Fairly well marked signage and baskets

Overgrown vegetation leaves one guessing which direction to throw or makes it difficult to discern the layout of the course.

Lots of water and tall grass will make this course unforgiving for most players

Some of the tees are missing or difficult to find as they appear to just be sunken timbers

This was my first time to this course. As I hadn't played in a while this course put me on caution given the conditions I encountered. There are a few decent holes, but the rest seemed almost unplayable or too risky for me. It would help if some of the overgrowth could be trimmed away to give the course back some intuitive flow. To me it seemed there was too much risk in the layout. I likely won't play this one again unless I become an expert at pinpointing my throws and can avoid the water.

The course plays on through a fairly marsh area with many small ponds and drainage ditches running through it. The holes for most part were very straight and only a two or three of them required a left or right break. The fairways themselves were fairly well defined and were mowed adequately. A few of the holes make creative use of the terrain. Hole 6 the signature hole on the course made very nice use of a pond and Hole 7 even though it was not very long distance wise made good use of the dense trees in the area.

Each hole had a tee sign at the long tee the short tees did not have any tee signs presents. While there were no next tee signs at the basket of each hole navigation was not really a problem.

The distances on the course fluctuate from hole to hole and presented many different distances. Some of the holes were less than 180 feet in length and there were holes around 400 feet in length. This provided a good balance of requiring different types of throws.

The baskets were in good shape and were generally clearly visible from the tee except for a couple holes.

While the course makes use of lots of water on the course not all of the water being used is fun to play through. There were several holes where the water seemed to be in play only because there was not enough space to put a hole anywhere else.

There were several design issues with the holes as well that just detracted from the overall enjoyably of the course. The hole 8 with the blind tee shot across a marsh with a wooded walkway I would imagine would be unplayable for parts of the year. Hole 9 also seemed a little dubious. It was narrow fairway with water running on the left side and a paved highway on the right. This would seem to be a safety issue because most RHBH players would take a hyzer line that would put their disc out over the road.

While hole 6 is the signature hole of the course there are multiple issues with it. I thought the hole was beautiful to look at with the pond and trees protecting the basket. The problems with the hole is that the tee area is not level and is sloped up part way than sloped back down to the tee line. The trees that protect the basket were only trimmed of branches for about the first four to five feet. This seemed a little unfair since the tee area was higher than the basket and a good shot could take unlucky bounce off a tree branch and end up in the pond.

Bugs were also an issue on the course though this is not a major issue it is still worth noting. The course also had grass tee areas which in my book is always negative.

This is the second course I have played that was designed by Fairway Flyerz and I am not a big fan of either of them though the Ponds of Lindwood clearly is a much worse course than Lochness. What would seem to be a beginners course because of the length of some of the holes really is not one because of the abundance of water which could eat up many many beginners discs. There really is not much of reason to play this course unless you are in the area and want to get a round in or are trying to bag as many courses as possible.

Good hole placement, this course could be really nice if someone took care of it. The placement of some of the holes is really challenging and makes shot selection hard. I like the fact that there is water that comes into play on 4 of the 9 holes.

The upkeep on this course sucks really bad. It's overgrown full of sand burs and has bad trails through tall grass that will eat your disks alive. There are no cement pads and if you dont know where the pins are it can be hard to figure out. Hole 4 is over a thick swamp with tall bushes and some trees no lane to the pin. I would not recommend this course to anyone who can't handle bugs and sand burs.

I do think this course would be more playable in the spring before the grass gets tall.