A small piece of land surrounded by nothing, Edgewater, crams nine holes into a fairly small space, making use of every feature of the park. There are a couple of tight lines, a few longer shots, and the ever-present water hazards.

There's at least some sort of interesting feature on every hole. Even the ones more out in the open have trees near the tee (4, 9) or weird elevation change (1, 5). You're always kept on your toes. I have mixed feelings about a lot of the features on this course, but you could argue that hole 8 is an excellent hole, with a slightly elevated tee, playing along the treeline to a precarious basket, and options to lay up to the right, or a conservative run to give yourself a long but scary putt.

No navigation whatsoever, and the tees pretty much don't exist (except hole 9 has a small concrete pad). Roads and backyards are near the fairways of half the holes, and you're doing a fair amount of walking to get everywhere, if you find the tees at all. Because there's no bridge, you're crossing the creek both directions on the road, which is especially annoying getting to 7, as you're walking around hole 2.

It's not a Topeka course without a spur of the Shunganunga creek threatening to end the career of your discs on holes 2, 5, or 8. But here, there isn't proper risk/reward where you can choose an aggressive line. It seems like on these holes, any good shot could end up in the drink, so you're either scared for your life or laying up. Even hole 5 has a drain in the road you could go in.

The holes themselves aren't even all that hard. 2 is super short (but plays across the river), and 3, 4, and 7 are fairly short. Hole 6 is long, but basically plays like a par 4 (I think). If you're an experienced player, there will still be some challenge on holes like 8 and maybe getting a deuce on 6, but other than that, the course is fairly straightforward and uninteresting.

It is one of my pet peeves when reviews compare the course to other courses, or just say that some other course is better. But I'm gonna do that exact thing here: Just go to Crestview. You can literally see it across the street from hole 9, and the East course is better than this course in every way. Plow though this course if you're a bagger, but otherwise, I do not recommend. I don't want to be critical of someone who is promoting the sport by putting in the time and money to install a course... but it just doesn't work here.

Seriously, someone thought it was a good idea to put this course here as opposed to doing anything else with the land. I would like to know why.

But it stands to reason that there is some excitement to be had here, and there might be a narrow skillset for whom this course can make sense, especially if you like running aggressive lines and don't care how much plastic you lose.

Edgewater has nine holes contained within a small city park.  The trees are a main draw to keep your round interesting.  A small tunnel to get over the water on 2, a gap to hit, but stop short of going left into the creek on 7, and obstructing the straight path to the basket on 3 and 4.

The creek that runs the length of the course is used well in certain spots.  It sits to the left of the basket of 7 as previously mentioned, but also is very close behind the baskets of 5 and 8 (12ft max).

The black Veteran baskets are definitely older, but still have a lot of life left in them.

9 has a concrete tee.  It's the only hole to have a concrete tee, but it's an improvement over the others.

Roads.  Way too many roads.  1, 3, and 5 all play far too close to roads.  In fact, they're so close that the left line on all three goes over the road, and the trees pinch off the right line on 1 and 5 so you're kind of strapped for options.  Could this have been avoided?  Not really unless you wanted to have a very short course.  There were ways to have made it work, but this may have been better as a 6 or 7 hole course.  Along with this, they all tee within 5 feet of the road, as does hole 2.

The walk from 4 to 5 goes through the fairway of 6.  Another spot where more concise design could have avoided this.

The tees (except 9) are four bricks sunk into the earth with a dirt patch worn behind them.  Almost impossible to find without a map, and in fact I never found the tee of 8.

I'm not usually critical of this, but the elevation is used poorly.  The basket of 1 is on a sharp incline, so any drive that doesn't ace is likely to roll to the bottom of the hill, then the basket is so close to the road that the comebacker will likely end up in the road.  The pin of 5 is down a small hill backed by the creek.  While this isn't awful, there were far better places to put the pin than across a cul-de-sac and down a hill, but there I go complaining about the roads again.

Parking is... nonexistent.  I ended up parking in the cul-de-sac at the end of James Ct, and inadvertently parked my car in the "fairway" of hole 5.  I assume the parking is supposed to be behind hole 9's pin on James St, but the road felt a little too thin to park on.

This one is a fat no-go.  The good holes are fine, but the lengths are a bit too much for this land.  To fit nine, the holes needed to be a lot shorter.  Beyond holes 7 and 8 there isn't a whole lot going for this course, and there's a lot going against it.  If you have to choose a course to skip in Topeka, this is the one.