South Pointe Park is a nice little rural park, it's a well taken care of and attractive park. Sadly, the worst looking part of the park are the beat-up eyesore baskets and rusty tee signs for their disc golf course.

The course itself is seven shortish 200'-250' shots with two longer 400'ish shots. The shots are all open or park-style. There are no marked tees, you tee to the right of the tee signs off grass. There is a pond to the right of hole 5 that really doesn't come into play, but it's there.

The course is easy to get to off the freeway and makes for a quick round to walk off a Blizzard from the Dairy Queen you have to drive by to get there.

Baskets 1-7 are old, beat-up and some of them lean. The gaps in the basket attachments can allow a disc to slide out and hit the ground (don't ask how I found that out.) Baskets 8-9 are DisCatchers, but the baskets for 9 was buried with the basket attachment just off the ground.

The tee signs show you a picture of the hole from the basket to the tee, but you are standing on the tee; all the pictures are oriented backwards from what you are actually looking at.

There are no actual tees, you just tee to the side of the tee sign. This was hard in the case of hole 6 since there was no sign. The tee signs for the rest of the holes were just steps away from the last basket, so we just walked a few steps from hole 5's basket and teed off.

The basket for hole 1 is set too close to the parking lot. Hole 3 played across a soccer field. Hole 8 shot next to another soccer goal and hole 9 hyzered around a playground. There was also a walking path that so many holes threw over I lost count. It just wasn't a safe course design, and it would be unplayable if kids were playing soccer.

The shots are not challenging, so all you could get out of this course is some fun. The land available just doesn't have the elements needed to provide good golf. It's not a course that really could be improved from a design perspective; it is what it is.

I played this course the same day that I played Lincoln Christian University DGC, so it was only the second-worse disc golf course I played that day. I might be the only person who has ever been able to say that.

Natural tee courses have an easy tell if no one ever plays there; there won't be a worn-out spot where people are teeing from. El Paso's disc golf course is over 20 years old and has no sign of wear from players teeing off.

By the time I was putting at the leaning basket for hole #2, I realized that if suddenly had to move to El Paso I just wouldn't play disc golf anymore. I don't think I could make myself play this course regularly. It was an OK way to waste some time while I ate a Blizzard, though.

(0.980 Rating) A short beginner's course needing some love.
- QUICK PLAY - When I start my review pros with "Quick Play" it's not a good sign. The course can be conquered in 20 to 25 minutes by a solo played.
- MAINTENANCE - The park was in decent shape. There were no tree limbs down and trash was minimal. I can't say for certain if its mowed regularity, but considering all the other adjacent park activities I'd say it's done at least every other week.
- LOCATION - They'd have to start putting disc golf courses at rest areas to get a course more convenient off of the interstate. Less than a one-mile drive from the exit. There are also gas stations and fast food places at the exit. Thus, this is the perfect bagger stop.
- BEGINNER FRIENDLY - Beginner distances and obstacles. A good course to learn the basics of game, but its lack of depth will stymie personal development.
- NAVIGATION - Good enough. There was a missing sign on (6) and it was the only time I had to pull out my phone to check my map.

Too small of a course to please even Recreational players.
- LACK OF CHALLENGE - Despite the par listing on site, this is at best a par 28 course. Six holes are 250 feet or less. The obstacles are non-existent on several holes and the rest are comprised of a spattering of trees. Hole (3) is likely the only hole I'd personally play as a par 4 being beyond 400 feet and with a few blocking trees 100 feet short of the basket. In all, I think 840 rated players will average 27 out here.
- SAFETY HAZARDS - Baggers better hope for an empty park on their arrival. I personally got an empty park, but it was 40 degrees out. There are lots of other park elements in play from walking paths, to athletic fields to playgrounds. In addition, several tees are way too close to the prior basket and overall it feels like the holes are squeezed together.
- CHARACTER - Other than baskets and tees signs, there isn't much else. No multi-tees, no alt baskets, no practice basket, no seating and natural tees without a defined line. The tee signage is starting to fall apart and as noted above, its missing on (6).
- CHAINS - Every basket out here is either beat up, listing or both. Most of the baskets are machIIIs, but a couple are DISCatchers. The basket on (9) has the rim 18 inches off of the ground.
- UNIQUENESS - Not the blandest course I've played, but close. All 9 shots are park style plays. Every shot can be played straight ahead. The distances vary from low 400s to upper 100s. Water makes a fringe appearance once on hole (6), but it can easily be avoided with a play to the left. Elevation is no more than 10 to 12 feet on any one hole.
- NATURAL BEAUTY - Pointe Park is not going to win any awards for its natural beauty. Yes, there is a nice pond at the center of the layout, but everything else around it looks run down a touch. Back yards can be seen on several holes and I'll just say that these are not McMansion properties. The park buildings are older and a couple look in bad shape. Chan link fences are in view the whole time.

There will be no reason to check this course out unless a player's direct route to another destination is through this town, and they're out of gas, and they're hungry, and they're a course bagger. For me, I showed up here because I checked off all four of the above boxes. The course may work for newer players in town but that's it. After a town's player has advanced to the novice level they will need to start planning trips to other towns or start creating a hybrid unmarked layout here or they'll be stunted in their disc golf growth.

The course plays through a small flat park around a pond. Most holes have a few scattered small trees in play to encourage some different lines. The pond adds some risk on a couple holes if you really shank it or on a windy day. There are descriptive tee signs with hole layout and distance (though the symbols for the tees and baskets are very strange). The park is nicely groomed with mowed grass and no trash or vandalism that I saw. The flow is easy to follow, with no navigation issues.

The course is pretty boring, with mostly short and open holes. A couple holes add some length, but not much else, with only scattered trees in play, not enough to force anything other than hyzers on most holes. The pond isn't used very well to add challenge or interest to the course. There are also a lot of safety issues here, especially on a nice day when the fields are in use. Walking paths, picnic areas and soccer fields are all in play on several holes, it's hard to imagine playing safely on a nice summer day. The baskets are not the best to begin with, and a couple are bent and loose, making them catch even more poorly.

The park available for this course really doesn't have enough going on to have the makings of a great course, and the safety issues on top of that just make it less of a good place to play. If you want to add a course to your list, go for it, otherwise I wouldn't go out of your way. Beginners will find the course pretty accessible, though less accurate players will exacerbate the safety concerns. More experienced throwers won't find much in the way of challenge or variety, it won't test many different skills or make newer players try any new types of shots.