Not sure if this is a pro or a con, but this course is really pretty easy. If you're a newbie, this is a pro, but an experienced player seriously could score -10 or better fairly easily.

It has some nice elevation changes. It's a pretty park. Not difficult to figure out where to go next. The signs are great and accurate and the tees are concrete. Like most, it's free to play and I really appreciate the people who work on these parks for us to play.

I'm relatively new to the sport and I've never played a course where I could reach the basket on every tee shot. I max out between 250-275 feet on my drives. Of course a lot of courses have holes of this distance for most holes but there's obstacles. This course has few. The holes are routed through open fields in a well maintained park. Again, like above this course is too easy which is a pro for beginners but a con for most others.

I don't know if the designers were using the only land made available, but it appears that the huge availability of land in the park means it could have been much longer. I seriously thought that if I lived near here I would play the 1 tee to the 2 basket, 3 tee to the 4, etc making my own lengthier more challenging course.

My title was what I was thinking as I await my first ace. On #5 I set up my camera on record and threw a perfect shot that was heading right at it. A branch overhanging caught it robbing me of what could have been my first. On a later hole my tee shot hit the basket, about a 260 footer down hill. Fun to imagine finally getting an ace someday, and two potential ace throws in one round probably means the course could be quite a bit tougher.

Disc golf is exploding and courses are building all over, but seems everyone is in a hurry to build the hardest and longest. Meanwhile, UDisc data suggests more than half the disc golfers are below AM4 level. We seem to be short-sighted in not building more courses like this. There may not be a lot of "glory" in building an Intermediate course, but kudos to those that did. This is exactly what we needed in the greater Pittsburgh area.

They are already set up with the basic requirements of a good course. They have 18 concrete tees, one on each hole. Maybe a set of long tees in the future could be a great addition but for now it's nice to have concrete. They have DIscatcher baskets in orange so they stand out well. The park itself is really nice, it's full of amenities. There were bathrooms in multiple places. There was parking at multiple stops along the course. There are picnic tables and benches with garbage cans, as well.

For the style of course they wanted to achieve, they did a great job of creating a course with some fun variety. You get a lot of elevation, shooting up or downhill most of the time, though none of that elevation is ridiculous levels. There are pretty equal right and left shots, as well, helping teach forehand and backhand.

The park has some really nice natural features, as well. They did good work setting up some nice greens in wooded areas. The views from the high side of the hill are very pretty and once you get down towards Brush Creek itself, then the park really shows off its' wooded side.

It's hard to knock a course of this style too much. I have played a lot of courses and take ratings seriously. I started this review with praising the intent, but an intermediate is probably never getting 5 stars from me either. It's fun to go out and throw mids around at each hole and a challenge to see how many birds you can get, but what's here is - yes - mostly fairway golf.

That applies to the natural aspects as well. I'm into disc golf mostly for the walk in a park. This is a pretty one, but it's mostly a dog walker park. You're playing a loop around a parking lot that plays in unused spaces, but never really uses the gorgeous scenery of this park.

It is a lengthy drive into the park once you enter. It seems like the Map is off but keep going. Lots of dog walkers, so mind the curves.