A challenging course but not brutal. Nice mix of wooded and open holes.

Some very interesting holes like U-turn no. 6. After several open or rather-open holes, it is nice to have the short no. 14 tunnel, even though I made a mess of it on my first outing.

Both long and short holes have appropriate pars.

The course is big enough perhaps to keep people from running over you if you are a slow player/short thrower. A traffic jam at no. 1 can happen though on a pretty-weather day, so consider starting on no. 17 (play 17 and 18 and then 1-16). If you park in the Clay East parking lot, you could start at 11 West: play 11-18, then 1-10.

Currently all of the new hole signs are in place and have happily eliminated some of the previous OB (at nos. 6, 7, 8, 13, and 18).

The place is Mud City after rain and snow. Even hiking boots are not enough. Or barely enough. I always walk with a walking stick or cane due to one weak foot, but everybody could use a stick of some sort to safely get through the mud.

You must pay attention to the hole sign to know where the next hole is and the layout of the current hole (latter for those where the basket is not visible from the tee). Some baskets are in positions where you can mistake them. While playing no. 3, I mistook basket 6 for basket 3, until other players putted at the no. 6 basket. I mistook basket 7 for basket 9 while playing no. 9.

There's a whole lot of walking between the holes. The course essentially is on the borders of a large city park. If you don't play all 18 holes in one day, you may discover that one of the other two parking lots makes more sense to park in on your second day.

Wind can make the straightforward no. 12 hole score a high number.

Heritage Park is not far away, so it could be a good cool-down or warm-up course. If you are playing 17 and 18 first, they make for a good drive warm-up. There's a practice basket to the left of the no. 1 pad.

Some reviewers have mentioned losing discs in the rough during the warm months. Though muddy beyond belief in winter/early spring, the rough is largely down, and unless you really yank it (severe griplock or rounding), you should be able to find your disc in the leafless bushes.

There is a great mix of distances, the course was well trimmed and groomed. Park is well used and many people all over.

Signage needs updating. For instance, we played hole 9 to hole 7 basket we never saw the basket until we searched for hole 10. Also,we looked for half an hour for Hole 11 after 10. There is no way to make the connection without signage. At one point we ended up on the 1st hole east course. We actually found hole 14 and walked backwards.

After Hole 10 walk to the parking lot. The tee is along the parking lot on the other side of the ball field.

Wide variety of holes, wooded, open and mixed. Length of holes will provide advanced players a good challenge, but not punish those without long arms. Well maintained fairways. Trashcans and benches at a number of locations.

Tee pads are poorly built, with plastic edging that is very easy to trip on. Certain areas get very wet at times.

Overall a great course that forces players to throw a wide variety of shots.

I really enjoyed "most" of the course. The layout utilized a good portion of the park. The tees were concrete and the baskets weren't vandalized. I liked holes,1,2,10,13,15,16 a lot

Hole #1- a nice little RHBH shot in the woods, this hole makes you think about the trees and other obstacles, a great starting hole.

Hole #2- A short easy straight shot in the woods, a nice easy birdie before the inevitable 4 on the next hole

Hole# 10- From some woods across a plain to other woods, for a birdie you have to hit this little gap in the trees and travel about 30 to the basket. This is my favorite hole on this course.

Hole #13- A wide open power anny for a RHBH thrower. If you cut to early though and go into the thin strip of woods you are in jail another risk reward hole

Hole #15- A cool wooded hole where you throw into the woods and is only 270 ish or so, but has a good chunk of trees in the way to maneuver around

Hole #16- Has multiple fairways and is an easy deuce if you hit the line(s), jsut a little tunnel shot

The course wasn't that crowded when I was there, I only met a few other disc golfers there and we played a round so it was fairly nice

It only looked like a quarter of the course was cared for, it was really marshy in some parts in others there were weeds that were up to my knees and more. I lost two discs because of this. There are some spots were you don't even want to go to retrieve your discs. The grass was mowed on the wide open holes, but that was it. Also no tee signs is kind of a con. I played to the wrong basket on 3 and got lost from 10-11. I didn't like holes 17-18 becasue to end the course with 500+ wide open holes is stupid. 18 is almost an automatic 4 if you can't power house it.

