Nice park, manicured and mowed. Great tees, hexagon concrete, nice and graded to ground level, safe and easy to run up and throw from. Good new baskets, signage was mostly accurate. Excellently poured and graded tee boxes, the concrete guys did a great job (more on the install of these later).
The park had some very good features, and was obviously entirely new and likely entirely designed by a landscape architecture firm.
It opened in November of 2016, TBG Partners, the landscape architectural group that designed the park, they appear to be excellent park designers, the park and bathrooms and pond is awesome. https://coveringkaty.com/loca...-is-now-open/
They spent money, large boulders moved in place, playground is awesome, pavilion is very nice with stone and timbers. So much went into this park.

SO much went into this park, and so little went into vetting the disc golf design and installation is pathetic.
OMG, this design much have been done by a non-disc golfer. Hole 3 was over a small mound, and the basket was about 35' from a children's playground - keep in mind the blind shot that would not be able to tell if kids were playing in front of the basket....
This was just the beginning of dangerous throw after dangerous throw. Hole 10, 11, 12, 16, 18 all have baskets within 15' of a concrete walking path, some under 6' away.

Hole 12 looked just like hole 3, blind shot over a hill, no playground here, but a walking path that was not in sight from the tee... its only a matter of time till soneone gets hit here.
Hole 18, decent par 4, except it was over 2 walking paths.

Keep in mind this park is adjacent to a high school, and at 3:15 there were kids everywhere and the track team was running on the paths...

More on the design, I think I threw my Roc on almost every hole, putter on several, and about 3 drivers. It was the same shot over and over and over...

OK, so the safely is a con - also, if I recall at least 3-5 of the tee were pointing in the entirely WRONG DIRECTION. Hole 10's tee was looking directly at hole 16's basket, and hole 10s basket was at a 70 degree angle off the left of the tee. So you basically run up sideways across the 12-14' long tee and its now a 5' long tee as you are running up the side ways direction. This happened several more times on this course - HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?

This is crying shame, this course was not likely cheap at all, the design is dangerous, and the installation is a sham, put the tee here (ok cool, noting on what direction the hexagon might want to face though, that part didn't make the blueprint, or they lost the blueprint after hole 9).

Who puts multiple tees SIDEWAYS in the ground? Someone who has no idea what they are doing, that's who.

I love that parks are spending more money on courses, but this one will be a shining example as to why parks should be hiring disc golf designers over park designers. Its a crying shame.

Last thought, how in the world was this course a 2.9 rated course - defore me review, seriously, this one is not good, its dangerous and very poorly installed, you know for disc golf.

-new discatchers and large concrete tees
-detailed tee signs, course map at the start
-minor rolling hills in play and a small pond
-easy rec layout, good for beginners, ace run birdie fest for experienced players
-hole 9 is a fun peninsula hole next to the pond

-tee pads installed incorrectly, several of them are pointed up to 90 degrees the wrong direction
-the entire course plays along the pedestrian paths through the park, sooner or later someone will get hurt at this course
-for those responsible players, you'll spend a LOT of time waiting on pedestrians at this course, it's a busy park
-few trees come into play on most holes
-there needs to be a clearly visible mando sign on hole 3 to avoid the playground; it will probably be ignored and it will still be a dangerous hole but it needs to be there at least

I like the idea of this course. It's right next to the high school and middle school and has some cool minor rolling hills and a pond in the center of the park. The course plays clockwise around the pond but unfortunately so do the pedestrian paths. The course plays along and over the paths all the way around the park. It is a safety disaster considering this is a rec course and will attract rec players. It's also the only 18 hole course in the area so I imagine it will get a lot of traffic.

There are a few interesting holes that make good use of the softly undulating land and hole 9 has an awesome peninsula green. That said, it's a bit much for a rec design but at least more experienced players will be able to look forward to one cool hole. Hole 18 is 460' from an elevated tee; that one is pretty fun also. Intermediate players should be trying to get into double digits here, more experienced players should be looking for 18 birdies.

I'm not sure which is the bigger disappointment, the safety issues of the design or how poorly the tee boxes were poured. At least half of them are pointed a bit off from the target or the ideal fairway line, at least one is as far off as 90 degrees from the basket. It is a shame that they spent the money on this course and it turned out like it did. There are only 2 holes that don't have a pedestrian path in play. This (unfortunately) should have been a boring 9 hole course that plays around the absolute edges of the park if safety were a priority. As it is now, best case scenario the pedestrians lose their park to disc golfers, worst case someone gets hit in the face.


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