Pros:
Brand new baskets, concrete tees. Kiosk map. Tee signs with maps. Exclusive land. Maintained grounds. Clean.
Cons:
Tees signs bizarrely installed (not viewable to thrower or upon approach from previous hole). Confusing for first-timers. Non-secluded. Odd mix of too-easy and difficult, blind holes.
Other Thoughts:
Being a local, I was looking forward to this course when I discovered it was in the works. While it's great to have a local course, it's passable at best. Brand new baskets, concrete tees, and exclusive, low-traffic land are all on the plus side of the course. That said, the course itself is an uneven mix of non-challenging holes and extremely long, technical and tight fairways. Lots of tangled brush along side many of them. The first two holes really sum up the course: a boring, no-challenge straight shot alongside the fitness center, crossing an ugly non-descript access road, followed up by a technical tangle that if mis-thrown, starts off your round already hunting for discs in overgrown rough.
Next, an open, long-bomb hole which is actually nice to have so early before the arm is tired out, but followed by an insanely long, muddy and impossibly narrow fairway to a blind basket that hugs some low-budget apartments. This hooks back to a crooked fairway with lots of opportunities for discs in tangled rough. The following two holes are challenging enough, fun but unremarkable. Two more lackluster "get you to the wooded holes" baskets, and then you are again throwing some seriously long, blind and tight wooded fairways. These wooded back nine holes are nestled tightly to each other, but thankfully there are no crossover fairways. Hole #12 teases with a hint of what this course could be -- a challenging but sink-able technical hole that offers enough challenge but not to the level of frustration. The remainder of these wooded back nine holes are either inordinately challenging, or forgettable gap-fillers.
The final two holes are uninspired trudges to get you back to the parking lot -- but thankfully the courses circles back to Tee #1 so your walk to the car has already been fulfilled.
The course is located on the grounds around the university's fitness center, so the scenery is lacking. That said, at least the grounds are manicured and maintained. There seems to be ongoing maintenance and improvements to the wooded holes on the back nine as well. They were a mess last Autumn. The designers did the best they could with to what they had, to some degree. You'll have the course to yourself (and other disc golfers), but with the encircling campus roads and affordable, dated apartment complexes interspersed, you're never really secluded.
I do know my first times out were confusing and frustrating, with non-intuitive hole-to-tee transitions and bizarrely-placed tee signs -- they are only readable at 90° angles to the tees, thus the thrower and anyone approaching them cannot see either the tee numbers nor the hole map. Subsequent rounds, now that I know the layout, have less frustration as far as hole-to-tee, but the puzzling tee signs placement remains annoying. There is a large map at the Hole #1 kiosk and first-timers to the course are highly encouraged to snap a photo with their phones. You'll definitely need it.
There's not much else that could really be done considering the land they are working with for the course, but for what is obviously a course intended more for the casual player, there are some inordinately difficult holes that I've not encountered on even the world-class courses I've had the good fortune to play. There's a big difference between challenging and difficult. As mentioned earlier, Hole #12 gets it right.
I'll continue to throw the disc on this course because it's so close I can bike there. But I'd have to say it's not worth the effort unless you're in the area anyways. You'd be much better off heading to the nearby Hudson Springs Park course.