fun short course.
close to my house.....

the layout leaves something to be desired. in fact you have to walk a fairway backwards to play the next hole, just leave your bag at the next tee... not a good design for the flow of the course. wouldn't have been that difficult to change that up. oh well. not certain who said this was a technical course but it isn't, especially if you come from the east coast. from my experience, this course is wide open. other than the two holes playing side by side, which I HATE, this is a fun course.

fix the side by side holes and this place could host a B-Tier event no problem.

New signs get you where you need to go. New course is not busy and there is no pressure to hurry through the holes like at Widefield or Cottonwood. Very little non-disc golf traffic. Very scenic, especially in the lower wooded areas of holes 6 through 16.

Course is still being cleaned up. There Is a lot of trash from years of non use on is land. Plus, Fountain creek has a tendency to carry all sorts of trash to its shores. Some heavy brush areas and tall weeds can make it difficult to find lost discs (if you find my King around hole 4/18 please call me).

I really like the lower wooded holes (6-16). They have a tendency to be shorter holes but challenging with the trees / obstacles. They are easily "birded" with well played shots. Hole five has a nice elevation drop that can look intimidating throwing over the "S" curve in Fountain creek. You may want to wear pants, searching for bad lie can put you in high weeds and cactus. I think this course will be great as it matures. For now it is a fun course close to home. Please help keep it cleaned up and carry your trash out; there are no garbage can as of yet.

-Perfect mixture of right and left finishing shots, with varied distances for both finishes as well (something that is often overlooked on courses)
-Scenic views on many of the holes, with Pikes Peak and the Rockies in the background
-Fountain Creek rages through the entire course, providing an excellent "pucker factor" for many shots
-Very visible baskets (Salient Liberties) which are important for the middle ten holes which are fairly wooded
-Good use of the property, which minimum crossing of fairways on a very thin piece of land

-No concrete teepads yet...will likely be some time before they put in as input from the local club members will dictate where they are placed
-No teesigns, yet...these will be in place before the concrete pads, thanks to the generosity of the local parks department
-Holes 2 and 3 are right up against the local jail and impound lot; nothing to be done about that (there is plenty of buffer so no actual danger) but it does give a bit of creep factor
-Lots of dead wood and live weeds that will be slowly cleared out through various workdays; for now pants or long socks are a must
-the most scenic "top of the world" hole crosses fairways with another hole, which is unfortunate but plenty safe as everyone/everything is in view
-3 holes are currently out of play due to a Red-Tailed Hawk nesting area in the fairways...this could be considered a PRO as it shows the clubs commitment to environmental protection

I am humbly honored to have been able to arrange the deal that got the baskets for this course, as well as putting them in with Fishy. I also did my fair share of picking up trash around the previously abandoned property. This course, which is now officially open for play, is a realization of 2 and a half years of politicking and hard work by a select few members of the local club. Seeing it put in is a real treat to be sure.

With that in mind, this course will not realize it's full potential for at least another year. The club takes a lot of pride in this new course and another soon-to-be-placed course, so the work will be put in. It is currently still a great play (my best score with baskets is 2 over par, and I was quite happy with it, to give you a hint at the challenge) and is easy to navigate even without a guide or teesigns.

This course will be a real showcase by summer of 2016, and will make a great one-two punch with the nearby Widefield.