Another thing about the tees is that they are pretty tiny and if you really want to do a big run up you have to step onto the tee that is elevated which creates a very awkward run up.

One more thing is that on 6 you have to walk over a small marsh and all that is there for you is the bottom of crates. They didn't have a small bridge just the bottoms of crates. It was very disappointing to get some of my sneaker muddy.

It is near my aunts house so I expect to play it next year, hopefully it will be much nicer. Until then it is really the only course that is relatively close. If you are driving by, I'd play it, but I'd bring a map. If you are looking for some better courses come down to spotsylvania VA.

Descently laid out course makes good use of the area. Nice cement tees on every hole. Dry spell has left this usually wet area nice and dry. Based on previous reviews it appears that this course has undergone much improvement in preparation for it's grand opening on 8/14/2011.

No signage anywhere. Baskets and posts are mislabled. Makes the first play through challenging and a bit frustrating.

Long walks between holes 10 & 11 and 14 & 15. Holes 17 and 18 pretty much play out and back on the same open fairway with little challenge or creativity.

The course is only 5 minutes from the NYS Throughway and is worth a stop if you are passing through.

My guess is that whoever put the baskets and posts back in after the last winter didn't realize that they were labled so they are all in the wrong places. If you park in the small lot past the fields on Henry Clay Blvd you should be able to follow the layout, but ignore the posts and only look at the teepads as they are labled correcly.

The course definately has potential so hopefully the upcoming Grand Opening will bring some tee signs which will help quite a bit.

nice use of surronding foilage making it technical on most holes. new concrete tee pads make for better footing. almost all hole with pads new pads being put in weekly with hole number stamped in crete.

a little wet and some bugs but very bareable. during local football season need to tee off from different spot on #3. some SCHWAG on some holes still needs to be cleaned up but is in progress.

in believe Clay can and willbe one of the nicer corses in the CNY area. Hopefully will be plenty of tourneys to be played here. course is geeting nicer by the week. looking forward to the new additions

I'm happy to say that 2011 will be a much improved year for the Clay Course. With professional tee boxes, water drainage techniques and some minor tweaks to a few holes this course has catapulted into a beautiful 18 for pros and ams all around. There is good variety. Some holes play through the woods with many tree obstacles. Some are very long with open fairways. Some are short with excellent basket placement. This course mixes it up which makes for an exciting round.

There really isn't much elevation change throughout the entire course. Also this course can get quite muddy. Early spring will be the best time to play this course. Come summer time the bugs are in full force and the thick shrubs will block a lot of shots. Also I get poison ivy from this course every year. There are a couple instances where the travel between holes is quite long. From hole 10 to hole 11 is a hike.

If you've never played the course or haven't until it's been changed to 18 holes you may have a little trouble finding the correct path from hole to hole.

Redesigned to a full 18 holes with a much better layout that utilizes woods as well as open fields, and baskets that are properly installed.

-Nice long and challenging holes, there are three to four holes over 500'.
-Some of the new holes have great pin placement with guarding trees, drop offs,under massive trees, or a nestling within the tree line.
-Much improved flow to the full 18 which brings you back where you began (perhaps an understated pro)

- Wet...oh god, so wet, so sloppy; really most of the cons for this course will be caused by this problem.
- Sloppy, desperately in need of Cement. ( a few of the most troublesome holes have gravel boxes now)
- Some of the holes are tough to find the first time through, but this has been minimized, now only 2 or 3 questionable walks from hole to hole.
-Two really long walks to get to the next hole. one over 1000 ft, which isnt really that much but annoying to be sure.
- haphazard wood piles have been constructed in most of the many really wet spots (inches of standing water) these wood piles although offering the chance to keep your socks dry may also trip you up, or just break your ankle.
-Inches of standing water in some spots

Parking has moved from the lot on Wetzel to a lot for Clay Park Central on Henry Clay Blvd just around the corner from the previous lot; the old parking lot will start you off on hole 11.

Really a vast improvement on the old course, of which i think about 70% remains the same.
6-9 holes play around multi use areas like baseball diamonds, football fields, castles etc...


I hear that this course is on track for concrete, which will really add a lot.

The redesign has already made this course worth playing if you are in the area, and CNYDGA members have been working constantly to improve it. Check it out.

Wear waterproof shoes/boots always here (named the wetlands for a reason right?)