BRC is a great course in a large multi-use park, with plenty of room for Disc Golf to be separated from everyone else. It has bathrooms and a spigot on site, ample parking, mowed fairways, and a practice basket and field.

A theme of this course is accessibility for everyone. There are three distinct layouts available, meaning up to three tees on every hole, and multiple baskets on most. The gold layout uses some extra holes, and does a good job avoiding long walks between holes for some layouts by putting the gold basket near the gold tee of the next hole, and things like that.

Many holes require long throws, but still have all kinds of danger to get into, such as tall grass or woods. It makes booming shots possible while punishing bad shots. A lot of baskets are reachable from the tee or the middle of the fairway, but still have all kinds of danger to get into, by baiting you into throwing a longer shot than you might be capable of.

The variety on this course is amazing. Some holes turn left, others right, and there are enough tight lines in the woods to keep the long throwers honest. If you call the tall grass out of bounds, it creates great challenges on many holes, encouraging some to lay up instead of going for the basket. The many par 4's have so much going on that you'll have a different experience on them every time you come. Several of those are more placement shots off the tee, with tunnel shots or OB trouble to get into on your second or third shots, and a having a good line is more important than just distance.

The water shots are pretty cool. Only hole 2 (1G) plays properly over water, but hole 15 can, and 5G, 14, and 16 play near water. All of those have safe plays if you want to avoid the water, or the short tee mitigates it.

There are four holes that only the gold layout uses (and it combines a few holes of the shorter layouts) and those holes are amazing. G5 and 17 are two more dogleg par 4's, there are a few par 4's with another technical tee shot but more open second shot, and the long pin on 9 makes that hole go from boring to super interesting. Hole 12 is amazing ordinarily, but playing it to a super long pin is absolutely incredible

If you're not playing to the gold baskets, some of the holes end up being rather boring. There's a large discrepancy between short and long baskets, and many holes could use something in-between. Short tee, gold pin could be the right option sometimes on holes like 16.

Tee signs are good, but navigation in general is just okay. Bring a map to help finding the next tee, especially with the extra holes that you won't be playing. Some gold baskets are hard to find, so I suggest playing the shorter baskets your first time here. It'll also help avoid lost disc potential, which is a factor for anyone playing the gold baskets with little experience on this course, since they bring in more woods and tall grass.

Minor con, but the short tee signs and short baskets can get in the way if you're playing from the long pads or to the long baskets. In practice, it probably doesn't come into play much, but it can certainly get in your head.

Bringing the Kansas City Wide Open in recent years has brought so many improvements to this course, namely to the gold layout. Lots of new infrastructure has been added, and the gold layout basically has no holes. But the shorter tees and pins are still used for the FPO layout, which is great.

When I first wrote this review, I said this course was only a few improvements away from making it a world championship caliber course. Those improvements have now come. This course deserves a 5.0 now.

The only changes I recommend now are making G2 a true island, instead of hazard, and having FPO skip hole 15 and split 16 into two holes.

This course has a little bit of everything. It is very well maintained and has a lot of options for every skill level of player.

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I travel a bit and I try to play a different course every time I go to a different city. This, by far, was the best course I have played on. Although I haven't played many since I have only been playing less than a year, I found this course to be very well designed and maintained. Two different tees for most holes. Two different baskets on almost every hole. I am probably mediocre at best, but the red pads with blue baskets are for those just beginning the sport. I started there and then went to the longer pad and by hole ten, I decided to play the gold baskets. This made it much more challenging. Great experience.

- Beautiful grounds. Rolling hills, mini-ponds, gulleys, cool looking mountain bike trails weave in and out of the area

- Incredibly thought out designs. All holes have at least 2 tee boxes, and most have at least 2 baskets you can throw at. Some have three up! Choose your style of course. Blue baskets are short (er but still pretty long in some places) and yellow baskets are the pro-shot. The tees really give you a choice to avoid long holes or pond shots, or to take that risk!

- Great tee signs!

- It is a little confusing from time to time on where the next tee box is, and since it is such a LARGE course that means a bit of extra hiking up and down hills. Really though, this is only a first play through problem. You won't mess it up again! This could be solved like Young's Park with arrowed bricks placed at the base of the next tee.

- An epic course.

- Wonderfully designed.

- Play it your way! Kind of like 5 courses in one!

- Be prepared to exercise! This is not a course for those who want to walk 30 seconds to the next tee box.