1. The baskets are nice disc golf baskets.
2. You can play the whole thing with a mid-range or putter.

1. Its hard to find the actual course.
2. The tees are 1"x2" wooden stakes with sharpie numbers on them, (also can be difficult to find)
3. The course is a lawnmower path through some thick brush on average about 6-8' wide.
4. Ground can be very soggy in the spring
5. Huge potential for losing discs in the late spring/summer.

Skip this course and hit one of the other local courses in the area. If you have not played this course before then expect to spend some time searching for it. It is poorly maintained and has the potential to be nice but it seems like it was put in as maybe an afterthought down their cross-country trails. Or it was a school project that was abandoned after completion. If you do play it, hole 6 is in the wrong spot on the map. After hole 5 the map shows hole 6 continuing the same direction. You need to ignore the map and take a right instead and search for the tee that direction.

Hmm, the two positives I can come up with for this course are the location and the baskets themselves. The course is right near Michigan stadium and easy to get to. Probably due to a lack of use, the baskets themselves are in decent shape.

Let's see... No signage, stupidly tight fairways with baskets tucked in so far back that it's comical, knee high grass in the middle of the fairways, swampy woods full of mosquitoes, mud teepads, short holes, very rough rough.

Don't bother. I came here just to check this course of the list. It's really a shame though because with a little more opening this could have been a great addition to Ann Arbor's disc golf map. If anyone from the city or Pioneer HS reads this, please open up the fairways or something! This course needs help and we don't want it to wither away...

Aesthetic-- plays through a back school wood. Course was most certainly "cut from the thorns" as was advertised. Multiple trails criss-cross the course, I'm sure there's potential for meeting people but I'm not holding my breath.

Baskets-- in good repair. but really almost invisible in this wood. I'm not sure what to suggest to increase visibility.

Routing/nav-- is there another way to enter this course? the "path" entrance is awful. paths hold water like a retention pond. even with waterproof boots, it was like walking through creeks.

Variety/challenge-- pretty much a rinse and repeat course. not much variety of any kind. Very tight lines mean mind your disc or you're digging through thorns.

Teesigns/teepads--damn near non-existant. the teesigns (where present) were nothing more than a marker. no true teepads.

I'm not sure why this course is here. Obviously very few visitors, very little upkeep, very dense woods, very muddy paths. Very easy to get lost.

Disc golf can be a lot of fun!

9 baskets!

This course blows as it is right now. A lot of the holes were unplayable because there were so many dead branches/trees in the supposed "fairways".

It's very clear that this course isn't maintained in the slightest. I played this course in the winter and losing a disc wasn't really possible, but in the summer/fall/spring when there are leaves on the trees, it's very likely you'll lose a disc because the tunnel shots are very hard to hit and the thorns are very thick.

Don't come here. I promise you it's not worth it and if you come you'll be disappointed. I would barely consider this a course at all because it's so fallen apart.

• Tight, well wooded fairways make for some nice finesse shots, requiring control. Good place to hone your approach/upshot skills.
• Relatively challenging for holes of these distances: 132' - 189'.
• Decent balance of L/R straight fairways, with a few holes suitable for baby spike hyzer and spike annies.
• Baskets in good shape.
• Very low traffic combined with short, compact layout makes for quick rounds. First round took a while due to navigation, but subsequent rounds only took about 20 minutes.
• Small, very humble tee markers leave much to be desired, but they do let you know where to shoot from.
• Particularly well located for a round before or after U of M football/basketball games.

• Holes feel redundant, not much variety. Bring a putter, mids optional, don't bother with drivers.
• Navigation: 1st hole starts in an awkward, hard to find spot. Course is criss-crossed with paths, some of which aren't part of the course, so finding the next tee isn't always obvious - PRINT THE MAP.
• Tee markers are 1"x2" furring strips extending several inches out of the ground top couple of inches painted white with hole # in black marker - hard to spot against white snow in winter (snow covers the unpainted wood) as well as well wooded paths if there's no snow (it's tough to find a specific piece of wood in the woods). Would really help if they used florescent paint instead of white. They aid in navigation, but just barely, as they're hard to spot.
• OK during fall and winter (i.e. football season). Don't even bother during the spring and summer - gets very overgrown during peak season with little routine maintenance.
• Parking - what parking?

Pioneer's a one trick pony; the short, controlled finesse shot -but does that fairly well. Every hole on the course is quite aceable (but not easily so), and should be deuced if played well... but you won't deuce them all. Tight fairways leave little room for error: go long, nose up and hyzer out, or just have one get away from you, and what should be a deuce could be a 4 or lost disc. Leave the fairway and the rough gets very thick, very quickly - much more forgiving in fall & winter. I'd rate it a 1/2 disc higher if it were more playable for more of the year.

During the right time of year, it's good for a quick,fun round if you're in the area with time to kill (and up for a round of tunnel/finesse shots with your putter). I played 3 rounds with only a Challenger and a Comet, and had a good time, but wasn't expecting much, and only played because I was in the area with 90 minutes and nothing to do.

Despite navigation issues, course actually flows pretty well from basket to next tee- once you get the hang of it. But the fact that no one's really gonna plan to be here means they're unlikely to print the map before-hand. This only makes the spotty navigation and hard to find tee markers more of an issue for spur of the moment, impromptu rounds.

I had fun, but Pioneer's not worth any sort of trip to play here. Nearby Bandemer is more complete course.