This course offers what no other course in the area can: elevation changes. Finding itself far enough north to be away from the flatness of the Gulf Coast. I loved the excitement that brought. For this review, I played the white tees.

Holes 1-4 are increasingly challenging and interesting (the increase in challenge continues through 6, but DRAMATICALLY increases after this, more on that later), culminating in a 284ft uphill battle on hole 4.

Hole 9 is also notably pleasant. It is also no coincidence that these are the only holes less than 500'.

Oh, where to begin... Let's just begin where you start realizing this course has stopped being fun: hole 5. From here on out, you cannot see a basket from the teepad, and will not for several throws, until 9. The length of these holes are absolutely crazy for a wooded course. These holes, 5, 6, 7, and 8, are the sole reason for the low rating. DGCR calls a 2 "Reasonable," and these holes frankly are not. Those holes are the worst designed holes I have ever seen, and in this area I had to think very hard before being able to say that.

I played this course a couple a times before reviewing it to see if it was just me, but even after playing it, I still threw up the wrong fairway on at least one hole.

The rough on this course is no joke. I spent more time looking for discs than I did playing, and ended up just leaving two discs there. On a course where you are being asked to throw 1000+' through the woods, and the fairway takes a bend, you may lose track of a disc's flight. Even if you miraculously manage to not hit any trees. Wear long pants, because you could be 5 feet away from your disc, but unable to reach it without wounding yourself.

Navigation after hole 4 is also a nightmare. DO NOT accept the course map from the park entrance. It does not seem to be for this course. the distances are completely inaccurate, and the tee locations are not where they are on the map.

The tee pads are dirt/mud, signs have no map and minimum info, and the throwing area is full of roots.

Even on the good holes, the fairways are full of trees. At this point, I think you can imagine what that's like. (I love technical courses, and spent my first 3 years playing with only one driver because all the courses I played were short technical wooded courses, and this is not that- this course is just throw and pray, even on the good holes)

It is quite frustrating to have such a great first 4 holes which are fun and you can go through pretty quick, to be suddenly crushed by hole 5, and learn that was just the beginning of a gauntlet that makes this 9 hole course take as long to play as an 18er.

If they broke up the holes that are far too long, and used the same space to make smaller holes around 200-350', it may be a 3.5 to 4 rating. it may even be 4.5 if they cleared out a tree here and there, and cleared the all the damn thorny blackberry vines out. I would love to play 15 fun holes instead of 5 fun holes and 4 hell holes.

This was the most difficult review I have ever written, because of how quickly you fall in love with this course on the first few holes. I played this course a few times just to make sure I was being fair, but after spending hours out on this course, I really feel like the unreasonable holes far outweigh the good ones. If you play this course, just play the red tees, they're not AS bad, and some are even pretty good. Have a buddy to spot for you. But unless you're just checking it off your list, or it's the closest thing to you, I wouldn't bother.

EDIT: When you're wondering why the reviews on this course start out at 3.5 and higher, and then go down to 2.5 or lower, there was a course design change and the newer, worse reviews are for the current layout. I don't know why they changed it, and never made a new map, but it seems to be a much worse course now than when it was first built, judging by the reviews (Qikly is usually a spot-on reviewer, and this explains why he rated it a 4 - he is talking about holes that are no longer there)