Pros:
Owl is the intro level 9-hole course at the spectacular family friendly disc golf complex at Sabattus. For experienced players this serves as a great warm-up round (and/or end of day round) where only putters and maybe a mid is necessary and where every hole is deuceable. For beginners, Owl offers a great way to expose new players to the game.
Great hole variety for a short 9 hole course. Each hole was unique featuring some straight, left, and right shaped holes through mostly wooded land with obvious fairways. Many holes incorporate a little up/down to it. And no hole is a boring gimmee 2 either. Crossing the bridge over the brook is a great entrance and adds to the scenic experience, however the brook (for good reason) is not in play on this course.
Scorecard lists two sets of par- one for kids, one for adults.
I love the plastic owls ornamenting the tee posts on every hole staring at you while teeing off. That also made it so I could remember the name of this course and not get confused like I do with the other 3 course names.
Cons:
On #7 (I think) being a sharp cut to the left, it is easy to accidentally play to the wrong basket straight ahead.
If I am remembering correctly, I don't think hole distances were posted on the tee signs, only on the scorecard. Not sure the reason for this, just that seemingly no detail was left out at Sabattus, except for this.
Other Thoughts:
My rating of 2.0 may seem a bit low because I think Sabattus is a wonderful place as a whole, and as far as short 9-hole intro "putter" courses go, this is one of the best around, but measured on its own against the other 300+ courses I've played it is just a really nice warmup/short game/practice course (for most players). Would be near a 4.0+ for kids and its intended purpose however.
Supposedly lit up at night. I would love to play a round under the lights- sounds cool!
Sabattus DG's mission is to make disc golf available for all skill levels and the Owl course plays its roll in fulfilling that mission. The day we played a bus load of kids at summer camp came and played it for a few hours- very cool of Sabattus to be on board with spreading the love and benefits of disc golf to the youngsters!