The Harwood Union Disc Golf Course was designed by students of the high school. It was originally designed as a 9 hole course that followed the cross country trails through the woods. I understand this high school has a very long and proud tradition for cross country excellence. While these narrow wooded trails might make for excellent running trails, they make for a horrible disc golf course. When the course was expanded to 18 holes, the concept of throwing down narrow running trails with brush, trees and danger on both sides was continued.

The course features Discatchers with the yellow bands. They're fairly easy to spot in the dense forest here. There are no tee pads, just signs that say next tee or this way to next hole. That means you tee off from this sign location. You just kind of pick where you want to tee off from. Doesn't much matter, you're going to end up in the rough anyway.

The holes are long and too difficult for a course made for high school students.

Poor signs.

No tee pads.

Navigation would be impossible with some local help. Some signs were missing.

Throwing down running path time and time again quickly became tedious.

This course could use a major makeover. Shorten it considerably. Eliminate many of the holes using the paths. Carve a few true wooded technical holes out of wilderness. Make it more user friendly by adding some helpful signs and some next tee arrows. Build some actual tee pads.

I was only able to play by hooking up with a couple of helpful locals. They were quite content to play their way up the fairways, 100 feet at a time, usually hunting off the fairways for their discs. Actually, they were more interested in searching for mushrooms to add to their steak dinner tonight. Nice guys! Knowledgeable about their mushrooms, too.