FIRST: Don't let the pay-to-play dissuade you from playing. with dual tees that change the course big-time, pay the bucks and spend the day! It's well worth it.
This is one of those courses that had to grow on me, or more to the point, my game grow up to play the course. My first few rounds the course ate...me...alive! This course is both crazy short and crazy long. Tight and wooded, and grip and rip. Up hill, down hill, across hill...everything but water! And some of the views are amazing!
Being more specific...
The first 4 are a bit deceiving. Hole #1 is a long,slight anhyzer shot that is easy, not to daunting, but a cool shot from an elevated pad.
Holes 2 & 3 are short, tight forehand shots. Hole 4 just a straight midrange.
So, not too much of a test...but that ends...quickly!
Hole #5 is a loooong 550'+, turning down hill shot following a corridor of pine trees. Not only is it down hill turning left, but it's on a slope. Hit a tree and kick left, and you are WAY the hell off the fairway! Even great shots that stay between the trees and land in the fairway leave a tough upshot to the basket.
Hole #6 is a really cool, relatively short steep down hill shot. Straight a head is a narrow, tight drop to the basket. To the right is a fun rip where the disc disappears as it drops down hill, turning toward the basket. Keep your eyes on the target and watch your frisbee reappear from the woods. Caution: come in too hot and you...are...gone! Disc will fly past, and go another hundred beyond the basket. But a very cool hole.
#7 is the proverbial 'dumb hole' that almost all courses have. Its a 90-degree shot to a basket way up a hill. No way to drive it. just hit the corner, then pitch up. Now, there is a sucker gap off the tee at a 45-degree angle to the basket. Hit ANYTHING and you're toast.
#8 is similar to #5, another long, turning shot, not as long as 5, but another solid, cool hole.
#9 is a solid, left-turning hole off the tee to a basket surrounded by dry creek beds.
#10 is almost a borderline so-so hole. The basket is up hill after a tight, left turning hole. But the angle of your throw makes it hard to get a good show on the basket. Lucky ones will skip through.
#11...Now, this is a good, tough, short hole. Basket's up a relatively short grade, but the toss off the tee is acrobatic. I throw a midrange full power with a touch of anhyzer, then let it flex back to the basket. Not as easy as It sounds, but a cool shot.
#12 is an okay, raised tee to a roadbed, then a gauntlet of trees to the basket. No real sight-lines unless you CRUSH your drive and land just right.
#13 is a STEEP uphill, left turning drive. And I mean STEEP! Hard to get much on your drive running uphill. Feels like you crush the drive and it goes no where.
#14 is just a big ol' GRIP AND RIP around a climbing uphill. left turning hole. Another one where you throw as hard as you can and disc just doesn't seem to go anywhere
#15 is a fun, beautiful hole. Not tough unless the winds are blowing, which they always are! You're on a high ridge with advisability approaching 20 miles on a clear day. Bring a camera, you'll want pics here!
#16 is a decent, long down hill drive with a gazillion pines. Find the line, hit it and you can probably deuce the hole. Hit anything and all bets are off!
#17 is a nice, tight, uphill climb.2's are possible with a solid drive...providing it doesn't hit anything.
#18...Ah, get the camera again 'cause you are WAY the heck in the air. Great views, on a downhill fairly wide tunnel shot. Don't get the nose up or you'll flip into the THICK trees to the right or hyzer way out over the road. A bad but rewarding shots are the crushes that left and hyzer way down range and hit the park registration office! Nice rewarding CRASH when they do!