Good diversity of shots. Great course to learn on and improve your game. It is very easy to shoot well under par, but the course has it's challenges as well. Very well known for 18's water hole, which as a beginner is very intimidating, but as you improve will be a very easy hole.

Bugs in the heat, stinging nettle. Gets flooded easily. Baskets are very worn, you will chain out.

•Big, beautiful concrete tee-pads.
•Variety: half tight, wooded fairways, half open with mature trees.
•Signs at every tee with map and distance.
•Beautiful setting near Mississippi River, views of downtown La Crosse.

•Lots of trash at every tee-pad.
•Map is all wrong. The course has been redesigned, but it's up to the user to figure that out. Many of the nice signs at tee pads are wrong as a result.

I can't complain too much about the shortcomings of Pettibone, it is such a beautiful spot. I enjoyed the variety this course offers, with short wooded holes on the front nine, to longer holes in a setting of randomly spaced, mature trees that offer some great shot shaping opportunities.
Overall it is a pretty easy course, which I don't mind. The wooded holes are short ... some are really short.
You will want to bring a variety of discs: I play LHBH exclusively, so I had my Saint for distance or fading shots, Underworld for left turns, of which there were a lot (this might be the first course I've played that favors right handers). I used a Pain for several shots that were too short for a driver but too long for a putter. A couple holes were short enough to drive with the Swan 2. The guy I played with is RHBH, and the Ace Race 2013 disc was money on this couse.

Overall, a very fun early fall afternoon of disc golf, and well worth a visit.