Pros:
I am quite thankful to Broadmoor UMC for installing and maintaining this course on their property. It has a certain charm to it that really just grew on me.
The course sits in a little sparsely wooded field behind the main church campus, hole 1 sits in the far corner by the parking lot, and loops around until you get back there, where 9 tees off close by.
The holes are mainly long enough to be accessible for beginners, but short enough to be tempting aces for intermediate players. The reason it's tempting is because a few of the baskets are very close to neighborhood fences, so if you go over, or long, you're trespassing to get your disc back (I do not recommend).
The baskets are powdercoated dark blue, which adds a lot in contrast to the standard gray/silver, and seems to age very well. They were the one thing in the pictures that looked rather unchanged.
Six of the 9 holes are pretty fun. They have their flaws, but this isn't the place for that. What they do offer is a creative engagement with the large park trees, and interesting basket placement. There was some thought that went into this course, and every hole reflects that.
Cons:
The problem is some holes reflect this poorly. Playing very close to a playground, or to the private fences, is passable considering the lack of traffic this area gets. There are three holes where you just kind of can't believe what you are being asked to throw.
Hole 6 throws a narrow gap along a fence behind two buildings (there's another building and a garden with a tarp-covered mound along the immediate forward right that have been added since the pics posted here were taken). Miss right 5 degrees, you hit a building. Left you're in a backyard. High, you're way off or on a roof.
Hole 7 makes a very short dogleg over the corner of a building into the back of another building. My group had two discs land on the roof, two hit an A/C unit, and anyone who does make the bend has to stop soon or hit a window. But stopping soon drags your disc through the road or smacks a curb.
Hole 9 is not as dangerous for the property, but holy moly is it a risky business. The Valkyrie Kid reviewed that hole pretty well. I played it twice and luckily landed dry both times (only because the water was low). If you play the parking lot as in-bounds, you have safe bail-out land, but then the dumpster also comes into play.
Other Thoughts:
Without those three holes, this could be a 2 disc course. I was really on the fence about a 1.5 (Passable) vs the 1.0 (Poor), but in the end those three holes, the danger they incur, are not passable in my book. Even forgiving the playground in play and fairways being very snug to each other, urban disc golf just hasn't found a way to be appealing yet (but I'm all for trying if there's any abandoned warehouses or indoor shopping malls available!)
Again, I always appreciate when a church puts in anything on their property, because really- they don't have to, and I know most churches need some strong convincing to invest in that kind of community project. This was a little charming course, and even the Three Amigos of Horror are holes I won't soon forget!