Pros:
Wide open field on most holes with a few scattered trees. Plenty of opportunities to just let it fly with room for error. Pretty forgiving. a few little twists like shooting over river or pond, or the one pin placed in the middle of a dozen large trees. Even a few holes that play on or around a hill.
Cons:
Many of the Houston courses hold water after a rain, but this course is the worst I've played on. Very, very mucky. Look for the splash if you want to know where your dish landed. Bring Goretex boots unless you like soggy socks. Not much terrain, one hill, one lake, one river, and very scattered trees makes this a pretty straightforward course.
Most holes are just a straight shot the pin, with a tree or two thrown in. Its important to note that if there is no terrain, trees or hazards, its impossible to have anything other than a straight shot.
Some baskets might be guarded by a tree, but mostly its just boring, and teeing off in ankle deep water gets old really fast.
Its impossible to mow the grass in 6in of standing water, and thus, the grass here is out of control, over 2 ft tall in places. This makes it even harder trudging through the course and looking for your drives in the shallow water
The few holes on this course with interesting wrinkles are far outweighed by the many dull ones in-between them. The large amount of wide open space on this course is a blank template that you could mold into just about anything. It would take a lot of labor and some funding, but this course be drastically improved.
Obviously it has a drainage problem. They could solve this with more ditches for drainage and a new pond for them to flow into, combined with appropriately sloped landscaping and french drains to clear up remaining trouble spots on the fairways. This would would give them lots of water to work with in creating a bunch of new hazards, and opens up many possibilities, such as rivers, lakes and even island greens. When they dig out these areas for drainage, they can strategically put the dirt on some of the fairways to raise them and add some terrain to the wide open expanse. Throw in some additions like a terraced green and another tree here and there on top of all that, and this course easily goes from 2.0 to 4.0. Will this ever happen? Doubtful, as there are already many other, more interesting courses in Houston, but the potential is here, even if the funding and manpower never will be.
Other Thoughts:
Sometimes, Spring Valley Proshop sets up a mobile shop at the gazebo by hole 1 and the pond, has discs and even a few bags.
Also, no alcohol means no alcohol. Maybe it was just the weekend we were there, but cops were sitting watching us the whole time we were playing, which was easy since the whole course is pretty open.