The course at Cotton Belt Elementary is clearly aimed for kids. With a lack of challenges, obstacles, or creativity, it's not going to interest many others.
- The layout at Cotton Belt is easy. It's as challenging as something that's soft and fluffy. Can't think of a good analogy though to describe something that's fits that description.
- The most challenging part is finding the tees. Only three holes have tee markers. The others have nothing indicating a tee - no posts, no boards in the ground, no discs in the ground, no worn out patches of grass, no spray paint, nothing. Even using the UDisc app, it seemed the tees on there were pretty arbitrary.
- Course gives you a nice tour of the campus. Course starts on the front, left side of the school building. #3 gives you a nice walk down the parking lot. You get to walk the length of the back of the building going from #4 to 5. Your tour concludes with #6 - 9 on the right side of the building.
- #5 is the most varied hole on the course. It's a slight downhill, low 200-foot range shot. The basket is right up against the edge of the building. No windows to avoid, so play for a ricochet. The (somewhat) obstacle is that the basket plays on the side of the building, just past the edge. So, if you hit the backside of the building, you may not have a direct line to the basket.
- #9 is the only other hole that stands out from the rest. A slight uphill, 140ish foot hole. A simple tee, like they all are. But, the downhill slope may present a second thought on a longer birdie putt if you end on the wrong side of the basket.
- Hole lengths are perfect for kids. In that regard, this course is a smashing success.

It's hard to make for a fun or interesting layout when there aren't any obstacles. Sure, you could incorporate a few of the trees beyond the first basket. But, that just means you have one interesting hole and eight simple ones.
- Where the layout fails is that it is too spread out. Why have a walk that's three times as long as the hole you just finished? #4 is a 130 foot layout. The transition to #5's tee is about 350 - 375 feet. After #9, it's a 700 foot walk back to the first tee. That's more than half as long as the entire layout.
- Would it really hurt to put a couple tee markers in the ground? This course would be impossible to play without the UDisc map. Sure, you can make your own tees.
- Course just isn't fun. It's mainly throwing a three-quarter tee shot with a putter one hole after another.
- No amenities here - bathrooms, trash cans, water fountains, etc.

Cotton Belt's course is another school course across York County. This is, however, one of the worst. It does make Jefferson Elementary, 10 minutes down the road, seem like a solid layout.
- There's a neighborhood that backs up to the school. Perhaps tis will help introduce some neighbors to the game.
- There's not much to say about most. When six holes range between 125 and 148 feet, and they include a total of zero trees, it's hard to say anything about them. At least on #4, you're throwing over a bus lane.
- Look at this course's rating on UDisc, and you'll know why that site lacks credibility when it comes to ratings and reviews. If anyone thinks this course is average, let alone a 4-star rated course, I don't want you recommending anything for me. Maybe a bails bondman, perhaps?
- I'm giving this course a low rating. Objectively, how can anyone say a course that averages 150-foot holes, and has no challenge, be anything more than the bare minimum? At least the basics are in good shape.