- beginner friendly course with forgiving fairways
- very well maintained fairways
- informative tee signs listing the hole number, fairway shape, distance to pin, and next tee location
- baskets indicate direction to the next tee
- large concrete tees
- quality baskets
- camp ground, water park, and many more amenities on location
- course map provided at the gate
- fairly intuitive design

- pay to play not worth the overall product
- time consuming for course baggers to get in and out, narrow access road to park with slow speed limit
- fairways too open, overly simple design. Good luck finding discs off the fairway
- standing water on the fairways of early holes
- the first 2 or 3 holes bordered a playground
- some holes bordered roads, others bordered parking lots
- not much shade
- the attempts to make technical holes were poorly executed. There aren't any realistic lines to the basket
- hole #18 was very anticlimactic, a layup, then a layup, then a putt. The walk back to my parking would have been much shorter if I had simply walked the fairway backwards

First review for this course in the last 3 years, woot woot! Buccaneer state park, is a short to medium length course within a mutltiuse state park. The fairways are simple and have few obstacles in the way for players to worry about. There's not much shot shaping required here, it's mostly just hyzer lines to the baskets. Many holes boarder possible hazard areas such as parking lots, frequently used roads, and other areas where pedestrian or their property may be located. Players must exercise caution and use good judgment while throwing this course, especially if the park is busy. The few attempts to add technical holes by the course designer were hardly fun to throw.

I stopped here for a pit stop on the way to New Orleans from Fort Walton Beach. I noticed the lack of course water hazards and decided that the absence of water was good enough to choose this course over others in the general area. The downside to making that decision was that it yielded a very vanilla course that was kind of out of the way and costed money to throw. I won't say it was a bad course, but if I were to do it again I'd probably have stayed closer to I-10 to throw a mediocre course. This pay to play course has been around for 20 years and they still haven't carved more course out of the brush. That's a little disappointing. Then again, I didn't lose any discs.

When I first played this course in '03 it had an even mix of open and wooded holes, with lovely dogwoods, mature pines and plenty of shade. Then Hurricane Katrina laid waste in '05. If the trees don't suffer another hurricane in the next decade, it will start to mature back into its former glory. Holes 1-8 are fairly short, and with just enough trees on them to makes things interesting yet beginner-friendly. Holes 9-18 are longer and open: you might pull out a fairway/distance driver a time or two. Makes a good first-timer course. #16 has a slight dip across a storm creek---the only elevation change on the course. You can play #s 1-8 and #18 and keep the kids playground in sight the entire time. Tees dirt, baskets good although some show hurricane damage. All holes have signage now.

Holes 4, 6-8, and 12-18 have scrappy woods on at least one side that could make for a few minutes of disc-hunting, and with the increasing undergrowth, a chance to lose discs.
Hot, muggy and buggy April-Oct., and with the vegetation in critical condition, you're in the sun a lot.
$3 isn't worth it unless you're in the park for other purposes. During holidays expect some of the holes to be overwhelmed with picnickers.
Katrina really submarined [in every sense of the word] this course, but after 10 years its starting to come around. .

Camping on site, surf and pier fishing across the street at the beach. Casino with an excellent buffet 5 miles west. Most of the players are duffers camped here who throw from the sense of novelty/boredom/escape, so you rarely have much competition on the links.

The course is layed out on very flat land. There are few obstacles to overcome.

Not a very challenging course. The tees are a bit difficult, but not impossible to find.

A course map and numbered tees would be awsome.