Challenging course that requires a variety of precision shots and incorporates risk/reward. Very well maintained grass and surrounding areas. Great use of elevation, tress, and land.

Dangerous to play when it's wet. There are major elevation changes that make it slick and difficult to traverse when the muddy. Natural tee pads are ankle snappers. There are several holes where you must cross over water ways, rock drains, and roads. This is not a good course for carts.

This course has potential. Install teepads, bridges and marked pathways between holes and you will improve this course greatly.

-The first 3 holes were great. Well-protected pin on #1, tight but fair downhill and short on #2, scenic and tough hole #3. I was very excited about the rest of the course after playing those 3.

-Use of elevation. Many course have rolling fairways and drop-offs at pin. But, they are rarely used as they were here. Hole 2 was a short downhill, while hole 5 was uphill and right. I found elevation to be used well. Hole 14 (?) was a tricky uphill shot to a pin tucked up to the right. These add to length of course without needing more space.

-Course maintenance. I will give the course credit, they keep it in great shape. Scenic views, rolling hills, great land for a disc golf course.

Where to begin...

Course flow: This has got to be one of the worst courses I have ever played as it relates to the flow between holes. Early on, a couple baskets had the orange tape to guide me in the right direction. But I spent more time walking between holes than I did walking the actual holes.

After hole 3, you can see 4 tee signs. The first 2 obvious ones are 9 and 18. Cross the road and you find 4 and 12. That area is a mess, and if you do not know where you are going it takes forever to find your way.

After hole 8, you have to walk all the way back to where you were before after hole 3. This is all well and good since I saw 9's tee after 3. But how do you get there? Well, you are supposed to know to walk down, around the lake and cut back along a path behind 13's tee. What a mess.

Lastly, I gave up trying to navigate after hole 14 and did not even play the last 4 holes. The course map on DGCR was not correct, since they apparently are making some hole changes. This would be nice to know at the beginning of the course. Some of the tee signs were mislabeled, where hole 13 became hole 14. So someone just crossed it off and wrote "fourteen."

The last hole I played (14,15?) played down a narrow tunnel, with a fence on right and water down by pin. After that hole there is no guidance where to go next. If you travel up to the right, which seemed logical, you hit a 5 foot ravine you cannot cross easily. Down to left? That's hole 17 (?) to some basket.

Pin placement: There is also no indication what pin placement it is in or a good idea of where the pin is even if you know. I had to walk up nearly every fairway just to find where the pin actually was (hole 4!) . This was true even on the short holes. I think I walked almost up to the pin on 12 of the 15 holes I played. Blind shots are cool sometimes, but it can be overkill.

This course has so much potential, with beautiful land, well-manicured ground, scenic shots with elevation changes, and challenging shots. Other than the blind shots and having to walk up on nearly every fairway, the holes themselves are pretty good. If I rated this course on the holes alone, I would have to give it a 3.5.

But the poor flow and navigation just kill this course. Unless you plan on playing with someone who knows the course, I would not bother. If they are in the process of redesigning, something on the main course board at hole 1 would be very beneficial to all players, not just out of towners.