What to Expect: HB Clark designed park course on a smaller than normal piece of property in Martin, TN. Aesthetically pleasing course with well maintained mowed grass fairways and purposefully thick unmowed rough to shape holes. Rolling elevation changes, moderately wooded in places, open fairways in other with either tight tree lined tee shots, tree guarded greens, or both. Quick playthrough course if you are hitting the fairways.

Amenities: Sports complex with bathrooms, port o johns, trash cans and benches spread out through the course. Single tees play to a single basket location.

Tees/Signage/Baskets: As with almost all HB courses he knocks this portion out of the park. Large course map Kiosk near Hole #1 with all relevant information. You probably won't need to take a photo of the course map, as all the holes are easy to find, but it is there anyways. Tee signs are large and full of all the relevant information complete with a full color hole map. Baskets are Yellow Discatchers and in fairly used but decent shape. Large concrete textured tee pads in good shape (Hole #7 had a tree fall on it and break it if I remember correctly from the last time I played here, but whichever Hole it was, the tee pad had been repaired this time around). Next tee arrows on baskets.

Design (Pros): Two separate 9 hole loops that start and finish back at the parking lot. Course utilizes unmowed rough areas to shape and define holes, which aesthetically make sense and help you see the intended shape of the hole. This is particularly useful on Holes 1 and 2 as they are pretty close together. Mostly a LHBH dominant, RHFH designed course which is an oddity for HB (sorry to all my only RHBH players, but this course might make you want to set your disc bag on fire). Excellent use of the space allotted for disc golf. Solid mix of wide open, tight technical, and wooded tee shot to wooded guarded green, difficult pin locations, and elevation changes.

Signature: I would pick Hole #1 as it is a very pretty hole, quite difficult to score on, and shapes beautifully left to right through multiple mature hardwood trees to a pin tucked up against the OB entrance road. You have a few gap choices off the tee to attack the pin but need to hit your line clean and plan for ground play on the green on this medium distance Par 3. I like having to hit a gap early, shape the disc to hit a mid flight gap, and still clear the guardians around the basket (even if I can't execute it all the time), it is a very solid hole design when used fairly.

Tee Pad Placements: Tee locations are very gimmicky, shoving the tee right in between trees that can come into contact with you during your throw and/or follow through, and tee signs being placed in similar intrusive locations. It can affect you mentally trying to make sure you don't strike one and affect how you release the disc as a result. There are many times there is a massive tree within 10 or 15 feet directly in front of the tee pad (making you choose right or left of it) but not much else to impede on the shot.

Spray and Pray: Several of the wooded holes have a ridiculous defined intended gap, that often defies the laws of physics, and requires you to get creative and lucky through the dense woods. The course really doesn't reward "good" shots as you will still have to scramble and execute to make par. It rewards excellent shots and solid putting instead, making it a little too gimmicky.

Hidden Baskets: A lot of baskets can not be seen from the tee and you can only see the intended line (which is often not a good route to take) and with the addition of exaggerated hole shapes, first timers will have a difficult and possibly frustrating first play through.

Hole #3: This is one of, if not the, worst designed holes in recent memory. It is so punishing and borderline unplayable that I knocked an entire point off my rating of this course because of it. The Hole is shape like a capital L laid over on its side. You pitch out 45-60 feet to get past a mando that forces you to stay left and doesn't allow you to cut the corner. There is knee high tall grass down the left side and a small mowed strip fairway for you to land in. 100-125 feet directly in front of you off the tee pad, the fairway ends, cut off by a super dense woodline that runs perpendicular to the tee. So you pitch down past the mando, then you have to throw down a narrowing low ceiling tunnel to a pin on top of a crowned tiered plateau that drops off to Narnia behind it. Approach shots, missed putts, your disc golf cart, small children and pets, anything that lands close to this basket without going in will take off like your ex-wife down the hill. And it's a Par 3. Have fun. I watched a kid (beginner) on the group in front of me lose all 3 of his starter pack discs in the rough on this hole once, have a minor meltdown, and leave.

Lost Discs: As mentioned before, the combination of massively high rough, thick underbrush in the wooded areas, and two creeks that play alongside, over, and around (that can either be dry or flood stage) means you might go home with a much lighter bag even if you didn't throw that bad of shots.

Drainage: Course holds water and can be muddy and very slippery after rain, especially starting on Hole 4 and playing down near the creeks.

This is not one of HB's better designs, although it isn't attrocious, it just can't get out of it's own way from trying to make the course "challenging" instead of a beginner friendly course which is probably better suited for the land available. The property is small and forces a lot of odd shaped holes and gimmicks to increase difficulty. I found this course rather difficult as a new player, but as time grew on it just became a hit a gap, pitch up, make par course that wasn't exciting to play. Course also isn't helped by being relatively out of the way, though in a small college town. If you were going to school here, or in the area for some other reason, this course is a quick play through. Otherwise, I'd avoid this one and drive on to Nashville, Morristown, or Knoxville to get some throws in.

I liked some of the good long drives in this course.

I didnt like how there was no route on about 90% of the holes. All you could do was throw and pray it got through all the limbs and around the groups of trees. There was one thing that i really didnt like and thaat was that on about 4 or 5 holes there were trees on either side of the tee box and then one dead straight in front of the tee box which made for a difficult shot.

I think this course was poorly layed out and probably didnt think about it too much before putting up pin placements and tee pads.