Enormously spread out in a secluded part of the otherwise basic Flanacher Park, the course here truly is an enigma - a hidden gem that is probably not talked about as much as it should be. There is ample parking space and a rec center with nice bathrooms and water fountains before you enter the course. Once you take the short hike to the course map and first tee, you start to feel that you are already completely in a different element. Speaking of the beginning of the course, I felt that hole 1 is a great way of easing the player into the course - tight but nothing extreme, not very long, and offers you two lane choices.

The tee signs aren't colorfully designed, but I actually liked the feel of them being personally drawn, and I thought they did a real nice job defining the lines and showing the pin placement. Mach 3 baskets have holes numbers on them.

I have never seen anything else like some of the holes here, with the extreme anhyzers on 6 and 12 and the 90 degree angles on 3, 9, 11. This course is grueling and will challenge your mental game for how you approach the holes. Hole 2, for example, challenges you into deciding if you want to play along the path, or throw over the trees and try to hyzer to the basket. However, either approach to the hole is risky, as the path is very tight and rough is very thick throughout. Much emphasis is on shot placement, and with Flanacher's extreme lines, each shot is very important and requires thought. Hole 11 is maybe the best example of this, with a straight shot off the tee, 90 degree turn to the left, then 90 degree turn to the right and to the basket.

Some very well thought out pin placement, tucking pins back into tight pockets in the woods or within a few trees. Holes 4, 6, 11, 16, and 19 are great examples of this.

Offers a variety of pars, with 8 par 4's and 2 par 5's.

The fairways are mowed extremely well and wide, which is amazing considering how much land this course covers.

-From a technical standpoint, the course places a ton of emphasis on hitting the line. If you don't hit your line, you will be greatly penalized and most likely land in thick rough. This makes the course in general a very particular kind of golf. I appreciated this aspect on many of the holes, but there comes a point where it would be nice to be offered multiple lines.
- I'm someone who enjoys playing in a picturesque setting, something that Flanacher does not offer. It's a cool, unique setting, but not attractive to the eye.
-Probably the biggest detractor of the course is the great amount of rough that you are constantly battling through. And because the course is so tight, challenging, and unforgiving, there is a good chance you will end up in it multiple times. Not only is it hard to make any kind of reasonable throw from inside most of this rough, it is simply hard to walk through in many spots.
-There is no real convenient way of getting back to the parking lot once you're inside the course. Keep in mind that there are no bathrooms or water fountains in the course, it requires a lot of walking, and takes a very long time to play (took two of us three hours). Come prepared.
-The brick tee pads get the job done, but are a little uneven in certain spots
-Am tees seem random and it would be nice if they were better thought out due to how hard the course is. There are am tees on a few holes, some holes that have hard-to-find orange flags marking the tees, and other where nothing is offered. Therefore, not much is given here for a lesser player.
-Navigation would be tricky at times without a map. The most difficult spots are from 10-11 and 19-20.
-No fault of the course designers, but other than the slightly raised pin on 17 and slightly raised tee on 19, there is no elevation on this course. One of the flattest courses I have played.

Flanacher is a very unique course that you should definitely go out of your way to play if you are in the area. It isn't for the faint of heart, so come mentally and physically prepared for a long, grueling round. Still, the design is tremendous and offers one of the best challenges within hours of the area.

My favorite holes:
5, 6, 11, 13, and 15.

This may be one of the more challenging courses I have ever played in regards to length and shot selection.

This course is not one of the courses that you have a good drive, short approach, 20' putt like most courses are. This course really makes that second shot the most important shot on many of the holes due to the curved nature of many of the holes. The holes are unique, challenging and they do have fun factors.

The holes do have variety from your short ace runs to your righty friendly as well as the lefty friendly holes. The basket placements are tough but fair and the average pro should make most holes in the suggested par.

The course has a nice sign at the beginning of the course as well as good tee signs at the pro tees. The tee boxes are unique as they are tiles put together rather then just a single pour of concrete. It added a bit of good look and I did not notice any change in performance compared to concrete.

The fairways are mowed on the regular. This gives the course a very "country club" feeling as you make your way through the hundred acres that this course sits on.

Starting at hole 3 the feeling of the course is that: 1. The course will be very tough and 2. The holes can seem a little head-scratching. I am all about curved fairways and holes that are not straight. However, 550ft holes that are a 360 degree circle with thick brush flanking both sides and NO landing zone the hole can seem a little unfair.

My one suggestion for a player is keep it in the fairway. The long grass off the fairways are chest high in some places not to mention the brush off the fairways on some holes are filled with 1 inch thorns.

Am tees are present on some holes but not well marked. The am tees also take away some of the aspects of each hole that made each difficult from the pro tees. To get the best experience of the course I would suggest playing from the pro tees.

I can honestly say that in my mind I hyped this course more than what it was worth. It was a tough course, one that will test you in every aspect of your game. However, to me the fun factor was just not there. Being an out of towner I left feeling disappointed and I can say I would probably not return because of the punishments for even the slightest off shot.

2 tees options, concreate tee boxes for the pro tees, very challenging - especially from the pro tees, signs at each hole showing yardage and basket location, and best of all - it's secluded and makes for a nice day out in nature.

Once you throw a disc into the bushes (and you will) there are GIANT thorns to contend with, so be careful. This is a tight course, so there aren't a ton of holes (from the orange tees that is) where you can just bomb it.

If you're in the area this course is a must play. There are 21 holes with 2 tees boxes, from the back tees it looks to be a very challenging course. I only played it from the shorter tees and it was difficult, but fun from there.

Flanacher is a brand new course north of Baton Rouge on former grass and hardwood land that is really pretty and sylvan. I am an old, average RHBH player and I really, really enjoyed the course. Its a good mix of shots with two tees on each hole except a couple where the tees are the same. 1, 7, 8, 10, 17, 18, and 20 are pretty straight. Some are woods tunnels, some are relatively open. 2 is a perfect Drone hole that is basically a wooded 45 degree angle. 3 is tight at the end of the fairway to get to an annie hole. 4, 5 and 6 are good Meteor or other understable holes on the drives.9, 12, 13, 15 16 involve some tricky tip-toeing through the trees. This course has 21 holes and 19 and 21 have tree -protected baskets. There are many annie holes because BREC had the DG'ers design a course that used the edges of the trees, etc. so BREC could have easy future expansion of the master plan. About half the holes have some form of annie on them. I just had a blast.

Lots of good parking. You do have to walk about 200 yards to the first hole. A great map is available from www.brec.org (click on sports -disc golf). Bring your own water. Plenty of benches, and trash cans that are being used so far. Tees have good signage. AM tees are marked with horizontal, half-tiles painted orange. Orange flags show you where they are. No hills.

The new center isn't open until 3PM so rest rooms are not convenient to the course right now. You need to bring your water. The course is out in a rural setting. There is a Shell station with everything a mile south on HWY 964.

As this course matures it will really become a fine course. The pro tees seem to be very, very challenging, although I played the AMS. There has already been one big tournament there. I feel this course will be the showplace for BR, after BREC finishes remodeling Highland. Bring a variety of discs. Its worth the drive!