-Park. Earl Thomas Conley (ETC) Park is an awesome park and very well taken care of. The maintenance guys I've met have always asked for suggestions and help with what to do with the disc golf course because they know it could use a bit of an overhaul and they really care as evidenced by the looks of the park as a whole.
-7 of the 9 Holes. To be honest despite the very low scores on this course 7 out of the 9 are 90% of the time completely playable and fun! At least they were when I played and most of the time when I've played in the past as long as it's not "the season"
-Work on Drives. This course is awesome for coming to work on your drives. A lot of BIG long open holes to try and master your s curves and even rollers if it's mowed recently.

-Holes 4 and 7. Both these holes are rarely playable for someone of my skill level at least. They get WAY over grown with only a walking path for a fairway. You better skip, be awesome, or be okay losing a disc.
-BEAN/GROWING SEASON. Not worth playing if they plant those terrible beans that seem to just stay there until they die and are never harvested. The beans make hole 3, 5, 7, 8, and 9 much more difficult and risky for losing discs. Which defeats the main purpose of coming out here to work on your distance, BUT helps you work on your accuracy at the risk of losing a disc haha.
-Four of the Nine holes are essentially just straight field shots. One of the four at least does start from an elevated spot, but still it's just a driving range for a lot of them. Which isn't bad at all. I think Hole 2 could utilize the nice two rows of trees or maybe that concrete thing in the ground.
-Some signs rough and no tee pads. The lack of tee pads is actually a good thing right now I think because that means it will be really easy to redesign the course a bit which I think it really needs, but the signs when have them are pretty cool, but there are several missing and two holes with no indication of where to throw from.

I want to love ETC as a course and since it is the closest course to me geographically I have a soft spot for it. Though I have to give it a 2, I really do like this course and it has a lot of potential if a group of people could get together and do some redesigning and give it some TLC similar to how Black Bear up the road has. I'm so thankful the course is here though. I need to step it up and become one of the people to help improve it. All in all, most of the holes are fun if you just want to get out and throw but 2 of them need avoided ESPECIALLY during the growing season.

This is a newer course along the banks of the old basin of the Scioto River and the current banks of the ohio river at Earl Thomas Conley Park. This 9 hole (currently) course essentially plays on rolling hills plains farm land.

The first 3 holes are beautiful. After looking back at this being Red rated, i would agree with most of the pars. Although from a white or blue perspective, almost every hole is a tweener.

This course wide open and mostly flat, which is quite the change of pace for courses in the area. It also makes use of very, very long holes. This is great if you need field practice, not so great if you want to actually play a course. I believe that there will eventually be some trees planted to me know you hit some lines.

The baskets are brand new and beautiful.

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Updaye 8/8/22. This is now 6 years since my original review. Things that have changed, The beans seem to have been cut back some. Barbed wire has been gone for years. Holes 4 and 7 have been trimmed so that you can now find a disc Word is that this will become an 18 hole true beginner course and get actual teepads in the near future.

Design- 2
Tees- 1
Baskets/signs- 3 (baskets 4, signs 2)
Beauty- 3
Replayability/fun factor- 2

11/5= 2.2 rounding down to 2.0

So, this place has actually improved since my last 1.5 review. Excited for it to get a redesign and actual teepads.

The major cons of this course rely on it not really being a course... but 9 holes worth of field practice. There is maybe 2 holes that require you to hit or choose a line. Most of the holes feel like tweeners... but again might be close for red level.

No pads (hopefully this remains... if the course is redesigned for 18 holes. Pads will need to move a little bit to get out of possible tweener zones).

Danger hole 6- you are expected to place your shot on a 50 foot wide fairway between the ohio river... and barbed wire fence.

Not sure if this will hold true in the long term, but as of right now... you end up walking about 2 miles total to play 9 holes. This is mostly due to the fact that there are about three 1000 foot walks on this course.

Having been placed on old farmland along the ohio... whenever it is muddy... it is super duper muddy... like up to your knees muddy.

I believe that this course will get better. As of now, I'm just happy to have a few extra baskets in the ground around here.