- maintenance seems decent
- there are indeed 9 baskets here currently
- a very minor amount of elevation change is incorporated
- if school isn't going on, you should have the space to yourself
- decent distance for a nine hole course

- no tee signs or tees
- navigation is confusing... /nonexistent
- plays around athletic fields and cannot be played when any school events are going on
- baskets are old and showing age; only one layer of chains
- no amenities
- long walks between a few holes that are unnecessary
- hole 9 (whichever one it is) does not end near the start of the course
- fails to make use of wooded areas right next to school fields
- holes 8 and 9 are virtually unplayable with baskets on athletic fields
- virtually no obstacles besides chain link fences

Let's face it, most school courses are pretty mediocre as a general rule. However, there are a few gems out there - I'd direct you all to North Lakeland way up in Manitowish Waters, WI if you want to try something better! Sadly, Homestead High School is one of the worst. Many courses in this area seem to have skipped tees, tee signs, and any navigational clarity whatsoever, but even Brown Deer High School down the road put together a better course than this.

I was originally going to skip this course but realized school didn't start until September, so I thought I'd be safe playing here. I ran into preseason soccer practice which made it fairly difficult to play 2-3 holes. Navigation is abysmal here, but I mostly figured it out until holes 8 and 9. It's unclear which are which, and both have baskets INSIDE fenced in athletic areas so I'm not sure how you'd play them. I gave up at that point. Hole 7 also forces you to throw over a few chain link fences; overall the design here is just not good.

There are minimal obstacles besides the fences, and while the length is decent there are length walks between a few holes and most of the course is pretty flat. Holes 1-3 are easy enough to play if the football fields aren't being used, and same for 4-6 if soccer isn't in session. After that the last few holes are pretty janky regardless. When it came time to head back to my car there were multiple locked fences blocking my way and I had to backtrack through a considerable amount of the course to free myself.

There was some prime wooded real estate to the left on holes 4-7, and while I recognize the school boundary may end here, it's a shame this course couldn't include some real holes away from other activities with some nice technical lines. Ah well.

Like others have said, benefit from me playing this abysmal course and go somewhere else, like Lime Kiln Park to the north in Grafton. If you must play them all, I recommend playing here on a weekend or during the summer. You have been warned, this will be a frustrating experience navigating and there aren't many redeeming qualities.

Finding discs 8/10. There are a couple places where you could have to search for a bit (left on 4, 6, 7, or long on 5) but for the most part it's wide open.

Comfort while playing 4/10. The grass is mowed, but lots of playing around athletic fields.

Variety of distances 3/10. Holes 4 and 9 give you a bit of a chance to air one out a little (if the tee is where I played from at least). A couple shorter holes with good ace run chances.

Navigation 0/10. Tees are nowhere to be found, you just kinda pick a spot to throw from and go around the perimeter of the grounds. At least the baskets have numbers on them, but hole 3 and 4 both show a "3". Hole 9 is very far way from hole 8, on the other side of the football field.

Decisionmaking 0/10. The course is braindead, the only "risk/reward" would be the risk of hitting children if athletic fields are in use.

No alternate pins 0/10.

Baskets/Tees 1/10. No discernable tees of any kind. Baskets are rusted out with a single layer of chains, with many of them leaning heavily.

Variety of shot paths 1/10. Hole 4 has a dogleg left. 6-8 might favor a right to left depending on where you tee from.

Variety of openness 1/10. A few trees come into play around the edges of the course but for the most part it was wide open. Could play hole 1 as a three triple mandos with the bullpen if you want.

Use of obstacles 1/10. There aren't many obstacles period.

Challenging all levels 1/10. No one with any experience will find any challenge here. I'm sure it's intended for PE classes and it probably serves that purpose.

Course maintenance 2/10. They mow it, everything else is either falling apart or gone.

Amount of elevation 2/10. Some slight changes but flat for the most part.

Challenge 1/10
More exact rating: 0.545

As of the writing of this review, this course is the lowest rated on my spreadsheet out of 73. It's a stretch to call this a course, it's just 9 baskets scattered around a school campus. It's too bad because it seems like some of the area near the front of the school or further up the hill past hole 7's basket could have made a few decent disc golf holes. I'm not sure if the designer had access to this or not though.

TL;DR Don't bother coming here unless you want to pad courses played count.

