+ Do you like heavily wooded courses? Then boy, is this the course for you! 20 holes of unrelenting, punishing woods golf. There are no open shots here to provide a breather. It's just endless, suffocating, claustrophobic woods, putting the pressure on your mental game and testing your breaking points.
+ Pretty much all of the fairways here are fair, there's no poke-and-hope at all. And the angles for attacking the baskets are sensible. If you are on top of your game and have mastered the angles of your discs, you could carve up this course in a thrilling exhibition of pure woods golf. But if your game is just a little off, prepare for a beatdown on hole after hole.
+ Fortunately, you can adjust the difficulty by choosing from amongst the three teepad options that are available on most holes. The lines are generally the same from all three, you're just choosing how long of a tunnel you have to navigate through.
+ While catching your breath between holes, do admire the beauty of the woods. This is clearly an old forest, secluded from the world, that the course has carefully woven its way through. Small streams also come into play occasionally, and add to the beauty.
+ Many holes, particularly on the back 10, also feature fun elevational changes.
+ Though there isn't much basket-to-tee signage, navigation is mostly fairly straightforward, with obvious paths leading the way. Only one or two spots might confuse on the first time through.
+ Hole 15's duck-blind-style triple-mando was a very creative approach to forcing a challenge.

- Personally, I prefer my woods golf to feature strong doglegs and s-curves, to at least tempt you into throwing drivers with heavy fade. Here, while few holes were dead-straight, they were pretty much all slight variations on that. Lots of slight turnovers, lots of baby hyzers, but pretty much no big sweeping hyzers or aggressive flex shots anywhere. And though I don't remember many holes forcing a low ceiling, the straight fairways mostly encouraged relatively low shots anyway. All told, it felt like there wasn't much shot variation in this course.
- The teepads are all turf, and while most were okay, a few were lumpy and uneven.
- Hole 16 is a massive downhill shot, one of the more fun tee shots on the course. But, the walk downhill on that fairway is very very steep and muddy. I would only attempt this if you have good coordination and balance. Young and old disc golfers might struggle with this walk, and I'm not sure if there's a good way around it.
- A very popular shooting range is right across the road. During my Saturday round, there was almost non-stop gunfire in the middle distance. Not the most peaceful soundtrack for this otherwise secluded woods course. I'm not sure if other days would be better or not.

It sounds like 27 holes are planned, and I'm not sure if I could mentally handle 7 more holes of the same unrelenting woods. Emerging from those thick woods felt like coming out of a cave, back into the sunlight. I generally prefer woods courses, and this one is fairer and cleaner than many/most, but the experience as a whole is pretty extreme.

Very technically challenging course playing through heavy woods. The first 2/3 of the course plays over gentle elevation changes while the last 1/3 plays over some extreme mountain elevation. Most holes have 3 sets of color coded turf tees and a bright green Prodigy basket. Nice use of the some of the unique land features and elevation. Interesting triple mando on 15. Zero underbrush or chance to lose your disc except for being buried under leaves maybe. Navigation is really easy.

One big loop of holes playing through existing walking/biking paths. Repetitive straight forward tunnel forced shots felt a little mundane. The epic downhill holes are impossible touch shots and don't really let you air out your discs. Muddy in some spots near the creeks and lower areas. No restrooms(maybe at the camp) or amenities on the course. No signage currently, but I assume there will be soon.

I played the new 20 holes, so there are still 7 more holes to be added to the course. I would hope they get to use some the more open area around the lake for more variety, but that might be a pipe dream, or at least provide some holes with multiple fairways in the woods.

Overall the Camp Hydaway course is a good play, it will probably frustrate beginners and bombers with it's tight wooded tunnels, but still has some fun holes. It's not as varied and epic as the older East Campus course with it's top of the world shots, but it's easier to navigate and safer.