The new and improved Church Creek DGC feels a lot like the old and unimproved Church Creek, only with 18 baskets instead of 9. The colored course sign which welcomes you is still the original 9 hole layout. The original 9 has concrete tee pads while the new back nine has natural pads at this time. It's the same story with the signs, the original 9 has nice little metal signs while the new 9 has no signage yet. Note, that a couple of the original 9 holes have not been changed to another hole even though the original sign is still there. For an example, after playing # 10, you are directed to the 11th hole which stills has the old # 6 sign. It's a tad confusing.

It's really helpful that hanging under each basket is a small plastic/rubber arrow pointing you towards the next pad. The Mach V baskets are a combo of the older ones with a rim on top to brand new models.

The course is a solid recreational play with hole distances ranging from 150' up to almost 300'. There are enough trees for this to be considered a technical course. You will hit some trees. I hit the public enemy # 1 tree on the course on # 15. I think 15 is the absolute people's choice for the signature hole here. It's just 183' across a very deep and nasty gorge. The basket is mostly hidden behind a couple of Douglas Fir trees. Really, the only true, horrible error you can make here is to hit this one Doug Fir tree and then carom way, way down into the nasty abyss. So naturally, this 716 rated reviewer (which coincidentally is the exact same score that I received on the SAT many years earlier) did just that. Luckily, for me, I had hooked up with Robert, a college aged young man who volunteered to climb down the abyss and retrieve my disc. I'm considering adopting Robert.

Natural tees and no signage on much of new added 9.

I wouldn't care to play this course in the wet winter months. There were muddy areas in mid-July when we haven't had much rain lately. Spring wouldn't be much better. Boots recommended.

Recreational distances and challenge, too. Probably not a course for Intermediate players and above.

The Church Creek DGC sits just four miles off of I-5 making for a nice pit stop along the interstate. When I first played this course years ago, I wrote in my review about a scary log crossing over a 8 foot deep gorge. I am proud to announce that a real (safe) bridge has been built. I'm eternally grateful!

Hopefully, the needed improvements (concrete pads and signage) will soon be made. When that happens, the course will be a little more enjoyable to play.