Pros:
A wide open course with all the basics.
-Amenities: DISCatchers, practice basket, adequate concrete tees, course map. Signs with hole #, distance, par, sometimes map, and pin placement indicator.
-Elevation: One of Lenora's strengths is that it plays along hills. You'll go up and down and along and beside and on top of hills. Lends some interest.
-Beginner Friendly: Good place to take a beginner. Especially with marked pars that are way too high, inexperienced players will feel better about their throwing.
-Multi-Pins: Quite a few holes have alternate pin placements. Sometimes they significantly alter the challenge, while in other cases it's superfluous.
-Hole Design: Adequate considering the lack of obstacles to work with, but not great. As mentioned, there are both up and down plays requiring different skills. About 6 holes deal with notable trees, forcing a play either around or through them. Walking paths or woods create a stay-away area on another 5 holes. A few hole descriptions: (3) plays blind over a mid-fairway hill. (4) has a mando tree forcing a hyzer play. (8) is a 450-footer with path on the right heading past a leafy obstacle and towards the woods. (10) plays with a steep hill on any shot leaking left. (13) is a right-turning hole through a stand of about 3 trees. (16) is the only moderately wooded hole on the course, straight uphill.
Cons:
There are very few trees.
-Wide Open: Shot shaping is almost zero on many, many holes. There simply aren't any obstacles, or the obstacles are so solitary that they are easy to work around. A touch boring.
-Shade: Another effect of no trees is no shade. It's blistering in the summer sun.
-Wind: Another effect of no trees is lots of wind, sometimes a debilitating amount.
-Variety: About the only holes that feel excitingly different are (13) and (16) throwing through thin stands of trees and (14) throwing into a sparse grove. Otherwise it's grip it and rip it.
-Parring: A small con. The pars on the signs are often quite high by modern standards. Really these are all par 3's, but marked course par is closer to 66 (depending on pin placements).
Other Thoughts:
I think this course would have stood out for its inclusion of all amenities in past years, but there are enough very good courses here in 2020 that Lenora is really quite low on my list of 18-hole courses. It's great for ripping out your drivers if a local. UPDATE: Having played even more courses now, I think Lenora is too wide open to run with most of my other 18-hole courses. I love playing it, but trying to rate objectively I think it's Reasonable.
-Parking: Make sure to use the park entrance near the ball fields (not near the water park). Park in the lot on your left next to ball fields, and the practice basket will be just across the road.