Pros:
This is an enjoyable and frustrating course to play. The course being frustrating is a pro because it keeps you coming back, thinking you can shoot better the next time. It has two pin locations per hole. The variety of holes is solid. You have shots that are toward water, over water, beside water, surrounded by water, and near water. The front side seems much easier than the back, although it might just be that my skill set plays the front side better than the back. I also can't think of two holes that are nearly the same. The variety is solid, requiring left, right, and straight shots, with water on different sides many times, and trees in all sort of places around them, with some small hills here and there. If you want a short course (although i have seen much shorter) that forces a good variety of shots and is somewhat difficult, then this is a good place to go. It's a place that I could take a beginner, and build them up into a solid player. Oh yeah, there's a practice basket, a great addition to any course.
Cons:
When people aren't at work and kids aren't at school, this course will get crowded quickly. The River, along with being a great place to build a course around, is also a con because of losing discs, as all water can be. Although you can get the discs back fairly easily out of most parts of the water, going down the bank and back up it several times becomes quite tiring and wet. It's also bad when you are doing it for other people time and time again, or if people ahead of you keep throwing theirs in the water and trying to find it. Some people also find it quite appropriate to practice their drives in the field on holes 1 and 18. if you are teeing off at hole 1, they usually notice you and will stop for you to tee off. But if you are on 18, you are right behind two trees, and they won't know you are there unless you tell them. There are also very few elevation changes, and no holes longer than 350. I think two holes changed elevation more than 5', and those were maybe 7'-10' uphill. And as always, the park pedestrians have the right of way.
Other Thoughts:
This is one of those courses that I could spend all of one day playing it. It doesn't tear your arm up, and it is a fun course that leaves you thinking you can only do better-especially when you go in the water on #9 and get a 4 or 5 on a 100' hole. It plays slightly downhill, and the pole is about 10'-15' from the stream/riverwhich is behind and left of the hole. There are trees guarding the hole, and bumps in the terrain and small grass before the hole. The putting area is very smooth with packed dirt. any drive to the putting area or putt toward the water has a chance of going into the stream. it's the best hole under 160' that i've seen. Fun course.