Pros:
Beautiful, large park in Palm Beach County. The course is located away from most of the park activities except for a walking path that crosses several holes and parallels the fairway on a couple of others. There is a dog park nearby, but that shouldn't come into play.
There are two good, DD Veteran baskets on most holes, White and Red. While I've seen this on a lot of courses here in FL, those normally have the baskets consistently either short or long, but here they are not consistent, sometimes the white is long, sometimes short.
Multiple tees on every hole, from Gold to Green and everything in between. Normally there are only 3 tee pads per hole, usually Gold/Blue, White and Red/Green, these are concrete and a good length, but generally not too wide. Other holes have 4 separate tees.
Really good tee signs at two of the tees, usually not at the longest. These are very good, with a hole diagram, each tee location and distances from each tee to the Red and White baskets.
The holes are mostly open, with several water carries and no tightly wooded holes. The open holes have a few trees to avoid on each, so shot shaping is needed to score well. Most of the water holes do have a bailout point, but not all of them.
Cons:
I really wanted to give this course a high enough rating to impact it's 3.20 rating. But there are enough things wrong to limit its overall rating, most of these are maintenance issues, but they need to be addressed.
The grass needs to be cut on just about every hole. It didn't feel like I just missed the cutting schedule by a day, there are holes that felt like it hadn't been cut for a couple of weeks.
There essentially are 4 holes with water carries 4,5,7 and 14, on the first three, the carry from the long tees could be minimized with a RHBH hyzer, kind of tough for lefties. But the biggest issue on those three are the amount of trees and brush growing on the shorelines. If I'm going to risk losing a disc, I sure don't want to lose one because it hit a small branch and dropped in, or got lost in some brush trying to skip to the shore. The shorelines are cleared down to the water level in other areas of the park, but that maintenance is lacking on the course.
The walking path around the park mentioned above, does come into play on several holes and could really slow down a round. In fact, at least 2 holes have some tees using that path to tee from.
With the mostly wide open layout of most holes, you're throwing a lot of the same shots off the tee, not a lot of variety of shots required.
Other Thoughts:
Driving past some of the large estates along Ocean Blvd in Palm Beach and seeing the amount of money in this county, this park is what huge tax revenues can build you. Probably every activity you can imagine in a county park, including a wake board park and inflatible water park. It would be nice if the course was kept up as well as the rest of the park.
The park land used to be a strip mine, so that explains the lack of a lot of trees, but also accounts for some elevation that was used pretty well on several holes, all had fun, downhill tee shots. #3 tees from probably the highest point in the park, to both baskets with OB roads lurking right behind. The other 3 tee from the other high point, near the dog park, #10 and #11 baskets are near the sidewalk and the road, and #12 green is in a jail cell of trees, the most on the course.
#5 is the other most wooded green, the various tees all have a tunnel cut in the trees along the lake, then over an inlet to a green with large, old growth trees and smaller guardians.
#18 is a very good finishing hole, to the long, White basket. The Red is a short, straight ahead shot to the basket in a cluster of trees. But the White basket is a 515'/675' Par 4, curving left to right around a hillside (sloping right to left). The tee shot gives you several options with the shortest, right path, needing to clear a large bush on the corner to provide a look at the basket. I choose the left path, under a low ceiling of branches, my forehand faded right, just before the OB road. Then the second shot has to clear a couple of trees on the high point of the slope, then downhill to the basket. Actually a GREAT finishing hole.
Okeeheelee is such a large park, that it appears another course could be put in along the drive to the existing course. It may need to be a shorter, more beginner friendly course, but the area appears to be available. They could even use one set of baskets for that course, because when you have up to 5 different tees per hole, do you need two different baskets? But, before that upgrade, it would be great to see the maintenance on this course be done better.