WHAT TO EXPECT: In a word, disappointment... Myer Creek Park is an average multi use park, nothing overly visually pleasing while not having tons of degrading buildings either. HB Clark design in a very open park setting, lightly wooded with 2 lakes in play, extremely long course layout for a 9 hole park course.

AMENITIES: Outside of a single port o john near Hole #5 next to a maintenance building, there are none.

TEES/SIGNAGE/BASKETS (Pros): Tee signs are typical HB Clark fashion, large full color complete with hole map and all relevant information. Baskets are Innova Discatchers in aging shape.

ELEVATION: Course is flat in a lot of places, but has some drastic elevation changes that are utilized well to create difficulty in an otherwise bland landscape.

CONFUSION: There is no course kiosk or map to help you locate or orient yourself, add to that there is no parking lot near the disc golf course. I had to use that app that shall remain nameless to find hole #1, and when I did, it wasn't where that app said it would be. I spent most of my time here walking around lost trying to find tees and baskets. A lot more time than I actually did throwing.

TEES: There are no tee pads, just a tee sign in the middle of a field. No indication this course sees any play as I couldn't figure out which side of the sign to tee off from so I just guessed.

BASKETS: While the baskets themselves are Discatchers in aging shape, both the baskets for Holes #1 and #7 were laid over at 45 degree angles and impossible to play on. The basket for Hole #6 was completely missing. The basket for Hole #2 was shoved back into thick woods (rest of the hole was a wide open soccer field) and the green hasn't been mowed in a long time. I almost never found the basket even with the tee signs and U-Discs help.

DESIGN: Usually HB knows what he is doing and executes well, this course was just all over the place. From Hole #1 a 395 Foot Par 3 that throws down the spine of a levy with the lake on the left, and the dense overgrown woods down the levy slope on the right (40 feet from lake water on the left to the fence line woods on the right), this hole is very advanced in skill level needed to execute (and to not lose a disc). Seems very odd to include on a small park 9 holer in the middle of no where. Oh and the basket is laid over at a 45 degree angle like it got hit with a bush hog. Hole #2 throws down off the levy into soccer fields (zero trees in sight) and from the soccer field blind into the woods line. There is a basket back there somewhere, but nowhere near where U-Disc and the Hole sign indicate it will be. Hole sign says 497 feet Par 4, basket is more in the 697 feet range and much closer to Hole #3's basket than the tee sign shows. Hole #3 is a simple 300 feet Hyzer around 1 large tree, the entire right side is unmowed and unkempt swampy land, the left side the wide open soccer field. Hole #4 has a massive low branch tree about 40 feet off the tee you must navigate around, which I'm sure has grown alot since the course was installed. You can throw right around it, directly at those putting on Hole #3 green, or throw left around it, directly at those teeing off on Hole #5, your choice. Otherwise it is a simple 275 hyzer throwing straight at a road, again with tall, swampy, unkept underbrush to the right. Hole #5 has seen a maintenance building be built since it was installed I'm guessing as 3/4's of the way down the fairway there the building sits, with heavy equipment parked out back, and a giant wooden fence to house stacks of drain pipe, and a port o john inside circle 1. Hole #6 actually looked like it may be fun, zig zagging between 10 or so tall mature hardwoods alongside the road next to the open soccer field. However this basket was missing, like couldn't even find the shank in the ground for where it was supposed to be. Hole #7 was just a massive disappointment as well, as it plays 375 feet straight uphill through low ceiling trees with the road on your right and the lake on your left. The grass is too tall for a roller, the ceiling is too low for an air shot, and the extreme uphill makes this hole just unfun to play. Course par says Par 3, plays like a Par 4 or 5 due to not being able to advance the disc in anything more than tiny chunks. Hole #8 took forever to find the basket for (it's shoved inside of 3 cedar trees that have pretty much overtaken the basket) and I couldn't play this hole as the entire length from tee to basket was lined with old tractors, farm equipment, and a couple pick up trucks. Hole #9 teed off from the levy back towards Hole #1, a forced 300+ foot water carry (395 total hole length par 3) to an elevated basket on top of a whiskey barrel. Entire hole is wide open otherwise. The green and fairway on the other side of lake is mostly dirt and loose gravel with tons of trenches of erosion. Who was this course targeting?

UPKEEP: This course appears long forgotten and hardly ever played. The course was unmowed (except the soccer field), the tee signs and baskets all had chest high weeds around them indicating nobody weed eats the course. The baskets were either laid over, had bent cages, or were missing entirely.

This one was a head scratcher for me. This course is only a few minutes outside of Owensboro, a hotbed of disc golf activity and great courses. And to see this state of abandonment was odd. The design also left me confused as why would you make such a difficult (punishing) layout for a 9 hole course in a small farming town. Especially when better funded, more accessible bigger park 18 hole courses exist just down the road. I expected a beginner targeted, fun round with some lake views and what I got was a course no one wants to play (obviously) and wasted an hour of my life so I could write this review so you don't have to waste your time. lol