-Decent Baskets
-Large concrete tees for both tees
-Good Use of the terrain
-Water in play on several holes
-Course flow is decent
-9 Hole loop
-Some benches

-Almost entirely in the woods
-Even from the short pads, a tough course, not really suitable for rec or new players
-Disc loss potential between water and woods
-Elevation a bit much at times

Wilbur Young Park has a very good course in the eastern part of Blue Springs, MO. The park is heavily wooded and very hilly. As mentioned in the description, this is a blue/white level course. The holes are varied, making a number of shaping shots necessary. Really, only #7 is wide open (but stay right to stay out of the water). Mechanics here are excellent with concrete tees, decent signage, good flow, There were several holes that gave a "plinko" feel, though (#2, #3, #8, #10, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16). For me, I struggled as more of a rec player AND we were fighting a brisk wind that afternoon. Rec and beginner players might look elsewhere. The challenge here is good, more skilled player will enjoy that. I agree that a tweak on #10 might be in order. A RHBH will struggle to keep it out of the pond. Overall, probably above my skill level, even from the shorts. A very good course, but I probably would go down the road to Legacy instead of playing here again.

Wilbur Young has a lot of well-designed wooded holes. A few are par 4, depending on pin placement, some are short, some are long, and there's a variety of left-finishing and right-finishing holes.

Several holes are some of the best in the area. Hole 1 is a true two-shot hole, especially in the long position, and has a few different ways to play it. Hole 12 is super challenging but an amazing tunnel to hit. Holes 5, 15, and 16 have tight gaps on shots coming towards the basket. Even on parts of the rest of the course where you can air it out, there's plenty of danger to get into and good reason to throw layup shots.

Several holes will provide great challenge for professionals, though sometimes only on the long pin. While the entire course isn't good enough to host even an A-tier tournament for professionals, I would like to see them play the long pins on holes 4 and 15, which are both uphill tunnel shots where an S-curve is possible but has little room for error, and would be a great birdie to get.

The water hazards on 10 and 17 are pretty fun. The water doesn't come into play until 150 feet off the tee, so some safe options are available. Going for it is a real risk-reward challenge, especially on hole 10. The short tees play just in front of the water, and will be pretty easy to clear if you play from them.

Amenities are good. Parking, picnic shelter, the course loops back by the start a couple of times (mainly after hole 11). The tee pads, signs and baskets are all in good shape.

The only open hole is hole 7, and I don't like that hole. A couple of trees off the tee force an odd line, and the pond will gobble up anything that leaks left. The rest of the course gets a little old, being in the woods all day long. A few of these holes are just too wooded, sometimes depending on the pin placement. Hole 14, and the long pins on 2 and 15 stand out.

The course is pretty cramped. Yes, it was necessary to get the good holes it got, but it can be a problem at times. Most of the time, there is a narrow treeline between fairways, but not always. If you're not careful, or even if you are but you don't know where the basket is, you could find yourself in or near other fairways. At other times, you can often hear nearby traffic or chains from nearby baskets. This also makes several holes that could be great if there was a longer pin as a par 4, but as it is, the long pin is a bit of a tweener for advanced players (long pins on holes 4, 7, 15, 18).

The short set of tee pads, while good to have, do have some problems associated with them. Sometimes, the holes are just too short, turning them into just long putts around 100 feet (short pins on 2, 13, 15, and 17). Other times, they come at the basket at a really odd angle (2 long, 15 long), making those just jokes of holes. Other times, the short pad can actually come into play from the long pad and create odd footing if your drive lands near it. The shorts also aren't marked, so it's easier to find them by finding the long tee first, then walking down the fairway.

A bunch of holes don't have much grass, so mud will quickly become an issue. Around the tee pads of 4, 8, 15, and 16, the basket locations of 5, and the fairways of 8 and 10, just to name a few locations.

While the argument can be made that this course has a lot of variety, it stands that it only has variety in one area: wooded holes. It doesn't have anything else, and a few holes that are actually decent holes become super mundane here (9, 11, 13).

I have mixed feelings about the accessibility of this course for players of various skill levels. The short pads help, but even playing from the shorts will have both some gimmicky shots, short shots, and some really challenging holes. But from the long pads, the water hazards are present, there are some really tight lines, and scores can skyrocket for newer players. Overall, it's a fun course, so come out and make your own opinion.

The most dangerous hole water-wise is hole 10. One idea is to play from the short pad and give yourself a stroke penalty. It'll pretty much make the water a non-factor while still leaving an interesting hole.

Unfortunately, there's little way to make this course better. The design is pretty good considering how little space there is, but it means there's no room for growth. There are a handful of trees that could probably be cut down or trimmed, and I would like to see hole 7 executed differently. There's also a third pond you walk by to get to hole 6 which never comes into play that might make for an interesting hole if it was used somehow.

