Pros:
- I love the front 9 on this course. They're short but they really used the trees and elevation to full advantage.
- Well laid out holes requiring you to use different kinds of shots to navigate around the trees.
- Beautiful park with lots of big shade trees and ivy growing on them.
- Good beginner course or to help get someone interested in the game as it doesn't require really long drives to do decently.
- Well used terrain. (For example if you hit a tree wrong on hole 5 your disc will likely go down into a deep creek bed giving you a difficult 2nd shot.)
- Tee signs with well drawn maps to help you sort out which basket to go for in cramped sections.
- A LOT of work has been done to clear out the area of blackberry vines
Cons:
- Holes 8 and 10 are almost identical.
- The back 9 loses a lot of the wooded feel of the front 9 and plays a lot more like some baskets thrown in a city park. (Though in their defense, that's what it is)
- Back 9 cramped in places with multiple baskets and tees in the same area.
- Would like to have seen them use the area over the bridge to either stretch some holes out or un-cramp some of the back 9.
- Course can be pretty busy, especially on weekends causing you to slow play. Also since the main walkway runs through a few of the holes you have to stop and wait for pedestrians/joggers/etc going through.
Other Thoughts:
I really like this course and feel like they did a lot with what they had. They took a park that was almost ONLY used by drug addicts and homeless people and cleaned it up and turned it into a place that a lot of people in town can use and enjoy. Also now there are a lot less of the prior residents, though sometimes you still see a few homeless, I think none of them live there anymore after getting tired of discs falling on their head in their sleep. The amount of work put in to remove all of those berry vines alone should garner some sort of metal to the people who built this place.