Pros:
Linn is a little population 1,500 town about 1/2 hour from Jefferson City. It is where the State Technical College is; the Osage County Fairgrounds is across the highway from the college. The High School is also near there, so it's a good location for something like a disc golf course.
The actual park is small with a number of things like horseshoe pits, an outdoor basketball court, sand volleyball courts and of course buildings used for the county fair, so a disc golf course is hard to cram in there.
The shots are short (only one shot over 300') and there are no established tees or tee signs. The baskets looked fairly new (some sort of Dynamic Discs basket) and were in good shape. Four of the shots were park-style wooded shots and the other five shots were mostly open. Holes three and six had elevated tees and the land had a little elevation to work with.
Cons:
Hole four shoots too close to a pavilion to be safe, but at least it is a putter shot.
Hole five has you throwing at the basketball court, but at least there is a fence there.
Hole seven's basket is right next to a fence separating the park from some apartments and some RV camping sites; it was too close to the property line and the RV's to be considered safe.
Hole eight (the only 300'+ shot on the course) has a fairway that is a little strip of grass between the basketball court and a fence that separates the park from HWY 50. It's an open shot that can be very windy; the fairway is too narrow to realistically expect most players to hit and the hole is dangerously close to the highway.
Add to those safety issues the fact that the course has no permanent tees and no tee signs, It's hard to even call the course fun. It has five decent shots, three pretty sketchy shots and one really dangerous shot.
Other Thoughts:
As I went to tee off on hole nine I thought "I'm about to throw off a basketball court over some horseshoe pits into a poke and pray clump of trees on a 280' shot, and this is the best looking disc golf hole I've seen all day."
In the end, the saving grace for a course like this is that at 1,500 people the course just isn't going to get a lot of traffic. Since it's not going to get played very often, the conflicts it has with other park uses are not going to come up all that often. Even as awful as hole eight is, there are no tees so you could just safari over so you are not right next to the road. If you are ever stuck in Linn, MO., you could probably play it when the park is quiet and not hate your life that much.
Having said that, it's still a terrible disc golf course. There isn't enough land available to make much out of it. It's probably good enough for people that live in the area or go to Linn Tech, but you shouldn't go out of your way to play it.