It's amazing how nice and new everything is around here. It was as if this entire park's complex was created without the worry of a budget. It's beautiful!

The course has an interesting design going on. There are nine Discatchers with two large numbers on each. So each basket doubles as a hole for the front nine and then as a hole for the back nine also. Each of the front holes 1-9 have a tee pad with the hole number and distance neatly etched in at the bottom of the concrete tee pad. They are so small and neatly done, it might be possible to overlook them. The back nine is a little trickier. Those numbers 10-18 and the distances are etched onto the sidewalks somewhere. You just need to track them down.

The course plays at a recreational level with most distances in the 200-300' range. Most holes are relatively open with no rough so it's a low pressure round, unless you're in a hot skins game for big bucks. The park is flat, the trees are scattered so it's a pretty mundane round.

Course is flat.

Back nine is basically just a longer (40') version of the front nine.

Buttonwillow Park DGC makes a fine pit stop on the I-5 drive. It's an easy 10 minute drive off the freeway, certainly not a destination course but worth the stop for a leg stretcher. And it's fun just because it's such a clean park. Well done design feature engraving the hole #'s and distance into the tee pads.

It is very clear that the course designers put a lot of care into the course. The tee boxes are in great shape and have hole numbers & distances set into the concrete. The layout flows well and you finish right at the start. As far as care I give it a 4.5/5. A "rules" sign at hole one with a map would give it a 5.

Other pros
-10 min of I-5 (easy stop on a north/south trip
-clean park with bathrooms at hole 1

Terrain: the course suffers from the location, as it is in the flat part of the middle of California. Located around a baseball field, there is zero elevation change. There are many young trees that may give it more character as they grow in, but a seasoned player can easily do the whole thing with a midrange.

No marked mandys: a flat course like this can benefit from some clear mandys, I didn't see any. It was every throw was a simple RHBH with no need for any English on the throw

Back 9: while it is certainly nice to have a second 9 to throw, most of them are more like "pro" tees rather than giving alternate looks. Most just add 20-40 feet to the throw.

I hate to give a 2.5 to a course that someone clearly put a lot of time and effort into, but the terrain simply does not allow for it to be more than average. This might change a bit when the young trees grow in, but I don't see it becoming more than a solid three in the future.

Worth playing if: you are course collecting OR want to break up the drive between SoCal and NorCal.

9 baskets with 18 tees in a flat fairly new park. Park looks and feels like its a fairly new addition to the city. Tee pads engraved with hole number and distance. The perfectly flat and green grass makes spotting the concrete tees fairly easy. Navigation is reasonable because of this.

Pretty short, fairly wide open with newly planted trees making up obstacles. Possible conflicts with other park users as holes play close to picnic tables and jogging trails, although when I was there I was completely alone in the park. There are no tee signs, but as stated doesn't really hinder navigation other than figuring out where to start. Hole 1 is to the west of the bathrooms.

Typical central CA city park with bright green grass surrounded by miserable desert looking terrain. Course makes a welcome addition to the boring I5 corridor. Not a whole lot of challenge but a good place to stretch the legs maybe try for some aces. The course plays as two 9s more like short tees and long tees, with the long tees being little jags in the sidewalks and a few poured pads behind the previous pads. The long tees added a little distance but it left a lot of the holes feeling very much the same.