It's pretty obvious how much effort has been put into this course when you're walking down the wide fairways carved into the forest, throw a variety of shots on many diverse holes, and looks from the tee.

Tees are concrete, but also a bit short, especially on the first holes. You can start your run up behind them, or throw next to them, if it's not too muddy. The first holes also span a drainage basin though, so if it's rained recently you may want to wait or wear shoes you don't mind getting wet.

I feel like the best feature of this course is that there really aren't any other wooded courses in the Houston area. You can go up to Spring Valley, or even farther to Shawshank, but those tight and technical, PUNISHING roughs, are right here at TAT.

(and other typical considerations: navigation is easy, beauty isn't bad, risk of losing a disc is low except for a few holes)

This course is grueling, and because there are just a lot holes where to make it far down the fairway you have to hit some crazy tough lines. Play for par. Don't go for birdie unless you can see the basket, which will be few times.

On the tee signs, there are multiple tees depicted, and in reality, there is always only one tee. That's pretty frustrating because multiple tees would definitely help this course.

Some holes have long and short pin positions, and when I played they were mixed. A hole in the long, then the short, then the long, then the short, and I couldn't figure out why they don't just move them all in one or the other.

My biggest ish with this course is just how long it feels. There's a stretch of several loooong par 4s in the middle, all in a row, that just kill your energy if you end up in the woods at all. It would be nice to have the par 4s spread out a bit so you can recover some of your game.

I played this course in what had to be the most miserable conditions- inCREDibly humid, muddy, standing water on most fairways (but the miracle is I NEVER landed in it!), and sweltering heat. But despite how miserable summer Houston was, I could see myself really enjoying this course in the fall, or early spring, when its cool and the brush is thinner.

This is one of those staple Houston courses. It was nice seeing the videos of this course for the Texas State Championships, because it gave me hope that even the pros have some issues. This is a good course, and I maybe it's just overgrown a little into a bad course, but overall it's worth a stop. Bring your water, don't get discouraged, and you can do it!

The Texas Army Trail DGC has been carved out of some thick, Texas foliage. Many volunteer hours were spent cutting and shaping fairways where there was once only jungle. Many trees were lost a couple of years ago due to a prolonged drought. Trees larger than 4" around can not be cut down due to environmental restrictions. The last 14 holes could all be considered technical. The county has been inconsistent in their support of this course. They placed restrictions on what volunteers could accomplish but then out of the blue, they construct a nice large parking lot.

There is a practice basket at the start. There's also a snake warning sign warning you about cottonmouths, coral and copperheads. What, no cobras? The tee pads are nicely sized concrete ones and the baskets are Mach V's. There is currently one cool elevated basket sitting a cement base. The other firmer raised basket on # 7 is currently one foot high. My local guides, Tom and Fred, assured me that this basket would quickly be raised to a normal height.

Holes 1 & 2 play back and forth over the large drainage basins. I found them to be fun throwing from up on the ridge. Starting with # 5, the course moves into the woods and become tighter and more technical. I guess by Texas standards, this is considered very technical. I think you always have a fair route to play through. Some of these routes are tighter than others. One thing that seems to be a constant here, is the rough is very forgiving. As per my usual, I spent much of my time four wheeling my way through the rough and I was almost always able to get a decent look at the basket.

Three holes stood out to me. They were all three the riskier holes on the course and normally I hate these types of holes. # 13 is just 198' but you have to hit the window or risk having your disc sink into the creek. # 14 then has you throwing from an elevated pad and having to annie around a big sweeping fairway to the basket 312' down there somewhere. And I think, # 18, is an excellent example of a true Rusk/Reward hole. It's 252' with a safe hyser throw mostly ending in a par. Or you can take the risky route which involves throwing an anhyser shot around some branches, over the creek and hopefully, be rewarded with a birdie. An additional problem here is the recent flooding took out about 10' of embankment, leaving you even less margin of error. I really like the fact that you, Mr. Disc Golfer, are making this decision.

I wasn't impressed with the tee signs. By the way, there is no sign on # 1. The other signs all show three pads, The short Reds, the medium Whites and the longer Blues, each with varying distances depending on whether the baskets were in the short or long positions. But I never saw any other tee pads and when I inquired with my two, very knowledgeable locals, they couldn't tell me with any degree of certainty the distance.

The rough is mostly thick by Texas standards and not very forgiving having lots of vine like things hanging down all over.

No where for big arms to let em rip. I think, the course's longest holes is # 9 at just over 400'.

C snake warning sign disturbing to us players not used to being around real poisonous C snakes.

Evidence of recent flood seen over all parts of the course. I'm sure the course has shown better before flooding.

Note to Texas players: This course would be considered the norm in many other parts of the country. States getting a lot of moisture, like Oregon and Washington, feature courses that make the Texas Army Trail DGC seem.........I think fair is the word I would use. We see courses where there doesn't appear to be any fair route to the basket.

I liked this course. It's a course where accuracy is more important than distance. I didn't say this course was my kind of course, I suck at any course where you need to throw straight. Texas Army Trail kicked my butt, big time, but I did welcome the challenge even though I mostly failed miserably. I think other players may enjoy having their lunch handed to them here.

Fun course. Good teepads. Variety of shots. Haven't played it in a while so I can't remember too much about it, but I did really enjoy it. First few shots are wide open and it lets you warm up, and it gets progressively more and more fun.

Signage was decent but not amazing.

First few holes are open which allow you to warm up your game.

Controlled flights are demanded on the rest of this course.

I didn't see any ice cream trucks or topless women riding bareback on horses.

Course could use more of the former.

The only course I know of in/near Harris County that gives you the slightest sense of what it is like to play this game outside of the state of Texas. It isn't all 500'+ RHBH flip hyzer bombs.

Unlike quite a few years ago, the fairways are no longer lined with walls of debris and logs and whatever else was removed to clear the fairways. You can still lose a disc, especially if you're playing alone, as many links are completely blind for much of their length, but it isn't a 100% you'll lose a disc every time you play (it was in 2012 or 2013).

Because of the layout you are rarely overlapping with people playing another hole (unlike, say, Agnes Moffit). This makes it easy to play through.

Holes 1-6 are kind of a set "up front" and then 8-15 are a loop with 13-18 going back to the parking lot. If one section is really crowded you can easily work your way back somewhere which isn't and replay those holes to ensure you always keep moving.

The signs are more trouble than they are worth. They were made before the course was completely installed and there were obviously plans for multiple tee pads which never happened. Unfortunately, the pads which do exist aren't the short tees on the signs, they're the white tees (except where they're the blue tees).

Some of the longest, most blind holes have no sign at all.

There's no indication on the sign which basket location is in play which in some cases completely changes your shot.

So basically you're guessing at distances and disc selection until you memorize the course -- which is what you'd be doing if there were no signs at all.

At least it isn't treated as an "all holes par 3" like so many courses around here.