Pros:
- slightly better tee signs than Pecan Hollow
- dual concrete tees on every hole
- benches on most holes
- a few garbage cans throughout course (8 and 16, possibly others)
- navigation is fairly straightforward
- fairly picturesque and well maintained with clean fairways and mown grass
- high quality, well maintained baskets
- disc golf only area in a quiet preserve
Cons:
- tee signs are still mediocre
- not much in the way of next tee signs
- walk from 14 to 15 backtracks across field and could have been designed better
- basically no elevation change
- end of course is very wide open and not particularly exciting (13-16 especially)
- hole 8 white tee points wrong direction
- hole 2 in particular seems to have a low lying area that would be perenially muddy (significant standing water when I was there)
Other Thoughts:
I enjoyed this course, but nowhere near as much as Pecan Hollow on the other side of the parking lot. It is a fun course and is definitely going to be easier for the intermediate or lower player. It is partly wooded and partly open, with shorter hole distances. It is well maintained and generally well designed with the main exception being the hole 14 to 15 transition and hole 8 tee issues mentioned above.
Note that the online course map has the 13 white tee in the wrong spot, it is in the middle of the field vs. along the treeline like the map shows.
The tee signs here are a bit better than Pecan Hollow, since they are permanent and have hole distances on them. However, they are some sort of sticker application, and many of them are worn off and in poor repair. Some tees have the distance marked on them, but again, most of these have worn off. These definitely need some improvement. Otherwise, the dual concrete tees on every hole are great.
The dual tees mostly just add 50-100' to each hole, but there are a few with an actual different approach direction which I tried to capture in the pictures I took.
The courses at Graham Creek are really limited on elevation change, but they do make up for it with natural beauty. While this course didn't compare to Pecan Hollow for me, it is still definitely worth the trip out, especially if you're already there for the other course. I enjoyed my round and encourage others to check it out. This course is very respectable, it just didn't have the wow factor for me that I saw in Pecan Hollow.