The Lakeview Church of God sits at the end of the road. There is a church building, a house across the parking lot where the church starts and finishes, a pond and lots of surrounding wooded area. The 18 hole course starts just behind the house and plays into the woods. There is a wood pit here along with some benches. The on-line map states there are two tees for each hole calling them longs and shorts. I think I played from a confusing combination of the two. Sometimes I chose the one I liked best, sometimes the one I found first and other times the only one I was able to locate. The teepads are also kinda random, sometimes a nice concrete, trapozoid shaped, sometimes natural with a front board and other times just marked with small pink flags on two thin wires. The tee signs are laminated, colored ones complete with a map and next tee arrow. The baskets are simple DGA models which were fairly difficult to spot in the early morning light without a number on the top.

What this course has, are some dangererous holes, some treacherous basket placements and some throws that require a little courage. # 4 has a very cool basket placement on a steep enough ledge. # 6 was a very neat hole. For starters, you're teeing off through a brick gate. It's about 30' in front of the tee, maybe 15' wide and maybe 12' high. THEN, the hole plays down a path with a small, deep gorge on the left and the basket sitting on a little peninsula, with a deep, ugly ditch just slightly behind it. # 9, from the shorts, is a cool little ACE run, 180' downhill but if you go for the ACE and miss, your disc will probably end up at the bottom of the ugly, deep ditch. It's not fun trying to rescue your disc from this ditch with it's high slippery banks. # 10 is an over the water throw. I'm not sure of the distance but it's probably a 250' carry over the pond and that water is scummy looking. You have the option of playing the shorts from beside the pond but the basket is still close to water's edge. # 11 plays to a basket near the waterery edge. # 13 is 390' and there are really, tall swampy grasses along both sides of the non-extinctive fairways. Goodbye driver!

# 15 has a very cool basket placement on a small ridge.

I was never able to find the tee pad for # 3.

It was really difficult to spot these "plain" baskets on this cloudy morning.

There are some lost disc opportunities on this course.

Inconsistent tee pads.

Some laminated signs were lying the ground. Something a little more permanent would be nice.

As I started to tee off on # 1, a doe and two little Bambis were standing in the middle of fairway looking at me. I waited and waited for them to move, they wouldn't, so I threw anyway. They mosied off without nary a care. On both 2 and 3, both fawns were close and actually seemed interested in my disc. As I walked up to my disc on one hole, which had landed close to one, the fawn allowed me to get within 12-15 of her/him. Sorry, I'm not good at recognizing a boy fawn from a female fawn as they weren't wearing any clothes. Either way, it was a pretty cool moment.

Without or without the deer's company, this a solid little course, especially if you like a little danger or intrigue on your round. You should find it here.

Lakeview is an average 18-hole course in Parma. I didn't really enjoy or hate the round I played. The course plays around a church, which makes you feel pretty safe. There is a fair amount of mixture between wooded and open holes, with a few fun water holes mixed in there. There are a few small maps near almost every hole, so I guess that's a plus.

I had 2 main problems about this course. The first issue I had was navigation. The layout is very poor and it is easy to get lost, especially since there aren't many people out there with you. The other main issue I had was the design. Some of the holes were pretty bland. I think the course has a good amount of potential, but I don't think they want to go through another redesign.

There isn't too much to write about, because there isn't a whole lot here. I made a quick 30 minute trip, which I really don't think was worth my time. It's a nice little course in a nice city, but it doesn't really stand out enough to make a trip dedicated to playing the course.

Overall grade: 2.5/5 (Most likely would not recommend)