Course design and using the land effectively:

This is a slightly surprising course. The beginning of the course is more friendly for putter drives and weak arms and lulls you into thinking it's going to be a pitch and putt but then the back half of the course gets slightly harder and longer. It starts with a few putter 'don't hit the only tree in the fairway and you're putting for a birdie' shots and the course opens up the farther along you go. most of the course is flat and the few ridges and burms on the property are used wisely as basket locations to help out holes that are wide open and give some challenge. The piece of property isn't built for an amazing disc golf course but the designers did a pretty good job of using the natural landscape and features to their advantage to create a decent course.

Tee pads/signs/navigation:

You can see from the pictures of this course that the tee pads are in good shape and are plenty long and wide. Signs have no graffiti (a big deal where I came from) on them, show basket location and distance to the hole. I played with a group who had played the course before so navigation was simple. If I hadn't been with a group I would have simply followed the arrows built into the metal on the basket pointing to the next tee pad which is a super smart way of helping first timers and much appreciated from this course bagger. It even has a practice basket for warming up! All of these things were great but affect my score in the end very little.

Safety concerns:

Much of this course plays around campus with students and teachers walking path to and from class cutting right through fairways in some cases. I played this in the middle of summer early in the morning and still saw people using these paths so I have to imagine the school months during the week might be hard to play without waiting. There is a hole on the back half where the tee pad is facing a field with a left to right fairway and a building is very much in play. Walking up to the building after throwing you can see many scuff marks on the wall and windows from discs bouncing off of them. On top of all that your throw is blind and anyone laying down in the grass over there might catch a disc in the teeth and not know it was coming. IMO they could have moved this tee pad away from the building more and brought it back some to still achieve a left to right hole.

Not enough obstacles:

Not the designers fault that the property doesn't have tons of trees but it is an issue that distance is the only challenge on some of the back nine holes particularly the par 4 holes. Design did what it could but again this piece of property let us down mainly.

This is actually one of the better college campus courses I've played and I've played quite a few. Most of these are really short and only 9 holes , made for lunch breaks. This is actually a course you can go play and feel like you've got a full round of 'real' golf in for the day. I just moved to Idaho Falls and I'm glad that we have many 9 hole courses and a few like this one that are 18 and are actually decent and fun to play. If you ever want to meet up for a round feel free to message me on here, I could use a new group of disc golf friends in a new city!