-I like the amount of "high risk" water shots. Make sure your disc falls to the right!
-Easy to follow. I walked out of my hotel, and there was hole 1! Followed it from there no problem. The only spot I started to question myself a little bit was walking from hole 3 to tee 4. But still easy.
-Good for beginners, especially due to the easy pars.
-Signage was very informative, accurate and easy to read. Holes were well marked and well kept.
-Must have been mowed recently, but really easy to follow.

-Easy course! If you've been playing for even a year, this course and it's pars will not challenge you. The whole course could be changed to Par 3, and that would make it more challenging/a better risk-reward ratio.
-Tees need help. A little concrete pad upgrade would dramatically improve the course. Currently the tees are rubber mats that are beat up and bumpy. Might as well just have dirt tees.

All in all, a good course! I'd be totally happy stopping here on a drive through Mt. Pleasant. It's great resource for the students to have a course on Campus, and as someone staying at the hotel next door, I was elated to find out that there was a course literally right outside my door! I'll be playing here many more times before I leave!

-Free
-Good for beginners, thanks to generous pars, plentiful short holes, and similar style holes.
-Innova pins in good shape
-Unique use of topography/location, including railroad tracks, hills, and pine tree placement.

-Tee pads are TERRIBLE. Lumpy, short rubber pads nailed to the ground, and they have been moved numerous times.
-Signage is sporadic thanks to vandals and mother nature. Some holes are missing their signs altogether, while others are partially there. Granted, the fully intact signs are very informative and accurate.
-Trash cans are almost always full/overflowing at each hole.
-Mowers/landscapers could do a better job maintaining the course. it looks shabby most of the time.
-Hole 1, 2, 3, 11, and 12 are all water holes, just as a warning to any newer golfers out there. Hole 3 is typically waterlogged where you have to walk around quite a long distance to get from the tee to the hole if you do not want to get wet.

A good use of the location and space, but it could be improved and maintained much better, especially since it is on CMU's property and is a reflection on the university. Watch out for trains!

Aesthetic-- plays through the far south end of the CMU campus and across train tracks. some walking trails intersect at times. but aren't really a huge distraction.

Baskets-- nice DGA's. nicely visible throughout this course. all are in good repair

Signage-- Probably the best part of this course. very detailed and mostly accurate with distances. #5 teesign is missing.

Routing/nav--really not an issue. print the map from here and it's easy to figure out whats going on. the grass is also mowed nicely to help guidance.

Risk v reward-- comes in the form of thick thick brush, water and trains.. nice.

Teepads--I hate flypaper, these teepads are super lumpy and uneven in length. some of the longest holes have the shortest pads, and vice versa.

Variety-- course is very very straightforward. the last 5 holes play through a large field where talls grass is your main obstacle. it looks like people regularly walk off the course after #15.

Challenge--not really a ton. pars are generous, birdies are plentiful...

repetition-- this course repeats itself a lot. 4 and 5 are wicked similar, 13-18 are all very similar.

this course is good for what it is. and the little available elevation is wisely used.

Nice DGA baskets with the number plates facing the tees. I always appreciate proper installation and a nice newer basket.
2) Nice signs with Hole #, Distance, Par, OB's, and a decent map of the hole. These are very nice and they provide all the information you really need to read a hole.
3) Garbage cans on all tees (I think it was every hole) helps to keep this course nice and neat. Unfortunately, some of them were overflowing, but it is better than having garbage all throughout the course.
4) Rubber tees are better than dirt, but not the best tees I have played on. Some of them were depressed, but I assume it is hard to keep them level over a long time because of heavy spring rains and the winter thaw.
5) Elevation change is minor, but they used what small undulations the course provides.
6) There is a nice pond on the property which you start on the north side and then work your way along the West side, eventually coming on the south side an finishing away from the pond. Either way the pond was definitely
7) There are two or three tight wooded holes with unmaintained rough areas. Most of the rest of the holes are mowed fairways out of the prairie.

