Challenging elevation changes and curving lines on every hole. Massive course development potential for some amazingly technical approaches. Super friendly host.

Abandon all hope, ye that enter here. Course is so heavily overgrown that on most holes any discs not landing directly on the steep and winding deer trails that are being called fairways or within 20 feet of the basket will either never be seen again or simply cannot be reached without the use of a brush hog if landing deep inside a thicket of stinging nettle, which by the way is almost everywhere on this course. So fer the love of Pete, wear boots, long pants and long sleeves if you are brave enough to try this course.

My rating is not for course design, which I could catch glimpses of genius in, but strictly for playing conditions. If a Sasquatch ever had a course to delight only Sasquatch-kind and dismay his distant evolutionary cousins Homo Sapiens-Discus from playing disc golf, this would be it. I felt fortunate to have lost only one disc after playing through just over half the course before escaping, and even more fortunate not to have sustained some injury by taking a tumble in one of the densely forested ravines. This course has forever redefined in my mind the term "rough". Never again will I complain about any human-scale underbrush or long grass encountered on courses ever again, because this round of disc golf will always there, like a splinter in my mind.

The Tyee Farms course is built on the property adjoining the small grocery store. The lady in the store is wonderful and very welcoming. She asks that you sign a simple hand written waiver before playing the course. She stated it was for liability purposes if you fall, I believe it's in case you get sucked into the boggy mud never to be seen again. Maybe discovered 1,000,000 years from now, like a woolly disc golf playing mammoth.
I see this course as maybe a two season course, that is, summer and uh, late spring and early fall. I played it mid-November and it was too wet and boggy for me to consider it playable. Much of the course slopes down to a ravine which has a small stream of water running through it, the area around this stream is extremely wet and muddy.
The course definitely has some tight, challenging holes. I give it a 3.0 for it's enjoyment level and challenge. Unfortunately, there are too many other problems here which I cannot ignore.

The 13 hole course starts right behind the store. The tee pads are natural and not in too bad of shape, other than the # 5 pad which was under water. The signs are small, metal which appear to be homemade. They're quite nice and show you the preferred route, distance, hole # and they show the next tee. They all have clever little names for the hole. There is a nice variety of distance here ranging from 125' up to # 2's 405'. The course has this folksy feel, especially on the first hole which plays behind a building and features some lawn art including a metal piece that resembles a large bomb.

There were a couple of interesting, tight, challenging holes. I liked # 7 which features a very tight line throwing across a deep gully to a hidden basket that's either 215' or 275' away, depending on which tee sign you're paying attention too. There were rustic rounds of logs on the ground, with the information apparently written by sharpie. Then # 8 came back with another tight line to hit. It's 237' over the gully and small stream to a white basket that looks like it came from the Lake Stevens course. The rest of the baskets were new Mach II's, except for the 2-3 missing baskets. I don't know what they are or where they're currently residing. # 9 would be a fun little throw. It's 234' down hill and fairly tight. Unfortunately, that is one of the holes with a missing basket. I didn't really locate the # 10 basket. I believe it to be missing also.
The final hole, # 13, is a 300' hole which requires probably a 175' carry over the pond. The issue here is, the far side of the pond has trees and some sort of performance stage which could easily knock your disc into the pond.

Because I was being complacent and lazy, I didn't bother to walk ahead and locate the basket on # 3. I wrongly assumed that the basket would be far left when it was really mostly straight ahead. I compounded my mistake with a poor throw which went AWOL down the hill. Down this hill is a deep, I mean sucking your boot off deep, bog. Luckily, I escaped with both my disc and my boots but I think I left much of my pride down there as I was rolling around in the mud. I wouldn't consider playing this course again until later in spring, April/May.

I have to wonder how a almost brand new course is already missing three baskets?

There is potential here. There are some challenging throws to be made here. There is some fun golf to be played here. My advice would be, wait until it dries and play in a group with spotters.

This is an interesting course playing along rolling hills, deep woods, swampy valleys, and along side a pond all behind a small, mom and pop grocery store. Stop in the store, say hi, sign the waiver and off you go! Lorrie (I think that's how you spell it) was the owner and one of the kindest, inviting, positive people I've ever met. She'll print off a map if you need one as well but I digress, let's start playing!

The course starts just behind and to the left of the store entrance. You will see two yellow flags and a small tee sign tucked between a couple of barn or workshop like buildings, this is hole one. It's about a 300 foot RHBH hyzer, maybe less so. You'll notice they tied yellow ribbons to the basket in the direction of the next hole; it's nice to see this catching on from the Terrace Creek course. (Thanks, Tim the enchanter ) This makes navigating the course much easier.

The thing that makes me really happy about this course is the amount of holes: 13. The designer did an excellent job of using the land given and not trying to cram five more holes in here which would have taken out great holes to add "meh" or terrible holes so we can get "a full round". Too many times designers are trying to hit the "magic number" (as my friend Cefire would say) so that they can get 9, 18 or another accepted number of holes, usually a multiple of three. I'll end the beginnings of the rant there and just say great job designer, seems to be a good number of holes for the space provided.

The lines are fairly tight here in spots on the wooded holes and punishing even when the hole is short. Lots of crazy lines like super tight almost horseshoe lefty BH friendly to righty BH friendly holes. I used my overstable putter and mid quite a bit on this course. The only real open, long hole is two which is fun because of the rough guarding against a RHBH hyzer fading out too much which messes with your head a bit.

The tee signs are all new and have suggested route, distance, hole number of course, and the name of the hole which are all kinda cool like "gone fishing". There is also a secondary sign made out of tree trumps and what looks like a black sharpie giving hole number, distance, and suggested route. Even though I've seen this before it's still actually pretty cool. Baskets are all in good shape except for the temp Dr. Fred/Lake Stevens basket that's rusted on hole eight but NOT a big deal. There are still pvc/limbs in place of where the basket should be on several holes, three total I believe so keep that in mind.

This course will challenge you in the 300 foot and under range (except for hole two that is 400 feet or so) with lots of crazy, fun lines. You will use discs you don't use often and may even start carrying discs you don't normally do just to play this course. I think just about anyone can enjoy this course but it best suits intermediate to maybe advanced amateurs.

One could argue that some of the limbs need to be trimmed up a bit to open fair lines though I caution doing too much; better to do a little over time instead of doing too much, too quickly. Also once this course is officially open and starts to attract more players that will help open up lines as well as beat down some of the underbrush. The course is also very swampy in spots although Lorrie has said bridges are on the way sometime in the near future.

I like the dirt pads although many disagree with me on that. I think in order to keep them from rutting out they should get some used carpet and use that over the dirt now. I feel as though carpet is vastly superior to concrete because it's not semi permanent, you can move them around if the tee gets moved, and they don't destroy my plant leg/knee/ankle while also not being slippery and preserving the dirt underneath. One of the tee pads now is slanted downhill and another has a tree stump in the middle of it. Both of these have better options for teeing areas within ten feet; not sure why those areas weren't used instead as I don't think the lines for those holes are changed drastically at all.

There is a nice little pond on the property that you throw around but not over for the last hole. I would have liked to see a water carry, it's not the far to carry and there is an option to throw around. Oh well. That said 13 isn't a bad hole it just could have been better, as is it's the worst on the course IMO.

It's really nice to see another course popping up North of Seattle, and the second on Camano Island. This is also a cool little store with snacks and drinks and stuff, I think of it like the disc golf grocery store. There is room to improve and think it will over time.