Pros:
Old Farm Park is nice enough little city park. It has a few things going for it such as basketball courts, a nice little lake, picnic areas, tennis courts, wide open spaces and presenting the star attraction of the park, four brand new pickleball courts. They're awesome!
The disc golf course has a nice flow to it with the # 18 basket just a few feet from # 1's tee pad. The course is just a nice recreational course. Today, on a Sunday afternoon, there was quite a crowd here, and almost all of them had one thing in common, they were rec players whose longest drive was about 200' and they weren't sure where it was going, although usually a shady hyser to it. This is a perfect course for the clientele playing here today.
The course has decent concrete pads. The baskets are Discatchers with the yellow band and numbers. The tee signs are the same wooden ones that the Jaycee Park course has. They are a large wooden pole with a round piece on top telling you the hole number. Each pole had many signatures of those Aceing the holes. I'll cut them a little slack as an Ace on any hole is a major accomplishment for these guys. Another reviewer had commented that there was disgusting vulgar images written on some poles. I'm sorry I missed those as I'm totally into disgusting vulgar, bathroom images!
The course has a nice variety of wooded versus open holes and little short Ace runs versus long boring open field shots. I preferred the short, wooded Ace runs, no matter how short they are. Holes 3 through 6 definitely fit into the short Ace run category. They range from 99 to 176'. Two other holes are just short of 200' and ten others play between 200 and 300 feet. Only 9 and 10 stretch beyond 300'.
There are some little lines to try and hit in some of the wooded holes and trees to avoid. # 13 has a wet area behind and left of the basket. You would really to avoid it during any wet times. # 15 is cool, little downhill Ace toss of 200' but the pond is on the left side and apparently gobbles up many discs. Some dude was in the pond today with waders hunting for sunken discs or maybe sunken treasure boats. He did have a couple of discs in his hand but no treasure.
Cons:
Once you accept this course for what it is, it has very few flaws.
The throws throws across the field (9-10-11) were wide open but probably provide players the op to work on their distance.
The preferred route on hole 12 would be throwing right up the walking path. Make sure it's free of pedestrians.
A pet peeve of mine and most likely a minor point, some tree pads were poured with the lay of the land, thereby slanting slightly upward or downward. I much prefer level.
Other Thoughts:
There must be a market for the used disc business here, what with the aforementioned disc diving guy and another older gentleman who sitting in the shade by the first tee pad selling and trading discs. He was doing a thriving business. I guess all these rec players with the uncontrolled 200' drives are looking for that perfect disc. I can assure them, it's not the disc guys!
This is a solid rec course which fills a niche in the disc golf world. There must be a reason it was getting all this play.