Odell Weeks is a solid, consistent course. If you don't like variety, you'll enjoy this course.
- Repetition, repetition, repetition. I actually could say it nine times to replicate this course. If you want to practice your mid to long-range game (depending how far you can throw), this course gives you nine chances at that. If you want to practice the nearly identical tee shot nine straight times, this is the perfect course for you.
- There are slight variations of these holes. #4 & 6 are slight doglegs and trees come in to play on #5 & 7. Still, if you throw dead straight and pin-high on every single hole, you won't be more than 25 feet or so from the basket on any of them. Throw straight and the correct distance and you'll have nine birdie putts.
- Hole distances are very consistent, all ranging from 240 to 320 feet. Average length is 284 feet. So, yeah. You get the idea. You easily could play this course with a couple discs, and probably should leave the bag in the car.
- In addition to being a great practice course, this is also a great course for beginners and casual players. The course is encircled by a walking trail, which was packed the night I was playing (is there nowhere else in Aiken to run/walk?), and only comes slightly into play with an errant throw on #1, 2 & 6.
- With all the baskets in a relatively confined area, this is also a great course to get creative for safari golf. You want variety? Play from #1 tee to 3 basket, #9 tee to 1 basket or #4 tee to 8 basket. It's a good chance to pull out some big drives and impress the ladies on the walking trail. Am I right, fellas?
- Great facility all-around with lots of amenities. Also, restaurants and gas stations close by if you need to get a drink or use the restroom and the rec center is closed.

The lack of variety is pretty rough. It takes a lot to get bored with a nine hole course before you finish. There are other nine-holers I've strongly disliked, but bored takes a different requirement.
- Each and every hole, in and of itself, is perfectly acceptable. Just having them together, nine holes in a row, is a bit much. That said, with such a small piece of land, and little to work with in terms of obstacles and terrain, I think this course is about as good as you can expect.
- Navigation was surprisingly a bit tricky. With so many baskets and tees visible at all times, it would be pretty easy to walk to the wrong pad or throw to the wrong basket.
- For inexperienced players, the holes close to the walking trail could be a bit close for comfort in terms of potentially hitting someone. Add to that, people walk across the disc golf course area as a shortcut.

Odell Weeks is a low ceiling, high floor course. One would think if you're worst hole were as 'decent' as this course's worst, you'd have a solid course. Conversely, if a course had OW's best hole as its own, you'd have really low expectations. That's what you get with consistency.
- Along those lines, no hole stood out from the pack as either good or bad. The only three that stood out to me were #2 and 3, for throwing around trees, and #6, for its slight dogleg right layout, especially with the trees serving as obstacles.
- On an aside, I was really impressed with how nice the downtown/historic area of Aiken is. For my first time visiting the town, and after just playing Perry Memorial, my expectations for Aiken were low. Yet driving to and from the course, I got to see some great small-town charm, which kind of made we wish I could see a little more.
- This has all the makings of a decent nine-holer. It's slightly better than your average nine hole layout and I'm rating it as such.
- If you're in the Aiken area, and don't feel like driving to Augusta/North Augusta, then this is the second best course for you, behind USC Aiken's layout. Other than that, even with the lovely, scenic drive through downtown, it's hard to justify the 15 minute drive from I-20 just for this.

- Holes are a moderately good distance, but not long
- Nice leisurely atmosphere
- No real chance of losing discs
- Convenient to food establishments
- Nice playground for the kids (and the disc golf course is mostly in sight of the playground)

- People wandering across the fairways
- Not a lot of variety in the holes
- Some holes very near playground and picnic tables
- Not an extremely challenging course

My son and I went late on a Sunday afternoon and there were a lot of people wandering through the course. We had some minor issues locating hole #1, since we had parked near hole 6. We also had issues locating the next tee on the first few holes. At one point a family set up their softball game in the middle of the Hole 3 fairway. Fortunately, we were already done there. I would certainly consider playing there again, with the whole family, but just for fun, not the challenge.

This is a small Rec course, located in a city park. Not a professional course!
-Teepads are nicely done.
-Located in a park. If you have Children with you, there is a playground.
-Navigation was easy, despite there not being any maps. (I printed the map from this site)
-Plenty of garbage cans located throughout the park.
-The holes played quickly, perfect for a quick game if you are traveling, and you don't have much time.
-Perfect for beginners.
-DISCatcher baskets
-It is located in a park
-This is a really nice little park, very well manicured.
-Good lengths, for being such a small course. At least three holes were 300+
-This is a course you go out, throw the disc around, and have fun. Not one to take seriously.
-The course is real easy to find.
-Had a good "Fun Factor" for me, I was kinda bummed that I didn't have time to take in another round.

-The major one is that beings this is a park, could make playing here on an average to busy day a real challenge.
-There is a walking trail that runs the perimeter of the course. There were a lot of early morning walkers when I played.
-In my opinion, a hole should never play close to a playground. Ever! Hole 7 appeared to angled enough that errant discs might not be a problem, but still... be paying attention on holes 7 & 8.
-Because it is a park, there will be people milling around. I had a few people wander in front of me.

I showed up here real early on a thursday morning. There were a lot of people walking along the trail. There were a few people wandering around, I had to wait for one guy to walk across with his dog. It was a nice city park with a course located in it. I bumped it up to 2.5, because I felt that somebody did put some effort to make this a course a nice and fitting addition to this park. I wouldn't drive out of my way to play this course, or make a special trip. This is a course for the people of Aiken, South Carolina. If you happen to be in town, stop by, take in a round, and have fun.

What I personally like and how this course stacks up:
1) Holes with good risk/reward -- C-
2) Holes that have rewarding birdie opportunities -- B
3) More wooded than open - lots of variety of shots required caused by hole shape and topography -- C+
4) Natural beauty (Appalachian beauty preferred) and seclusion -- C-
5) Bonus amount for multi-shot holes with defined landing zones, good risk/reward and multiple options to play them -- N/A

It's all about feeding the addiction, so I ranked this course subjectively based on my own "personal addiction factor". The grades above tell how well the course will draw me back to itself again and again and again. Since I have played a decent number of courses (115 18-hole, 50 9-hole as of early 2009), my hope is that players/explorers who have similar addiction tastes will find my ratings list helpful as they choose courses to play and explore.

Over time, I expect to fill some of my reviews in with more descriptive verbiage...if what I can add anything to what has already been written. For now, my list is more important to me than the verbiage of my reviews.

I fully expect others with different tastes/philosophies to disagree with me....that's the fun of things here. See my profile for my rating philosophy.