-- Really good land for disc golf, and it's well used. You've got some beautiful views of Lake Clark, but it's not in play, and there are no water carries. However, a creek comes into play a few times. You've got elevation because of the dam, and you've got plenty of trees.
-- Distance variation is good. Two holes play 450 or longer. One is 441 but uphill. You've got another couple of holes in the 350 range. And you've got eight holes in the woods shorter than 200 feet. Don't let those distances fool you. Miss your line, and you can end up with a 4 on a 180-foot hole.
-- Concrete tee pads, nice and big. I think they are 5x12.
-- Seating. It's not at every tee pad, but numerous large limestone blocks are there. Often, they are strategically placed to serve more than one tee pad.
-- Navigation is excellent. It's really intuitive, but the tee signs (older but functional) give you the direction of the following tee, and orange tape on the basket points you in the right direction. Mulch in many of the fairways and walking paths in the woods helps with both navigation and aesthetics.
-- Course opens strong with No. 1 being 220 feet downhill RHBH hyzer. It's mostly open except for the final 15-20 feet, where you find a heavily guarded basket. Three is also good: 261 feet basically straight (maybe a slight RHBH hyzer) for the first 245 feet. Then you've got a sharp left turn to an opening in the trees and a basket on a small hill. No.15 is another good hole: 259 feet through a 15-foot wide tunnel the entire way. The basket is 25 feet right of that fairway, tucked into a stand of trees.

-- Course is VERY compact. Holes are very close to each other, but I only noticed one issue: An overthrow of 30 feet on 12 could hit someone standing on the No. 13 tee.
-- Some of the tee signs indicate a straight throw when there are turns in the fairway that could impact your throw.
-- Two tee signs are broken and lying on the ground.

-- The first time the creek might come into play is hole 7. The creek borders the left side of the fairway (mostly not visible from the fairway), but the trees make it unlikely you could reach the water. The creek is 20 feet behind the 14 basket. The 16 basket sits on a peninsula, with the creek 15 feet left and right of the basket.
-- Maintenance is mostly good. Grass is in decent shape (longer as you get to the side of the dam) except for No. 10. The vegetation there was knee-high at a minimum and waist-high in spots.
-- Older DGA baskets.

In North Central Texas but reminds me a lot of Eastern courses, with heavy trees and tight lines on many of the holes.
Course is balanced for right-handed and left-handed players.
Course has been improved a lot. It was unplayable in 2019 due to lack of signs, thorns and other growth, but now is a relatively clean course to play.
Throwing harder is sometimes punished as you can overthrow and miss the lines, which makes for an interesting dynamic.
There is a creek in the course but It doesn't dominate play, and it is easier than Waxahachie, Cedar Valley, or Duncanville Crossroads to retrieve a disc from it under normal conditions.
Finding the course is easy once you know it shares a road with the Ennis airport. From the North, take 287 business from 287 and make a Uturn before getting into the downtown area, and you will see an airport sign.

No water or restrooms, as far as I know (don't know if the airport a mile down the road is open to the public). Not much of a minus as it seems to be the norm.
The course has a lot of mud on it due to brush clearing and other work, though all beneficial in the long term.
On a windy day, hole 18 gains several levels of difficulty, becoming a monster struggle to reach the basket.
The course is relatively short for an 18 hole course, though there are a few long holes.

This is a good but not great course. I play Waxahachie much more due to distance, but this course makes a nice variety.
There is talk of adding length to some of the shorter holes and clearing additional brush, though volunteers are needed to help alongside the city efforts to improve the course.

fun course getting some much needed maintenance in the form of New Tee Pads on a couple of holes so far! The City of Ennis looks to be taking care of business! New Tee Pads also have poles for future signage. (I hope.)

Course is very hard to navigate even with U-Disc, and there is a ton of rubble from the construction going on, but hopefully that will all be cleared up soon.

I am 30+ miles away from this course, but I will definitely play it again.

The course has several holes that would be fun to play if there was any sort of maintenance happening here. Unfortunately, that's just not happening. The course has some elevation changes, mix of left and right turning fairways, tunnel shots, risk/reward, longer and shorter holes and a creek that runs thru it. Signage on some of the holes.

