Well maintained
Excellent practice area
Lots of benches and well made stairs
The best designed homemade pallets to walk through wet areas I've ever seen
A few really well designed and fun/challenging holes (4, 15, 16, etc)
Perfect baskets

No concrete pads
More than a few baskets are too close to other tee pads
A couple of benches are practically on the back of the teepad (hole 3 and 8
come to mind) making them useless or in the way
Two of the teepads are intentionally short in steep areas that are
dangerous. You can easily fall off the front of the unnecessarily short pads (holes 9 and 11)
More stairs/level walking paths still needed in and around steep areas
(leaving 11's green, path to 13's basket)
Tons of standing water around a third of the course. Apparently is a common
issue
Pay to play (not really a con, but will prevent me from coming back as
often as there are better, closer, free courses to play)

I enjoyed my round at Etowah and will likely be back
to play in the future when certain friends or family want to go have a
casual outing. I would say the course lends itself to a casual atmosphere
and rates as an intermediate level course.

There were some enjoyable design factors. I like wooded courses
and hole 1 for instance was a great little starter hole. Hole 4 (the cave
hole) put a true disc golf smile on my face. The elevation all over is
fun. I definitely found myself wanting some longer downhill or tougher
uphill holes. Hole 9 is a great little tough hole and would be much
better with a full teepad. The last third of the course really shone with
some great challenging holes on 12 and 14-17 that really added to the overall
enjoyment of the round and left me more likely to come back.

I'd say half the holes on the course are relatively nondescript and don't
deserve much mention other than the fact that it is clear a lot of work
was put into them and it is much appreciated. I do think the road should
be OB on hole 13 not the creek to make it more challenging. Hole
7 is the worst hole on the course with luck playing a factor as
much as skill in getting down the barely-there fairway routes. Hole 13
stood out as the worst of the filler holes as you walk the wrong
direction for a very short easy hole that lacks imagination and then walk
back to get to the next hole.

A quick word on the turf pads. I know plenty of people like them. I do not.
Concrete is the gold standard and will always be my preference. Turf will
also require maintenance over the years and it will be interesting to see
how that goes. That said they are probably some of the best non-concrete
pads I've played on but I still found myself slipping or holding back out
of fear of slipping throughout the round.

I'd love to come back and play the course in the summer and see how it
plays. Big thanks to all those who put the hard work into this little course
especially Sam and keep it up!