A piecemeal and eccentric layout with variety, crammed into a busy city park.

-Amenities: Concrete tees, DISCatchers, very faded signage with maps/distance, practice basket, some minimal next tee signage.

-Variety: A nice mix of foliage. Some holes are more in the open, especially at the beginning and the end of the course, some (thinking of (2), (3), and (8)) have tight fairways of mature hardwoods despite being park-style, and the middle area of (9)-(16) plays in the woods with varying degrees of tightness. This variety affects both gameplay and the scenery (the woods are much nicer than the other areas).

-Shot Shaping/Gameplay: An interesting recreational challenge. There's a lot of swings of personality here, but I'll try to summarize the different types of holes. First is the open type (1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 17, 18), which are basic shots with only a couple of important trees to contend with, ranging from jump-putt distance to a touch over 300'. Second is the thick woods (10-14, 16), which are pretty precise lines that often utilize a creek. Third is a tweener category (2, 3, 8, 9, 15), which have enough trees to clearly define a fairway but more room for scrambling than the woods. Overall, the distance is a touch shorter than average, with only two holes topping 350' and par-55. The creek comes into play a lot. The progression of holes is rather piecemeal, which is fine except it doesn't make the course feel very unified. Many holes are slightly unusual for their length, shape, location, or green.

-Recreational-Friendly: This was one of the earlier courses I played, and I thought it was very well-aligned to my skill level then. Some holes are gettable but there's still challenge for the developing player.

Basically all things caused by the close quarters of the park.

-Weird Holes: I'm not necessarily claiming they're bad, but some holes out here had strange lines. (2) presented an immediate right turn and then a totally straight fairway for which I'm not sure what the intended throw is. I think the green for (11) is a matter of poking and hoping whether you'll get through the last line of trees. Hole (14) seemed like a travesty when I played it. As far as I could tell, the line only existed for the first 75 feet, at which point you had to decide whether to throw hyzer along a creek and hope the disc poked back in or follow a walking path-type winding fairway along the left. If someone can PM me explaining the proper way to throw on these holes, I'll reassess this con.

-Navigation: A couple of notable flow issues are caused by the fact that they basically had to squeeze a hole in anywhere they had the chance, regardless of where the previous hole was. (2) to (3) is a confusing walk that spits you out into a field and doesn't tell you which way to turn. (3) to (4) isn't bad, but at first it looks like the next tee is (7). (8) to (9) is a long walk, but the real issue is (16) to (17), which requires you to walk close to half the course.

-Walking Paths: Quite a few holes will be affected by pedestrians. Expect to stop frequently.

-Disc Loss: When I played in May, there was some pretty thick rough close to or on the fairways, and I lost a disc in the ivy somewhere in C2 on (11). I have heard that a lot of maintenance efforts have occurred since then, so if you know anything about that or current course conditions please PM me.

-Hole Overlap: The (3)-(7) range and (9)-(10) with (15)-(16) seem like they could get dicey with errant throws on a busy day. However, I know doubles happens here regularly, so it can't be that big an issue.

-Challenge: A walk in the park for those above rec-level, I would think. Virtually no challenge of distance, and only a few holes have difficult shapes.

Wills is a quintessential city park course, but split into little pieces and jammed into a full park. It's fun and quirky to play and an accessible recreational challenge, but it has severe limitations of distance and some head-scratching holes. Overall, I'd say it's pretty Typical--good fun to be had, but nothing that will change your world.

In a very nice city park in an affluent area north of Atlanta. I felt totally safe and welcome in this area in general and in the park. Played on a nice Saturday and May and the course was getting plenty of use. Definitely a family friendly place to play.

Wills has all the essentials 18 holes with tees, signs, and baskets.

Variety of open to varying degrees of wooded density. Actually starts out easy and seemed to progressively get harder as it went with tighter fairways. There is a small creek in play on a few holes adding to the scenery and challenge, but no real danger of losing discs.

Nothing real long, so a good fit for the casual player. Historically it is supposedly one of the oldest courses in the state, which also may justify it being on the s horter side this day and age. But it says it has been redesigned, so not sure how much of it is original.

Despite being on the shorter side there are some pretty tight and narrow holes that make many of these holes much tougher than the distance makes it seem. Which takes me to...

A couple of the holes were bordering on unrealistically tight gaps where luck could possibly outweigh skill.

Very spread out with groups of holes in different sections of the park, which I don't mind, but there are some long walks. A few times it is tricky to find the next hole for first timers, though tee signs and next tee signage helps occasionally, it just sometimes is not automatically intuitive as to where to go. Also know that #1 starts near one parking lot, but #18 ends near another, not terribly far apart, but definitely not the norm.

Holes are often times very close to other holes and close to other park activities- walking trails, baseball fields, pavilions, the usual. Other things I encountered were lots of people walking dogs through the course. And one hole was literally lined with horses tied up to trailers at the neighboring equine center- I was fearful of hitting and hurting one (or at the very least making it very mad). I must admit to never having a horse as an obstacle before, and I don't really want to ever again.

Signs could use some updating. Some new ones had been placed over some really old ones, but many of the new ones were fading and 3 were missing leaving only the old sign that pretty much only showed the hole number.

During little league baseball games, parking can be limited. My round began early, but people were desperate for my parking spot as I was leaving.

I enjoyed my round here, but I would not necessarily go out of my way to play it unless you are passing near the area, or are interested in playing older courses. A perfect course for locals looking for some fun relaxing throwing. All in all this is a course that offers the basic standards of a casual city park 18 hole course, thus my rating is 2.5 (Average) but still a fine course to play.

