Pros:
- Really great new DisCatchers with no rust
- Good level tee boxes that have nice traction for when you throw
- Some holes have Innova flags on the baskets
- Private land, but the course is still free to play
- 7 is a really long and wooded par 5, but it is still fair and fun if you can hit your lines
- Just put in course map right near the parking lot. Take a picture of it or you will get lost.
- Now there are benches at almost every tee box
Cons:
- Hole 3 may be close to impossible to get a birdie with a good drive off the tee. There are 3 trees right in front of you, leaving about the space of 2 discs to get through.
- Hole 4 is probably a par 3.5, easy birdie if you just hit your line
- No tee signs but they are about to put them in
- The front 9 was good, but the back 9 was very open and simple, especially from 14-18. OB can make them tough, but they are still wide straight shots right to the basket.
- No next tee signs, a non-local might not find many tee boxes
- In the summer, the wooded fairways are covered in plants, making it hard to find discs.
- Not always open to play
- Some of the basket placements could be more creative (for example 12, the basket is tucked in left on flat ground, but you could but the basket on top of the hill so you are near the lake).
- Some fairways are close to other fairways
Other Thoughts:
Overall thoughts (for all of the 10 categories, each is worth 0.5 points towards the rating)
Quality of tee pads - 0.5 - There are really nice paved tee pads on almost every hole
Quality of signage - 0 - There will be tee signs soon, but right now there are not tee signs or next tee signs, making each tee very hard to find.
Course Amenities - 0.5 - There are benches at most tees and a bunch of garbage cans on the course
Park Amenities - 0.5 - There are bathrooms and it is also a summer camp so there are other things there other than disc golf
Overall use of available terrain features - 0.5 - The designers used what they had to work with well for about 15 of the holes, other than 14, 15, 16, and 17, the designers placed holes exactly where they should have been
Changes in elevation - 0.5 - There are so many uphill, downhill, and straight shots. Tons of elevation changes
Variety of hole length - 0.5 - With a par 62, there has to be lots of par 4's or par 5's meaning long holes. But there are also a lot of short and technical holes, meaning that there is a lot of hole length variety
Tee and basket options - 0 - There is only one basket position and tee box per hole
Signature hole - 0 - Some say that 18 is a signature hole, but I really think that it isn't all you have to do is throw 3 long and straight shots, and then tap in for an easy birdie
Fun factor - 0.5 - Did I have fun? Yes, I did. There is a combination of bomber holes and ace opportunities, making you use most discs in your bag.
Final Rating - 3.5