Chi Bro DGC is a 9-holer in the small town of Manchester, MI - about a half hour's drive west of Ann Arbor. It plays in a back of a multi-use park, well away from other park activities.

The course essentially has three long holes and six short ones. Overall, it's a decent mix.

The long holes have two tee pads. From the long pads, each of these holes is a 500'-550' par 4. If that sounds like too much for you, the short pads on the long holes reduce those lengths to 250'-400'. These three holes are moderately open but each have a few trees to contend with, and thicker rough off the fairway. These holes are also flat for the most part, other than #1 playing down a rolling hill off the tee and up another one on the approach to the basket.

The six short holes have one pad each, are all in the 150'-225' range, and are generally tightly wooded. Some of these holes have significant elevation changes. #3 and #4 both play through very uneven wooded terrain, where an unfortunate tree kick might send your disc down a small ravine. The sides of the ravines have ropes installed so that you can safely get down and up the steep slopes. #7 is a fun downhill throw that plays off the top of another steep hill. #9 has a pond on the right side of the fairway, although it's far enough off to the side that it would probably take another bad tree kick to reach it.

The infrastructure here is mostly great. The baskets are yellow banded DISCatchers (one pin position per hole). The tee pads are all concrete, including the short ones mentioned previously. The tee signs are next to each pad and have all the needed info. There are white arrows nailed to trees near each basket that direct players towards the next tee.

The park has trash cans, benches, and a porta potty.

The rough is pretty thick in spots. When I visited in mid-May, there were some thickets of wildflowers blooming on the right side of holes 2 and 3. It took me a while to find my disc. While it was far from the worst I have seen, I do worry that it could be tougher to find discs in mid/late summer.

Some tee pads are a bit close to the previous basket. It wasn't anything egregious, but enough that I took note.

There are no signs directing from the parking lot to the beginning of the course. I had to look back at the course info page to figure out where to go (Hole 1's tee is a short walk away, through an open area and next to the water tower). The designers could add a practice basket and kiosk with course map somewhere in this open area or near the first tee. I could have also used a couple of benches out on the course.

You could argue that the variety can still be improved here. As discussed above, the holes can more or less be fit into one of two categories. Tweaking the layout a bit to lengthen a couple of the wooded holes, and possibly shorten one of the more open holes could make this course even better.

The previous reviewer danhyzer tipped me off about this one, and I do not regret detouring here on my day trip over to Ann Arbor. This is definitely in the top tier of 9ers I have played. In fact, when I think about "best 9er I have played" the only other course that comes to mind is Flaherty Park in Watervliet. If you're anywhere nearby, come check this one out!

2 cement tee pads per hole (we played the from the long tees)

I liked every hole (except #2, filler hole or a hole for the beginner player to regain their confidence from that first hole, but a must birdie)!!

What a nice hole to start on with # 1, Over 500 feet long with the basket perched on top of the hill.

Hole # 3, my introduction to the sunken basins of the course. Basket was a turnover shot for me (LHBH). with the basket position next to the sunken basin.

Hole # 5 & 6 we're long but fair. # 5 had a tighter fairway to navigate, but had several lanes to use. I loved where Basket # 6 was located!! Perched atop of a hillside with danger danger on the backside of the basket (at least a 50 foot drop off )

Hole # 7, one threw their drive from a sunken basin up to a basket. Really easy to hit a tree going up the hill and get stuck in the basin for another attempt up the hill, but enough room for an ace run or a birdie

Nice balance of difficulty for a small neighborhood park DG course.

A few holes one had to navigate their drives over sunken basins.

No worries if one's shot ended up in the sunken basin as they had a heavy duty rope that one could hold on to to navigate going up and down the steep hillside.

lack of benches

Everyone in my group including myself said that this course was one of the best 9 hole courses they've ever played!!

Neighborhood was within a short shot away from hearing louder voices coming from the course (in my group in particular, one player used vulgar language because of their bad throw and I saw one of the neighbors look right at us). So just use a little common sense and respect !!

The park had a nice little playground for the kids and a park shelter for all.

The tornado siren works really good!! I thought it was located somewhere near the park.

Downtown Manchester is a small quaint town with a few options to do if the wife would rather do while you played a round of Disc Golf.

Decent sized lake for fishing or feeding the birds.

(Larger) Port a John on site