Pros:
The Douglas Schools Arboretum course plays across from Douglas middle school to the east. The area has a creek with lots of cattails running through the middle of it.
The baskets, that were present, were mixed. The majority of them were Mach II's I believe. There was one DD Patriot too. One pin position per hole from what I could gather.
The tee signs, where present, are the generic DGA white plastic signs with the stickers indicating trees, creeks OB and such. These had the hole #'s and distances on them too. Also next tee arrows.
The tees were concrete. These are more than sufficient for a course of this length and was more than I was expecting when deciding to play this one at the last minute on a whim. One tee per hole.
The area was clean and the course is permanet and free to play.
Cons:
Where to begin, I'm not sure how many baskets are actually here. It appears at least 2 were missing. I couldn't find a basket for hole 6 or 7. I did see a random basket but couldn't figure out where you would tee off to it. It didn't make any sense based on the map here on DGCR.
The DD Patriot basket had the smallest space from the top of the cage to the bottom of the band. I've played on tons of these types of baskets before. They must've somehow modified the center pole and made it shorter for some reason. It was also leaning to one side pretty heavily.
In fact, most baskets were no longer level, if they ever were. The cage on the practice basket was pretty mangled. Not sure if this used to be the basket for 6 or 7 or what.
There was no tee pad for hole 5. It appears it used to be where the backyard of a brand new house on the east side of the property was. The tee sign was laying in the fairway of hole 4.
Even if all the baskets and tees were there this would be a terrible design. There's one bridge that goes over the creek that you would have to cross 4 times. It'd take over a hour to play this. And that's if you didn't lose a disc in the thick, thick cattails.
This course looks nothing like the pictures on here from ten years ago. You wouldn't even think it's the same place if you seen it today.
Other Thoughts:
This course might have been a 1 to 1.5 when it was first installed. Maybe. This is one of the worst courses I've played in a couple years. Definitely takes the award for worst of the worst 2021 edition. Don't waste your time here. I travel all over to bag courses and even I regret stopping here. You'd be better off playing literally anywhere else in the area or even not playing at all. Abysmal course.