There are at the very least 7 DISCatcher baskets here. The grounds were clean where there's not construction. It's free to play and in ground year round. As mentioned earlier, The parking lot is very spacious, This is probably the best pro for this course though.

Pretty much everything else. The baskets are aging. 5's basket is set at ground level which is kinda weird. Couldn't find 7 or 9's basket. The tee markers are pretty much impossible to locate. I found 4's and that's it. Just pretty much flat and boring as possible. Course just winds around athletic fields.

As Stardoggy said earlier, unless you want to play every course (me), don't even waste your time here. This is one of the worst school set ups I've played recently...well ever. Just in case you're like me and have to play here, hole 1's basket is located near the marshy area north of the north parking lot. You throw east to west toward it and then it plays along the edges of the athletic fields.

There's not much to put in here.

There's 9 baskets...but most of them are rusting and shoddy.

There's a little bit of distance...I think. I couldn't discern any actual tees here, so you kind of just follow the flow and play a sort of safari golf. Hole 8 gives you a nice opportunity to air it out...but don't flip it right, or it could end up on the 50 yard line.

Ummm...plenty of parking?

Everything. This basically plays around the edges of the sporting fields. Hell, hole 9's basket is actually IN the football field fence. That's not confusing, it's just plain weird.

Apparently there's pavers in the ground somewhere to show tee pads. If you find them, let me know....they sound wonderful.

The baskets are rusty and can't be too far from falling apart. Hole 5 is missing the pole, and is just the cage and above set on the ground.

I'd like to believe these baskets get used by gym classes, but I'd be surprised. If there's anything school related going on, you're not going to be able to play...but you wouldn't be missing anything.

This is totally a bagger's course. If you don't care about playing EVERY course out there, don't bother with this. If you do have that need, make sure you stop at a very odd time, as to not interfere with any school activity.

The course plays around the athletic fields of a high school. A couple really small elevation changes come into play, but overall the course is flat. Fences and other athletic equipment make for some interesting obstacles, and trees come into play on a few holes. There are some shorter and longer holes offering some variety, and hole 3 offers a small dogleg at the end of the hole. The grounds are in nice shape, with no trash or vandalism around.

The course is too long for beginners. A school course is a great place for new players to try out the sport, but this much length can be pretty discouraging, especially when you might also have to walk a long way to retrieve errant shots from fenced in athletic fields. The tees are natural and poorly marked. The baskets aren't great, though they're fine for a school course like this.

There is no signage, so it's a little unclear at times where to go next, especially with a missing basket. The course isn't playable when other sports are going on, which could make it unusable for PE classes, and obviously unplayable during after school sporting events.

I always love to see school courses, it's a great way to introduce kids and the community to the sport. Unfortunately this isn't a great course for this demographic, with safety issues, and too much length. More experienced players will like a couple of the holes, otherwise it's pretty straightforward with no interesting challenges.

About all I can say for pros is the feel or concept of hole #1. That is, if you can find the tee brick by the tennis courts. The hole has you throwing over and along most of the length of a wetland style drainage ditch. It does fall short though because although the ditch makes up the entire left side of the fairway (once you cross it), the entire right side is a practice football field.

No tees of any sort. Just a paver in the ground that is VERY difficult to find. Only the hole number is written on it, no hole depiction, distance, or par.
Single layer chains on old rusty Discatchers. Basket #5 is gone, and #7 is all busted up and essentially has no lower pole.
The holes all play along practice fields, in the middle of a shotput area, and #9 green is actually inside the fence of the main football stadium.
Very little shot selection required. Throw left hand or right hand on every hole. Not a single real obstacled designed into the holes (other than avoiding the fields)
#3 is long and hidden and requires a 300'+ walk to even see the basket where you should be throwing.
#9 ends nowhere near #1.

Poor course. No design, thought, or skill required for virtually every hole.
Couple the poor design, crappy baskets, no tee signs, and one busted basket, with the fact that one basket is missing, you couldn't play this if any school activites were on the fields, and there is absolutely no challenge or beauty on this course, and after all my ranting, you'll have a BAD course!
It must just be in place for the kids to come out and play for gym class. We know HS gym classes aren't much into pushing the envelope with good design, scenic beauty, or challenging the kids.

Its still disc golf. Hole 9 is hilarious

no tee pads, no signs, difficult to follow at times, quite long / open, nearly all hoes border high use athletic fields

Play it once for the record, then never again.

