This course has great potential.
Nice elevation changes.
Great scenery.
Great Baskets.

Really needs cleared out.
Tee pads are slick.
Needs better signage.

I think after playing this course a couple of times that there is great potential for this course. As mentioned before this course is in need of some house keeping and a little more clearing. I think the overall layout is great with all the elevation and direction changes, but there needs to be some clear lines established. I think this course has a problem with obstacle overkill. You can have tight lines on a dog leg but if right around the bend you have a full wall of cedar trees to catch and hold your disk it is very frustrating. I think if some of the trees were cleared out of the fairways to allow for good landing zones it would be a big help. Also on the roughs it would be nice to have a transition. Maybe about a 10' edge on either side of the fairways cleared of the brush and briers. It would be fine to leave the trees in this area, but for such tight fairways you may want to allow for easier disc recovery. I think if just a few of these changes were made it would be a great course and be more inviting to people. I would be happy to donate time to this if labor is a problem.

-Fantastic piece of land.
-Great start to the course.
-great tees and baskets
-easy to navigate

-Thorn bushes everywhere!
-I couple fairways are close together I saw a couple drives in the wrong fairways that weren't completely terrible shots.
-Many of the holes don't really have a fair fairway either because of trees in the middle that totally block the route or just to narrow of gaps to hit for length of hole or to low ceiling.
-Did I mention the thorns bushes

I drove almost 2 hours to try this course out. I would not have done that if I had any idea that the rating was off by at least a point. This course could be a 3.5 with work. The piece of land could even hold a 4.0 or 4.5 course on it but man it is a long way away from that. I played this course on April 1st so early spring. The holes will only get tighter when the trees and bushes have more leaves on them.

Please don't rate a course a 4 star that is a work in progress! I know opinions differ but wow Excellence is finished.