- Innova DISCatcher baskets in good shape
- practice basket
- tee signs with color maps are decent
- mostly straightforward navigation
- ample parking
- incorporates some elevation change with rolling hills
- good variety of hole lengths
- property appears to be well maintained

- almost entirely wide open with no real challenge
- artificial turf tees are just ok and are showing some signs of age
- can be a little confusing to find the start of the course
- hole 9 plays a bit close to the church building
- new building being constructed in middle of hole 2 fairway
- ok for beginners, but no unique qualities for the typical player
- a few natural tees

My biggest takeaway after reading some of the other reviews is that this course is hilariously overrated. In is a passable enough course and in general, is in great shape for what it is, but it is a pretty typical church course. Even rating this as high as a 2 felt generous, and I settled on 1.5. Door Creek has almost no obstacles and is mostly wide open. A few holes incorporate some nice elevation change, but given the hill the church sits on, a lot of the course is still remarkably flat. There is a huge retention pond on the property but it doesn't really come into play unless you make a really errant throw.

There is just no challenge here; there is a variety of hole lengths, fairly decent equipment, and it's suitable enough for a beginner learning, but nothing unique. You won't really have to shot shape here. In addition, the new building going up in the middle of the "fairway" - if you can call it that - on hole 2 takes away from the quality of the course.

Some of the navigation flow is slightly disjointed, but it's straightforward enough that I think most people can figure it out; it's 9 holes that mostly flow in a straight path. Hole 9 doesn't really end up right where hole 1 starts, but it's relatively close to the same parking area. Note that some people park on the street near holes 1/9 rather than in the actual church parking lot, since it is a bit closer to the fairways.

There's nothing inherently wrong with Door Creek for a quick round or some field practice. I wouldn't recommend playing on Sunday mornings when church is going on, but any other time I'd expect this place to be deserted. The pictures mostly tell the story here, but given the reviews I think I expected it to be slightly more impressive. This one is only worth a stop if you are bagging or need a really quick round. There are so many good courses in the Madison area, this one doesn't really add anything to the landscape.

- Free to play
- Field you can warm up in
- Plenty of parking
- Beginner Friendly
- Newly installed tee pads
- Very nice tee signs
- Discatchers are great!

- Not a whole lot of distance required
- Not a whole lot of variety in shot shapes

Door Creek is a pretty fun 9 hole course in the Madison area. It's short and sweet for beginners, putter/midrange practice, and ace runs! Newly installed tee pads look nice. Honestly worth a stop if you want a quick round.

Free, lots of parking, grass is mowed, good baskets.

I didn't see any markers for tee areas, or even worn grass to indicate where others teed off. Hard to figure out the first couple of holes, but I didn't use an app. Pretty wide open, not much rough.

As previously mentioned, hole 9 is between the street and the building, so makes hitting a window a distinct possibility. If cars parked on street, and errant shot could hit them.

Hole 9 is nowhere near hole one, seems like non-golfer laid out the course.

If you live nearby, not a bad place to practice short game, or take beginners. Did I mention free?

+ This course is set on the manicured grounds playing around a church. The area is in very great shape and well taken care of. While there aren't many obstacles in the form of trees, there was more elevation change than I was expecting, especially on hole 8's fun little downhill ace run.

+ The baskets are new and catch fantastic.

+ All in all, the course flows pretty well from hole to hole, though hole 9's basket could be closer to hole 1's tee, which could be closer to the parking lot. But that's a little nitpicky.

+ A great place to bring beginners. It's free to play and very straight forward. There's no real risk of losing your disc to water or deep rough (at least when I played in December).

- The only disc golf equipment currently out here are the baskets and markers that serve as the tee area. Without having the map pulled up on my phone, I would have been pretty hopeless navigating this place, especially since the markers were missing on a couple holes. An improved tee area, even just a rudimentary hole # indicator, would go a long way to improving playable for a first timer. While unlikely to be installed, cement tees would be fabulous as well.

- Not a tremendous amount of challenge for a more skilled player. I haven't measured, but some holes (7 and 9) felt like they were under 150 feet.

- I felt like a lot of the area by 3-5 wasn't taken advantage of and could have to create a longer hole for advanced players. Then again, the intent of this course was for beginners and church families.

- Hole 9 is short and sweet, but I feel as though beginners would throw a RHBH and it could hit the building, potentially breaking some windows.

All in all, a fun, clean, and free place to introduce players to the game. It achieves it's goal of providing a cheap, family friendly activity to those in the area. I'm always happy to see more disc golf courses pop up!

Bear in mind that the overall rating of this course should definitely be closer to a 2.0 and is massively inflated by two 4.0 reviews early on.

Update: Pictures uploaded!!

Good Starter course

No tee pads. No garbage cans. At a church.

No tee spots. It would step up if had them. Some of these reviews drank too much Monster before playing and are a little crazy on the rating. Must live near by.

The grounds are well mowed, and there are a couple of holes that make good use of the property's slope, but there are also a couple that are just "throw uphill" and "throw downhill". One of the holes uses some new trees to force a dogleg - in 10 years, that will be a nice hole.

As of today, the tee area for #7 forces you to throw through some tall grass unless you're tall and throw a tomahawk.

No signage - we'd be lost without the map in the UDisc app.

The course is short enough that it's a good place to take your kids to throw. If you've got a bomber arm, you're going to have to throttle it back a lot, since the longest hole is around 300'.

I realize there's a small sample size, but it's not a 4.0 course despite the prior ratings, especially comparted to Vallarta-Ast at ~3.9. It's a nice little free course, and it's great that the church is opening up their grounds for this, but it needs to get signage and tee pads before it rates any higher scores. With those, I'd score it a 3.

I love this course! It is just awesome Door Creek Church was willing to allow the course on their grounds. Not many places would do so. I like the openness of it. The distance of the holes are not bad. And it is a great course if you want to get a quick 9 in.

No tee signs yet. But I know they are planned.

I have mapped this course out with the app UDisc for those who would like a course map and scorecard. I plan to use my drone to record a video tour of the course as well.

This course is FREE to play. Plenty of parking in the church lot. Innova baskets are brand new! Even though the grounds is fairly open, the designers did a great job on hole placements.

Plays a little short, but great for a quick 9.

As of right now there is no hole designation signs, however that might change considering it is a brand new course.