1) Set on a beautiful and well maintained traditional golf course in Princeton, IN, this pay to play course ($3 greens fee, $5 cart fee per person) is poised to be a big arm players dream.

2) Tee pads are a mix of Hog Troughs, spray painted lines on cart paths, and a few textured solid concrete pads. I put this in pros simply because there is a concrete tee pad version on every hole verses natural tees for those that care. There appear to be several short pads that are a mix of rubber mats and cart path sections but they lack tee pad signs.

3) Newer condition white Patriot baskets, basic tee signs with hole number and distance on some holes. Some holes don't have signage at all.

4) Well maintained from the golf course side of things and mostly you will be playing down or across traditional golf fairways.

5) Very lightly to sparsely wooded in some areas and wide open in others.

6) Big arm course with plenty of open air to let it fly. Use of elevation, both big drops and a few steep uphills, really test your distance game.

7) Accuracy is not a skill that is necessary here on most of the holes as it favors distance and forgiving wide fairways. Still not a beginner level course, but if you want to watch your disc fly, it's great for that. As an MA40 player with 375-400 feet of golf distance I found these holes to be on the challenging side but not insanely difficult if that helps anyone else gauge their skill against it.

8) Several ponds and small patches of lightly wooded greens to help break up the traditional golf fairways.

9) Closest thing to a signature hole would probably be Hole #7 a 430 foot downhill par 3 that forces a left to right shape over a small pond and across a traditional golf green to a small landing area green tucked close to the OB. It's the prettiest shot out of an otherwise very visually bland course.

1) The various tee pads in use. The Hog Troughs for those who don't know what they are, are basically 4' x 10' concrete slabs that are prefabricated and cheap and easy to install. They have multiple 1/2" wide slits in them that works well to let rain and debris filter through them. However, these are finished concrete and not textured. Dirt, mud, leaves, debris etc get lodged in these slits and make the tee pads extremely slick. The cart path tee pads are simply a spray painted line and often difficult to locate and rarely level. The rubber mat tee pads are the same, small and unlevel. The best tee pads are the few solid texture concrete teepads but are located on only a couple holes. The footwear you choose for your round here can mean the difference between slipping and sliding all day or having a decent round.

2) I'm pretty critical of most traditional golf courses that have disc golf as a part of it. Especially the ones that chose to have you throw down golf fairways from golf tee boxes. This course is no exception to that. With minimal tree cover to help with shot shaping and hole definition you find yourself able to almost exclusively just throw big open hyzer shot after shot with the occasional tree to miss here and there.

3) The only difficultly this course presents is distance, and despite some tight OB and sloped greens in places, a careful shot selection can navigate this course without much trouble.

4) Course is extremely long to walk and there is very little break from the sun throughout. Quite a few long walks between holes as well.

5) Extremely confusing layout if you aren't using a course map or U-Disc, a lot of holes have multiple tee pads but only some have tee signs, and even with U-Disc it was hard to find the spray painted lines on the cart paths. You double back and forth quite a bit in a weird pattern that doesn't make intuitive sense.

Personally this is on the lower end of enjoyable courses I've played and compounded by the fact it was pay to play. No holes stood out and made me feel like I got my money's worth, I regretted not getting a cart, and I was ready to leave well before the last 5-6 holes but continued on. I would rate this course much lower if I only based it on my personal preferences for courses, but it has some nice amenities and some people love courses like this. For me it is a decent course that does the disc golf thing and it has some good equipment but I personally feel it is designed terribly and could be much better. Some courses are made long just to be long, and this is one of them. Much better courses in the area to spend your day.

1st addition of a disc golf course on a ball golf course in the area. Positive step for southern Indiana disc golf.

Good use of elevation. Throwing to blind baskets, uphill/downhill shots, over valleys. The use of ball greens, bunkers, and ponds as hazards/OB was nice. Several well designed holes where I had to consider pushing it or laying up for a longer but safer par.

8 was my favorite. Tee from top of the hill over a pond and golf green. Need to make a decision on going for it or laying up to the left.

Clean course. (benefit from ball golf)

Circles back around so you start and finish near the clubhouse. Drinks and snacks offered in clubhouse.

No tee signs or pads. Was very confused on course play. Flow of the course was not the best.

Tried playing from blue tees but couldn't find them. No overview map but used UDisc, which somewhat worked but we found ourselves saying "this seems about where it should be" a lot. Ended up playing whites since there were two spray painted white dots for tees. No blue dots that we could find.

4,5,6 tee box all within a close vicinity of each other, throw here then go back. Crossing back and forth over ball golf fairway.

7,8,9,10 felt very jammed together. Would have been easy to accidentally skip from 8 to 12 with the basket and teebox being very close, as we almost did. We were the only disc golfers playing these holes at the time but felt a high probability of having to step over each other if there had been others.
Needed to wait long times for golfers to hit Over and beside us. I felt very uneasy sitting near our tee boxes waiting or even putting/throwing at times. Shanked drives and upshots of balls wizzed nearby.

Hole 12, we threw drives then ball golfers showed up to their box which sat near the middle of our fairway, and they were kind and let us play through. Finished then waited at 13's tee box for them to play through as we sat in the middle of their fairway.

14,15,16 played in between the road and the fairway of a ball golf hole. Again had wait times and had to watch over shoulder sitting right beside their fairway.

Not sure if it was a busy day of golfing but we experienced consistent waiting times. Felt rushed at times when taking shots and that we were a nuisance to the ball golfers. Took around 4 hours to play.

$3 to play. +$5 for cart (no splitting, 5 for both people)

New course with work that still needs to be done. Personal opinion is that a new layout would help.

Has potential but is currently lacking good flow and guidance. Felt convoluted with both ball and disc golf sharing multiple fairways at times, a lot of waiting on each other. Will play again in a years time to see if it improves.


UPDATE (2yrs later): There are now teepads but still no teesigns. Even with playing before I still felt lost a couple times, UDisc was a must to play.

Happened to be a local ball golf round of numerous people playing (no carts left for us). Needless to say, it was a bit messy at times again. We're in the way, they we're in the way. Most were friendly, asked questions and we played through. Others seem entitled and hit near greens/fairways while we were standing near landing zones. I guess that comes with the location, so I wasn't upset.

Don't get me wrong, this course is fun and I enjoy it but there are some drawbacks.

Overall, review still stands about the same. Still think a better layout would help but seems pretty permanent with teepads installed. With it being pay to play I probably won't travel to this course unless something draws me to it.