Pros:
Two good concrete tee pads on all holes. These aren't the widest tees, but they are plenty long, I don't remember having to start on the grass behind any of them. They are well aligned to the hole, so the width isn't a big deal.
The Chainstar baskets are all in good shape and a Yellow/Gold color, easy to see through the woods. The wooded/guarded green on #5 even had a flag on the basket, since the palm bushes conceal it pretty well.
Good tee signs at both tees, showing the two to three basket positions, I don't recall seeing any indication of which basket was in play, but most were visible from the tee.
The North course has just about every type of hole you could ask for, partially wooded park style, thicker wooded, mostly open and even an island, water carry to finish on.
Cons:
A couple of long walks between holes, #1 to #2 and #11 to #12. Looking at an older course map, it looks like #2 used to be along a park road that you now have to walk, and go uphill, to reach the current #2. There must have been some conflicts with the road and nearby soccer fields. Then after #11, you have to walk past the other end of the soccer fields, behind bleachers, across a couple of parking lots, this area also used to have the next hole, but it looks like a good idea to skip that.
A few other long walks on the Back 9, but that was mainly to get to holes away from other park activities or roads.
Once you get up to the more wooded holes, #2 - #9, the grass was pretty long in several places. This is a DG only, mostly hidden area of the park, not surprising the maintenance is a little lax here.
Other Thoughts:
The North course is the second course at Gordon Barnett park and felt to me like the better of the two. The quality of the equipment and variety of holes overrode the pain of a couple of long walks. There are a couple of Par 4s on the Front 9, one appears to be from combining two shorter holes to one longer hole.
#4 starts the Par 4s, a mostly open drive that then cuts down to only a 15-20' gap, with thick brush on both sides. From there the fairway turns right and goes at least 200' to the basket, still pretty tight and thick on both sides.
Then #5 is pretty unusual, the tee is bordered on the left by thick brush, the right side of the fairway has a chain link fence bordering a water retention pond. (I was going to skip this drive, until I noticed an open gate further up the fairway.) After this narrow drive, the fairway opens up to nice grass, then a sharp left turn and another 150' + to a green guarded on all sides by palm bushes.
All of these holes are laid out with a mix of left, right and straight holes. #6 is pretty cool with a mostly sand fairway.
After coming out of the woods, #10 is a downhill tee shot to perfect grass, the basket is on the left, perched at the top of a slope leading down to a creek. Take a run at that basket at your own risk.
Then #11 continues along that perfect grass, creek down the left and soccer fields to the right, on the day I as there, the basket was in the long position, past several large guardian trees, at the end of the park property.
#12 through #17 are good park style holes, a couple of different lines were available on most (#14 plays as left to right) and even some elevation to deal with on 3 of them.
That brings you to the signature, epic finishing hole. It reminds me of #2 at Hornets Nest for the DGPT Championship. Island green that has to be hit, there is no layup. While this appears to be shorter then #2 at HN, the island is smaller, and crowned, so I can see rollaways very possible. Plus, there are a couple of large, hardwood trees, with large branches that could grab a disc. A fun hole to play, glad I landed safely.
I played the North course first on my day there, the Red tees were about right for me, the Blue tees add a little bit of distance. It looked like this course was getting most of the rounds. Really nice to have two quality courses in the same park, 36 holes in the July afternoon sun of Central Florida was quite a challenge, plan ahead with plenty of water.