I hear that Paw Paw Park was once the site of a golf course. It surely is pretty enough to have once been a course. What makes this course so challenging and interesting just might be the same things that keep many players away. Some of Paw Paw's fairways are narrow strips of lawn lined with areas of nasty rough. No-one will avoid this rough all the time and in some places it's filled with tall grass, thistles and these really annoying plants which seem to throw their burrs on you, even if you just pass close by. At times, my shoes, shoelaces, legs and towel were thick with these pesky burrs. Fortunately, they are not the small ones which are really difficult to remove. These are bigger and relatively easy to pull off.

Also, there two over the water shots that many of us should just avoid. # 9 is 420' which takes about a 380' throw to carry the water. You can play it safely by throwing to a landing area on the right side. For better players, this seems like a fairly safe play. For recreational players, this would still be scary.

# 10 is 262' with the water on the left and also behind the basket. Once again, not a difficult shot for intermediate players and above but rec type players will definitely drown a few discs here.

I started off my round playing solo and trying to play extra cautiously. The one time I attempted to throw over the rough, I choked and went deep into it. After spending much time hunting for my disc and collecting burrs, I served as a spotter for the two guys following me, and they both needed my help on this hole. On the next hole, we were all in the rough and a fourth player teed off, into the tough. We kind of reached a mutual decision to play together and have four sets of eyes. And together we did spend ample time looking for discs.

The course is intermediate level challenging. I guess the two water holes would be considered the signature holes here. Nothing else really stood out. For my own personal favorite, I liked the first hole a lot. It's 364' but here is a enormous Weeping Willow tree sat right in he middle of the fairway with it's branches all hanging down to about four feet high. This makes for a tricky tunnel shot here.

Smallish fairways combined with some nasty, disc eating rough is a recipe for disaster for less skilled players (like me). And it's really not fun for better players to spend time searching for discs.

The last two holes were pretty pedestrian like. They felt a lot filler holes.

Navigation can be tricky.

Not a course to play solo.

Not beginner friendly and many rec players will suffer here.

Would be a lot more fun here if you could throw 400' or even 350'. One really needs that distance here and accuracy is probably just as important. For me, constantly hunting for discs that are just a few feet off the fairway is aggravating. And here because the fairways are so narrow, it's easy to throw a relatively good shot and have it be in the rough.

This is a very nice, challenging course. Better players will like facing those challenges head on while us stinky players will probably turn tail and run back to our mommies or perhaps to the nearest, easy recreational course like Winstrom Preserve or Discfunctional Acres.

- Lots of variety in the course from water holes, to weeds, to trees
- Great use of the area with elevation changes, placement of tees and pads
- Course is designed well and easy to navigate while playing
- Somewhat challenging due to some fairways not being very wide

- There are a couple holes where you have to walk back down the fairway after making the basket, so be aware of others driving at that point

This is a fun course and is very close to my home. I will be visiting this course frequently.
It is somewhat challenging, I would not go to this course as a beginner because there are many opportunities to throw your disc in the water.

UPDATE 6/3/15 - This course is brutal and unforgiving, especially on the front 9. The rough is ridiculous and should at least be somewhat maintained. My rating has dropped because of this. On every hole where I threw my disc and it ended up in the weeds, it took between 5-10 minutes just to find it.