- Course design is excellent - challenging and varied. No repeat holes.
- optional holes after #13 in the woods - Scott Rogers, Grandpa, Urban - are short but very challenging.
- Multiple basket locations
- Great use of water hazards (when the creek isn't dried up)

- baskets are not moved very often.
- first time navigation can be difficult, as some signs are damaged and/or missing.
- probably too difficult for beginners to enjoy

Sky Vu is an underrated course mostly because it is in a small town. However, it is a hidden gem. It gets much less traffic than Frontier Park in Hays. Play the extra holes between #13 and #14 - they are in the woods and full of trees and mandos.

Extremely convenient to I-70. Design includes a wide variety of holes - long bombs, insanely technical woods holes, pins in devilish positions (like #8, IIRC, where you drive across the creek and the pin is tucked directly behind a tree on the far side).

For a course that has no elevation to speak of, the fun factor is really quite high. I found myself anticipating each new hole with strong interest despite the fact that my feet were wet and cold, normally an instant joy-killer.

Baskets were old DGA models, some single-chain, all looking pretty tired.

The main con, though, is what some of the other reviewers have noted - navigation. Tee signs are OK but some are missing. I got pretty turned around after #13 and found myself winding my way through the woods, playing extremely short, technical holes labeled "Scott Rogers", "Grandpa", "Urban", etc. Don't know if these were part of the course - Grandpa was about 100 feet long and involved a 6x6-foot triple mando ...

I actually gave up after that point because I could not find the next tee. A map would add half a disc to my rating, no joke.

I played this course solo, early in the morning with temps in the low 50s and lots of dew on the grass. Because of the drought, there was no water in the creeks and so forth (probably just as well).

My general impression was that whoever put this course there devoted more than five minutes' thought as to interesting design - more like five hours, I'd say, with more time spent yet on certain holes.

Still, it's evidently been a while since this course first opened up and the years have taken their toll. All in all, this course is good enough to mandate some attention - with a little TLC, it could be a destination, not just a place to play when you're in transit.

One of the obvious pros is that this course is just a few blocks away from the highway. I was able to stop and play a round here in a little over an hour while driving from Denver to Oklahoma City. The course has a lot of different type of holes, ranging from short forest shots to long wide open 450 footers. It was definitely a very challenging course that made you practice all facets of your game. My favorite thing about this course, is that no two holes were the same. Often when you have small town courses like this you see the same hole repeated about 2-3 times, but they managed to legitimately get 18 unique holes here at Sky Vu.

This course could use some sign renovation. The next tee boxes were well marked on each tee sign, but about 7-8 holes were missing their tee signs. Also, someone put up two extra holes right after hole 13. This is cool in theory, but as someone who had never played this course before, I ended up getting lost and around some random train tracks. The layout of the course can be very confusing at times, so renovation of the signs at this course is very much in need. The course also could use a good mow in several spots.

Overall this was a great course right off of the highway. They genuinely managed to include the small town aspect into the makings of their course, a very unique feature of Sky Vu. While it may not be the most pretty course I've played, you could tell that the town of Ellis worked with what they had to offer and churned out an above average course. If you are travelling along I70 and pass by Ellis, definitely stop and play this course.