Clever lay out, varied enough to keep you driving an hour to play it, accessible enough for beginners to do reasonably well. No real danger of losing your precious plastic. This course has more elevation than most ppl think. 25-30ft?

tees, drainage, an hour drive from me...

I first played Chili back in 1998. The course was decent back then, but you could tell it was going to be great in 10 - 20 years. Well it's been 10 years now since I last played and I was blown away at how nice this park had matured. All the trees that were planted have grown up nicely. The paper machee trees and artificial Christmas trees are now gone (YEAH!!!) The course looks better than ever. It was like being at a country club when I was there. Grass was an inch tall, beautifully mowed fairways with rough. It really looks better than I had hoped it would after all these years.

The clubhouse is gone, but supposedly the city is putting in a bunch of money to build a new one. Tee signs have worn out over the years.

It's a lot shorter than I remember, but it is still a booming arm course for the most part. I played the long tees and shot a 54. I will be back soon to play Chili again. It is back in my top 10 list.

Beautiful landscape; requires a very large variety of shots to score well; extremely large variation in hole lengths; well placed obstacles that punish poor throws; a variety of ways to approach many of the holes; generally well manicured; the course shows pride in the sport; some tee shots will force creativity to allow for a reasonable angle of attack on the basket; word is there are generally course maps and score cards at the start, although they weren't there; many touches that don't go unnoticed; for those that go to Ellison often, you'll be very pleased with how busy this course is - it's funny how a 911 foot hole can deter a family taking their 6 kids out to play there

Grass tee areas; tee areas that are sometimes hard to find; no true technical holes; a few quasi-dangerous tee areas (like the 7th); some very dense brush just off the fairways can make finding your disc a painful ordeal; you may shoot at the wrong basket without a map the first time you play

Baker farm completely surprised me. Looking at the pictures, it looks way too wide open to be a course I would even start to consider excellent. The pictures simply don't do it justice - much of this due to the course's length. The obstacles are there. Yes, the course is relatively open at first glance, but if you let your drive go nose up off any given tee and it veers hyzer, you can safely bet it will end up in trouble. I made the comment to my friend by about the fifth hole - "It's like they designed this course on a computer! How did they create this layout?" You simply can't get a feel for these holes by looking at the pictures. I took a picture of one of the baskets, the 12th I believe, that may give a bit more of a feel for what this course is like than the shots from the tee. I'll put it up sooner than later.

If this course had concrete tees and better signage, I'd have to consider giving it a 4.5 - near perfection. I still may not be able to go that high, however, as the truly technical holes just aren't there. Am I asking for too much? I don't think so... I look at the word 'perfect' for a 5.0 and that's what I'm going off of. Baker Farm doesn't have every little thing required to be a 4.5 or a 5.0, but this course doesn't have any glaring flaws. This course is Excellent - 4.0. Can't for my next trip to Rochester so I can play it and Ellison again.

EDITS: timg has informed me that I did indeed miss the practice basket, so I've removed it from the cons. Word is there will be concrete tee pads installed within the next couple of years - when that happens I may come back and bump this to a 4.5 after playing again...

Very nice course with good variety, great setting. Challenges come from unmown rough, inverted bunkers, guarded baskets, raised baskets, creek, & some trees too. Nice signs. Disc only park.

Baskets can be difficult to see (all grey) and most tees marked with metal plates on ground which can be difficult to find.

A buddy has told me that he won't play this course in summer since parts get over grown. This may be at the whim of town maintenance crew. However, course was in great shape late July. I had no trouble locating my numerous tosses that sailed off the fairway.

This course is set up similarly to ball golf course.

Great course for all levels of players to check out! Perfect for newbies to try out and for Pros/Adv. to practice many big driving shots and putting as well. There are three different tee placements, Yellow (Pro), Red (Rec./Adv. Women), and Blue (Women/Children).

This course makes you feel "That's the real DG course!" and also feels very private that you could play naked all the way without being caught (don't take my actual suggestion!).

Big wide-open flat field and beautiful view.

I like #15 hole at the far end of the course which has the feeling of "make it or break it" for making either a deuce or a par or possibly a bogey if you screw up your driving shot. Watch out for trees on left side of #15. That hole has two different pin placements. Hole #2 and #8 also have two different pin placements as well.

There's #19 hole with around-the-world bricks laid in grass right next to parking lot area.

Its the one of the sites of 1999 Pro Worlds.

No trash bins anywhere, its "carry in/carry out" park. No Pro shop, no bathrooms, or no drinking water supply at the course. Need to bring enough drinks or you will pass out at the back 9 holes during hot sunny days.

Sometimes the course is not well maintained by the town of Chili. Might be their moods to mow the grass completely or part of it. Need to pay attention to your disc if it goes off the fairways into tall grasses.

#3 and #15 holes gets very muddy during spring seasons but dries up better in couple weeks.

All the wood tee signs are getting old and falling apart. There's used to be colored tee blocks sticking out of the grass but now its being replaced with flat colored tee markers which makes it difficult to find for the new visitors. Need to hunt around for a bit until you find it. I guess it makes it easier for the town to mow over without getting off to remove the tee blocks every time.

Lots of walking involved. Might be good exercises for non-DGers to tag along.

This year or next year, Town of Chili will be making some changes to the course which they will tear down the white house (formerly housed Chili Disc Golf Club and Pro shop) and will be adding a walking trails and possible dog park (oh crap!) but it might help to maintain the course better?

This is the very first course that introduced me to the world of Disc Golf in 1996 when my deaf college friends brought me there to check it out. I was totally hooked after playing there! I believe I did play at this course at almost everyday for the first three years before I moved further away. This course has taught me a lot and improving my driving shots as well.

This year (2008), I adopted hole #15 for myself and my dog, which I have been taking him there since he was a year old and now he's 13. He loved this place ever since then. His favorite hang outs are sitting in the creek water at between #4 and #5 to cool off and then chill out at #15 which has a great view of the entire course from the sitting bench.

Recommend for Newbies or Rec. players to start off at Red tees first to get to know the course before moving up to the Yellow tees.

Please sign in the logbook at the kiosk and pick up after your dog(s) and trashes.

Worth checking out if you are in the area! This course is one of my favorites!!

Normally well maintained, great layout.

This is one of my favorite courses in the area. It's very unique and almost reminds me more of a ball golf course than a disc golf course. Most of the holes play in the open so you'll have plenty of chances to "grip it and rip it" here.

I play here almost every week and it's definitely worth the stop if you're in the Rochester area.