Tee boxes are in bad shape. Fairways are being narrowed down by the overgrown rough. Some of the baskets had to be cleared of overgrowth while playing. Couldn't find tee pad on one of the holes Too many short holes. Too many blind shots. Several of the holes would play much better if some of the baskets were visible from the tee. Maintenance, maintenance, maintenance.

If the course were to be maintained regularly it would be a decent course to visit. I think with a few hole/layout modifications it would be average at best.

Set on a very nice piece of property
Good elevation, good mix of open, tunnel, left to right
Great course to work on shot placement or picking your lines
Baskets are in good shape (Mach II's)
Many holes are wooded, but it never seemed to get boring
Great job with layout and flow

Hole #3 was missing it's basket
I couldn't locate hole #4's tee area
A few minor tweaks and this would be a GREAT course
Concrete teepads would be huge, I found myself sometimes searching for the next teepad
Hole signage would be another great plus for this course
Trashcans would be a nice touch, did see some trash on the course

I was really impressed with this course. The players in this area are very lucky to have such a great course. After reading some of the other reviews however, it seems as this course has been going through "work in progress" phase for a while now. Would really love to see some of these improvements on the course. If that was done, I would love to keep coming back to this course.

Provides numerous opportunities for birdies to boost your confidence. A few holes are nothing more than a pitch and putt, which is fine. Tight fairways make the course more about shot placement than driving distance. A few water/terrain hazards make you focus. Plenty of shade. Good elevation change.

This is not a long course. I would prefer more opportunities to release the frustration of the trees and let one rip. Everything that grows in these woods has thorns or causes a rash. Standing/stagnant water will cause a extreme mosquito hazard. Needs better tee pads.

This course is a work in progress. The local club is doing good work, they just need more time to complete the course.

-good signage
-brand new Mach baskets
-some good holes that make good use of the terrain
-lots of good land to work with for future developments
-course is very playable at the moment
-there are a few tee boxes of railroad ties filled with crushed rock (not my favorite), luckily on the tees that are least likely to change

-the design of half the holes is poor
-too many fairways that don't allow for realistic golf shots
-some very rough rough
-looks like some poison ivy in the rough

This course is off to a nice start and it's cool that a town like Ennis has a course like this. The first six holes are pretty good (except the weird fairway on hole 3) making good use of the elevation next to the reservoir and the pre-existing paths through the trees. Then the course heads deeper into the woods and it starts to go downhill. There are lots of very short and tight holes which on its own is fine but some of them are poorly designed. Holes 11-16 are pretty decent (i liked 11, 15, 16) but 7-10 need some rethinking. There is lots of room to work with and from the look of fairway 10 clearing some more trees shouldn't be a problem. Speaking of hole 10, there's a really poor basket location. The last two holes play in the same area as the first couple and I really like 18 for a finishing hole.

Hopefully whoever is in charge of this project isn't in too big of a hurry to finalize things before a better layout can be planned. I think this could end up being a good course with some relatively minor revisions. Also, many of the natural pads in the wooded area are pretty good. I'd personally prefer them to stay that way rather than the crushed stone pads on the first few holes.

I hope to get a chance to come back and see what happens with this course. It is a nice piece of land to work with that has a lot of potential.


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First off, let me say this course is still in development. I will update this review if I ever play it again.

Holes were well marked with temporary tee signs and temporary direction signs showing where the next hole was.

Good baskets

course is still very very rough
Front 9 has most of the open holes, once you get to the end of the dam, the course shortens up with short tight ridiculous holes.

I am always glad to see new courses go into the ground. For that reason I am glad the Ennis is building a course.

A lot of time has been spend making the fairways there are out there. I commend those that have spent there blood sweat and tears clearing those holes.

However I must give my review based on how the course played.

As usually happens when a new course goes in, the area the course has been build is in an area the City does not maintain. Therefor the grass was pretty long when I played. Even though a ton of work has been done clearing the main lines, more clearing off the fairways is needed to make this a reasonable course for rec players.

Many of the holes go though an area that was very thick to start with. unfortunately the holes are very short and several are so hard right or left that it makes them 3 shot holes under 300 ft (at least one was under 200) So unless you go over the top, the best you can do is a must get 3.

YOU do not want to be off the fairways. It is thick and hard to throw out. Trust me on that one.

Clean up the lower small branches and the briers and this course would be a lot more fun to play.

If you live in the area, get to work on this course. with more clearing and making some of the holes longer, this would be a much better course.