As you enter the church's property, you'll catch glimpses of the white Veterans basket around including one way up on a steep hillside. I spoke with Kaipo, some kind of a minister and the disc golf man here. The course is his baby and he designed it to his skill level. Now, I don't presume to know what kind of a player, Kaipo is but he is a big athletic looking dude. Needless to say, this course is no easy walk in the park.

The current tee pads are small rubber mats with white front boards. Some of them are very rough preventing much of a run-up. Concrete pads are coming. There are no tee signs yet. The Veteran baskets do have a flag with the hole number on it.

# 1 starts right at the corner of this large garage looking building and plays about 325' over the parking lot and then up a sizable hill. I wasn't a fan of # 2. After finishing on # 1, you walk down a hillside toward the street to throw back up to the basket way, way up there. It's probably 350' and the rough tee area prevents much of a run-up. For # 3 and 4 you walk farther ahead to play down a hillside and then back up again.

# 5 is maybe 375', down a big hill with the basket perched on a stump behind a fairly big clump of brush and trees. You want to avoid this bushy area. Now walk back towards the garage building and you'll find the # 6 tee here in the manicured picnic area. # 6 plays slightly up to the basket about 300'. # 7 might be my favorite hole here. It's slightly uphill requiring a right turn and the fairway is natural looking.

# 8 is a fun 250' open downhill shot requiring a nice touch.

I'm not sure where the # 9 tee pad is. But I played from the hill close to the # 8 basket and this would make a wonderful big air shot down to the basket some 400' away and it would need a little hyser to negotiate through the big trees. Then the # 10 tee pad is maybe 50' up this little path. This makes for a fun and beautiful drive through the trees to the # 10 basket back where it all started.

My biggest Con was the navigating. Simply writing the hole # on the painted, white front board would be a big help. Some kind of next tee arrow on or under the basket would be a big help to the traveling player. Of course, signage would be the biggest navigational aid.

For most players, their biggest Con will be the currently rough and sometimes unsafe tee pads.

I never enjoy teeing off blindly down in a hole and that's exactly what # 2 is. Only without a level tee pad to get any power behind your drive. I would move this pad somewhere up the hill where the basket is visible and closer.

And for many players, just the physical workout will be a problem.

And lastly, 4/10 holes play uphill. IMO, that's probably two to many. I'd figure out a way to walk up one of those hills without throwing up it.

The course is not advanced level difficult but it's probably an intermediate level in the current configuration. It will appeal to the younger, more athletic type of player but I think many of the church's patrons such as families and beginners won't find this course enjoyable. They can drive the short 4.2 miles and play the beginner friendly Xerox course.

And try to find a way to place the # 9 tee pad near the # 8 basket. I know it's not the ideal place for it because of safety concerns but I doubt whether this course will ever have that many players playing a one time. And if there are players waiting up at the # 8 tee pad, they have a wide open look and can wait. And a tee pad there would make # 9 a spectacular, as well as beautiful hole.

It's really beautiful out there, the course is on the south side of I-205 on church grounds, and surprisingly quiet despite being so close to the freeway. The view across the valley to West Linn farmlands is nice.
The fairways were free of brush and the Dynamic Discs Veteran baskets were in good shape.
Plays like a shorter version of Horning's Hideout or Buxton, with lots of changes in terrain. Overall a very open course, you're throwing up and down hills or across fields.

No tee pads, no tee signs or markers. 7 of the 10 holes had orange cones to mark where to play, but anything playing close to the onsite access road had no markings at all.
Also, despite the request to pack out trash, there weren't any garbage cans, or any bathrooms either.

If the course had some kind of marker where to throw from and safe tee pads, I could see it being rated a 3.0 or 3.5.

I'm very thankful that the church has allowed their property to be used for disc golf.