WHAT TO EXPECT: Combination wooded and wide open course in a low lying swampy area. Short, wooded technical holes early give way to wide open, flat let it fly holes and then repeats. Suited well for beginner and novice players.

AMENITIES: While not directly near any of the park facilities themselves, this course does have benches on several holes. There were no open to the public bathrooms that we could find. There are some about 300 yards from Hole #18, but they were locked when we visited. No trashcans or drinking water either.

TEES/SIGNAGE/BASKETS: Tees were elevated concrete pads, medium in size, not much more needed on a course this size. Course sign adjacent to #1 tee pad and individual hole signs were basic with hole map, par and distance which were useful but nothing spectacular. Baskets were older Discatchers but still caught well and the yellow color stood out well in the wooded sections of this course.

DESIGN: Roughly 10 holes are what could be considered moderately wooded and offer some technical lines that are wide enough and fair for all skill levels. The rough on the sides of the fairways is quite brutal and thick however. It pays to stay in the fairway on the wooded holes. Most of the wooded section of the course falls in the 200 to 250 foot range with one outlier at just over 300 feet. The open holes are very underwhelming and mostly long righty hyzer holes in a flat unused portion of the park near some power stations. Probably the worst stretch of the course by a wide margin.

NAVIGATION: Fairly straightforward despite the lack of a course map as most tee pads are visible from the previous basket. Tee signs have arrows indicating the next tee direction. Knowing which basket to throw too can be a challenge on the more open holes as some of the baskets are close to each other from the perspective of the tee.

EXTRAS: There is nothing terribly difficult about the skill level required to play well here and I could see this being a very popular wooded beginner course in the area (when dry).

LACK OF ELEVATION: There is virtually zero elevation throughout the entire course. This particularly makes the open holes on the course that much more underwhelming and bland.

POOR DRAINAGE: We played the day following a rain shower and the course was a swamp. Almost every fairway in the woods was ankle deep in water with some much larger and deeper flooded sections. Even the open holes were standing water covered and very muddy where the water hadn't pooled.

LOST DISC POTENTIAL: There are a couple holes where you play near a power station that is topped with barbed wire fencing. We noticed a couple discs abandoned within its confines as we played through. There is also a dog park fenced off in the back section of the course with a gate to get in and a ladder to climb the fence in another section. The rough was particularly bad on some of the wooded holes and one of our group lost a disc in the jungle.

HO HUM DESIGN: I feel like an incredible wooded 9 hole course was averted and determined to be a less than stellar 18 instead. The course suffers greatly from its lackluster holes and feels like a slog you just want to complete and get out of there.

MOSQUITOES: With the swampy landscape, mosquitoes are a given and we all spent more time trying to avoid the swarms than we did enjoying our round.

As mentioned previously and by other reviewers, if Southside had simply set out to be a 9 hole wooded course, this course would rate much higher and be a better overall experience for those who play here. The open holes have nothing positive to add to the course and there is little that could be done to them to design them better. Even if this course was completely dried out, and I lived in the area, I probably wouldn't play this course again personally unless I was just playing the wooded holes and chasing aces.