+ VERY peaceful venue with breezey fields and a nice forest. It's so quiet and desolate here that you can almost literally hear your own thoughts.
+ All baskets have 'next' arrows attached.
+ Tee signs are colorful, well-constructed and literally point the player which way to throw.
+ Concrete tees on a majority of the holes, but...

- ...A noticeable few of them are simple dirt (holes3, 6 and 13) or cracking wooden platforms (holes12 and 14).
- Some of those tee signs are damaged or outright missing.
- The course frequently fluctuates wildly between wide open and narrow tunnel fairways...
- ...and at all other times, the fairways feel repetitive.

To my mind, the star of the show is hole13. Even though it is the briefest of the course, that tiny fairway packs so much into a small area. The basket rests at the bottom of a steep multi-tiered downhill featuring a generous sprinkling of trees, which serve to both increase the difficulty and lend some shadowy beauty to the hole. About the short distance, it is clearly an ace-run, but the hill and trees make it such a daring throw that I couldn't help but love it. What a shame that it's over so quickly.

Hole18 is my least favorite because of how straight, flat, long and wide-open it is... That sentence sounds like the beginning of an off-color joke.

As for the course as a whole, Panther Creek doesn't really do it for me. For one thing, the front nine crosses the same path six times while the player goes back and forth between starting in the open to end in the woods and starting in the woods to end in the open. That gets dull pretty quickly. I understand that there was only so much the designers could do with this piece of land, but why do the same thing for half the course like that? The actual Panther Creek is visible from many spot on the course. Could it really not be somehow incorporated within the layout?

The way I see it, holes3, 6, 12 and 13 are the strongest holes. I am biased in favor of wooded courses, and those four are the only examples of true wooded disc golf. Everything else can be resonably considered open. Those holes that dive into and out of the woods for either the beginning or the end, while trying to add diversity to the circuit, seem more like gimmicks than anything else. And the wide-open field holes don't pique my interest.

But! The course is at least playable and not a miserable experience. Navigation here was pretty easy. The fairways were easy to decode, for better or worse. Disc golfing is better than not disc golfing, and I was glad to be playing it. Then again, I am the kind of player who always tries to play every course to the end, no matter its quality, for the sake of course bagging and giving each place a fair shot, even in that day's 94-degree heat. So maybe I was just sweaty, dehydrated and in the beginning stages of heat exhaustion.

In closing, Panther Creek Park may not be the hippest place to play. Hole13, great as it is, does not compensate for the ho-hum nature of the majority of the rest of the course, but at least this place doesn't commit any disc golfing sins. It's not awful, and it's not awesome. If you play here, you won't be dazzled or dismayed. Keep that in mind, and you should find this place to be just fine.

18 hole course with open fields and some wooded holes. Easily navigable and beginner friendly. Besides the cross-country course, this section of park is dedicated to disc golf. Lots of nature and some great signage for tree species and wildlife if you're a nerd like me. A couple of serious butthole puckering short wooded holes with that ditch and steep hill to the right. Hole 11? is a tree protected ace run with a hill for a backstop behind the basket. Just rip it as hard as you can. If you don't hit an ace, it'll smack the hill and be laying there for a drop in deuce!

There's 2 tees that are natural tee pads. A couple of crazy lines in the woods on the ridge. Definitely not as bad as previous reviews state.

I've been avoiding this course for years due to the bad reviews. Almost skipped it on my trip home for Christmas. Glad I finally played it. There was no chance of getting lost from hole to hole. Very easy to navigate. Not much of a chance to lose a disc either. Fun course and there was also a married couple playing the course. So, maybe this course will not be so hidden anymore!

The folks in Owensboro are doing a good job getting this course in shape! Keep up the good work! The new signs help tremendously and the addition of the concrete tee pads is a big plus. Way better than it was when I played over a year ago!

The wooded holes and the holes that play into the woods could use some trimmimg.

As soon as this course has 18 full-sized tee pads, it will be great for players of all levels. Regardless of the complaints that people have about this course, it is still pretty fun to play!

Several tight shots that require some accuracy and luck. Will soon be redesigned by the DCDGA.

Tee signs wrong, can get lost if not playing with someone who has played it.