1. Course is well laid out and easy to navigate between holes.
2. Nice mix of flat and elevated terrain.
3. Course is well maintained.
4. Course really challenges your short game.
5. Course doesn't require a big arm to play.
6. Nice mix of dog leg left and right holes.
7. Course has three practice baskets.

1. All holes are par 3. The entire course can be played with a putter and midrange.
2. You have to cross over hole 12 to get to 14.

A very nice course located at the end of Anderson Civic Center. Course is easy to navigate and rewards the finesse touch. A great course to play if you are in the area. Nice course for beginner and intermediate players.

Great course to refine your technical game or sharpen your "cursing like a sailor" skills! It's a maze through the woods that I really love because It plays fairly quick for an 18 hole (par 3) course. An added bonus is being located at the city civic center, there are many stores near by for last minute needs including an Academy Sports and Dick's for disc!!

I loved the course but the tee pad signage needed some attention on several holes. If I hadn't been playing with a guy that I joined up with as I was playing (who was a member of that club) several hole placements would have been blind to me.

1. The course is in great shape this year. Usually maintained periodically.
2. Tight course that emphasizes control throws over distance. Great technical course that makes you think about the lines you want to play.
3. Family friendly.
4. Dependable Innova Discatcher baskets. Double chained.
5. Scenic. Nice walk in the woods. Beautiful in the Fall.
6. Good beginner course that teaches you to think about your shots.
7. Good sized concrete tee pads.
8. Hole markings are good.
9. Good variety of shots needed.
10. Alternate basket placements on 1, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 17 add interest to the course and mixes things up a bit.

Cons:
1. Next tee signs need some work. The transition from 10 to 11 and 13 to 14 would confuse a first time player.
2. Poison Ivey in the Spring and Summer. Lots of poison ivy.
3. The really good players may not get too excited with this course. Or they may see it as a short game tune up.
4. The walking trails have to be shared with other walkers who are not playing and you have to watch for them. Sometimes you have to tell them to move on.
5. If the soccer spectators are not watching their children playing in the wooded area near 9 and 10, the children will pick up your disc while it is in play. With luck, they will bring it to you....aarrgghhh.
6. Just as in life, there is an element of luck in play at this course; good shots don't always get rewarded here. And that could frustrate you on some level.

The Trails is my home course and it fits my game well. The Trails plays in a heavily wooded section of the Anderson Sports Complex, and as its name implies, follows wooded walking trails. With moderate elevation changes, this is not a distance course where you air it out. The creek comes into play on several holes and poses additional challenges. The course is for a technical game and, coming in at 4,400 feet, it is pretty short. It is a well designed short course and it doesn't pretend to be anything else. It will challenge beginners and recreational level players and provide some good birdie opportunities for those skill levels. It will offer many birdie opportunities for the more advanced players. The really good players here use mid ranges and fairway drivers. Using a putter or approach disc off several tees is a pretty common occurence.

Holes that stand out include 1 in the long pin position where a clean drive down the path is a must for par or birdie, 4 with the question mark fairway, and 14 where a well placed hyzer drive into an upslope is a must. Overall, the Trails is a fun course to play in a scenic wooded setting and a great place to learn technical throwing skills and control shots.

-great smaller tight course to practice up shots.
-very family friendly
-Great beginner course

-if you want to stretch your big arm this is not a course for you
-dag-um sticker bushes
-no tee signs and "next tee" is not always marked
-several holes have the potential to become quite soggy

This is a great beginner course! "A mini golf for discs" The course is mostly tight holes with a lot of elevation change. even though the course is not too long it still caries your interest throughout the whole course. There are ace opportunities on most holes however you can easily get a 4 with a couple bad bounces. It is well diversified with left, right and straight holes. There is little undergrowth but what is there tends to be barbed so you my pay for a bad shot with a drop or two of blood. The course is located in a large park and kept quite clean, there are two holes where you may have to wait for a runner/walker to pass before throwing. Be sure to take a picture of the course map in the beginning with your cell phone as the course is not marked well, no tee signs.

The Trails DGC is a quick and quirky rides up and down wooded slopes with short holes allowing many birdie opportunities if you can make some tight turns and negotiate the gaps in between the numerous trees. The pace of play is quick and the accuracy is key. All holes had concrete tees, and I think signs may be in the works, as posts marked each one. The Discatcher baskets are often hidden from view off the tee pad, but they are all there and catching well. The longest and most open holes on the course are 9 and 10, playing next to an asphalt walking trail. Aside from that, it is consistently heavily wooded and elevation changes are prevalent on many holes as well. The fairways are well mixed in right and left turns and the greens reachable with good throws. Well shaded and very nice in late summer afternoon.

The short overall length of the course may be a con to some players, but I was able to enjoy it. The course is compact and sometimes baskets or tees are near to one another. The layout was weird in a couple of spots. No benches were available on the course, and trash cans were also rare. Mountain bikers rode through more than once during our first round. Pedestrians may also be present.

I found the Trails DGC to be fun, even if the trees were nearly impossible to avoid. I wish I would have putted better, but I felt happy after two quick rounds, with scores of 57 and 54. Definitely could have shot under par on a good day. Reminds me of Timmons Park, with more trees.

Update:
There has been some work done to the course as far as walking paths from hole to hole. The last time I played this course was in the fall before all the greenery came back. The first couple holes are almost impossible to find a good line. If I hadn't played the course before I would have had to walk 1/2 way down to see the basket, which I had to do a number of times. In the fall this was a great course because you had to hit tight lines and navigate around trees. But now that the leaves have grown back you can tell the holes they cleared out and the ones where they just put in baskets. The back 9 wasn't as bad, but those are the holes where trees have been cleared out. It's looks as though they're in the process of doing some work around the first 3 holes as far as lining walk ways. Several of the tee signs are missing, hopefully they are remaking them. I still enjoyed the course just looks like it need a little maintenance after all the rain the upstate's been getting. There are several places you could lose a disc now.

I would call this a hidden gem. First because it's pretty much hidden and second because it's a really good course. Lots of elevation changes and great use of landscape. You have to work for birdies and what little water there is can come into play on a number of holes. Pretty good signage throughout the course, no real benches but nice bridges. I live about 15 min away and love this course. There's a practice basket near the tennis courts and the entire course is fairly well maintained.

I think they could have made this course or at least several holes a little longer, there is a good mix of long and short holes but there's more potential on several holes that's for sure. They could put two more bridges on the back 9, hole 11 to 12 is just logs pretty much and a little sketch for some people.

This is a very good wooded course and one that does require some skill to score well. Can't really think of a boring hole on this course, possible birdies throughout and these trees can either be your best friend or unforgiving.

-Cool temperatrue, through woods course (great during the summer)
-Great concrete tee pads
-Nice Woods course with a few open field throws.

-Somewhat confusing course.
-Signs are placed awkwardly
-A lot of short holes

The course overall in my short disc golf career is my favorite. Its cool during the summer and its like a nature hike as well. Its challenging and it's possible to lose a disc over a ridge or on a bad through in a small creek bed. Overall a good solid place to play but not to hone your skills but rather more of a place to practice them!