Large Trapezoid concrete tee pads on most holes, several of the others use sidewalks that are available.
The DISCatchers are still in good shape, not great, but I didn't have any issues with them.
Excellent use of the terrain available in this inner city park. Elevation change on nearly every hole, lots of downhill, some uphill and several sidehill holes to challenge you. The elevation change was so prevalant, that nearly every hole felt different. Isn't that what makes a good layout, a different challenge on every hole?
Two different sections of the park were used, each with 9 holes. #1-6 and #16-18 play in the ""front"" section of the park, where you may encounter other park users, then #7-15 play in the "back" section, pretty much the DG only section of the park. A short walk, and crossing a residential street connect the two sections, glad to see Stan used both sections of the park.
Dual baskets on many holes and most of these provide a very different look of the hole.

The most obvious issue is the neighborhood that Morningside is located in. I've seen online that some KNX players have had their vehicles broken into while parked here. I showed up early on a weekday morning and wasn't comfortable with the emptiness of the park. I came back later in the day (after playing the other 63 holes in town) and there were a few people around. I did not have any issues while playing (except noted below) but feel this needs to be recognized.
It looks like there were good tee signs here at one point, but that has been a while. The ones that are still around are either damaged or illegible. Plan to use UDisc to get around this course. The backside of the course can be pretty tricky.
There are several holes on the front side that either use the paved walking path as the fairway, or cross that path. This could be dangerous or cause delays if the park is busy. Probably no hole is this more dangerous then #5, you tee right in the middle of the park and the fairway goes downhill, to a hidden basket, going right past a large shelter and over at least 2 sidewalks. I walked the "fairway" of this one, to make sure no other park users were in the way.

I am glad that I changed my schedule of Knoxville courses and returned to play Morningside. As mentioned above, the total uniqueness of nearly every hole from the one before it made this a very fun play. Up and down hills, side hills, a few mostly flat holes and even a couple you want to throw many drives on.
The first 3 holes start out with a sidehill, uphill, then downhill holes, so it begins right off the bat.
Then #4 is the first of those unique holes, elevated tee at the end of the park, basically you are at the bottom of this horseshoe shape and go over the walking path (15'-20' below) to the basket on a sidehill (about the same elevation), about 285' feet away.
After crossing over to the ""backside"" 9, #7 is just awesome, 303'/375' downhill, past large old growth trees, to the long basket about 15'-20' up on a circular mound. The short basket is just short of the mound, protected by bushes.
#9 is another downhill bomber hole, much more open than #7 with a large, new Condo building on a hillside overlooking the right side of the fairway. If I lived there, I'd always be on my porch watching that hole, 348' and 555' long.
#13 is one of the more unique holes I have played, at the top of the park, there is a paved path crossing in front of the tee about 30' away. After crossing that, there are a few large trees to beat, then the fairway drops down to a sidehill slope, with the basket in the back, right corner of the park, on two sidehill slopes, right to left and back to front. I threw about 5 drives, and still couldn't get a good one!
I did have one unusual encounter at Morningside, while crossing the street from #6 to 7, there were 4 KNX police officers standing there talking, near a semi trailer, I walked up and asked if everything was OK and one said things were fine. Then as I walked away, he said, "Be careful out there" (very Hill Street Blues style), I replied that now I was worried. As I came back by, from #15 to 16, they had a Semi wrecker there, hooking up the trailer. Must of have been a stolen rig that was dropped there, of all places!
After playing 79 holes in Knoxville, I had probably my best shot on hole #80. #17 is 290', mostly straight over the walking path, to the basket on a sidehill. I threw a perfect drive right at it, that came up 5'-6' short and stayed on the hillside!
I'd love to have the chance to play this course again, if I lived in Knoxville, I would definitely play it again, but probably not a lot. The variety and design of the holes ranked very high with me, but all things considered, I can't rate this course as high as I would like to.

- Great use of landscape with elevation, trees, etc.
- Challenging layouts for both novice and skilled players
- Convenient location

- Signage is an embarrassment to whoever maintains the course. It needs a complete overhaul.
- Due to poor signage, navigation to the correct basket and next tee was near impossible
- Course maps or a main signboard detailing the layouts would have been nice
- Multi basket placements without proper signage

With proper navigation, this would definitely be a favorite course.
Even with having to seek just about every basket and tee, it was still a very fun course to play. I prefer wooded challenges rather than long and open courses. Morningside fit the bill! I would give it more stars if the signage was adequate!

A medium to long length course set in a very hilly inner city park with plenty of trees to work around. The course features generally one decent concrete tee and two full-time baskets per hole. (Hole 8 had three baskets for some reason). The course is very challenging and has some cool looks.

The course needs some TLC now though. The baskets are dingy and roughed up. There are trash and broken glass on the course. The tee signs are deteriorating to the point that several of them are unreadable. Baskets are misnumbered. There are downed branches in several places on the course. The sidewalks are crumbling apart in places and covered in mud in others. There are fairways that play dangerously close to sidewalks, pavilions, playgrounds etc.

Even so, there is enough cool golf here to make this course worth playing. If this course was modernized and polished it could be something very nice. The elevation is extreme on a few holes and with the length, I would caution new/rec players and those with weak constitutions.

The new tee pads are awesome. Thought that hole 8-10 wer great holes. I also really liked the tee shots on holes 2 and 3.

I guess the thing I liked least was that there are too many roll away possibilities. Also the footing was treacherous in many of the steep areas. It seems as though it was not the best use of the property.

played ok though and had a good time but definitely not my favorite.