1.Good mix of holes; short and tight with long and open.
2.Well placed mandos.
3.Good mix of right and left doglegs.
4.Elevated baskets on several holes. Do I go for it, or not?
5.Challenging basket positions bringing slopes, rock features, roll aways and OB into play.
6.Island mando on hole 2 that adds challenge to an otherwise easy birdie hole (more on that later)
7.Conveniently located in a city park, with most holes sufficiently out of the way of other park users.
8.Good directional arrows.
9.Woods are nice.
10.Several interesting rock and berm features.
11.Reversing the front and back nine was a needed improvement and helps with the flow, and parking.

1.Course needs permanent tee pads. Several are unsafe for run ups.
2.Approach line on Hole 16 needs to be reconsidered.

Coming in at just over 6,000 feet, this city park style course has everything needed to challenge all aspects of one's game. At the 2016 Mayday Mayhem (Tier C), the course designer stated that he did not want a course that the pros could shoot easily in the 40s. Well, the pro division "hot round" that day was 50. For the rest of us, there were plenty of 60s plus shot that day, so I'll say the designer got his wish. I was plagued by several rollaway puts, but that's on me. This course gets your attention and if you lose focus, you will pay for it. So, to the course designer, well done! I enjoyed the day and I enjoyed playing this course.

I would offer only two suggestions. The island mando on 2 is a great idea and I enjoyed the challenge, though I failed to make it in both rounds. The drop zone is fair. But in consideration of senior players and beginners, perhaps stretching the mando towards the tee would be suggested. Not much, maybe 10 feet.

The second suggestion would be to reconsider the final approach line on the horseshoe hole 16. This is a very challenging hole (not a bad thing), with woods, and OB in play. The final leg is basically jail, no matter where you may choose to throw to set up the approach shot. This means there is no real landing area to set up the approach. Right now as it stands, the shot to get to the approach is of equal result; jail! This can probably be accomplished with removing no more than 3 or 4 of the smaller trees.

Ok, so a third suggestion. The designer stated he wanted to make sure that there would be no other changes to the course before setting permanent tee pads. I don't think the layout can be improved, and the teeing areas are unsafe now. I would move to concrete; or some otherwise more permanent and safer tee pads ASAP.

Again; good, solid course. Play it. It's worth it.

Property has minor elevation and lots of trees which they "place" nicely. The course flows well around a senior center and ends up close to where you start. There are a handful of elevated baskets, which in my opinion spice up the course. Has a good mix of semi open and wooded holes along with a couple that play from the open into the woods and some that play out of the woods into the open. You could play the walking path o b and that increases the challenge. Some of the holes have different choices for routes which is nice. Off of the beaten path so probably a good chance to have the place to yourself. Also lake russell state park is 7.5 miles away with 27 more holes so that makes this course a bonus play.

Brand new so rough is rough. Elevated baskets may be tough for beginners. Hole 18 plays too close to a playground. But if theres kids in it just play the left route and youd be fine.

Definitely worth playing if youre in the area or came to play lake russell as we did. Definitely not a pitch and putt course you have to play golf. At least one or two holes had a long teepad for pros that are good. Overall i really like the mix of holes and shot shapes.