The Reinhardt University DGC takes advantage of a picturesque campus to provide some terrific elevation and challenging holes even though some of the design misses the mark and feels shoehorned into available areas.

The wow you might experience stepping on this course will come from the scenery on the front half, which offers views of lavish lawns, rolling hills, and Lake Mullenix, which comes into play on Hole #9. What use to be a short, nine-hole design has been transformed into an 18-hole, more complete course by adding several holes that are over 300 feet, delivering some nice turf teepads and bringing water into play on three holes.

The tiny, mulchy teepads of a few years ago are gone, and the turf teepads are a wonderful addition. Several holes are marked with a sign on the ground or posted on a tree and use a flat sidewalk, and Holes #11 and #13 actually share the same teepad – don't worry, the throws go in opposite directions.

Hole #1 is a favorite for me. It's a slightly downhill toss of about 300 feet over a beautiful, fairly open lawn with a few large trees to navigate and several shot options available to reach the basket. The new course only kept one hole identical from the original layout (Hole #16), but for this hole, only the teepad was moved, so I was glad it was repositioned to a better spot and remained the opening hole.

The previous reviewer shared that other players had a dislike for Hole #5, but like oldmanbackhand, I didn't mind the hole. The basket is blind from the tee and requires hitting a gap with a backhand hyzer or a high throw that stalls and then fades down the hill. It's a fun, technical shot with a decent amount of luck as landing and stopping the disc in the right area will require some finesse. During my recent round here, a playing partner aced this hole – the unexpected sound of smashed chains and our shocked faces was the highlight of the day!

Hole #7 is another favorite hole as it goes over a small pond with options available to the left and right to navigate a few trees in the middle of the line to the basket.

Hole #9 is the gut-check hole and probably the signature design at Reinhardt. The hole requires throwing straight at least 260 feet over the larger pond, though there is a bailout area way left that keeps your disc dry but could lower the possibility of making par.

The challenge is pretty good at Reinhardt: there are a few ace runs but there's also a couple tough pars, including the last hole, which requires an accurate drive that plays almost 350 feet long with treachery near the basket – a huge dropoff on the left and some disc-eating evergreens on the right.

Hole #3 is definitely one of the weaker hole designs on the course. It's a nearly 500-foot-long par 4 on the side of the hill with high potential for a rollaway the entire way. Even finding flat areas to throw is tough. This is one hole that feels squeezed in between a building and the steep drop-off and seemingly only exists to take the user from the Hole #2 basket to the Hole #4 teepad. While I applaud par-4s and don't mind challenging holes, a better option would have been a shorter hole with less climbing involved.

Holes #10 to #12 feel shoehorned as well. Not only is there a bit of overlap with the fairways, they play closer to buildings and there's not a natural fairway feel on these holes.

With multiple groups on the course, there's a chance for a traffic jam on the shared teepad of Holes #11 and #13.

Hole #17 runs alongside a casual road and there's another road beyond the basket, so keep an eye out for incoming cars. Also, this hole uses a sidewalk for the teepad and there's a lamppost that's annoyingly close to the left side of the teepad.

Navigation isn't instinctual in a few spots and without a course map, you'll likely do some wandering around. I had played the original nine-hole version, so I knew there was a short walk up the road after Hole #14 to locate the area for the last four holes.

For first-timers, there are at least five blind holes on the course with a couple more that might be difficult to see standing on the teepad.

There's some parking near Hole #1, but I'm not sure visitors are invited to park there. If that section is closed, you're looking at a few-minute walk to the first hole.

Reinhardt University does a nice job offering a mixture of hole types and challenges. The views are above-average. It's a solid college campus course, though I'll deduct slightly for the lack of amenities and the in-ground signage, which isn't particularly useful for navigation.

The course is also in a bit of a disc golf desert. There are some excellent courses in the north Atlanta region, but the closest plays are half an hour away.