Some fun lines to throw and good use of topography. There are many different shot shapes needed for driving effectively from these nine tees. There are uphill, downhill, hyzer, and anhyzer lines, and also different shot shapes within that. A few holes have choices off the tee. Hole 2 is just an interesting drop-off shot down a hill with a sidehill pin position that is very intriguing.

Concrete tee pads, good signage, good baskets.

The tee pads are strange, being long and thin.

Hole 1 throws across the road where cars enter and exit the parking lot and then cars can appear quickly - take care!

There are several other holes that play very close to other park amenities. We had to wait for non-disc golfers on a few tee pads. A kid also picked up one of our drives and walked it back to us and asked, "Is this yours?" I guess EVERYONE doesn't know what disc golf is yet after all.

This is a fun little 9-hole course and a good stop for a quick round. The variation among the holes is a big plus for this course, relative to many other city park niners. Just watch out for the park patrons out there who don't understand our sport yet!

- great incorporation of natural elevation change from some high hills all the way down to dropoff into a natural creek
- full color tee signs
- quality Dynamic Discs Veteran baskets in great shape
- well mown and maintained park
- some garbage cans and benches
- really cool shots on holes 5 and 6 along creek ravine
- some decent technical challenge for a city park with plenty of tree obstacles requiring accurate throws

- some pretty big safety concerns
- tee signs all seem to point wrong directions, and a couple are missing
- concrete tees, but the most ridiculously narrow ones I've ever seen
- shared space with walking path, skatepark, playground, etc.

Overall, I enjoyed Carl Albert Park. My main concern was safety, as this is a heavily multi-use park and the disc golf course, while generally having some of its own space, plays very close to a lot of other activities, particularly the walking path. There are also some downright dangerous plays near roads/parking lots with hole 1 being the biggest violator. Throwing across the road leading into the parking lot is a no-no for me.

With that being said, this course is a lot of fun. There's great elevation change, particularly on holes 1-3. Add natural obstacles from trees and other plants and these are holes with some decent challenge. Holes 7-9 probably are the most basic with more open and flat space, but the course is an enjoyable mix of shots. I really prefer courses like this to be 9 holes and not try to do to much. These are 9 good holes and cramming more into this space would just create repetition and cut length from good holes. I do wish the creek could be incorporated a bit more, but considering it appears to be on the edge of the park I think the designers used it as well as they could.

Hopefully the course is just undergoing some maintenance, because when I was there multiple tee signs were up out of the ground. The remainder seem to face weird directions not corresponding to the throw direction, which is rather confusing. Thankfully, the full color maps on the tee signs made it clear where to throw next. I found navigation here a bit confusing. There are 2 parking lots you can use; hole 1 is close to the larger parking lot that you will pass first (closer to major roads). If you are getting to the pool area you have gone too far and will end up in the lot between holes 2 and 3.

The concrete tees here are apparently an improvement over the original natural tees, but they are ridiculously narrow. I've never seen anything like this. I made them work but I don't know who came up with this. Ironically, they're quite long and probably used as much concrete as a "normal" tee.

This park is light on some of the amenities, but most park district type parks are. I had an enjoyable round here and as long as you can look out for the safety hazards, I expect others will enjoy it too.

editors note

This course has been redesigned sense this review was written. I have seen the new map, was told today that new tee pads have been poured and new signage is on the way.

The re design was mostly done for safety of the other park users. However, it looks like it will be an even more fun 9 hole course and I look forward to getting up there and redoing my full review.
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Very nice DD Veterans baskets
Very nice Tee signs
Good use of elevation
Decent use of the natural fairways between trees

Oh where to start
Grass tee's - most are fine, but a few of them, specially #7 are sloped and hard to get even a 3 step run up. (Found out tee pads are coming soon)
Tee signs are very hard to figure out on a few of the holes. Seriously, they look great, but they do not face the direction you are throwing and you have to study the sign to figure out the hole on some of them. (specially #3)

You throw across the entrance into the parking lot on hole 1
you throw over a picnic bench and risk throwing into a pavilion (that had people in it today) on hole 2
Hole 3 is crazy, you have pavilions on both sides of the fairway and a swing set in the middle of the fairway, on top of that you are throwing across the road. Oh, and this hole is 535ft on a 9 hole course.
Hole 4 might be the MOST dangerous hole I have ever played. If you throw even slightly right and clear the hill and tree's, you shot is going right into a pavilion that you CAN NOT SEE if anyone is in it from the tee.
Hole 5 throws across a street and OVER a picnic table. I literally had to wait to throw because of traffic.
Hole 6 is GREAT, It is actually a very nice hole.
Hole 7 throws across the sidewalk, not once but twice.
Hole 8 throws from the sidewalk (only cement tee pad) but it crosses the sidewalk next to the basket.
Then you have hole 9, sign says sidewalk and across OB, yet the shot is down the sidewalk that had people walking and jogging on it. Not to mention this is another 500+ ft hole.

Then you have the basket placement for hole 9. It is really close to the parking lot, for a right hander, the upshot is going to want to cross the edge of the parking lot.

I think I said everything I needed to say in the Con's. If there is ANYONE else in the park, the course is almost unplayable or at least has unplayable holes.

Other than that, if you have the park to yourself, the course is pretty fun, that is the ONLY reason I gave it a 2.5 was because it is one of the most dangerous courses I have played.

Would I play it again? Yes, as long as the park is not being used. So not on a weekend, maybe a weekday.