1) There is plenty of variety here. Nothing gets overly repetitive. There's a pretty balanced amount of left/right, up/down, and open/wooded holes. From soft hyzers and turnovers to tight doglegs, steep downhill and uphill, and ranging from hole 1 being almost completely wide open to some of the woods holes being devilishly tight. Most holes here are unique from the others. Despite this balanced design, though, I'd say it definitely favors RHBH players over LHBH, especially on the long pads and/or long pin placements. All the most technical shots are RHBH favored. There is only one true 'lefty hole' (hole 9) while at least 5 of the holes almost force a RHBH/LHFH shot off the tee.

2) The design is quite technical while still remaining mostly fair. The open holes mostly have tricky pin placements making getting right up on the basket tough and the woods holes are rife with tight lines to hit. Holes 5, 6 (long pin) and 7 are all RHBH/LHFH flex shots with no clean straight line to the pin. Hole 7 is the tightest of these and definitely borders on unfair, but it is the shortest of the bunch so it is certainly do able. There are a few questionable holes, but for the most part the course does a good job of keeping the short holes very challenging. The only true ace runs form the long pads is hole 4 short pin and hole 17. The new long pin on hole 11 is the 'signature' hole of the course, if I had to pick one, about 450ft straight, but steep downhill to the point that higher power plays could easily get there with a mid. The basket is tightly protected just inside the woods and pines are waiting to grab any shots off line.

3) Navigation is pretty good. There are posts put up that point into the direction of the next pad on many of the holes as well as painted rocks near some of the tee pads. The only possible sticking points I could imagine from a first timer would be from hole 7 to 8, accidentally ending up on 10s long pad (though this is very well marked so you'd realize before you tee off on the wrong hole) and then the walk from 10 to 11, you need to turn around and go over the driveway and 11s tee is right behind the parking area. And, it is worth noting that the map by the parking lot is not completely accurate to the current layout of the course in a couple spots, so don't rely on it.

4) Multiple pin placements on a few holes that get moved around semi frequently. Some of them greatly change how the hole the hole is played while others are just a longer/shorter version of the same shot.

5) There is a nice little practice area with a single practice basket and a enough room to practice putts and short upshots. There is no room for practicing drives, though.

1) Tee pads. While there are two on most holes, they leave quite a bit to be desired. All of the pads are quite small and the short pads are extremely so on some of the holes. Barely enough to even do a one step run up, much less enough for a full drive, in some cases. The long pads are all concrete though some have certainly seen better days and are breaking apart. Definite tripping hazard if you aren't careful in a few cases. On a few holes only one of the pads is marked. Hole 12 used to have a short pad marked in the grass about 50ft in front of the long tee and hole 15 used to have a long pad marked on the walking path, both are no longer marked so you just have to know where they are. Hole 17, also, has a location where there clearly used to be a long pad that has since eroded away leaving a small patch of gravel with some weeds growing in it. There are also no tee signs on any of the holes, definitely makes some holes extra tough for a first timer as many are blind off the tee.

2) Course maintenance from the city is pretty spotty. The grass in the fairways tends to get quite long before it gets mowed and it feels like some of the holes in the woods never get touched at all. The back holes specifically (12, 13, 14, 15 and 16) can get extremely wild...ferns in the fairways, patchy knee high grass etc. It's definitely not enough to lose a disc in the fairway, but it certainly is rough.

3) Speaking of rough, the rough is overbearing. On many of the woods holes the fairways are lined with the typical midwestern suite of extremely thick, largely invasive, plants and going just a small way in can make even just pitching out a struggle. This is worst on holes 8, 9, 11 (on the right side), 12, 13, 17 and 18. The rest of the holes have reasonably punishing rough that's tough to get out of cleanly but not so much that you can find yourself hacking away for 2 or more throws before getting anywhere. Additionally, there are lots of thorny plants around, especially on the back 9, so definitely consider wearing long pants no matter the weather.

4) Speaking on the downsides of the design hinted at above, hole 10 is definitely the worst hole on the course and in my opinion just generally bad. Forced two shot hole but very short. Off the tee it plays 75ft is a sharp dogleg left, then over a crest and downhill another 250feet or so to the basket. There is also a water tower that will knock down any drive pushed long, which considering the drive is less than 100ft is very easy to do. The idea of the hole isn't bad, but it's execution is extremely awkward and not exactly fun. Hole 8 is almost nearly a poke and hope hole. There is a line to the circle, but it's another flex line (this time LHBH/RHFH) and the gap to hit is blind and about 100 feet off the tee. Being off just by a tiny amount can easily send you into instant bogey land. Then hole 12 is the most questionable gap on the course, literally about 5 feet wide 30 or so feet off the tee. Missing will usually kick you right into super thick rough that is bogey at best or left into a wetland area. The hole also takes a decent pump to get to the pin as its steep uphill, so just laying up through the gap with a jump putt or something off the tee isn't really an option. Just a couple extra feet wider on the gap and I think it'd be a great hole for all skill levels. But it's definitely not bad as is, just very very demanding.

5) Lastly, there is construction and city development encroaching extremely closely on two sides of the course. On the east of the course, holes 3 and 5 had massive amounts of woods cleared out for the building of a new subdivision. Hole 3 easily see errant shots go into what will probably soon be peoples backyards, and hole 5 plays entirely in the same area after the initial gap. On the other side of the course, hole 15 plays extremely closely to a road...like the fairway width from total jail woods on the left to road on the right is maybe 40feet, The gap between the road the woods is ~50 feet, and the hole requires a full drive (mostly over the road) up into the green. There isn't much traffic on the road, but it's enough to be an issue. I wouldn't be surprised to see these 3 holes greatly changed or scrapped all together in the future.

Overall, I rate this course just very slightly above average. True rating feels a bit closer to 2.75 when factoring in the cons and choosing between a 2.5 and 3.0 was pretty tough. But I do believe the cons are just enough to bring it down. Fixing just one of the noted cons is a definite bump up to a 3.0 and if all of the non-design related cons could be mitigated I see a 3.5 being very possible. If you are in town it's certainly worth the stop if you have a bit of time to kill; just over an hour for a solo round. But, for Twin Cities residents I do not believe it's worth the drive (unless you are just looking to bag courses) as there are so many other courses that are equal or better in quality within or closer to the metro.

Update: Slightly re-written review and updated information on the subdivision construction near holes 3 and 5. Will try to update again in the future if/when the situation changes.