Pros:
The English Landing Park in Parkville, Missouri is a fairly large park with ballfields, basketball courts, picnic areas, jogging trails and much more. The course starts near the restrooms and plays, I think, five holes out before the final four holes end up near the starting point. The tee pads are a crushed rock material with a semi-octagon shaped border. Each tee pad was puddled today after the previous showers. It was just a minor inconvenience. The small metal signs are good giving you the distance, par and hole #, as well as a colored map. As simple and straightforward as this course is, the map isn't really a necessity. The baskets are the DGA models with the always hard to read numbers.
There is a nice variety of distances here ranging from 198' up to 442'. The course is flat so a few scattered trees provide the only obstacles you'll have to deal with. Basically if you can manage to avoid a tree or two on each hole, you can score well here. There is almost no where to get into trouble on this course. It would have to be quite a gridlock to reach the Missouri.
I can't really pinpoint a signature hole. They're all pretty similar. This course is pretty well set up for beginners and the recreational, recreation player. Probably that's why I liked it so much.
Cons:
Crushed rock tee pads puddle after rain.
Not much in the way of challenge here. Just a few trees to harass you.
Flat.
No signature holes.
Other Thoughts:
On one side of the course are the railroad tracks. Three long freight trains passed by just during my 35 minute round.
On the opposite side, the mighty Missouri River quietly flows by like some kind of aquatic, stealth serpent. So large and yet so quiet and peaceful. In my dreams, I could throw my driver across to the other side.
I liked this course a lot. It just kinda jelled with my pathetic game. If I were to rate this course just for my own personal enjoyment, I could give it a 3.0 or maybe even a 3.5. But because someone I know might read this and judge me thusly, I'll tone down my exuberance and reward it a more pedestrian like 2.5.