Pros:
North Town is a new park and proudly wears it's newness. The park has a wonderful, new picnic shelter complete with restrooms and a great kid's play area. The park is green, well manicured and has ample parking and a walking path which circles the park.
The course starts close to the parking lot and has a practice basket. The concrete tee pads are nice sized. The Mach II baskets have been strangely painted yellow? I wonder why would you paint baskets that are only 6 years old? I think they might have been repurposed from another course. Great colored signs give you all the needed information, but why? why does # 2 show the distance in yards (77yards) when the other 17 signs all show the distance in feet?
Hole # 1 starts your round off with a open, 585' bomb. There are three holes on the front nine playing over 500' and # 11 is close at 498'. I appreciate that although this course plays fairly long, there are a couple shorter (under 200') Ace Runs. I agree with a previous reviewer who stated that isn't one signature hole here but rather quite a few really good holes.
# 12 is one of really good holes. It's really a pretty hole playing 201' to the basket on the other side of the pond, so the carry over water is probably 185'. My beginner playing partner insisted on throwing this hole and left his drive just short and landed in the pond. When he stepped into the water to grab his disc, he slipped on the incredibly, slippery mud and splash landed on his behind. Speaking of this mud, I have never seen such gooey, sticky mud before. It sticks to everything including your discs. My boots weighed about 5 pounds each. I'm telling you, this is that red mud of Alabama from "My Cousin Vinny" sticky.
Returning to hole # 12. There is an alternate tee pad on this hole throwing 153' from the side of the pond. I think this throw might be more treacherous due to the three trees waiting to knock your disc into the pond.
There is another pond crossing on # 14. The tee sign says 330'. If you want to play it safe, you can cross throw to the left, reducing the carry to, maybe, 200'. You don't want to fade right because now you're adding to the water carry.
Cons:
The sticky, slippery mud was really annoying both during my round and afterward when attempting to scrape it off my boots. It also made me think about every step I took that even remotely looked muddy. My playing partner, slipped and fell into both ponds. Good for a laugh both times.
The park is almost, totally flat.
After this morning's rains, there were some wet spots. There was virtually a small lake right in front of the # 18 basket.
# 2 sign distance listed in yards?
There is some thick rough bordering some holes.
Other Thoughts:
The creek is all over all over the course. Between it and the walking path which also is present on many holes, the OB will factor into the score of most players. To score well at North Town, players must have a versatile game. You must possess s strong arm, the ability to shape shots, play the technical holes well, keep it low on the tunnel shots and avoid the walkway and creek OB's.
This is an solid, intermediate level course. But rec players can play and enjoy it. It's what I call a comfortable round for us rec guys. The rough is mostly forgiving. You can usually recover from a bad shot. The water carries are easily doable although somewhat scary.
You just have to put up with the slippery, sticky mud if the course is wet.