Pros:
McGraft Park is located at the edge of a pleasant residential neighborhood. When you pull up to the course and park, you'll see a large, grassy multi-use area with scattered old growth trees - very typical for an urban park in this area of the world. You'll have the opportunity to warm up at two DISCatcher practice baskets prior to making your way to the first tee, which sits between the parking lot and a softball diamond. The first hole plays about 200' with a couple trees between tee and basket, with the entrance road well off to your left and the softball diamond to your right. After #1, you'll cross the entrance road for holes 2-5 which are longer but have a similar feel. #6 plays slightly downhill with a road on your right, but there is a double mando to prevent you trying to throw a dangerous long hyzer shot over the road. All of these holes are pleasant but fairly unremarkable.
Then you get to hole #7 and everything changes. All of the holes have large concrete tee pads in good shape, but this one is shaped like a pentagon. Once again, there is a double mando to take into consideration - but this one is straight ahead and a solid 300'-350' away. From the tee, you can see a large clearing between the trees that form the mando. It looks like you are throwing straight out of the park. When you reach that clearing, you will see a steep drop off leading down to a large-ish open area. A creek forms the back and left sides of this open area, and the basket is tucked off to the right side near a road. The entire hole is listed at 463' on the tee sign. A memorable and very tough par 3. From there, you will walk along the road to play #8 and #9 (which are located across the creek) before crossing the road to play #10. #10 is a true water hole, running 335' with a lagoon along the left side of the hole and behind the basket. Across the lagoon is a picturesque heavily wooded area, with trees that were starting to change color when I played. After that, you'll walk back along the road to get to the rest of the course - which alternates between tight wooded holes along the creek and a few more through the park (the latter in the mold of #1-6). #16 is also a standout hole. It's another hole that starts in the main park and runs down the steep incline to the creek, but this time you have to carry the creek to a basket tucked in behind some bushes on the other side.
As alluded to above, the variety and hole design here is outstanding. By my count there are seven water holes, with #10 along the lagoon and the creek coming into play on six others. The main park is pretty flat, but the holes near the creek in the back of the course have some elevation and that elevation is used well. There are a couple of baskets on slopes to provide risk-reward opportunity. The pin placement is well done, with at least a few trees between tee and basket on every hole. This course has hyzers, anhyzers, and straight throws to test a variety of shots in your bag. There is good variety in length, from 174' up to 518'.
There are large concrete tee pads at every hole. There are also high-quality color tee signs showing the flight path, par, and distance to basket. Each sign has the basket illuminated in a golden glow - I was strongly reminded of the Holy Grail animation from Monty Python. The tee signs also have text that explains the mandos (when present) and give directions to the next tee when needed. The baskets are getting older but are all present and in decent condition.
Cons:
My biggest con here is that a couple of the holes have baskets that are quite close to the road. In particular, overpowered throws at the #7 basket (as described above) and #9 basket (213' downhill) could land in the road. The road is probably only 20'-30' behind the basket on both of these holes.
There is a chance of lost discs in the lagoon and creek, and in the thick bushes near them. Also, another reviewer mentioned the possibility of poison ivy in these low-lying areas, and I think they would be quite muddy in the spring.
The course flow/layout could definitely be construed as a con. For me, the walks along/across the road and up/down the creek gully were enjoyable and added to the unique flavor of the course. The road didn't appear to be terribly busy but the noise and walking did detract from the aesthetic a bit. The walk back from hole 18 also crosses hole 15's fairway - be careful here.
On a related note, the navigation is a bit tricky too. I did not see a kiosk when I played - one of these with a course map would help (As an aside, the map posted on here in 2015 is still close to accurate, but holes 12-14 have been renumbered based on the tee signs. The new hole 12 is labeled as #14 on the map, new #13 is labeled as #12, and new #14 is labeled #13. So after hole 11, continue alongside the creek to #12. Then after #12, climb the hill and walk back a bit to #13 tee). Also, even though the next tee directions are written on the tee signs it would still be nice to see some signage after the basket - players may forget the directions while playing the hole.
Similarly, I did not see signs on the mando trees indicating that they were mandos so those would be nice as well.
Other Thoughts:
I really enjoyed this course. The variety was great, every hole here has at least some challenge, and a few (#7, #10, #16) are quite memorable. This course has a unique flavor that I tried to spell out above, but really I think you just have to come play it for yourself.
With better signage and those couple baskets near the road moved back a little bit, I would definitely give this course a 4.0. This is not a destination course in terms of overall challenge, location, etc. but if you appreciate uniqueness this course should be on your bucket list.
Update 7/2021: I returned to play this course again. I am maintaining my 3.5 rating. I removed some verbage about construction near hole 16, which is now complete. I think holes 7 and 15 should be listed as par 4s, but the tee signs disagree. This course has some legitimate Cons as listed above, yet at 60ish courses played it still sits as one of my personal favorites. I'm not quite sure what it is about it. Maybe it's the Jekyll-and-Hyde layout with the flat "mild-mannered city park" holes juxtaposed with the wilder holes near the creek and lagoon. Maybe it's the location in a quiet residential neighborhood. Maybe it's just that I'm reminded of the Holy Grail each time I look at a tee sign. But one way or another, it's a good time.