1) The rough is not in a lot of spots but where it is, it is rough. I had to throw into the two areas of unmaintained property. Oh well!
2) The holes are a little to park-like overall for my complete enjoyment. These aren't necessarily bad holes, I just prefer more wooded holes.
3) While there are garbage cans on every hole . . . they are all full. I would think they University would send someone around to clean up all of that every once in a while even if it is summer.
4) There is no parking in the lot from 2AM-7AM . . .I arrived at 6AM and just figured no one would be over to check on me and I figured I would be out of there within an hour.
5) I turned left after #3 and played #11 and #12 before realizing I missed the other holes across the railroad track. I am surprised that the railroad company allowed the University to do a crossing there for this part of the campus. If the area wasn't mowed left of #3 it would have been clear that it was not the next tee.

This is just another average course . . . it is fun and enjoyable but it isn't super challenging. The water is barely in play (at least when I played the wetland on 3 was nonexistent), there aren't many densely wooded holes, and the prairie holes get a little repetitive. I know they did what they could with this land, but I wish it could have been better in spots than it was. It didn't impress me with a lot, but if I lived close I wouldn't avoid playing, but I will probably go to play other courses if I am ever in the area again. If I was close-by and had played all the other local courses, I might play this one a couple times a year.

great for college kids to play this course, water shots.

didnt enjoy this course, most of the signs for the holes were wrong, the feet and the pars. some stupid holes they had, just didnt make sense, u have to cross railroad tracks in order to play holes, vety dangerous, the rubber tee pads were torn and very bumpy

will not play this course again

good course to work on you mid-range game, and work the kniks out of your game.

Wind.

Low traffic for being on campus, you can play a full 18 in under an hour. good for the start of the season if your not a winter DGer to work back into the season.

Great signage which includes distance, par and legible overhead hole diagrams.

In addition to a fair mix of open field and tighter woods shots, the trees are a blend of deciduous and coniferous varieties, each of which have their own benefits and challenges.

Although this course is located directly on south campus, there is a very low amount of non-DG traffic.

While you never have to throw across the pond, tees and baskets are placed so that the water is a fairly effective hazard, especially when the wind is blowing.

For a course that is as flat as this, there are plenty of drives where the basket is obscured from the tee.

Well, there are quite a few to list....

Rubber tee mats which are beyond terrible.

You must cross the RxR tracks to get to holes 4-10, and you have to cross the green for basket #10 to get to tee #4. This route is not very well signed, and in addition to a next tee indicator at the # 3 basket, it would be a great benefit to have a second course kiosk with a map after you cross the tracks.

This course is disagreeably flat. It starts with field shots, and tightens up with woodsier holes across the railroad tracks, and opens back up for the last 6-8 holes. Unfortunately, this does not do much to break up the monotony, and the end of the course is underwhelming at best.

Wind is a very welcome addition to a round in my opinion, as it adds a wonderful unpredictability to the round, especially in lowland areas and valleys where the direction and intensity can get squirrelly. Here in the Mid-Michigan Flatlands, the wind is brutally strong more often than not, and it always flows in the same direction. Instead of adding a level of challenge, here it can often render the course nearly unplayable.

Although the land is flat, there is only one hole >400' (and one more that is close), with the rest rarely cresting 300'. Having the majority of holes in the 200-280' range is fine for a course with elevation, but here, it makes for a course whose challenge wears thin after very few rounds.

The pond is flat out disgusting. I have seen many people jumping in after their disc, but you would never catch me doing it. Dysentery, anyone? No thank you.

As it is on campus, you often have to deal with groups of 6-8 Two-Disc Demons who are more interested in boozing and pushing each other into the bushes, than playing.

I attended CMU for two years, and this was the only course nearby (pre-Deerfield Park). I had been playing quite a few years, and had been fortunate enough to have Hickory Hills, Grand Woods Park, and River Road SC as my locals before this. Two years in Mt Not-So-Pleasant is bad enough, but having this as my local only added to my despondency. Luckily, current students now have some nice choices. It just made me drive to Lansing frequently to play.

