- Beautiful Park with huge trees
- Concrete Tees
- informative Tee signs
- fairly easy navigation
- plays in a loop
- Restrooms on site
- Water fountain on site (but bring your own water)
- Playgrounds, ball courts and other amenities on site
- Great use of the land
- Multiple routes to most baskets
- Creek comes into play on several holes
- Great use of the space available.
- Very cart friendly.
- Some elevation changes throughout,.
- A full 18 hole course
- Lots of shade

- Confusing map only shows front 9 (it's a full 18)
- Some fairways can get full of other park goers
- Tunnel shots may get repetitive
- Wind can be an issue
- Sterling is a long drive from just about everywhere.

- This course was designed by The Wright Life (Bill Wright) in Ft. Collins.

- Pioneer Park is a very well kept park. Playing here is such a relaxing experience.

- The trees in this park are huge, and cast a lot of shade. It was in the 90's when we played, but the park was pleasant.

- If you know Colorado, then you know wind and the plains towns get hit pretty good. Our first round in the morning was great. Our second round in the afternoon had some wind issues toward the end. Bring some OS discs.

- I really liked the straight tunnel shots, but it seemed there were a few too many. A few more doglegs would have made things more interesting.

- What a treat it was to play this course. Challenging holes and some open bombers made for a fun day. The cons I listed are very minor, and the only real complaint I have is the location of Sterling. It's about 2 hours from the Front Range, which is pretty far to come play here. However, Optimist and Pessimist aren't far away, so if you plan your day trip to include those 2 then it's more than worth the drive. If you live on the Front Range, you should really make the drive at least once.

Course Design-switching from an open groomed park with long drives to a tight wooded technical back nine. Good mix up of long and short holes with plenty of trees to toss around.

Dirt Tee pads and the signage needs to be completed.

Definitely worth the drive; pair it up with Optimist Course in Ft Morgan and you had a great day.

Variation of distance and difficulty make this a course that everyone should be able to find something they like. Park area has mild trees and shot shaping. Fields headed towards baseball fields have wide open bombs for big arms to show off. The tree section that starts off with a tuff one on 9. (Check out picture of 9 tee sign). Great tunnel shots of variousness difficulty in the trees. Above average tree section IMO .

Navigation was so so. No tee pads caused minor confusion on where to throw from. Tables in middle of fairway on 1?......

Nav is always an issue first time on new course, so print the map to avoid frustration. My knees liked the lack of concrete tee pads. Worthy of a dg road trip from Denver area if you are craving a new dg adventure. Other dg courses to check out in fort Morgan and brush. Fort Morgan got some flood damage last year and brush is a pitch and put for a quick 9

A very good variety of shots are required to negotiate through the trees. Each hole uses trees, elevation changes, and other natural features well to lend a challenge. The Discatcher holes are generally in good shape. The lay-out of the course, while not intuitive, is easily followed with the map provided on this site.

As many have mentioned, having no tee pads to throw from creates some problems. Playing recreationally, it's difficult to even know where the intended tee box is. Two of the holes (1 and 17) have picnic tables in the middle of the fairway, which were both being used. Finding an alternative fairway created some difficulties that I don't believe were intended by the course designer. There are also several places where fairways or walking paths to one hole are in the fairway of another hole. The signage is adequate, but the distances shown don't appear to be accurate on a few of the holes.

A beautiful park and very good use of the park's characteristics. Well worth the trip. I look forward to playing the course again in a couple of weeks at the Vibram Birdie Bash.

This course is an excellent combination of everything. It has a park set of holes and it has a forest setting. It has different height shots that will challenge your depth perception. It has some holes that will test your arm, but others are still reachable off the tee. It will test your bag capacity.

Many of the holes are tree riddled that will make you think out your shot... just grip it and rip it will not work here.

No tee pads make for a frustrating day when it had snowed the day before. They are working on it right now, but for now, it isn't cutting it.

A bit of a hike between tees at times, but not terrible.

I played this in a tourney, and it was a great time. A real gem for being the only course around.

This course has a little bit of everything. It starts out as a park course on the first three holes. Then it's a dry high plains course on holes 4 through 8. Then it becomes a wooded course with lots of narrow chutes on holes 9 through 15, and back to a park course for the last 3 holes. A couple of times you have to cross a ditch full of water so this adds some challenge. On the wooded portion it seems that they actually mow fairways into the tall grass. There are usually some trees in the way on almost every hole to add to the challenge also. The first 9 holes have nice signs at the tee off spot and the back nine has numbered posts. A course that will test lots of your throwing styles.

No tee pads. The sign posts on the back nine do seem to get in the way a little bit. Nobody had uploaded a complete course map before I went but they did have a slightly wet wrinkled one hanging up by the first tee box. I took a picture and added it to the file section here although the quality leaves a lot to be desired. At least you can print up your own map now before visiting which I highly recommend.

For being in a small town 50 miles away from any other town in the middle of the high plains of Colorado this course is a very pleasant surprise. This and Ft Morgan could be played in a day from the Denver area if you are really ambitious or you could make a two day trip out of it and stay at one of the motels in town.

Good mix of holes. Hole #1-2 are longer Par 4's that give you a chance to score right out of the box. # 3 is a aceable par 3 with a good forehand. #4 is a long par 4 (even though it reads par 5 on the sign)--fairly boring hole--but tough to birdie if the wind is blowing. #5 is similar to 4--long par 4--but dead into the prevailing wind. #6-7 are two of the best holes on the course--longer par 3s that require pinpoint drives and approaches. Difficult to deuce. #8 is a very difficult hole--almost 500 ft par 4 with an irrigation ditch running in front of the basket (it eats lots of approach shots). # 9 begins a nice stretch of wooded holes through #15--all par 3s. They are a mixture of short forehand shots, anheizer draws, and straight chute shots. Pinpoint accuracy is needed to stay out of the trees and avoid a big number. *If you don't have a forehand, you will struggle on these holes* Hole #16 is a longer par 4 with OB to the right with the basket hidden behind a line of pine trees. Hole 17 is another long par 4 through several large cottonwood trees. Easily birdieable with a solid approach shot. Hole 18 is similar to #3--an aceable hole with a good forehand.

A good player should be able to score 2-5 down on any given day, but with a few good bounces, a 10 down day is not out of the question.

1. Way finding--the front has a very good sign system, but does not have any directional to the next tee box.
2. Tee boxes--they are dirt if you're lucky--rubber pads would be a major improvement.
3. Back 9 signage--for some reason, the 4x4 wooden posts were placed directly in the middle of the walking path instead of on the side--quite obnoxious.
4. No players--every time I have played this course while on my vacation to my home town, I fail to find any good players, much less any players--on this course. Quite discouraging.

Having grown up in this town prior to this courses construction, i deeply appreciate this course. It gives the town of Sterling another recreation option for its often times bored adolescent population. If I still lived here, I would make several changes, and if anyone who does live there wants to make the changes, contact the Wright Life in Ft. Collins.