For the amount of space allowed, the design at Wilbur makes the most out of the land. Excellent use of elevation and distance. Combine that with bright orange MachVs and two concrete tees per hole and you have a challenging overall round with a few pretty low points.

The par 4s are the real meat of the course. Hole 1 kicks off with a very important tee shot, since there's a large evergreen parked 80ft from the long pin that you won't want to be stuck behind. Hole 10 is a decently easy setup shot, but the blind water crossing to the long pin ups the difficulty.

Woods are the main challenge. Lines are mostly fair (3 and 14 are prime examples), and a bad kick is definitely because you missed the line, not because the shape is bad. Guarded greens are a staple. The first 7 holes, along with 14, 16, and 18 have guardians blocking the green in some form or fashion. Gaps and tunnels also feature on 1, 8-12, 14, and 17. Add to that the shade factor of all the trees and you have a very solid set of trees to fight with... you'll likely lose a few of those battles.

I don't often compliment water, but I will here. Hole 7 has the water set right at the max distance of most intermediate players (about 300ft at its closest point) So you're forced into a choice: lay up to the bank and play across on a second shot, or bail out way right and hope for a hyzer line to the pin. The trees guarding the left pin make it a definite score separator. 17 would be a quick, fun little tunnel shot ace run, but throw a pond 60ft in front of the pin and now you have a mind game. Excellent hole.

Blind tee shots, and unfortunately the little colored squares under the tee sign aren't always up to date. Makes a walk down the fairway inevitable on a few holes (pro tip: check the basket placement of 10 as you walk the fairway of 7).

The course holds water really well in its runoff segments. The fairways of 8 and 10 will be a mess for a few days after a storm, along with the valley of 14-17.

Hole 4 and 5 are not great holes. Early in my playing days I called 4 long the worst hole I've ever played, and it's still down there. Playing like 500ft uphill down a 12ft wide fairway? Oh and it's a par 3? Laughable. 5 suffers from "too much tree-itis." I'm sure the original design was fine, but as the two massive evergreens have grown it makes the gaps smaller and smaller.

This course is hard, and the woods off the fairway are thick. I'm not saying go into the round planning on losing a disc, I'm just saying don't be surprised if you do.

A few interactions with other park/school infrastructure on 8 and 9 (a parking lot and a baseball field, respectively). 11's right pin can also send you into the parking lot if you go long, and 4-7 play right next to a road which kind of shakes you out of the rest of the course's seclusion.

This is one of the more difficult rounds to be had in KC if you want a good score. A bogey is bound to happen at some point, you can't avoid it. That said, the round has many enjoyable, challenging holes and is definitely worth your time if it's on your way, but Wilbur is not a must-see course in the area.

Course is located in a park next to a high school. I played after school was out and had no issues. Every tee has two pads and a few have seating and trash cans by the pad.

Signage was good, since each hole has multiple pin locations, they have a great way, with a red/blue/yellow card, to show where the pin is. It took us a couple holes to realize that, so we could stop running up the fairway since you can normally not see the pin from the pad.

Not many open holes, the majority would fall under the technical shot off the pad, with a potential open up shot.

A couple of my favorite holes were #10 and #17
-10: Was set up in the long pin location (497'), has a small pond on the left side you can throw over or it has safe landing zones to the right. After making it over the pond, there is a tree sitting next to the basket with limbs hanging over creating a cool low ceiling shot.

-17: Reminds me of the island hole at Jonesboro (a recent pro tournament from YouTube) Down hill, short and narrow, but if you can keep your disc straight, you could have a nice little ace run.

Not a lot of variety from each tee pad. It feels like a lot of the tee shots are the same and forces you to break up the hole into smaller shots. I don't mind these kinds of courses, but there aren't any open shots for bombs.

Very dark course. The course plays through a small wooded area and creates a lot of shadows. IF you are a stud, this won't matter, but if you leave the fairway, it could be challenging to find where your disc is at because of the dark shadows.

Not the most easily navigatable course with a lot of up and back. Adding something on the basket or signs to show where the next tee pad will be would be nice.

Good course, without any bomber holes. I enjoyed the feel of it and a course with good signs always helps. I wouldn't say drive out of the way to play this course, but if you are in the area, its definitely worth the stop.

Wilbur Young Park is obviously a newer park is an upscale area. It partially borders a beautiful high school and the whole neighborhood has that new car smell to it. You'll feel comfortable parking your car here.

The course starts with a nice course dedication sign to all those who gave so much to get this project completed. Then there is a nice course map and rules sign. There is a rather large covered picnic area with multiple tables which would be a perfect tournament staging area.

