I first threw at real (temp)baskets in Hiller Park in '83, at a multi-event tourney that included DG---all of it done with Wham-O! lids or Fastbacks.
So with high expectations I made my annual winter jaunt home to visit the folks and play the new course there.
Because its been a park for so long, there's mature pines, oaks, cypress, and sweetbay, with lots of grassy/sandy expanses and only a few holes[among the first 9] having enough surrounding vegetation to possibly necessitate disc-hunting.
There's lots of water, with the pond and bays providing great risk, as you really don't want to wade in the stinking soup of salt and fresh water, duck poop, storm runoff and residential and manufacturing effluvia. #s 1, 3, and 10-15 all fly over water, #6 has a swamp just right of the 2nd half of the fairway, #26 has the bay on the left for the entire fairway, and #18 has a creek mere feet from the basket.
An anomaly here is almost constant gradual elevation change in the utterly flat topography of the coastal South, a result of heavy equipment landscaping by the Army Corp and Seabees back in the '30s.
3 tees on every hole, with the short tees natural(sandy) and the mids/longs cement; the signs are substandard.
The flow of the course is fairly decent, but stay alert the first time you play it for the 4 through 7 transitions, #14 across the street from #s 13 and 15, #17 north of the playground and street, and #18 north of the community garden.
#1 is "Swamp Thing": a 225' throw with an arm of the bay crossing just in front of the pin, with 2-3 tall thin pines obstructing. Drive left and the hanging vegetation eats you alive; fade right and you're dragged to your doom in the deep.
#2 is a long open flat right turn, with vegetable matter attacking from the right and behind the basket. Or a long straight shot into the pine and sweet bay forest.
#3 flirts with an arm of the bay like #1, with denser vegetation though a bit less water.
#4 drives under scraggly low oaks past a sandy wash in the sun [a favorite layabout of snakes] to a basket surrounded by low mounds of dirt.
#5 is the first tunnel shot, bending slightly right or left under mature oaks with grabby rough everywhere but the narrow fairway.
#6 is similar, but twice as long and bending sharply, endlessly left.
#7 is back into the grassy part of the park, hyzering past a left mando to a basket mothered by scrub oak.
#8 drives past some gateway oaks into the open, with the alternate pin over a mostly dry creek and into a pocket in the shrubbery behind the bridge.
#9 bends slightly right through mature pines, with nasty rough and an OB road to the lft, an OB sidewalk in the middle, and a cable delineating the parking lot behind the basket as OB.
#10 is an open throw from the west edge of the parking lot, across an arm of the bay to a pin either in the trees near the bay or on an elevated pin near the road on the left.
#11 uses it all: OB in softball fields
and road
, lake outflow running diagonal from 250' left to 300+' on right, elevation drops 10' to lake and 6' back up to basket, oaks front and center. There is a new pin position close to both the canal and road.
#12 is long, with the lagoon left the entire fairway, and about 25' left of the pin. 50' tall oaks block the center, requiring long drives left or right with a strong fade.
#13 is a pleasant open toss across a wide arm of the lake to a peninsula with the basket guarded by two short, full hardwoods.
#14 scoots along sandy washes a few feet uphill through mature pines and oaks to a pin on an 8 ft. tall post, near the park's southern entrance.
#15 is a 12' elevation drop over the creek that feeds the lake, with tennis courts and mature pines on the distant right, the lake and cypress on the distant left, and the basket a looong ways away.
#16 quickly crosses another creek and climbs to a surprisingly hard-to-reach basket among tall, thin pines.
#17 drives across an open expanse to a basket near the road to the right, defended by a droopy old oak.
#18 is a short float downhill in a tight lane of trees, to a basket mere feet from a small creek.
#s 19-21 are all similar---275+', with lots of twisty oak trunks blocking almost any route you'd choose.
#22 is a short, tree-guarded toss, with the pin 10 ft. in front of an OB sidewalk.
#23 throws down an alley of vegetation to a pin open to stiff onshore breezes and a chance to drive into the bay.
#24 runs through oaks beside the road past the gazebo, with hanging limbs of a huge oak obscuring the basket from several directions.
#25 throws from the gazebo south along the treeline to a basket hidden in a pocket on the shoreline, with a steep bank to the water 10 ft. away.
#26 is long, open, and uphill, with the bay waters on the other side of the walkway and vegetation just waiting for a badly-shanked drive.