Pros:
The Good.
The Dale Roberts Memorial Disc Golf in McCauley Park starts in an absolutely beautiful park, which looks to be perfect for disc golf. The park is green, lovely and well-manicured like you're playing at a country club. The park is surrounded by large expensive homes. There is a large, perfect course sign and map. There are decent tee signs w/bag holders, long, grippy concrete pads and older DGA baskets with the always hard to read red numbers. At this point, I can only wonder what previous reviewers were thinking with their low to average ratings.
Hole # 1 starts with a delicious 349' hole down and over a culvert. # 2 is also a very cool and pretty hole, 249'. This course is looking like a million dollars. # 18 is a 500' throw down through a small valley.
Cons:
The Bad.
Some seriously bad design flaws start to show. # 6 is 325' with the sign facing towards the building when you are actually throwing over the street, down the hill and into the woods. # 9 throws over the parking lot to a basket on the hillside. It was also be easy to throw into the oncoming traffic. There are some missing signs. The flow of the course is poor.
Other Thoughts:
The Ugly.
The holes over near the soccer fields are a horrific design. # 12 basket is close to neighbor's houses. # 13 plays right alongside neighbor's backyards. So many discs will land in their yards. # 14 throws almost over the soccer goal, shouldn't be playable when games are in progress. # 15 is hard to find. # 16 tee pad is on far side of play area and then this basket is set too close to neighbor's yards.
There are too many activities here to try and squeeze an 18-hole intermediate course into. On nice days there would so many kids spilling over from the large aquatic pool area onto the # 18 fairway area. By the time, I finished, I knew why this course only merits an average rating.