Pros:
The family proprietors, course designer Jerry Suiter, and other friends & consultants have done an outstanding job in getting the first 12 holes ready to play for us!
The Red tees are not merely shorter tees than the Blue; they offer you significantly different, and often more challenging shot opportunities. If that's not enough, the course also offers "A" and "B" Basket locations for EACH hole, AND nine Green Tee locations for beginners! That's a lot of permutations for 12 holes for you math majors ;-).
Players of any level will not be disappointed by the incredible beauty and throwing opportunities that this course eagerly offers you.
Cons:
Not having 18 holes to play yet ;-). Seriously, the initial dozen offer you pretty much every DG situation that you could ask for (including about 18 holes worth of exercise due to the regular elevation changes). The only real "cons" come from not being completed as of this writing (tee pads, permanent signage, benches, bag posts, and a bridge here or there). "Throw carefully forward."
Other Thoughts:
#1: A nice, downhill, open fairway warm-up shot from any tee. The A basket is brilliantly placed atop the edge of the old ball golf #1 tee box (if approaching from the Rt, don't go long!). The B basket is nicely protected by mature trees.
#2: Welcome to the woods! A short but very narrow throw through a glade, across a ravine! The Red tee requires me to throw Right-handed (and I'm a true 'Southpaw'). Bridge(s) planned soon for crossing the deep ravine (for now, tread carefully, or walk Left up toward the #1 fairway for a less steep crossing). Both basket areas slope away to the Right; approach with care.
#3: About the only hole without significant elevation change(s). A wider, wooded fairway with baskets just beyond the forest's edge.
#4: The Red tee is down along the line of woods from the #3 basket. Make a Right into the woods a bit for the Blue tee - a nice bomb into an open fairway. "Relatively flat" (...but you are in Brown County ;-).
#5: A picturesque throw from a ridge atop the fairway, across a swale and into the woods. Birdie opp! The B basket is a Right-hand hyzer .
#6: A fairly narrow wooded shot, across a ravine & out of the woods. The Red tee offers two throwing lane options, but beware of 'tree-nial' from either fairway. The A basket is beautifully placed below a mature tree's outstretched branches, while the B basket is further & significantly higher, surrounded by mature trees.
#7: Steve's "Y" hole! The view from the woods through a narrow, cathedral-arched glade, significantly uphill from the Red tee to the A basket is simply breath-taking; worthy of a scene from the Hobbit! The A basket is out in the open, but scathingly placed on the corner of the old ball golf #1 green! From the Blue tee, you have the "Y" of fairways (Left to the A basket, forward/Right to the B basket which is surrounded by mostly younger trees. ... mostly). I say there are multiple shots from the Blue tee to the A basket (...still workin' on proving that technical shot theory though ;-).
#8: I'm told that this is a tough hole for Righties ;-). A Left-handed hyzer around a forest (unless you dare try to cut a stroke by going through the woods ... g'luck w/that!). There are a few trees to watch for getting out just beyond the Blue tee box. The A basket is on a downhill slope, a bit short of the dam beside lake #1. Unlikely to get wet here, but possible should you uncork it. The path to the B basket continues around the steep, Right-hand curve ... through a glade of trees ... very downhill ...near the bottom of a ravine! ... Sweet, or sadistic? - you
decide ;-).
#9: The Blue tee is on the other side of the picturesque lake, where you get to throw across it and the dam! Both baskets are well into the woods, after a very significant drop in elevation. Careful walking down the steep slope; better to walk over the dam & then turn Right.
#10: My personal favorite hole and birdie opportunity. The lake will be on the Left edge of your throw from the Red or Blue tee to either basket. The A basket more so, with the B basket protected by mature trees. The Blue tee is set back in the woods a ways; not too narrow, not too easy!
#11: "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?" Actually this is my 2nd favorite hole (a tie with 7, 5, ... and okay!, several others!). A birdie is an easy reward for a well-placed shot over the road from the Blue or Red tees. From the Blue tee, the baskets are protected by trees just beyond the Left edge of lake #2 (payback for a Leftie!). The Red tee requires a nice technical shot to get between the trees and below the branches, yet strong enough to carry all the way across the lower elevations to the hill up across the road.
#12: (to become #18 when course complete). "Bombs away!!!". A nice, long finishing hole. From the open Blue tee atop a ridge, you'll throw back across the road toward the shed/clubhouse. The A basket is nicely
guarded by a line of pine trees (just beyond them). The B basket can be a challenge for Righties as it lies on the end of another, much longer line of pine trees.
"Throw long and prosper".
Jack Bowers