Tee pads for long tee's
Good DD Vet baskets with arrows to next tee.
Temp tee signs were all in place telling distance and hole number

It's on an old ball golf course, not a lot of tree's
Too many tweener holes (hole that are par 3 that are out of my distance range)

Well, I normally like courses on old ball golf courses, I am not sure what this one rubbed me the wrong way. It does have some decent holes, just enough for me to rate it a 3 star rating. It's just I really didn't enjoy my round even though the weather was perfect for a round of golf. I found myself just trying to make par on most of the holes because they were just outside of my range, but not long enough to be par 4 holes.

I didn't feel like they used the ponds enough. Really there is only one hole you might loose a disc, well unless you really throw a bad shot. There are several large tree's, You even get to throw under and around most of them at one point or another.

I guess if you have a bigger arm than I do, you might enjoy this course more than I did.

Would I play here again? No, the course really didn't do anything for me, it's VERY flat and the holes are just not interesting enough for me. It is better than the University course a few blocks away.

(3.031 Rating) A medium length ball golf conversion course
- TWO TEES - I appreciated that I had two tee options to play here and I wish more courses did this in my local area. Anyways, there are long and short tees here on 15 of the 18 holes by my count. Those with +350-foot arm power will enjoy the added length from the back tees, while those with +250-foot power will enjoy the short tees. I could also see many playing a mix of tees here as several holes will play much different depending on the tee choice. It's great to have this option.
- NATURAL BEAUTY - I scored this aspect a touch above average among the courses I've played as of this review, 586 courses. Walking the course was pleasant and easygoing to me. There are not a lot of manmade structures in play other than cart paths. The park fringes have buildings in view, but that's the case at a lot of courses. Most of the park boundary structures here are well built and nice looking houses. The are also a couple of nice ponds in view and play. On the flipside, it's a flat course without any backdrop views to arouse the senses. There are also a bunch of dead trees, which I'll touch on more in the cons.
- HOLE VARIETY - I thought the gameplay was slightly better than the average course. I liked the fact that the designers rarely used the middle of the old ball golf fairways. The landscape here I would define as lightly wooded, but there were no doubt several moderately wooded holes. I like the low ceiling plays on (3) and (4). Hole (12) was also a fun part tunnel fairway shot. There are six par 4s here and I personally liked all of them except the first one. Of the par 4s, I thought (15) was the highlight with the hard dogleg to the left. Overall to me it was an entertaining mix. Two thumbs up on the design.
- NAVIGATION - No tee signs yet, but I read that its installation is imminent. The reason I pro'd this was because of the basket arrow on every basket. It got me going in the right direction almost every time.

Being too new and jumping around.
- YOUTH - I played this course super early in its development. As noted, no tee signage yet. Also, things like tee surfaces are not constructed yet. Normally I would subtract score for unlevel surfaces and missing signage, but I did not here because every indication is that it will be forthcoming shortly.
- LAYOUT GAPS - Like many ball golf conversion courses, there was a lot of land to work with here, and thus it's spaced out very well. The side effect of good spacing, is that the transitions are much longer than the typical course. The short layout I played had several gaps over 200 feet long and a couple may have been close to 400 feet apart when measured basket to next tee. I peaked at the long layout as well. That layout seems to have slightly shorter transitions in general, but a bunch looked to be over 200 feet apart as well.
- TREE FALL - The course unfortunately got slammed by two bad storms within a month before my appearance here. Several large trees were uprooted along the layout. Hole (14) took the brunt of it and the short tee had an 80-foot tall tree laying on top of it. It's going to take a lot of chain-sawing to fix the damage. In addition, Several large pines are dead in the park. Basket (13) has 4 big dead pines within circle two.
- FLAT - I'm not sure how this place got the word Highland in the name. It's not a highland. In fact, the land here seemed a bit swampy to me. Several fairways had standing water in the fairway. To be fair, it did rain a lot 2 days prior to my visit. I suspect drainage will be an issue after a string of rainy days here.

I think the Bend at Highland is going to turn into a really nice course when it gets finished with the tees and signage. As noted above, I didn't penalize the course for uncompleted tees and missing signage, thus I think it'll turn into a solid 3.0 course, thus a good one to me. Hopefully it'll be finished off by this summer, at which point I could recommend coming here for those traveling between Memphis and Nashville on I40. The course reminded me of places such as McFarland in Florence Alabama, City Park in New Orleans and a flat version of Shelby Farms in Memphis. This may be the new top course in town as it appears Muse Park was hit by a tornado or terrible wind storm in the last year and was left decimated.
- TIME PLAY - I spent 68 minutes on the course here as a solo.