The course has two sets of tees, the shorter whites and the longer blacks. The whites really play as a pitch & putt with quite a few holes playing 100' or less. The longer blacks play as a very technical recreational level course. You won't find any 500' holes here but you'll be challenged by narrow fairways and tight doglegs. There are nice long concrete tees for both the longs and the shorts. The baskets are DGA models painted a pretty creamsicle orange color. They're nicely visible in the sometimes deep foliage here. The tee signs, which are only at the long tees, are great, giving all the information you need. And there are next tee bricks at the bottom of each basket which are really helpful with the navigation.

Some nice bridges have been built to help you over some wet or low spots. Wood chips are spread over some of the fairways. Although this is a wooded course, there are still green grassy fairways and it features some nice elevation to contend with.

A pond comes into play on some later holes but you it's not really a long carry more like a little mind game. Or you can always choose to lay up and play around it.

The course could probably still use some clearing and trimming in places. Maybe as it gets more tramped down by players with use or maybe someone just needs to get out here with some cutting tools.

Navigation is semi-difficult even with great signage and excellent next tee bricks. there are just a lot of holes and different tees crammed into a fairly small densely wooded area.

Reasonable short distances leaving big arms wanting more. This is not a championship level course.

Too technical for some players tastes.

I think the short tees open up interesting possibilities. First, they would be great for less skilled or more inexperienced player, not a total beginner. The course is too technical for that.

Second, I think they might be a fun way to handicap the difference between a advanced player and a rec player. Let the better player play from the longs and the lesser skilled player play from the shorts. I'd like to challenge a couple of my son's buddies who play at the Pro level. Give me those short, short tees!

This is a really well constructed little course here. It's nice to see a course with such nice amenities. Everything here has been done First Class and I sincerely hope the course remains in this pristine condition for a long, long time.

Easy to get to and well market. The shot tee's are very short so playing the long on most holes is more fun. Lots of trees keep an eye on the discs easy to loose in spots.

It's a great course for experienced And beginners

Almost every hole has two tee pads, a long and a short, as well as several potential pin placements. This allows for great variety depending on how you want to play it, and makes the course interesting for both skilled players and beginners.

I also really enjoy wooded courses, and the whole course snakes around in a wooded area. The fairways range from being fairly open, to being very narrow, to just being full of trees with no real "right" path to the basket. Also, on of the few wooded courses I've played where the fairways aren't dirt; most of the course has nicely mown grass.

The use of the water here was well done on the couple holes where it comes into play. You can either be bold and launch across, or you can be conservative and lay up or go around. You also don't need a rocket arm to get across, but it's just long enough to perhaps make you nervous about losing a disc.

Great signage at each hole showing all the distances and pin locations. Also, navigation is pretty easy due to brick arrows placed at the base of each basket. You would easily lose your way if they weren't there, so it was much appreciated.

The bright orange baskets are always appreciated as well! Very visible!

I mentioned that the multiple tee boxes was a plus. It seems like some of the short boxes are ridiculously short, making them not at all interesting to play. There are several holes where it seems they could have just stuck with a single tee box, as I can't imagine anyone ever wanting to play the short one. Some are within 100 feet and a completely clear shot.

At least on my last trip, an overwhelming number of holes required a left-hand fade, so variety wasn't that great on that particular visit. It seemed like the course could have been better had they varied the pin placements differently, so it may not always be an issue depending on which pins are currently in use.

Also, if you like some wide open holes, you won't find them here. I personally don't mind a more technical course, but sometimes it's nice to just be able to launch one, and some people may be frustrated at the lack of opportunity for that here. I was regularly overshooting everything with my drives here.

The course could also use some benches and garbage cans.

Overall, a solid, shorter technical course to practice your precision! Also a friendly place to bring newer players to play the shorter tee boxes with them.

This was a fun yet challenging course. The designer did a great job of using the hills, woods and surrounding rec facilities to create great lines. Each hole had a big tee sign which made it a bit easier to find your way to the next hole. The baskets were new and the tee pads were extra long.

Every hole but one had multiple pin locations and tee pads.

Although the tee signs were big, they did not clearly identify which hole location was being used. I feel that the distances were off as well.

At times the course was hard to navigate but not impossible.

Make sure you walk up on holes to double check to see if the sign illustrations are accurate.

There are some great technical shots, but also some very good longer shots with limited obstacles.
Good signage.

Sometimes hard to follow where the next teepad is after you finish the hole.
Land is limited.
The woods are pretty thick if you get caught in them.

I enjoyed playing the course, but it is so far away from all the other KC courses, I wont be able to play it very often.

Technical? Did you say TECHNICAL??? You can't HANDLE the technical!!!!

Okay, so given that it's a technical course, where are the goodies? To start with, teepads. Two for each hole (I played the longs), all in great shape and more than long enough.

