Pros:
When I saw this nine hole course was rated 3.5, I thought, yep, another case of home boy bias. And it's probably more like an average park course. I stand corrected. Holes 6, 7, 8 and 10 are all outstanding holes and would be a welcome addition to 95% of all courses.
From the street Sycamore Park looks just like every city park, green grass, ballfields and lovely scattered trees. But the back of the park contains this rock mountains which are perfect for climbing, biking, playing over and around and, Oh Yes, disc golf.
The course starts out with the first four holes being standard issue city park holes, 200' holes playing across lawns. After # 4, you come to # 5 and things start to change. It's 327' playing up to a basket sitting across a gorge and at the top of a big hill. Then # 6 is a top of the world type hole. The views of the park and surrounding city are tremendous. The basket is 345' set amongst these wonderful rock formation.
After playing # 6, you walk another hill complete with great views, to tee off to another basket set in front of a different but equally awesome rock formation. On the far side of this formation is the pad for # 8. It's a lovely little 237' shit throwing over this lower rock formation to a basket across a small gorge. # 9 could be another awesome downhill toss if the designers had only used this steep, little hill, above the # 8 basket. Then you complete partly up the first rock formation to play # 10. It's another great downhill touch shot, just 195', to the basket sitting next to the Sycamore Park sign. Then you finish with two more normal city park type holes.
Cons:
The rock formations are only beautiful to look at but so many kids were having a great time climbing all over them. I had to wait numerous times for kids, their mamas and other family members to clear. It's not such a terrible thing but more a compliment to the enjoyment factor here at a Sycamore Park.
1/2 of the holes here fall into the little 9 hole average park category.
It would helpful if some Good Samaritan would go around and neatly write the hole number on each of the yellow campground tee signs.
Other Thoughts:
I would venture to say most of these recreational players here can't really the grasp what a wonderful disc golf experience they are getting here. Getting to play epic holes such as these is pretty special and these recreational types probably think every disc golf course has big downhills like these with beautiful 360 degree views. This would be a great course to live close to but would also be totally aggravating, as well as you would have to constantly be trying to play at odd hours so as to avoid the hordes of little junior rock climbers!