With all the striking beauty in a course like this, it's painful to note the Cons, but there are several that are hard to simply overlook. And honest reviews are necessary. Let's get into them.
- All tee pads are a step too short. You don't need a big run-up to throw far or effectively, however it becomes a mind game, putting your timing and body at risk. This is especially true when the tee pads aren't flush with the ground.
^To work around this, I chose to tee off to the sides when patches of ice were unavoidable on the tee. (played in December, one day after flurries hit the area)
- Amenities. Although the course offers a lot, (covered in the Pro section) it doesn't offer bathrooms or garbage cans. Again, I was playing this course a little "out of season" so it wouldn't surprise me to find out that both are seasonal.
- Some of the holes don't flow well into each other, step wise... Specifically, Holes 13-15, You finish Hole 12 on top of a hill, to then walk, slide, or roll down the hill to Hole 13's only tee pad. Hole 13 is an elevation gain of roughly +27ft
from tee to basket.
^Then, You have the option of staying on top of the hill and playing Hole 14 Short OR going down the hill to 14 Long; a tee shot of +37FT to the top, if your drive is clean, and not in the Deer enclosure
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^^Hole 15's tees are the most backtracking you'll do on the course, and after 13 & 14, its easy to just settle for 15's short tee pad, which is what I chose.
- There's a building near Hole 1. A mando requires you to throw to the right, and miss the building. Warming up to play the round, a few practice shots later and one of my discs landed on what I believed to be a brick roof of the building. Come to find out by scaling a 9-10ft wall, this part of the building is open roofed and the disc had fallen into the abandoned showers. Neither door was unlocked, but luckily, someone else piled broken cinderblocks together and it was just enough to climb back out. This, in my opinion, is a legitimate hazard.