I did my best to play this course before 10am, as the peak winds in this area are usually between 11am and 6pm, so I often only had 15mph gusts to deal with, rather than the usual 30-40+ mph sustained winds.

Due to my deep personal loathing of it, I really would like to give this course a lower score than 2.5, but it would not be fair, as this course is never in disrepair, nor ever trashed, and the (lack of) distance aside, it was fairly well thought out given the land available. There are never too many leaves, nor real flooding issues, or any of the many other things that can create real headaches at other courses at certain times of the year.

The bottom line is, with this course, you are always going to get exactly what you expect whenever you play it, but with Deerfield Park just down the road, there is no reason for you to ever do that to yourself.

The course has a nice variety of holes to suit varying skill types. The water hazard (large pond) is a graveyard for discs, which I mention as a pro because, on a hot day, you can dive in and restock your collection!

They remapped the course at some point, changing the order and making it confusing to play. At one point, you have to take a side path from the main course, play a few holes, and come back the way you came. Too many blind holes in the pine trees and overlapping fairways can get annoying.

I've played tourneys here while in school and, overall, it is a decent course. The open holes are a blast and the heavy trees in the holes near the baseball field are fun and challenging, though they will destroy your discs if you lumberjack off the tee.

- Its close to campus.
- Its free.
- Great for a practice round if you want to work on drives and long approaches.
+There are a hand full of holes that I would like to play twice.
+ Its full of Ace-able holes.

- Its an open course, but I've seen several people lose discs there. The bush seems to eat discs away.
- The bug situation is bad. Bring Spray.

This course is decent, but you'll have a better time playing Deerfield Park.

-pretty good variety. decent use of elevation and water hazards.
-good course for beginners.
-good signs with distance and a map

-rubber tee pads are terrible. if it's wet they are slippery, if its not they are covered in sand and are slippery. they are not level at all. most have tree roots growing under/out of them. you might as well just break your ankle at home and save yourself the trouble of driving to the course.
-way too open for my taste. If you are looking for a tight fairway you will not find it here.
-there is some nasty rough. I wouldn't recommend playing hole 5 if you are a vietnam vet and don't want flashbacks.
-some weird navigation stuff: to get to hole 4 you have to cross some railroad tracks and hole 10s green, after hole 10 you cross back over the tracks at the same spot.
-CMU does not do a good job of taking care of the course. grass is often knee high, sometimes higher. there is a one lawn mower width "fairway" mowed on each hole. Trash cans are usually overflowing, i'm pretty sure the only people that empty them are homeless people looking for cans.
-this course is mostly a place for college kids to go and drink while throwing things.

This course would get a higher rating from me if it was taken care of. Mowed fairways would be nice. It is frustrating when you can't find your disc on the fairway. more frustrating when you set your bag down by your disc to help a friend look for his and then lose your entire bag in the fairway.

if you come to mount pleasant for disc golf play deerfield park, not CMU.

My other home course. I live 5 minutes from this course. Very open and not too challenging. Great course for beginners. This course is great to go to early in the morning because no one is there.

Rubber tee pads aren't the greatest. Can be very windy some days. Signs are either missing or are wrong. Is often way to crowded with CMU students going in groups of 8.

This is good course to just go out and have fun. This is a great course to learn on before you hit up deerfield park.

Very well kept course, scenic front 9, close to campus, challenging if your disc is knocked down by a tree because some holes are quite long, open holes on the back so you can let loose on drives.

Rubber tee pads are outdated, signage is either wrong or missing completely on some holes (I hear this is being fixed this summer).

This is the course I learned how to play on, and it is definitely a course for beginners. College students take classes on it, so that's why it's not TOO challenging. Be prepared for some gusty winds, this makes it a bit more challenging and fun. Holes 1-3 are against the water, but luckily the wind blows away from the water. Dead trees have been recently removed on holes 6-8, making birdies much more achievable. The back 9 is very wide open, but the front is fairly tight for a beginner's course.

