Big Bull Creek boasts a variety of open and wooded holes, and has all the standard amenities one might expect - practice basket, good maintenance, tees, signs, and baskets. There's not an abundance of parking, but it's good enough.

This course uses elevation really well. While I'll complain about the open holes later, they do have some elevation going on that at least gives them a little variety. Holes 8 and 9 have slightly elevated tees, which means you don't have to throw something super hard or fast, to get all the way to the green, but there are some tight gaps to hit if you want the birdie. Hole 15 is also elevated, but this time with more open space for a longer drive, and a lot of different upshots if you don't get to the green in one.

The uphill holes are sometimes pretty good too. Hole 3 is wide open but has a raised pin, hole 13 has a few options to get to the green, though being parked on a drive or upshot is fairly difficult, and hole 10 has a really tough landing zone if you're playing to the par 4 position.

Some of the holes that are somewhat wooded, but not completely technical, are fun as well. Hole 5 has two baskets, and the spicy long pin in the par 4 has a really tough second shot, and a mistake will make for some serious scramble situations. On hole 8, a low laser beam with a slow disc will get to the basket easily - though not everyone can do that, which makes it a good hole.

The open holes, which are the first four and last two holes on this course, are almost completely pointless. They're just in the open, with nothing but wind and tall grass to get in your way. Even the small pine trees that are on holes 1 and 2 are deliberately placed... off the fairway - why? To make the course a little more scenic to have a "tree-lined" fairway? Maybe, but it means the open holes have almost nothing interesting about them. Some have long walks between them, too.

A few wooded holes aren't much better. Hole 6 is just straight uphill with hardly any real challenge and will put a lot of beginners on the struggle bus. 12 has a weird shape, being uphill off the tee, but flat after, and 7 and 11 are also just mediocre holes.

The creek hardly comes into play at all. Hole 10 is the only time it is a real factor, and on several others, the only way to lose a disc is to have a really unlucky tree hit, or a roll down a hill, or not being able to see the creek from the tee, or something like that. In my opinion, that is how not to use water, since it doesn't add anything to the challenge while annoying a few people. Mud is also an issue, I hear.

With the exception of holes 5 and 10, I'm not a fan of a lot of the par 4's here. They all have shorter par 3 pins, but extending the hole doesn't add anything whatsoever on a lot of them; there's not a landing zone to hit, or a skill on the second shot that isn't required on the first shot - just two bombs in the open in most cases. 16 is okay but feels like a better design is possible.

So if this course fails at being an open course, but also fails at being a technical course, what does this place really offer? Well, I think it's still pretty good because it has a few excellent holes and a lot of variety. It starts poor and ends poor, but there's enough to keep it interesting that you won't get bored.

This course feels like it was trying to get the vibe of a golf course, with a lot of open holes, only a few truly technical holes, a little water, and some fairly long holes. However, I think this course fails at putting that combination together in a fun, challenging way. If you want to play on a golf course, there's on 12 minutes away (though I don't recommend that one either).

There's room in the woods around holes 12 and 13 that could theoretically support more holes, even without an additional crossing over the creek. And even though I like hole 15, having some north-south holes in the 14-16 area would probably be a better use of land than what we currently have. Really, anything to take a few holes away from the open would make this course better.