-A light to moderate wooded course with a handful of open holes starting at the park and playing away from the park. The course is mostly flat with one elevated tee, and a few holes with a slope. A few roller greens into the ditch, If the wind is blowing, it will be dominant. You have the feeling of playing a mostly meadows course, and likely scenic with foliage.

-There are two layouts on the course with a main course having tee signs. There's the DEP Cup Layout used for a yearly tournament and available thru out the year. I played the DEP Cup layout.

-The DEP Cup course uses some of the fairways of the main course, and some DEP holes crosses main course fairways, thru tree lines, and over brush. Both courses use the same baskets, and share most of the concrete tee pads. Main course is 5380 feet long, DEP is 5672 feet long, the DEP layout is more difficult.

-Navigation for both courses are counter-clockwise. For both courses there's a ditch that separates the course. On main course holes 1-11 are on the south side of ditch, 12-18 the northside. DEP holes 1-8 are on the south side, 9-18 the north side. Hole 1 DEP cup starts on hole 2 main course, but DEP switches around as you progress thru the round.

-Tee signs for the main course have hole number, par, and distance. Only a few posted temporary signs from the DEP Cup tournament remained from the previous year, and you'll need UDisc to navigate. All tee's concrete, and baskets catch well.

-On the tee, from the bag used a good variety of putter, mid's, fairways, and driver.

-Beginners and Recreational players will find the main course very manageable. Intermediate and Advanced if you're looking for a good enough challenge DEP Cup layout will be preferred.

-Without UDisc the DEP Cup layout will be a navigational nightmare, and I would think impossible to play without UDisc. No tee sign information to know if you're on the correct tee, basket numbers won't match the hole you're playing, and tree lines/brush crossing fairways giving the impression you could be playing the wrong basket or a "where I am going" moment. You should be okay on the main layout.

-On some portions of the course it will look like a cluster of tee pads and baskets adding to the confusion for first time players. It may take a few repeat visits to nail down navigation for both layouts.

-The course is repetitive and mostly not memorable. Fairways with the tree lines looked alike to me for the most part. Some holes were ridiculous such as No. 7 DEP that led you thru a wall of trees, likely more difficult with full foliage.

-No. 11 tee box DEP had a large tree laying across it and not possible to pass by on the trail to the tee. Looked like it had been laying there for quite some time and maybe a few years? I played 10 basket to 11 basket about the same hole distance.

-There were the telltale signs of very little course maintenace with high clumps of dead grass in the winter, telling me mowing is infrequent in the summer or was stopped in early fall. The region had a dry winter, Ayden was 1 of 2 courses I played out of about 30 during the winter months that had standing water, I wonder how flooded the course gets during a year with heavy rain.

-Easy to walk up and find my disc in the month of January despite the high dead grass. In the summer the foliage returns bringing heavy brush along the fairways, possibility grass not mowed, and water in the ditch holes 1-3, and 17-18 high possibility to lose a disc. The water in the ditch was murky.

Ayden Park's brightest appeal was when the wind picked up on the B9 to about 25 mph. That made playing tree lined fairways challenging, and some difficult putting. Personally, I only found a handful of holes interesting mostly on the B9. If the wind hadn't of picked up it would have been a ho hum round, and a walk thru the meadows. My biggest personnel con can wrap all of the other cons in one big bow, it's the lack of course Maintenace just glaring out. It seems to me that the DEP Cup in the summer has some course preparation to become presentable, then tournament is over, and we'll see you next year. It's also possible I may have played a few wrong tees to basket, hard to tell a few times even with UDisc.

-My overall rating is anchored on a solid 17-18 finishing holes with both being completely different, an interesting DEP Cup layout, and the wind when its blowing at a 3.5, without wind a 3.0. The time to play was one hour.

The Wind:

-It's an open field from the north to the course about 3/4 to a mile, nothing stopping it. Holes 1-2, 18, and baskets 13-15, on the edge of tree line with gaps are exposed to it, and basket 17 open. With the wind whipping around at about 25 mph starting on the 12th tee it made some interesting play a few disc slams to the ground, and creative putting choices.

Notable Holes:

No. 5 Par 3 at 336 feet is the only hole I found interesting on the F9. Open tee across an open field at the halfway mark a ditch with brush standing about 6 feet high across the fairway and only about 10 feet to cross ditch, not very thick in January, but I would imagine thick in warmer months. Not able to see past the ditch you'll have a blind tee shot with a dogleg right past the ditch, a clump of trees guarding on the right making it difficult to cut the fairway. The basket sits on a rise with a few guardian trees. This could be one of the most scenic holes with full foliage? Didn't get my disc high enough and got caught up in brush on the basket side of ditch.

No. 18 Par 3 at 363 feet open tee to open basket straight down slope ditch crossing in front of the basket. To cross ditch I would plan on 330 feet, ditch is about 60 feet to clear. I like the simplicity of the closing hole, but dangerous to lose a disc. If the wind is at your back it's a fun ride, the wind was at my back, but I laid up. Had the weirdest par putt with the wind blowing in my face wind side of basket. My pig was lifted up and looked like it suspended above basket and then slammed into the basket.

Signature/Trouble Hole:

No. 17 Par 3 at 347 feet teeing out of the woods with the narrowest gap on the course of about 15 feet with heavy trees and brush on each side, and branches hanging above. It's about 150 feet to get out of the woods to the open, and you're looking straight ahead at the ditch about 250 feet away, so you need to move the disc to the right to an open fairway sloping right to left. The basket is in the open, the ditch just outside of C1 a roller green. The hole represents all elements of the course woods, open, slope, ditch, and a roller green. With the wind blowing right to left across fairway towards the ditch added to the fun! I hit a tree halfway in the gap, watched my approach in the open flip up and rolled into the ditch, and managed to save bogey ramming a Star Destroyer into the basket against the wind, after pitching out from the ditch. My favorite hole on the course!

It has great potential!

We could not finish the course because there was to much mud, every where, even in the middle of the fare way and it had not rained for a week.

The tee signs do not have the hole map. And it does not tell you where the next tee is.

I think if they were a few improvements and someone to take care of it then it could be a great course.

Update:
I was just informed of this and wanted to pass it on ...

There is a lot of the work being done (on the course) is to get the grass growing, and expand drainage to prevent the flooding/muddiness.