Pros:
1) Outstanding amount of elevation change. There are all sorts of different holes from downhills, to uphills, sidehills, up and over hills, etc etc etc. There are some gentle rolling hills and some extreme elevation changes.
2) Plenty of benches and garbage cans available on this course.
3) Incredible property with tons of room for disc golf and plenty of other activities. Just driving to this place I could tell it was going to be great.
4) Practice basket is available for before the round.
5) Old DGA baskets with number plates seem to be standing up to time in the woods.
6) I love technical courses in the woods, especially with some short aceruns. It really is a lot of fun to play because you can make a lot of birdies, but you can also get punished with a couple bad kicks. Either way I love tight technical courses like this.
7) The variety is actually pretty good, although it is mostly tight technical and wooded.
8) The distance variation is pretty good for a short course, but it is pretty much just typical par 3 disc golf. There are holes in the 100's, 200's and 300's but this course is all about technicality, not distance. The woods also make these holes play much differently than just their distance.
9) I would say this course is adequate for beginner friendliness. It is short enough that beginners can still recover from a tree hit but it will also show the beginners what the game can provide.
Cons:
1) I wish the DGA baskets had a powder-coated top or something because they are so tough to see on densely wooded courses like this.
2) This course was relatively short, and it would be really tough to make much longer truthfully. There is so much elevation change and so many trees it would be devastating to make the course any longer than it is.
3) Compaction or at least erosion is taking its toll here because of the elevation. There also seems to be a whole lot of drainageways due to the elevation changes. These areas naturally are becoming eroded.
4) Road comes into play on a handful of holes. It adds more variety to the course, but at the expense of safety (for the vehicle at least). I wish this type of scenario could be avoided without sacrificing quality on the course.
Other Thoughts:
This course was a lot of fun. It was challenging, yet birdies were plentiful. You have to execute your lines to get close but that is always so rewarding when you do. The variety was surprisingly good for a wooded park because they used the roadway areas for a handful of holes. I would always prefer that roads do not come into play, but they did make the disc golf more enjoyable. I also didn't have any issue with vehicles while I played.
I enjoyed talking to my fellow disc golf road-tripper Larry Clifford Kirk who called while I was playing this course. I was a little surprised my cell phone worked out there because it feels like you are truly in the middle of nowhere, but I suppose Tupelo is actually a fairly big city.