Pros:
+Innova Pro 28 Discatcher baskets (however not numbered)
+Hole 4 is interesting 218 foot hole with a water carry and a basket placed between the OB pond and a cart path
+pretty tee signs
Cons:
-baskets aren't numbered
-numerous safety issues
-several very long walks in between holes
-hole 1 difficult to locate
Other Thoughts:
Where to begin…I believe I'm a great course navigator and seldom lose my way, but LSU Alexandria stumped me on the start of this course. I never did locate hole 1's tee. I found the basket, and searched for minutes for the tee, just about everywhere it could possibly be…didn't think it could be across a sidewalk lined with a hedgerow with a 90 degree angle and only 135 feet long not visible at all from the basket, but apparently that's hole 1. Granted, when I passed through on the way back from a tournament in Pineville that I had just won in a playoff I may have been a couple sheets to the wind. But I wasn't thinking hole 1 would be so strange…little did I know what silliness lay ahead. So I teed off on hole 2 which wasn't so bad, straight ahead into a grove of oak trees in between two ball golf fairways. Hole three then plays across a ball golf fairway and ends up about ten feet from a group of picnic tables and chairs outside a rec-center building. Any approach or drive going long of the green could easily take out innocent bystanders. From there, the long walks began. Four's tee requires a walk past four's basket back to the tee, as three & four are so close together that when you tee from 3, it's hard to tell which basket to aim at. It doesn't help that none of the nice new Innova baskets don't have a number on them. Anyway, hole 4 is the star of this course. A slightly elevated tee gives a nice view over a small pond with a little fountain in it, and at about 200' to reach the small green, it's a fun one. Sure, there's a bridge in the middle of the pond that you have to throw over, so wait until the bridge is clear before throwing. Hole 5 is a long walk away, towards the baseball stadium. Wide open and no danger here except game days. Another long walk across the parking lot takes you to hole 6, which is a short ~230' hole. On the right are tennis courts behind a fence, with a walking path coming around the corner directly into the line of fire. Holes 7 & 8 are disasters waiting to happen. Hole 7 throws across the walking path twice with the basket about ten feet from the path and ten feet from more benches and tables. Then hole 8 is the worst. Again right across the walking path, but also up the walking path for a while before hyzering out to a basket next to a building with big windows only 30-40 feet away. If your drive goes left and you hear glass breaking, just put away your bag and quietly slink away like Bill Murray in Caddieshack when the preacher gets hit by lightning. Hole 9 is a short open 150 footer that's a safe ending to the course at least.
I would say this course is forgettable, but it's actually so bad I probably won't forget it soon. If you need a refresher in how not to design a course, check out LSUA…the Sharknado of disc golf.