I actual know the guy who designed it. We went to school together and we lived together in college for 2 years. He designed it when he was a freshman or sophmore in high school, so be easy on judging. Plus given the fields and obstacles it was alright. Last time I played it I was still in HS, now I just graduated college.

Small course, not really a DG course, more of a gym class activity and if you live in the neighborhood surrounding.

good ol Homestead, GO Highlanders!

1) Course will challeneg even the beginner because many of the holes are much longer than a beginner school course should be.

2) I do like that a high school has a course. I think that is the way to encourage young people to play the sport and that is the future of making the sport mainstream! I just hope how poorly this is designed and laid out that it doesnt discourage people from playing the sport.

3) Course does have a cool first hole with the wetland as a forced carry.

1) Course is too long and has too many obstacls that will actully discourage beginners. Practice fields to avoid, nets that stop balls from leaving the field, fences, scoreboard, buildings. TOo many things that I think make this course really bad and will possibly lead to discouraging people from playing the sport.

2) Tees are difficult to find only marked by a concrete block on the ground (the first 4 have blue paint witht he hole # on them but the rest do not.

3) No signs directing you where to go to the next tee. SOme you might think ahhhh they wouldnt put a tee here but there it is.

4) Grass tees are in good shape for grass tees but I always view them as a negative. #1 is even positioned on a large sideslope making a runup difficult and dangerous for your ankles.

5) No garbage or benches, but there are portopotties supplied for the sporting arenas after hole #9.

This is just another poorly designed gym class course. There are obstacles on every hole you would not have on a normal course. Nets, fences, scoreboards, soccer field, football field, a running track, shotput area . . . . that really make this a bad course. It looks like they have some land they could use to make some better holes and help avoid some of those stupid obstacles and lamely laid out holes. I would love to see some sort of redesign using those woods to the north of #3. They already have a cross country or nature trail going through there, they could easily add some in there. I also would like to see them fix the basket that is in bad shape and maybe sand and paint the yellow band on the discatchers that are rusting pretty badly. It looks sortof abandoned because of the gravel and stone piles around #3 basket, #2 basket being broken and multiple baskets being rusty and dingy. SInce all the baskets are in mowed areas anyways it isn't costing them anything to keep it in the ground, maybe someone should contact the school and see if they want to sell the baskets or possibly redesign te course around the property better. Perhaps it was in the ground before all of those fields were in place?

What I personally like and how this course stacks up:
1) Holes with good risk/reward. Fair, but harsh punishment for bad decisions or execution. == D
2) Holes that have rewarding birdie opportunities for me. I throw 300' accurately, 360' max. == D+
3) More wooded than open - lots of variety of shots required caused by hole shape and topography == D
4) Natural beauty (Appalachian beauty preferred) and seclusion. == C-
5) Bonus points for multi-shot holes with defined landing zones, good risk/reward and multiple options to play them. == D

It's all about feeding the addiction, so I ranked this course subjectively based on my own "personal addiction factor". The grades above tell how well the course will draw me back to itself again and again and again. Since I have played a decent number of courses (125 18-hole, 64 9-hole as of mid 2009), my hope is that players/explorers who have similar addiction tastes will find my ratings list helpful as they choose courses to play and explore.

Over time, I expect to fill some of my reviews in with more descriptive verbiage...if what I can add anything to what has already been written. For now, my list is more important to me than the verbiage of my reviews.

I fully expect others with different tastes/philosophies to disagree with me....that's the fun of things here. See my profile for my rating philosophy.

It has actual baskets, not home made or anything.

-Extremely hard to follow. Couldn't even find the first tee spot so I sort of made my own.
-No signs

Made it to the second hole and got lost on the way to three. Gave up and went back to my home course Tendick. I give Homestead High a 2.0 simply because I think it's great the high school has a set up for discing. They just need to improve it.

The course has baskets and um grass. Nobody else is going to be playing here, unless possibly a gym class is forced to play by their gym teacher. Otherwise you'll have the whole place to yourself. Might be a good spot if you want a quiet basket for putting practice.

Plain and simple folks. This is just another poorly made school course. All nine holes are just wide open field on each shot. I have no idea where I was supposed to tee off so I just made something up on each hole. The poor kids that are taught disc golf on this course are probably going to grow to hate the sport. Sorry kids.