Be advised that traffic in Atlanta is every bit as bad as advertised. Not just rush hour, but all day long; and not just the heart of the city and the interstates, but extending for several miles into the northern suburbs (like Roswell and Alpharetta) affecting all roads, and not just the highways. Allow plenty of extra travel time and just be prepared to be patient and move slowly if driving.

(2.679 Rating) A city park course with recreational challenges.
- ACEABILITY - Tee (1) short pad is like practicing jump putting for some. 145 foot shot with no obstacles. After this hole the aceability odds decrease quite a bit, but there are still some fairly easy gets. Four other holes are under 200 feet in length.
- NATURAL BEAUTY - Parts of this layout are really exotic looking. Starting on hole (9) the layout plunges into a beautiful fully wooded portion of the park. The string of holes (11-14) will be a treat for technical players that like angelic landscapes. After (16) the course returns to the traditional city park look. Overall I gave the course roughly a 3 out of 5. Many of the early holes and some trash in the creek brought the overall beauty back a touch.
- QUICK PLAY - I conquered Wills Park in 50 minutes solo first time. Be sure and have a map downloaded or printed as this layout is pretty confusing and jumps around a lot. Figure a foursome should be done in 90 minutes.
- CHAINS - Hooray for DISCatchers. All the baskets were in great condition.
- TEES - For such a short course, the tees are wonderful. Concrete and 6 feet wide by 12 feet in length.
- CHARACTER - A touch above average for amenities and comfort items. In addition to nice tees and baskets, there is a practice basket, a few alternate basket placements, a few benches, an extra tee on hole (1), shelters with picnics tables and restrooms. Things I would have liked to have seen or seen more of, include an onsite course map, directional cues (see cons) and more multi tees and benches.

Wills Park has many of the same deficiencies of the typical small city park rec courses.
- LACK OF CHALLENGE - Wills park is going to give recreational players a really nice challenge, especially on holes (9-16) and then again on (18). However, for veteran players at the intermediate level and above, this course is going to be a walk in the park. Advanced level players should routinely finish 6 to 10 down. (14) is the only challenging hole being both 400 feet long and heavily wooded. It's listed as a par 4, which is a fair par level for rec players. Advanced players however will be able to deuce it on occasion.
- MULTI USE HAZARDS - A walking path and other park amenities come into play on a handful of holes. There are worse examples among the city park courses I've played but it's still far from optimal.
- SPACING AND LAYOUT FLOW - The course is really crammed together in spots. I threw into an adjacent fairway more than once, but thankfully I was the only one on the course. Holes (4-7) are jam packed, and so are holes (9-16). After finishing both (3) and (7), the route to the next tee brings the opposite of the before mentioned holes into play. After finishing (14) the route to (15) requires 250 feet of backtracking down the entirety of (15's) fairway. I'd keep my head on a swivel here if there were multiple groups on this course.
- NAVIGATION - Not the greatest. I would advise having a printed map on first go around. As mentioned above the layout flow is interesting in spots. I only recall one navigational cue during my round and it didn't help that much. The hole signage on many holes is falling apart and is becoming sun bleached.
- ELEVATION - As of this review I've played 6 Atlanta area courses and this one is the flattest. The gorging creek running along several holes makes for some interesting plays out of it if you happen to be dry, but other than that, the most any one hole changes is about 10 to 12 feet.
- UNIQUENESS - A touch below average. In addition to no elevation the course is really short and the driver will stay in the bag for much of the course for many players. There is one par 4 as mentioned on (14), but again, I would not be surprised that higher skilled players play them all 3s. Water is very prevalent with creek use on more than half the holes. However, I question how often there's water in it. I played one day after a one inch rain event and the creek was not much more than a trickle.
- TERRAIN - For a flat course, surprisingly difficult to traverse in areas, especially between holes (9-14). As mentioned, the small creek that runs through this part has cut a substantial deep gorge. At some times the depth of the creek bed exceeds 6 feet. I played one shot out of it (I was dry) on (14) and I couldn't see above the edge of the gorge.
- TRASH - Probably due to runoff from outside the park, but the creek had significant trash in spots. In addition, on (18), the creek had a standing pool of trash and oil slicks. It smelled awful. Thankfully the issue was isolated to only the one hole.

A fun little recreational utility course that I'm sure gets a lot of play from those within 5 mile radius. However outside that radius this course probably won't get much use. I played nearby East Roswell Park on the same trip and thought that course was a far superior disc golf course example.

*well-designed

*lots of amenities nearby

*easy to follow

*creek provides a unique feel.

*Multi-use - croweded even in the off-season

*Noisy

*short shots

Played through on a march afternoon from out of town - it was easy to follow and well-maintained, but it was super-duper busy in this park. Escpecially on the front 6 and back 6 holes, I constantly had to look out for joggers/other players. The middle holes seemed a bit more secluded. The creek that runs through the middle of the course gives it a neat signature feel and provides an interesting challenge on some of the holes.

The location is great.
The targets and pads are kept very well.
The maps offered are accurate and easy to read.
Very scenic course for being in a city park.
You don't have to go searching for your next target, the layout is easy to follow.

You better have excellent accuracy of you might end up hitting a person or dog.
Even when you are away from trails, you might still get the wondering jogger run in your way. Just too many children and adult activities woven between the Ts.

When the weather is nice and the park is packed, its certainly not a great place for people who are trying to learn.