Pros:
• As of the writing of this review, the entire course is brand new
• "next tee" indicators on baskets
• Clean, beautiful park
• Scorecards with map at main kiosk
Cons:
• Mulch tees
• Tees signs have no maps
• Most holes are difficult to see from the tee
• Bulk of the course hovers near either the parking lots or other use areas of the park
• Hole-to-basket is often confusing or requires backtracking
• Holes are either very difficult or very boring
Other Thoughts:
Wingfoot Lake State Park is a beautiful park, and an ideal setting for a disc golf course. Unfortunately the one installed does not take advantage of what the land has to offer.
Your disappointment will begin with Hole 1. Not only are you barely out of the parking lot, but the tee is confusing as the most obvious basket is actually for Hole 11. When you finally discover that you have to throw down along a main paved path, as well as throw towards and to the right of a tennis court area, your spirits start to sink.
Follow this up with a few decent technical holes, only to be lead back to paved areas, streets and walkways once again. After not much of anything challenging, there will be an extremely tight water hazard throw for hole #6, which also requires you you backtrack toward the hole #6 tee to reach tee #7. Sigh.
Thinking you'll be heading deeper into the park, you instead are directed back towards the parking lots you finally got away from. On a positive note, hole 9 basket is right next to both the hole 1 and hole 10 tees.
Your spirits raise slightly as you can see glimpses of wide open rolling hills and some wooded area once again. Yet you are forced to hug either the more public areas of these sections, or in the case of the wide open areas you are marginalized towards the trees bordering the field. Frustrating.
Finally you get a great throw with hole 14, which is actually a pretty cool hole to throw: down the rolling hills,and a nice wide open shot. The only bad thing about that hole is that is frustrates you with the potential the rest of this course had that wasn't taken advantage of.
The remainder of the course is a mixed bag, and some of these last holes may be better than I experienced them but my overall disappointment with the course up to this point probably affected my objectivity.
Hole #18 finishes it off with a blind throw towards the main parking lot. It just seems to sum up a course that was not well-thought out.
Overall I was very disappointed as I was looking forward to another course in the area that was close, but I doubt I'll ever head back for another round. I went with two other casual disc golfer friends of mine and none of us enjoyed the course at all.