Pros:
- free to play, plently of parking.
- informative tee signs: numbered, list distance to pin
- quality baskets
- fun descending fairways drives
- forgiving fairways, beginner freindly
- campus landscape was well maintained
- cart friendly fairways
Cons:
- natural tees
- not much risk/reward
- open fairways, not enough variety of shot shaping or fairway length
- course access is limited during sporting events or other school actives
- some fairways are too close to parking lots, streets
- the baskets are marked as #1 - #9, don't also have #10 - #18 marked on them
- no directinal aids: tees #1- #9 are easier to find than #10 - #18.
Other Thoughts:
The FSCC course begins in what looks to be the middle of the campus. Behind the right field fence line of a softball field is where hole #1 starts. It works its way counterclockwise down and around various athletic fields and other open spaces before finishing at basket #9. Hopefully, by then you've figured out that #1 - #9 and #10 - #18 are going to be very similar to each other. Don't be fooled by the course listing, this isn't relally an 18 hole course as much as it's a 9 hole course with dual tees. For example: hole #10 is really more like #1 (B) and #11 is more like 2 (B), ect, etc.
Course listing trickery aside, the FSCC does a decent job using the land availible and the campus topography. The fairways feature a long and mostly open design, which is fairly common for campus courses. I agree with the previous reviewer, many of the holes seemed to be overly southpaw friendly. Luckily, the fairways very open and forgiving. There's not much technicality @ FSCC, either. Leave the mids at home, this is more of a distance driver, followed by a short approach or putt, type of course.
As with most campus courses there are limitations to course availability depending on when you're there and which campus activies are in progress. As far as safety goes, hole 9 was pretty much the only hole I had a safety concern with. Players teeing off are blind to the basket and throwing near pedestrian sideways. The rest of the course is more or less away from causal traffic. I parked in the closest parking lot to hole one on a weekend and didn't have any pedestrian issues. The campus was totally desolate of any humans beings.