so some checking is required.
- Tee signs are just laminated numbers on big metal fence posts. They have left the old signs from the original 9 Hole layout but the distance on most is off since the pins have moved. Not sure why those with an accurate distance weren't just pulled down.
- Holes 14-16 are very meh. They're the only 3 holes across the walking path in the separate grass area.
- Holes 1, 2, 3, and 6 all play along the freeway edge of the park.

This is a fine little course despite being ridiculously packed into the space. A lot of work and care has obviously been put into it. I got a bit excited on my way as the last review had noted that they updated all the tees and baskets for the 9 Hole layout, rating it a 3.5. I'm guessing that around 12 holes would be the sweet spot for this piece of land. I can't say I was truly disappointed as we played a very fun round. That said, there was 1 other twosome playing other than us so we had the place to ourselves for the most part. I'm not sure I'd play there on a busy day for fear getting hit and the necessary waiting that would have to take place. With the crowded nature of the course, needing multiple safety walls, it's tough to go too high on rating this. Also, the complete lack of elevation is big turn off for me. Definely worth a spin if you're around Blackfoot(and the course isn't busy). There certainly are a few signature-ish type holes and enough ace/birdie runs to make it enjoyable throughout.

Update: I returned to Blackfoot 3 months after my initial review and the tee pads have been completed and all the signs were up, albeit just laminated sheets of paper that are already bleeding from moisture. There were about 5 other groups this time and as expected, this caused flow issues in numerous places throughout the course.

I like the simplicity, its not always a bad thing and getting a good score helps with the confidence.

Well Marked. Easy to find holes.

Nice location. by a lake and river bottoms

Easy now that they removed the trees.

I've played this for years. Love the location, probalby the first place I played Disc golf.

We recently played in the winter. Our discs flew far and skipped off the snow.

easy to navigate, close to me, lots of stuff to do in the park, some interesting shots.

Terrible, terrible tee pads. throw from the grass. Lots of trees were removed circa 2006 and really made the course super easy. baskets don't catch well.

tons of trees were planted in 2008, a sprinkler system was installed and maintenance has improved. Inn 5-10 years this course could be tough! still worth playing during a 30 minutes break on a road trip or as part of a family outing to swim or boat.

Ok....so this is Blackfoot Disc Golf Course at Jensen's Grove in Idaho. The course was clearly added without too much worry about technical difficulty, or maybe they did. The course is very small; it's a 9 hole course with the longest hole being #8 at 341. The funny thing is that this course really only has 2 holes that are semi-technical and #8 is one of them. Ok...so I have shanked a driver onto the freeway on my first big throw of the day a couple of months ago. I'm a guy that can appreciate simple and this course is definitely simple. I love it because I can be there from my home/office in 5 minutes and I can rush through the course in about a half an hour. It's a great "take a break" course. Another big plus for this course in the summer is that the park has more to offer like the reservoir, playgrounds, a skate park and such. It's pretty darned good for a small town park.

It's quite short. The tee pads are deteriorated asphalt.

I'm not experienced enough to complain about the baskets. They seem to work for me, but if you're an ol' pro and really serious about the game, you may not like them, but then again...if that's the case, you don't belong on this course.