-Hole Variety: The course offers a good variety of holes with an even distribution of holes that end left, right and go straight (Its actually 6 holes of each).

-Elevation: Plenty of elevation which definitely plays on several holes. You throw level ground, uphill and downhill out here.

-There are some basket locations that require legit risk/reward considerations.

-Garbage: There was a sufficient number of garbages out on the course, but not at all holes had one.

-Fairways: Were all well-groomed and of ample size. This course has a ball-golf feel to the fairways, however, the width of the fairways are all disc golf distance appropriate widths (example: You aren't throwing only 200 ft with 100ft wide fairways).

-Baskets: Newer and caught well.

-Tee Pads: were concrete and without any footing issues (odd cracks etc).

-The rough: was dense trees, but very easy to spot a disc in, even with the leaves on the ground during fall. Did not run into any thorn-like bushes that seem to be the big problem with some other densely wooded areas.

-Bathrooms: There was what appeared to be a sufficient bathroom at the beginning of the course, which is also strategically designed to be the midway point of the course as hole 9 ends at the parking lot as well. Quality consideration from the designer. Other than that the woods are thick enough for anyone to pull up and relieve themselves quickly if needed and the desperation deuce never seems too far away at the parking lot.

-This gem is free to play. I've played much worse than this course and paid to get it done, including Hayward's "Fiddlers Creak".

-Tee Pads: Being very picky to make sure to point out anything I noticed that wasn't ideal, the concrete pads did seem to run a bit small from the standard (full-size). They were still adequate but you did feel like you needed to stand almost off the back just to get the comfortable run up at which point you still felt a bit crunched.

-Hole Variety: This has also been listed as a pro due to a good mix of holes, however, playing the longs only, my group did notice there were 4 holes that basically required the same horseshoe throw. Due to the length of the holes, the shot from the longs on all 4 of the holes required the same extremely high understable throw around a fairly short horseshoe turn (for a RHBH thrower). The shorts likely didn't have the same issue as a horseshoe, but in general it could be assumed the shots on those holes were very similar to each other even from the shorts. I could easily see 1 maybe 2 of this same "horseshoe" hole design, however, 4 just gets repetitive on what I feel is nearing a gimmicky feeling to a hole.

-Fairways: Although the clean ball-golf feel was done very well, it would have been nice to see a few holes go from moderately wooded to heavily wooded. In general, I do prefer more technical courses, so I understand this is preference primarily, but the course as a whole definitely caters a bit more to the player that prefers more of open driving lanes. Once again, just trying to pick any issue I seen with the course.

My opinion of the course in summary is that it is way underrated. Lets be completely clear, this course is not a 5.0 as DGCR forces a guy to rate it either a 4.5 or 5.0. I chose to go with a 5 because I do feel its current at the time of my review (3.75) is deceivingly low for this caliber of course and I wanted to do my best to bring that closer to what I truly believe it is. Being that it is still relatively new (2018), Its easy to imagine some of the ratings were given while the course was still taking shape in its earlier years, which the course was likely not as good. This course was a huge surprise to my group, as the pictures looked good enough to get us out there, the rating on the course kept expectations tempered and last year we even decided to pass on playing it because of the rating. For those heading to the Sandy Point/Highbridge Hills direction that are debating whether going about 45 minutes SE of Sandy Point is worth the effort, I say book it. This is a very clean course that has some great views and holes throughout. There aren't a ton of holes that will necessarily blow you away (The signature is okay but not great), but there are a ton of holes that should certainly satisfy your definition of solid. I personally prefer highly technical, which I'd consider this more of a moderate technical course, but even I felt like I found a gem in Rookery Run and my whole group would agree with that as well. I'd say if you are anywhere within about an hour of this course and don't play it, you will regret it. Hats off to the designer out here and the community for making this happen with several holes sponsored by local businesses.

-Summary: Great course, worth driving 1 hr out of your way, will satisify most disc golfers, and my true assessment results in about a 4.75 rating.