Then, tee signs. Clear, pretty, clean (not defaced), and accurate.

Next, pins. Bright orange, multiple placements on each hole.

Navigation: Good overall map at the start of the course, next-tee bricks in place at the base of each pin.

Miscellaneous: Good, sturdy bridges where needed, wood chips to mark many of the pathways.

Course design - an excellent, short technical course. A couple of water hazards (I managed to feed each of them a driver) and a good variety of LH and RH shots. Lots of uphill and downhill, a few holes with both.

The usual amenities were the main thing that this course lacks. There are few benches (I saw a few stumps here and there), no water, no restrooms, no bag-hangers.

No long bomb opportunities - I don't recall seeing anything over 500 feet, even long tee to long pin placement. That's probably because the land area is small and it was all the designers could do to shoehorn 18 holes of any size into it.

Speaking of tightness, there are many places where kick-outs could wind up in the middle of an adjacent fairway, so if you can't hit the lines, keep track of your disc and holler "fore" if you see it sailing off into oblivion.

This course would rate 4.0 or 4.5 were it not for the missing amenities. Overall I was very impressed and I'm planning to return - my first round here was awful (20-40 mph wind but hey, I played cr@ppy and that's all there is to it) and I feel a distinct need to salvage my honor! I consider myself a fairly good technical DGer but this place taught me that I ain't all I'm cracked up to be.

The baskets are orange so easy to spot on the heavily wooded course. Two tee pads and multiple pin locations on almost every hole. One or two open water holes mixed into the very technical course. Heavily wooded so it's a nice change from other nearby courses with tons finesse shots and not much need for power.

Not to many open wholes. If you are having an off day could get frustrating with hitting trees. Easy to loose discs on almost every hole.

It is a challenging course with a lot of obstacles, water traps, and mature trees. The short tees are good if you want to avoid the water traps and not lose that nice disc in the water. As a beginner this course might be a little more than you bargin for. More experienced players will enjoy this course's challenges

The water. There are several holes with water traps very close or in the field of play. If you aren't careful you might throw a disc in the water.

A good challenging course which a wide variety of holes to play through.

This is a very well done course. There are two different tees on most of the holes; there are one or two that only have one tee, but they are below 200 feet. The baskets are really nice. They are bright orange and very necessary because all of the foliage which makes it tough to find the baskets. All of the holes from the black (long) tees are very technical which is good and bad. I think this course would be much more fun in the winter when most of the leaves are dead, but it makes for a good challenge in the summer. The tee signs are very nice. They have a nifty way of telling you which hole location is in use. There is a blue/red card underneath the sign which indicates which hole location is in use. There is a major use of elevation which is nice. No hole is flat, which makes for a lot of variety.

This course will tear you up if you aren't very good at tunnel shots or controlled shots. You have to keep the disc low on most every hole to avoid the low hanging trees. The fairways are very narrow and mostly wooded. There are a few open holes, but you are mostly in the woods which makes it rough for beginners.

I'm not a beginner by any means and this course tore me up. I was happy to go +16 on pro pars so it is a very tough course. I guess what I'm saying is to not start out on this course, try out the other Kansas City area courses first, then come play this one if the other ones aren't challenging enough for you.

Interesting course with lots of potential. 2 sets of tee boxes and several holes had 2 baskets to give you options. Baskets were bright orange which made them easier to locate. Each tee box had a very detailed colored map which gave you all the hole measurements.

Course was in good shape, considering the amount of rain over the weekend, they were mowing and weedeating, but were not in our way. Well taken care of. Lots of shade, which is great if you happen to be out in the middle of day playing when it is hot.

Really enjoyed the elevation changes and the way the course made you think about each shot, instead of just see how far you can throw it.

The back nine holes are not marked as well as they could be. We got mixed up a few times today. I printed the map out, and it helped. Some of the holes did not have a 2nd basket.

If you don't like tight tunnel type shots, then several of the holes will give you problems.

Overall a very nice course that I will make sure to play again. A welcome addition to the KC area. If you like to think about how to make your approach shot, you will enjoy this course. Bring some bug spray just in case. We did not have any issues today, but could see how mosquitoes could be bad in the evening, or if you have to hunt some disc's in the wooded area.

On directions, when you arrive at the school, turn in, and immediately turn left again...go straight and stay to the left as you wind back to behind the ball fields. That is where the first tee begins.

Great new course. Two sets of pads at each hole. Water comes into play on a couple holes but nothing crazy. Some good tunnel tree shots. A good mix of hyzer and anhyzer shots so bring your "A" game.

Lots of water makes for lost's of mosquitos. first time players might have a hard time finding the next tee box (take picture of the map on your phone if you can).