Pros:
You will enjoy the pretty park scenery and creek views playing this nine hole course on the campus of MVNU, especially if you have a little extra distance in your arm. With holes ranging from a little over 230 to 595 feet, the course is marked by 4x4 posts and deep baskets, just south of the campus proper. After parking near the ninth basket and the gazebo, walk around the structure for the open, level hole 1, then turn to the left and see that the majestic pines have grown since the course was installed, forcing a shaped shot, left to right, if you want to avoid the creek (and you do).
Then go to the bridge (where you'll find a small map of the course), crossing over and uphill to the right for the third hole, then going deeper to the southeast to the next open field for holes 4 (the longest, past the satellite dish, to the corner of the cornfield), 5 with its basket just past the row of monster pines (do not get under them: they're a maze of branches), a nifty, true left to right shaped shot 6th, and an ace run 7th hole. You'll go back northwest (passing the 3rd basket), and throw from the top of the slope down to a landing zone by the pathside lamp for the gap across the creek and the right-turning 8th, before going back to the foot of the bridge to finish on the open hole 9.
The 8th hole is definitely the most memorable here, but overall, it's going to be a fun, fairly quick round for a recreational to intermediate level player.
Cons:
The course suffers a little from only having natural tees, a lack of elevation (striking on all but two holes: 3 & 8), the baskets boasting only a single ring of chains, and in that there are tee signs missing (or at least very difficult to find) on 3 & 8. I got the impression that the course was put in when these pines were much smaller, because the flight lines on 2 & 5 really seem to have tightened up. The signature hole 8 is interesting if played with a mando as intended, but I guarantee that big arm youths throw overhand directly at the basket, risking throwing blindly to the street beyond. Amd after 8, you have to backtrack a bit along that same, blind fairway. Finally, it's very odd not to NOT find a map until you get to the bridge, and that the course is really kind of broken up into three regions.
Other Thoughts:
This is the more fun, and better established course of the two in Mt Vernon, the other being Thayer Ridge.
Reviewer Background as of this writing: played 270 courses and written 253 reviews, with skills hovering around a 900 rating, I started playing at 50 and am now 55. I don't throw far (300 footers feel like success), but am addicted to DG, and have played with folks ranging from age 7 to 87, so I try to write reviews helpful to all.