Pros:
PARK DESCRIPTION - Frog Park, aka. Suggs Park, aka Austell Park, is a medium sized green park with a nice canopy of shade trees. There is ample parking at the start.
VARIETY - With both red and blue tee pads and two baskets for each hole, players can play the course four in different layouts.
ELEVATION - Almost none but # 15 did have a very slight downhill to it. I guess you would call it Frog Park's "Top of the World" shot.
CHALLENGE - Playing from the long Blues often adds 100 feet or more to the hole. Somewhere between a challenging recreational level with a couple of intermediate challenges added.
EQUIPMENT - The tee pads are nicely large, trapezoid shaped with a wooden border which is painted either blue or red. The short baskets are silver DGA models with the always hard to read red numbers. The longs are blue Prodigy models, also with numbers. There are benches at the longs
AESTHETICS - With the lovely shade trees, wooden bridges over the low spots, the park has kind of a relaxed zen feel to it, more Japanese Garden than Disc Golf Course.
FUN FACTOR - With no underbrush and no water hazards, beginners/rec players should enjoy their round here with no chance of losing discs. Better players play the longs for more challenge and the regulars can switch up their choices playing red to shorts, red to longs, blue to shirts and blue to longs.
ROUTING/NAVIGATION - There is a kiosk at the start with map. The course loops back after both nine and eighteen holes. Take note of this Hopkins Park designer. I asked for a little help the first time through and also pointed out a tee pad or two for a group following me, also playing here for the first time.
Cons:
Navigation was just a little tricky in places. I asked for help finding one pad and another asked me where # 3 was. The ease of navigation is probably at the 95th percentile of all the courses I've played.
Alright, it's flat but the wonderful shade trees more than make up for that. There are no holes that wow or even one that I will remember next week.
Other Thoughts:
This course is one of those "It's what it is courses." It's not trying to entice the advanced to pro players. It's not long even from the blues to the longs. It's just a very clean and comfortable round, playing level from recreation to upwards intermediate, excellent for these Georgia summers.
Actually, I should have just signed my name at the bottom of Shadrach3's previous review. His review probably sums up Frog Rock DGC more eloquently than any blather I could conjure up.
Some areas seem to be known for a certain type of courses. The Chicago area is well known for it's preponderance of flat, nine hole rec courses. The Charlotte area is known for it's tough advanced level courses like Nevin, Hornet's Nest, Renny Gold and more. After playing courses around Atlanta, I'm thinking Atlanta has a large grouping of fun, 18's that are tweeners, that is, they're more challenging than a recreational level but fall short of being called intermediate level. Courses I would include in this tweener 18 category would include; Frog Rock, Oregon Park, East Roswell, Wills Park, Suwanee Creek, Little Mulberry, Fort Yarbo, Mathews, Rosewood- DeKalb which is at the lower rec level, Deer Lick and many others I haven't had the pleasure of playing.