This is a pleasant, enjoyable place to play some disc golf. It was built in 1983 and it's an old fashioned, well taken care of test of patience. The long course to the gold baskets is tough but not unreasonable and par is a good score on most of the holes. However it's not so brutal that you'll make a bunch of 10s. If you can keep your disc straight and keep throwing it 250 feet down the tunnels, you can make a lot of pars and there's 3-4 holes you have a chance of a birdie. But if you try to gas one a little and get it off line, well, now you've done it. You'll have a shot, but it'll usually be sideways back to the tunnel and now you're staring at a quick double bogey.
None of the tunnels are what I'd call wide and friendly. Hole 18 is definitely the widest hole, as you are finishing up in a little picnic area next to the parking lot, throwing up a roadway. Until then, you are firing it down corridors of various widths, some of which you're sure you can't do (until you do).
As is often the case with courses that are all woods, it can be hard to tell the holes apart sometimes. Every hole is hit the gap, stay in the little fairway, and eventually you'll run into the basket. This place does have some decent variety though and unlike some woods courses, there aren't any nasty surprises if you hit the corridor. Some places leave little pencil thin trees in the fairway, so even if you hit the tunnel line, a 1 inch wide tree you didn't see still deflects you into the rough (For example, Iron Hill)
Here, holes 1-3 are all pretty memorable. 1 is a fun, downhill shot to the left. 2 then confronts you with a massive cliff to fire up, with an easy gap and a hard gap. Which ever way you go, the gold basket is a brutal par 3. Hole 3 is an real treasure...943 feet downhill, down a grassy corridor. I looked at the sign and looked at the 30-foot wide chute and thought maybe I'm in over my head here, but 4 smooth Leopards later, I had a decent look at par which I of course donked.
After this, the holes tighten up considerably and pars are hard to come by. #7 is your first real breather hole to the golds, 240 feet or so with a friendly corridor, just a little gentle curve to the right. After this, the rest of the course is on the other side of the road, near the edge of the parking lot.
Hole #8 is the next standout, an awkward, short par 4 curving to the left. If you throw an excellent 225-foot gentle hyzer down the narrow corridor, that crosses the dirt road, You take the walk of Fame! Everything else will hit a tree and end up in the ditch, where you pitch something across the road and then try to get up and down for par. Like every other hole here, you have to throw perfect shots to have a chance at a birdie, but making par is definitely possible if you're careful.
Another real winner is #12. Your careful play is rewarded here. It's nearly a right angle dogleg to the left, so you have a little more room than you think. The next shot is a very satisfying laser down a gentle slope into a clearing. After being pummeled unmercifully by three very difficult par 3s in a row, #12 is where the course starts to ease up a bit. You'll find 13, 15 and 17 also follow this general template, although 15 and 17 dogleg to the right.
After 17 pretty solid efforts you emerge from the woods to a finale that doesn't really fit in. #18 tee is built on the side of a road, and then you fire one up the roadway into a picnic area. Not that it's a bad hole, it just feels like something to get you slightly closer to your car. At 400 feet, uphill, par 3, it's not the most exciting finale. I'd recommend moving the basket 150 feet to the right and/or, move the tee back down the road another 100 feet and make it a par 4.
The short baskets here, as I mentioned, are all par 3s but you aren't getting any shorter of a walk. The short baskets are all placed on the way to the gold basket. The short baskets are not easy though. There are quite a few tough 300-foot shots. Number 2 is 144 feet straight up a cliff.
I went at 3 pm on a Tuesday, on a nice day, and nobody else was there. Overall, it's definitely more friendly to a right handed player, there are a few holes that curve right though, mainly at the end. And while it is listed as moderately hilly, the only really tough hill to climb up is #2. There are some stairs on the left side of the gap, use them.
I looked on PDGA to get some idea of ratings. There was a tournament there in June that played Odd holes gold the first round, Even holes gold the second round Even par the first round was 966 rated, and even par second round was 962 rated.
Last fall there was a tournament that played the short course both rounds, even par was 924 rated both rounds. The short course is no pushover but I wouldn't hesitate to bring a beginner golfer here. There are no water hazards, and really not much chance of losing a disc although not impossible.
I couldn't find any tournaments that played all gold baskets in the same round, but playing half golds adds 40 rating points to the all short layout, so even par would be about a 1000 rated round on the golds.