I have played some very good courses that either coexisted on golf courses (Wild Horse) or were on extinct golf courses (Branson Cedars). This course doesn't really compare to the other two that I played. But, it is still a very good course.

Most of the holes are open, but there are a few exceptions.This is on a golf course and the natural tees are in excellent condition and the best I have ever played (tees are marked by yellow and red stakes with a white line painted around the stake just below the top). The layout includes some excellent holes, including two water carries and a few holes with significant elevation change. The course is, however, mostly flat and mostly open.

Obstacles, though underutilized (see cons below) are mostly due to minor elevation changes. On a handful of holes, there are a significant number of trees guarding the basket. There are some communication issues on the course map handed out at the pro shop. So hole 11 is either a mando, dead-straight fairway lined with trees or a somewhat easy hyzer around the trees (The map says that 10 has a mando, but there's nothing to be a mando on 10 that I could tell and nothing was marked).

The scenery is nice, if not particularly awesome when compared to the rest of Kauai. The pro shop has a selection of a few, custom stamped, Innova Molds as well as some bags and minis and golf stuff. Carts are available for rental and come stocked with towels and iced-down water bottles.

The cons for this course are mostly in what it could have been. There are no tee signs and tees are inconsistently marked. Some have a yellow stake and a red disc, others only have a yellow stake. To a golfer, these stakes look like distance markers for the golf course. There is nothing telling you how the tees are marked and I wasted a significant amount of time looking for tees on the first three holes until I figured out the markers.

Some tees are poorly positioned next to cart paths. Some tees are on golf tee boxes. They are all good, but, really a course that claims to be championship caliber should have concrete tee boxes and tee signs.

Cart paths are OB, but are underutilized. They rarely come into play. Bunkers are underutilized and should be OB. They aren't, or at least the courst map that I was handed did not designate the bunkers as OB. And, if you had any doubt, when you reach hole 15, you will see that the basket is actually in a bunker. Making the bunkers OB would make this a much more challenging course and, ultimately, that is what this course lacks.

I think the designers fell into the trap presented by all golf courses and simply opted to make long holes when they didn't have enough obstacles to add difficulty.

Finally, you should note that the true rough on the edges of some of the golf fairways is chest-high, disc eating vegetation that, if you throw your disc into, you might as well just save yourself the time and effort of trying to find it. I can see this sort of rough being a nightmare for anyone who gets stuck behind one of those poor souls who thinks his beat-in Tee Bird is molded from pure gold.

This is a course well worth playing. But be advised that if you play by yourself and rent a cart, you will be paying about $50 for your round. This is a quality course with some minor navigation issues. Just look for the yellow stakes and you will be alright.