Discin' near CMU, the few wooded holes, challenging water hazard, not too many bugs, clear signage, not too many places for loose discs.

Way too open (often windy!) more straight point A to B holes than necessary, expressway nearby is annoying, plus hotel and occasional mean looks from some folks who worked nearby.

I really think this course could have been better. A good job was done with the location, but the location itself is a big part of the problem. When your off away from the expressway and parking lot, there are some neat, technical holes, but as you go through the teens, it gets kind of boring! If you are a long-distance thrower and don't like a lot of trees everywhere, you might like it better than I do.

In my opinion, Chippewa Banks is a much better course and I've heard goods things about Deerfield Park which is nearby.

This is one of the only courses I have ever played that has been too windy to play on several occasions!

In the end, CMU's course isn't too bad and it was nice having a place to throw nearby when I was a student (they built this place a year before I graduated, I've been back a few times since), but I just wish they would have moved it further away from some of the main throughways of the city.

Location is just weird and not as nice as many other courses in the state.

Very fun course, with some tricky drives. It was hole 13 through all the pine trees, I found to be the trickiest. Pretty good signs (when they arent missing, or printed backwards) and easy to find your way.

Rubber pads on many holes need to be replaced. Some signs are upside down, or missing.

All in all thought the course was pretty fun. Not alot of trash people look like they take care of it pretty well. The water near hole 1 can be tricky (as was for a guy in my group). This course is also only like 10 minutes away from Deerfield park disc golf.

You can test your might on most holes. The people are nice, well kept. Yeah... that's about it

-The Tee's
Need to be replaced, some are not even attached anymore.
-The Holes
No challenge, even for a new player
-The Signs
Some of them are printed upsidown
-The Layout
The lay out is horrible! Crossing railroad tracks, multiple cages on some holes make it confusing where your aiming. Randomly placed.
-The Diver
Yupp, chances are if you play this a couple of times the wind will take your disc and throw it in the lake, BUT WAIT there's a diver! Bring cash, or a scuba suit of your own, to get your disc back.

Holes 4 thru 10 are a mixup of long holes with rough edges, and short holes with trees needing manuvering skills.1,2,3 and 12 make you play smart and safe because of the water[deep water] .14 thru 18 give you alot of open distance with a few trees for a challenge.A well groomed course.Lot's of friendly people.

T pads,signage,direction.Need a map the first couple of rounds.Signs are wierd.Cement T's would be good.

There's room for more holes,and better use of the elevation available.

Holes with open space are good for beginners.
Some Long Holes around the course.

Rubber Pads need to be replaced.
1st hole is a danger with the water.
Disc can be lost by the 1st hole and the wood along the 5th hole.

.... ummm..... there was a lot of open space...

poorly marked everything... if you haven't visited find someone who is a regular because you will be looking around for the hole, the next tee, and where you are going.

it was the start of the summer season so most of the signs were missing, hopefully CMU will fix that.

The wide open shots and lack of any real gnarly rough made this course a blast to play in the snow, with little chance of losing a disc. The rubber tee pads were plenty grippy, even when dusted with snow. There's plenty of varied shots needed here to keep it interesting. The bag hooks that grace many of the remaining tee posts are a very welcome touch!!

Many missing tee poles and signs, and having to cross the railroad tracks twice make this course a challenge to navigate without a map, so print one out and take it with you.

This course make pretty good use of the very limited terrain features and obstacles available on the land plot. Some time spent doing course maintenance would significantly raise this reviewer's score. This is a very relaxing course - not every hole requires precision or massive drives.

*** Update 10/31/09 ***
It appears the missing posts and signs have all been replaced and all the tee posts have been repainted. Additional trash cans have been added as well. All but one of the tee pads were firmly attached, but they all still need the underlying ground flattened and smoothed.

It is a nice setting, close to the campus. Its a good recreational opportunity.

the only part of of the game of disc golf that this course developes is the ability to throw from the tee. The course doesnt not test ones game at all .. it is boring

Mosquitos are bad during spring and summer