To preface this review, understand that this is a tricky piece of property for designing a golf course. Any designer is going to have to get creative to put 18 holes in b/c the park narrowly wraps around the lake. So holes 1-4 are on land so narrow that you can't really have 4 holes going the opposite direction. That means weird, long walks are inevitable.

PROS: The lake is nice. It's big, really wet, and generally watery. Wind blows off it. Riparian animals are around, like waterfowl and stuff. It comes into play quite often but only two real water carries if those scare you.

The baskets are old Discatchers with the inner set of chains that just dangle in loops. They still catch really well though. Tees are not terribly hard to find even though most are missing their signs. There's only so much land to walk around so you can't spend too much time hunting the next tee. After hole 5, you get a lot of nice city-park style holes with mowed fairways and scattered old growth trees to avoid. Some of these have multiple lanes that are all viable so you can choose your own adventure. Some of these holes have a goodly amount of distance, 500-600' or so, very get-able par 4's. Quirky greens like hole 6 or 7 with the basket on a nice little knoll. For the most part, it's enjoyable.

Tees are just sandy pits. A lot of the holes are really close to the lake so they could be swampy after a rain. A lot of the really wooded holes don't have much of a fairway, a signature Schwartz design. You basically throw down the walking path that loops around the entire park so be on high alert for walkers. The holes are often cramped so you're often wondering which visible basket is the correct one and some baskets are close to tees.

The biggest con is I have no idea who this course is geared towards. Most of the holes are Red level distances but the proximity of the lake (and the at least 275' water carry on hole 18) makes it terrifying for Red level players. Then you have these random, really long holes that are only going to appeal to mostly Blue level players. So basically only a niche group of White level players are going to appreciate the balance of challenge and distance and even they are going to find a lot of the holes too easy.

Hole 18 is an absolute forced water carry of 275' of the lake (sign says 300' but seems a little shorter to me). There is no safe, bail-out zone or short, wussy tee. If you overshoot the green much you go into thick weeds but that's better than going wet. The worst part is that you have roughly a 5-10 minute walk around the corner of the lake (through two-three previous greens no less) from the tee to the green. So if you clear the lake you just have to hope that other park people are on the honor system and aren't going to run off with your disc while you're hopelessly stranded on the other side. Then you have another 10-15 minute walk through holes 1-3 to get back to the parking lot. I don't know what the answer is but I think breaking up one of these silly long holes into two par 3's so that hole 17 becomes 18 makes a lot more sense than this daunting water carry with the awkward walk. I can only assume that Russell Schwartz is the second coming of our Lord and thus simply walked across the lake when he designed hole 18.

I had fun but I don't have much desire to revisit unless it's with other people just to gauge their reactions to the many stupid holes here. Unless I have a garage full of DX discs this is not a course I'd want for my home course. It could use a redesign to tinker out some of the really awkward transitions and goofy holes. The property is mostly limiting you to putting lipstick on a pig but I think it could be more entertaining and at least have appeal towards somebody instead of a mishmash of holes.