Princeton Valley is home to a nine hole disc golf course in the winter months. The course goes in the ground starting sometime in November thru March, possibly April I'd assume, depending on the severity of the winter. This course is basically the big brother of the other winter only course in town, Pine Meadows.

The baskets were the back nine pins from Tower Ridge I. Mach II's with the red cages and number plates on the top. So hole 1 said number 10 on the number plate on the top, hole 2 said 11, etc. The baskets themselves are in decent shape and catch alright. The red paint job on them makes them stand out better than if they were just silver. One basket and pin placement per hole.

Natural tees which is to be expected for a golf course. There's two tees per hole. The posts with the orange flags denote the longs and the ones with the yellow flags are the shorts. There's a pretty significant amount of distance between the two tees too, which is a bonus. I played the longs which are above my skill level, distancewise. This is the better of the two winter courses if you want to air it out and have solid distance. It still caters to most casual players though with the short tees. About all you can ask for here honestly.

The course design is about as good as could be done out here. There's some ever so slight elevation in a few spots and most of the holes have at least a few trees to contend with. There's a pond in play, technically, on hole 4 long. It'd be pretty tough to manage to land in it. Or I should on it actually. There's a second pond that's more in play on hole 7 too.

The flow of the course is pretty straightforward. Very easy to navigate for the most part. The course starts and ends pretty close to the parking lot.

There's a bar and restaurant in the clubhouse too. I didn't stop in but it's right there onsite. The course is free to play as far as I can tell.

There's a couple longish walks that warrant having a map available. You don't need one but it'll help you speed things along if it's your first time playing and there's no snow on the ground to follow tracks.

It's on a golf course so the course plays like it's on a golf course. Feels a bit repetitive after a few holes. That's just the nature of these types of courses though. Some may enjoy this, for me it's not very exciting.

No tee signs or next tee arrows. It'd be kind of tricky for first timers, especially from the longs where the basket isn't in plain view. I just threw in what I thought was the general direction on about half the holes, which worked for the most part. It didn't work great on hole 5, which was about the only hole I had a legit chance to birdie. Had I actually known where the pin was I might've had a chance.

This is a good addition to the area for the winter months. It's worth a visit if you find yourself in the area and want to get a round in. I preferred this one over the other one in town, but just barely. It's almost a toss up tbh though.

I'd play this a few times a winter if I was local. No reason to go out of your way to play this one, obviously, but you can do worse than this one too.

- The people of Oh Claire have a place to get their disc fix during the winter. Well, in actuality there's quite a few places to throw plastic during the winter but most of them are either schools, churches, or on the courses rated at the lower end. But hey, at least this place has a bar and grill to head to afterwards. See next pro.

- There's a bar and grill inside the clubhouse as well as a pizza place that had a really goofy name that I cannot think of right now but it had me giggling like a dumb teenager for some reason. The pizzas were priced at $12 and I'm pretty sure they weren't very big so can't really comment on the quality of the pie. If I wasn't on a strict disc golf bagging trip that was trying to race against time (early winter sundown) and alas, I had two more courses on my list and it was already about 2PM when I started my round there, I would've totally tried out some of the food there.. or at least gotten a quick drink from the bar.

- There's two different sets of teepads. One for shorts and one for longs. Some of the teepads were scooted back to add 20-30 feet of distance, some were slightly further back but off to the side to create a different line to the basket. I decided to play the shorts for the first two holes then got bored and switched to the longs for the rest of my outing.

- I am 99% sure ball golf is not allowed during the winter so this is one of those ball golf DG courses you will have all to yourself and will not have to deal with the annoying tasking of letting bolfers play through.. or the risk of getting beaned in the head by a random golf ball.

- Baskets were fine. They are from Tower Ridge so again, they are decent and caught well. No complaints here.

- The course design sucked. There's no real way of putting it nicely. I was pretty bored with this one and honestly, I felt like they could've easily fit an 18er on this piece of property even if they would've been on the shorter side in terms of distance. This course was only 9 holes but it felt like it didn't utilize the property well at all. There was a pond near I believe hole 5 that didn't really come into play. Very disappointing. Although on hole 4, you do get to throw over a smaller pond on the longs. I'd say that was the most fun part of the course. Can't say too much for the rest of the holes.

- Grass teepads. Yea I know, it's a winter only bolf course. But hey, even rubber mats would be great and work well as a temp teepad even during the winter. In fact, I'd prefer rubber mats over cement during the cold season. The amount of times I've almost broken a leg or ankle due to ice hidden under the snow on cement teepads is insane. Also part of the reason I don't really play during the winter anymore.

- No tee signs on this one. Navigation wasn't THAT bad and I think I only had to bust out the uDisc maybe once. Most people will probably have to use their phone to navigate or like me, to be able to figure out where the darn pin is without having to walk down 50% of the fairway which is always really annoying.

I wasn't too impressed with this one. I am really glad that they do not charge money to play here because most of these types of courses at these types of places do.

My biggest complaint was just how boring the course design was. I understand it's really hard to make an interesting and fun course on a ball golf course but it just felt really lackluster. That being said, this is totally worth checking out if you happen to live on the north side of Eau Claire. Like I said up above, it's a free course and from what I hear, the food is not too bad inside the bar and grill/clubhouse. This one would be a great warmup for driving up to play Leine's or Ojibwe.

Oh and I didn't really put this in the cons but any BG course that doesn't allow disc golfers to rent golf carts is always gonna look bad in my eyes. I'm not sure if they would've let me but I'm just going to assume no since it was a free course.