Nice practice basket area in the middle of the parking circle.

The course sign is once again informative. All pars and distances are listed along with a pretty good map. Tee signs are also in top condition, along with the Chainstar baskets.

Some excellent par 4s strung right in a row. 14 a wide open 650, 15 has some tough branches off the tee, then a 300 foot long, 15-20 foot wide hallway to the basket (best hole on this course), and then 16 is a true 2 shot hole with a really beautiful green right by the lake.

I really like hole 12 with the five birches. The branches hang low enough that a forehand isn't likely to get far, but a backhand has the danger of going OB over the road if you turn it over... really good use of those trees!

The course is really well kept up. The fairway mowing is excellent, the rough is rough as it's supposed to be while not being impossible to find a disc in, and for 3 to 9 being right next to a lake there's not very much mud to deal with. It also keeps out of the way of the walking path.

There are some very, VERY bland holes on this course. 11 is a simple hyzer play, 13 is a wide open downhill (good one to ace run), and 17 and 18 are a very average way to finish off the course.

Holes 3 through 8 are pretty much the same thing. You'll either park it, or you'll hit a tree and have to settle for par. I don't even remember which ones I birdied and didn't (and I'm really good with hole numbers). And the water shouldn't even be a factor on any of your shots except one (it's on 5, 6, or 7). Hole 3 does have a drop off about 25 feet behind the basket.

Hole 10 is how not to do a water hole.

Navigation has some weird spots where tees are tucked into the trees and are hard to find. 6 to 7 and 8 to 9 were my only complaints. Also leaving hole 1 the only tee you can see is 15's. You go past that off to the left side of the path and around the 1830s cemetery to get to hole 2.

I am not as impressed by this course as most. There's not a lot to say. It's 3-4 very good holes, 8 so-so holes, and then 6 of the same hole over and over again. The amenities are really good, but overall this is the weakest of the three courses on site in my book.

Teeing off by a cemetery was a new experience!

The first tee and the 18th basket are pretty far apart. If you park by the practice green they're about equidistant, but for me, Blackthorn was my second course of the day so I parked in the spots right near the first tee... let's just say I had a nice long break in my car before starting the third course.

Paradise Pointe is a pretty nice recreational area with a lot of space to use. It has to be nice because there is that extra "e" at the end of "Pointe!"

Blackthorn starts and ends out in the open. In between (holes 2 through 9 and 15) play in a heavily wooded area, and hole 16 plays along the shoreline of the lake out to a peninsula. The wooded holes will be pretty nice when they get broken in. There are often multiple lines to the basket of varying risk/reward profiles.

The two signature holes are probably 15 and 16. Hole 15 is requires an accurate 250 foot shot through the woods across a small ravine before making a 60-degree dogleg left. The approach requires a straight shot down an alley with the namesake blackthorn trees lining the fairway. Hole 16 is a shot along the beach around a clump of trees to a basket on the peninsula. There is a risky left-to-right approach along the shoreline that would make for some good tournament decisions.

All the baskets are blue (I like the color coding of the courses, especially since they occasionally play near one another) and are surprisingly visible even in the woods.

There is one hole (#10, I believe) over a pond. There are some options for bailing out, but if you're going for the birdie, you have to wind up for a shot you know you can execute but that will have consequences if you screw it up.

They give you a map at the guard station, and navigation would have been very tough without one (even with it I had to look around a bit but didn't have too much trouble). There is a long-ish walk between #1 and #2. Walk straight past the basket for the first hole toward the small cemetery in the woods, and the second hole tees off next to it.

The wooded holes were not well mowed, and there are too many dead branches that will eventually get knocked down by drives. Hole 8 had no real lane to the basket that even a good player could consistently hit. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that tree! And plant another one somewhere else.

The open holes were boring. There was some elevation, but too many holes had nothing in the way to force any line or even any decision. Just throw over there.

As others have noted, the concrete tee pads stick out above the ground by a couple too many inches, and you could really screw up your ankle if you're not careful.

There is a $5 fee to enter. I don't mind that sort of fee, especially for an area with three courses, very nice baskets, concrete pads, etc. I think half of this course will eventually be pretty fun. The open holes are always going to be uninteresting unless they plant a bunch of trees. Nevertheless, this complex is worth a visit.

This course is very fun and diverse from short wooded shots to long open holes. All the holes have nice long cement pads. All the baskets are nice and new and have a great looking blue powder coat on them. There are some great holes on this course like number 10. You throw down hill between two trees and over a small pond. It is a beautiful hole.

Very poor signs. From hole one it can be very difficult to find hole 2 without a map. It is up behind the white fenced in area. Some of the concrete pads have issues. When they formed them they just pushed the excess concrete to a pile in front of the pad. On a couple of them it is above pad height and about 4-6 inches in front of the tee so it presents a good tripping hazard if you like to land off the pad. Also not so much of a con but the pads are really narrow. Another small problem is that a few of the holes have no grass so it can be very muddy if it rains. Hole 15 is in need of some heavy work. The teepad right now points straight into the woods with no basket in sight. I had to walk through the woods then down the path to find the basket and then still had no clue how I was going to get there( I ended up throwing through the woods and then down the path). Thorn bushes are common on this course so I would recommend wearing pants to prevent cuts and scrapes. There are no trash cans so the course had quite a few beer cans on it. I could only pick up so many before my bag was full.

This course will be very good if a few of the cons would get fixed/finished. This course has a good view of the lake. I will enjoy exhausting myself on all three courses in this park in the very near future.