Pros:
Fairview Park is maintained by the City of Columbia Parks Department. Prior to the year 2024, the Columbia Parks Department had installed 4 public courses that featured 18 holes, including a course known as Harmony Bends, which is rated as the top rated course in the United States. In the early spring of 2024, the Columbia Parks Department opened the 9 hole course in Fairview Park. Fairview Park is located in a residential area of the city, on the west side of the city. In addition to the 9 hole disc golf course, the park also features a soccer field. The disc golf course features a large sign with a map and displays the locations of the tees, basket locations, and distances. Each tee is concrete and of adequate length. Each fairway is short in distance, which makes this entire course very beginner friendly, and which will also be appealing to over the age of 50 players, players who are not blessed with strong throwing arms or great technique. The longest fairway at this course is 237 feet in length, which makes this course very beginner, very inexperienced, and very elderly player friendly. Experienced players who have the ability to play an 18 hole course and score below par or less than 5 above par can enjoy this course as a practice putting and approaching course, or as a simple course where the player has a chance of an ace throw at every hole. In my opinion, there is little to no risk of losing a disc at this course. With the exception of hole 4, all of the fairways are grass, which makes this a course that can be played 12 months of the year. Hole 4 is a short but heavily wooded fairway, but there is mulch on the fairway which will make this hole playable throughout the year while other heavily wooded courses in central Missouri may be slick and muddy during the winter and early spring months. This course features no water hazards.
Other Thoughts:
This course is a great addition to the City of Columbia.