- Located in a busy, multi-use park boasting ball fields, splash pad, playgrounds, walking paths, etc., Hidden Diamonds is a fun 9-pin, 18-tee course that weaves in and out of wooded parkland atop and around moderate elevation changes. Holes not located in or next to wooded areas play more links style, although even the "open" holes have enough trees, distance, or elevation to not become boring or too easy. The second, longer set of tees are numbered "10-18" but play to the same pins as "1-9."
- Solid amenities: baskets, "grate-style" concrete tees, tee signs, map kiosk (with scorecards), etc. Course was well-groomed, with trees trimmed and grass freshly mowed.
- Not sure if it was because this was my sixth course of the day, or because I had a raging blister on one of my heels (thanks for nothing, Bixler!), or what, but this course seems to play significantly longer than the distances would indicate. For sure, at least some of this is due to good use of elevation and woods. There are some serious shots out here, especially on the "back" nine: hole #14 is 340' uphill, mature pines hard to the left, scrubby deciduous forest to the right, with narrow straight fairway between; hole #15 is an up-and-over the hilltop shot clocking in at 540' with a fast downhill green to finish; hole #17 is probably the true beast of the lot at 492', a subtle up-and-over to a gap between trees a few hundred feet off the tee, that then turns slightly to the right for another couple hundred feet with tough schule and woods on both sides. Miss the gap and this is a blow up hole for sure. After a long day, I missed the gap horribly to the right and a decent round score-wise went right out the window.

- The biggest issue here is the gravel walking path that appears behind hole #3's basket, completely blind from the tee. The path is directly in the hyzer killzone of the circle, and is easily reachable from the tee for most players. Likewise, the blind basket for #5 is way too close to the walking path. A couple of other spots can conflict with the paths, or random people popping out onto the fairways from other park activities, so practice caution: most people seem completely unaware of the course as they cut through the fairways.
- The "grate" tees are something I've seen in this general area before, and typically they're pretty good, and offer good drainage; however, several of the tees here have rectangular ankle-breaking "traps" directly in the middle. Less than ideal.
- Nit-picky, but the pine branch overhead on tee #1 is a touch on the low side. I'm only 6' and I almost scraped my noggin on it.

- I think this is the first 9-pin/18-tee layout I've played, or at least the first in quite a while; I appreciate the added difficulty of the longer tees, but I'm not at all certain how such a layout plays if at all busy, or if people are playing different tees. I didn't see anyone else out here during my weekend afternoon round, so maybe Hidden Diamonds doesn't receive enough traffic for it to matter.