More funner than it looks in photos! There are lots of hills, lines to work, wind to think about. Many holes require a solid drive to reach the green. I put off seeing this course for a while because I feared mediocrity. But I did go, and it actually refreshed my interest.

This course will get better with age. The rough is mostly tall grass and small young trees. As the trees grow and make shade, it should slow down the grass and weeds.

Some of the large trees that make obstacles are dead. New replacement trees should be planted near by to keep similar lines.

Finding discs in the thick shrubby rough will make summer play miserable. Not a whole lot to do besides making sure healthy trees are growing and wait for them to become dominant over the thick, low to the ground mess that borders fairways.

Kind of an unpolished gem. Lots of work, but where to start? I say let's get those dead main trees replaced before they are cut down.

Maybe plant some pines in the rough, as their needles will make the soil tougher on weeds...or get pine needles and spread them over problem areas. We just have to nurture the nature a little and be patient

Dunham Rec Center "links" ball golf to disc golf with an excellent conversion design and a lot of fun downhill drives. Set on the skeleton of a former municipal ball golf course, Dunham features a links-style design atypical for our disc-based game. For being almost entirely wide open, the design here is quite clever, featuring a number of dramatic uphill & downhill drives and purposeful pin placements that make the most of the land. The downhill drives are particularly enjoyable, primarily because they outnumber the uphills by a decent margin, helping to keep Dunham from feeling like a slog. Multiple holes (9, 15, & 18) utilize the old golf course sand traps as OB, and their clever placements affect the look off the tee. What trees and obstacles exist are incorporated to their fullest. Overall highlights include Hole 1, a steep downhill RHBH anhyzer to a pin on the edge of a grassy precipice, and the aforementioned Hole 9, a long hole that forces the player to either lay up or go for it to clear the centrally located sand trap before playing uphill to a lightly wooded green.

Due to its openness and hilltop location, wind can be a factor on most holes. Practice your wind play with little fear of losing a disc.

Probably owing a great deal to its former life as a ball golf course, this routing drains pretty well. In my experience, the soggiest spots are located off of the fairways, so you (hopefully) shouldn't have too much trouble with them.

Baskets are newer DISCatchers in good repair. Tee signs are informative, accurate, and easy to interpret.

Most of the course is entirely open, so there's very little punishment for an errant shot, assuming you can find it in the tall grass that comprises the rough. This also means that it gets brutally hot, with very little shade, shelter, or rest to be found. Bring water if you're playing on a hot summer day.

Holes 13-16 play pretty close to a shady-looking apartment complex. I wouldn't be too eager to retrieve a disc that goes over the fence, and occasionally some interesting characters make their way over to the course side. I'm sure it's fine, but it can be unsettling when you're playing by yourself in the furthest corner of the circuit.

Supposedly a portion of the course is/was periodically closed for archery activities, but I've never had issue and I get the sense that the hours are fairly limited.

Teepads are astroturf, which gets a little slick when wet or muddy. A couple pads are starting to tear, and you might be better off teeing from the side.

Dunham shares its "fairways cut out of tall grasses" nature with at least one other Cincinnati area course (William Harbin in Fairfield), but the compact links layout is all its own. It serves as a very cool bridge between disc and ball golf.

PROTIP: For an added challenge, play all rough as OB. It ups the difficulty while keeping the course surprisingly playable.