- Parking is easy, and your round begins and ends right near the parking lot.
- Being on a university campus, the fairways and woods are very well maintained. Only exception to this is the left rough on #3, which looked really dense and treacherous (at least in summer).
- New turf tees have been installed on most of the holes, and the detailed tee signs are both pretty accurate and informative. The new tees are very flat, as they should be.
- There are "next tee" signs posted near the basket when you finish a number of the holes, including a few permanent small blue arrow signs posted on light poles to help guide you from the first basket to the tee for #2 and from the 3rd basket to the tee for #4. Great to see that level of long-term investment by the university.
- Many of the holes have 2 tees, a short and long, which is great for when your party includes players of varied skill levels.
- A new hole (the new #6) has been added: it is a fairly short straight shot through a densely-treed tunnel with a low-hanging ceiling of tree branches. It's ever so slightly uphill too. All those aspects differ from the rest of the course, so it adds nice variety.
- Perhaps the best thing going for it is location: Ulster University DGC is one of only a 3 courses in Northern Ireland (at least I could only find info on 3), and one of only a handful of courses on the entire island of Ireland. That's a major plus in any book!

- Navigation: Definitely the only real flaw here. Although there are a number of 'next tee' signs, they are not on every hole, and the routes to get from #1 to #2, from #3 to #4, from #4 to #5, and especially from #7 to the #8 tee are not readily intuitive. A new hole #6 was also added since the course map was created, giving the course 10 holes instead of 9. I therefore quickly updated the course map and uploaded it here (please forgive my lack of time and digital editing skills to make it look better!).
- Navigation hints for you: when you finish #1, walk to your left and follow the little blue signs along the road to find the #2 tee eventually on your left. When you finish #3, walk out to the street to your right, then cross the university entrance road at the traffic light and you'll find the #4 tee on the other side in the grass. When you finish #4, walk to the right to follow the university entrance road around to the #5 tee. And once you finish #7, walk out to the road and turn back up all the way to the tee, then turn left at the Y in the road and you'll find the #8 tee on the right after ~50 yards.
- Pay to play: Didn't really bother my party because the parking rate is so cheap (it only cost us £1.20 total), but there are many out there who think every course should be free, so I place it here as very minor Con.

- I played with my girlfriend while on vacation, and though there's plenty of other things one can do while on vacation, we really enjoyed the hour and a half we spent playing here: many of the holes are long enough to not be 'gimmie' birdies for intermediate and advanced players, yet the obstacles and rough are few and tame enough for the course to simultaneously be beginner friendly.

- There's literally TONS of awesome sights to see in the area if you're passing through on vacation like we were: Giant's Causeway, Dunluce Castle, Carrick a Rede rope bridge, and many more scenic natural wonders and tourist must-stops are within a 30 minute drive from this course.

- When my party played there were signs left behind from a recent tournament held on the course, which apparently had expanded it into a full 18 holes. Although we looked around, we saw no signs of the additional 8 tees or baskets, so I guess the tournament must have used temporary/travel baskets - in other words, it has 10 permanent holes, not 18, but there are tournaments held here you can look out for which expand it into a full 18.