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.

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.

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!

The Broadmoor Presbyterian Church is a large church with many buildings. At the far back of the parking lot is this nice, little wooded park area. The church has their it's own park. The course is squeezed into this small one block square area containing a swing set, benches and a storage building or two.

The pads are natural worn spots and the signs are the old school fiberglass ones. They just have the hole #. The baskets are pretty, dark blue DGA's. # 1 starts right in the corner and is a straight 190' throw down the fence line. Over the chain link fence on the left is a deep ditch. I would think about 50% of all youth group kids end up hysering into the ditch.

The # 2 sign is dead, killed by a falling tree, apparently. I had to turn over the body and verify that this was once # 2. The hole plays maybe 240' down through some trees. There is a fence on your left sans deep Ditch.

The # 6 pad is stuck way back in the farest corner. It plays straight down the fence line to a basket right next to the fence. So many players are going over that fence. # 7 is thus very short little right angle hole where you throw about 40' straight and then a 90 degree right turn to the basket which is only about 20 more feet away. # 8 is about 260' but possibly unplayable with a cars parked in the lot here.

And that brings us to # 9. I can't decide whether this is the most ridiculous hole I've ever seen or a remarkable hole. I'm going with the former, especially considering the players who play here. # 9 is 187' with a fence on your right and the parking lot on the left making the fairway about 35' wide but about 25' of this fairway is taken up with this deep ditch with steep sides and nasty, gunky green water. The basket sits about 3' past the end of the ditch and about 3' in front of a fence. This hole is easily advanced difficulty and the chance of your disc landing somewhere other than the minuscule patch of grass fairway between the ditch and the parking lot is very, very slim. I kinda wanted to throw this hole but instead, made the wise decision to skip it. I know I could hit that landing zone, maybe one out of ten times.

Huge chance of throwing over neighboring fences.

# 2 sign crushed. # 2's widow is suing the church for unsafe working conditions.

Course would be almost impossible to play if anyone else was in the park area.

# 9.

Navigation is tricky. It took me a lot of surveying to figure out the layout.

This course might have been better served as a 6 hole course with all the holes around 100'. Hole 9 is not a hole for beginners, It's not a hole for rec players. Intermediate players and above would attempt to play it and probably complain to the high heavens. It's just not a fair or viable hole. The rest of the course is mostly playable. I wouldn't waste my Disc Golf credits playing here.