Well kept. Good variety of terrain. Near the University. Nice park.

Some poorly marked tees. Only 9 holes. Tee pads are "au naturel" - marked only with simple signage and railroad ties. Some sort of burrowing animal has taken up residence on 5-8. Have not found a nearby bar yet.

Download the map first. The first time here, it didn't occur to me that the 5th tee is across the road. Tee one is on the opposite side of the park, it might be easier to park at the playground lot and start on hole 5. Some of the tees are a little rough,l I was genuinely afraid that I might break my ankle on hole 2.

I really liked this 9 hole course, it has enough distance for the holes throughout the woods, with some open fields. All holes wood stick pads, but are a little hard to find.

Some tees are hard to find, some grass needs cut as well.

A good 9 hole course, set in a big park worth checking out.

The Burnet course just across MLK Drive from the UC campus languished for years as a nine holer with tee posts and ruts aiming at aging baskets, despite having another easily accessed, hilly area just screaming for a redesign for the past decade and a half. Finally being revealed in glory is a new 18 hole track with Mach VII baskets and large, level, concrete tees which incorporates twice the elevation and twice the fun.

Geared well toward the Recreational to Intermediate player, there are now holes ranging from 157 to 300 feet in length, but the tricky use of elevation (especially on holes 2,7,9&10) will keep folks on their toes, while trees force lines and edges to avoid on probably 2/3rds the shots. The design calls for a balanced game (fading right to left and left to right), and focuses more on control than on distance. Players rated 900 or above will likely have a great shot at deucing more than half of these holes on any given outing, so if you think that's fun (well, I do), then this is likely a course you'll enjoy.

Designers were forced to have players walk down toward the road, then through right back uphill a couple of times in a row, as the park forbade them to have even the most errant misfire head toward the busy boulevard below, so they were forced to have a few of my least favorite (uphill) throws, with very few long, glidey downhillers, even though these are rolling hills in a campus park. In a similar vein, due to erosion, they wound up having to move what was once the most interesting hole on the course (old hole 2: a downhill tee shot with a forced dogleg left up the valley below), and wound up with the tee pad (now hole 16) going from the bottom and straight up the former second 'leg' of the hole.

This may not be a 'con' to some, but this park is in an urban setting, and unattended vehicles will likely have the same risks as, for instance, Mt. Airy. It isn't entirely clear, but during 'school' hours, the first drive into the park may be patrolled for campus parking stickers, so you'll want to enter on the Clifton Street side of the park, and circle right to the gazebo and shelter lots near new hole 1 (old hole5). Furthermore, this is not a quiet part of town, with heavy traffic just alongside half the course and hospitals all around.

As mentioned before, this redesign has been eagerly anticipated, and certainly makes the most of the allowable space to create a fun, relatively quick loop for its intended audience.