I enjoyed all 3 quite a bit. I have Brazos Park East just inside my top 10 in Texas (probably a 4.5 rating) while I have Dino Hills Disc Golf Farm (Championship) and Granbury City Park just inside my top 20 in Texas (probably 4.0 ratings). I've played 261 in Texas including virtually everything of note along the I-35 corridor and east so there's very little (if anything) that currently exists left to be played that would knock those down my state ranking.
I'll start with Brazos Park East. I think it's probably a better DGPT course than every day course. The 9 open holes seem to have a LOT of pedestrian traffic (which is to be expected because it seems more of a popular park than a disc golf course but it makes playing those holes quite challenging). The 9 wooded holes are nice but there are definitely some "luck spots" in my opinion and the flow/routing is a little funky. Those are really just what keeps it from being a 5.0 though because most of the holes are really nice and the aesthetics are really nice.
Dino Hills really surprised me. I expected more dinosaur, worse disc golf. It was actually less dinosaur, better disc golf. The championship course is really nice and demanding. It has quite a variety of shots-- downhill, uphill, open, wooded, straight, right, left, water... The Micro Raptor course was also super well done and very fun. Although short, none of the holes were really "easy". They all had some type of technical aspect that made it very interesting.
I thought Granbury is really underrated. I don't understand why it only has a 3.62 rating. It does have many pin locations with no type of pin location identifier which is a negative. And it does have 22 holes plus a "driving range" which I would actually consider negatives-- especially in this case because I think it brings down the quality of the course as a whole. The tee pads are a little on the older side and felt kinda slick despite being concrete. Those are really the only cons that I could come up with. The property was very well maintained with many beautiful trees in play. I think this place could really be a lot better with just some minor tweaks like reducing the course to 18 holes, designing some better par 4's, keeping some of the better existing holes and eliminating some of the more plain ones, adding some pin location identifiers, maybe even having 2 sets of baskets present on every hole, pouring some new concrete tee pads... It's just really close to even better than it already is...
I think the Granbury/Dino Hills day trip is definitely one that everyone in DFW, Waco, etc. should make...
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