Pros:
-- Nice custom school color (purple) Innova baskets.
-- Tee signs on all the holes.
-- Fun and well-designed for likely target audience (college students learning the game). This course likely hits high rec/low intermediate in terms of challenge.
-- Nice use of terrain, including two downhill shots.
-- Hole 5 is easily the best hole: 218 feet downhill (40 feet?). A gap off the tee requires some accuracy, and trees/limbs below add some challenge in trying to park your tee shot. My group of three (two 800-850 players and one around 950) all birdied the hole, but nobody parked his tee shot.
-- Enough trees to force you to shape some shots but not enough trees to discourage newer players.
-- Doesn't overly favor one throwing style (RHBH vs. LHBH, for example).
Cons:
-- Short course. Average hole length is 209 feet and longest hole is 262. Two of the five holes longer than 200 feet throw downhill, so anyone with even a decent arm might throw putter off of every tee pad.
-- Natural tee pads. They aren't the most level, but with the short holes, it's not a huge issue.
-- Very long walk uphill from 8 to 9.
-- No restroom or water.
-- No benches.
-- No map at course.
Other Thoughts:
-- Parking seems limited; we parked right by #1 tee in spots marked Resident parking, but we played a few days before Christmas, so almost no one was on campus.
-- Nos. 1-4 are near the campus buildings and tennis courts. After 4, you cross the road to get to 5. Holes 5-8 are in a much more secluded area. After 8, you've got a long walk back toward where you started. As you approach, No. 9 tee is left (west) of the red storage building.
-- Water (creek) borders three holes across the road, but water isn't really in play.
-- Fun is subjective, but this course delivers it for me. We only played once, but we had a four-course, 75-hole day planned, so there wasn't time. However, this was the only course we all wanted to play again that day. If I were a student or worked on campus, I'd probably play this course every day.