there is no automovtive traffic to worry about.no lines to wait in for tee times.and a clean tee shot rewards the player with a birdie look on most holes.

lots of palmettos to hide a bad tee shot if no spotter is used.and little shade is available on several holes

I love the course and if you play to make par and take few risks, your score will be better than the field average.

Some baskets are marked with PVC pipes that help with locating the basket from the T pads. Most baskets have red tape streamers. Some holes have yellow cardboard arrows showing which was to the next T pad.

There is no accurate map available. The course changed after Library remodel was completed, old T pad 6 is now T pad 1 without new markers, which is the info written on a concrete T pad kind of near 18th basket. New T pads are concrete tiles or rubber mats.

The park folks need to get a new map on paper, and remove old T pad number markers.

-Two sets of Concrete Tee's (Pro/Am), *Tee Markers with distance of each pin location, Alternating Pin positions. Course bulletin board.

-Defined fairways that require shot shaping, narrow drives, and quite a few Risk/Reward holes. Accuracy is key here!

-Course plays back to the start at the parking lot.
(Worth a mention: Course plays out in one big loop. It doesn't allow for a quick 9 hole round.)

-The park is well maintained with scenic holes and a very enjoyable walk through the woods.

-Garbage & Recycling cans throughout the course, as well as benches and couple of picnic tables

-Mostly wooded course, with a few open shots. The tree canopy fairways will force you to keep your shot low, while the cabbage palms will force you to play conservatively. ...an errant shot may cause a player to go home with one less disc.

-Designed for a more skilled player, this course is NOT beginner friendly.

-The AM tee's come with their challenges just like the Pro tee's. Don't think that AM means easier, it's just less risky. Keyword:Less

-Has multiple Risk/Reward shots. (One shot requires the thrower to throw over a treeline. Spotter recommended)

-Navigation is okay, but can be challenging to those playing for the first time. The only map I found was hanging in the bulletin board.

-Water comes into play on a couple of the holes. You'll play around the water from the AM's, but the Pro tee's require a water carry.

- The challenge was greater than the fun, but I still had a good time playing here.

FWIW
-Playground available
-Professional Shuffle board courts
(If you like Disc Golf and Shuffle Board, then you'll like this place)

-The majority of the fairways here have blind baskets. Sometimes we would have to walk the whole fairway to find the basket.

-*The pins are alternating, but there was no listing to find out which position the pins were in.

-Could use a fairway map at each pin, since sometimes you won't even see the pin location or the fairway.

-Navigation to the next pin in some places. Without a map, it could be hard to locate some pins.

-The Cabbage Palms and other roughage create an obnoxiously dense brush that will eat your disc. Couple this with a blind hole, and you could have serious trouble locating your disc. This was the cause of some frustration.
(NOTE: According my friend, a lot of the brush has been cleared out, along with "some" of the notorious cabbage palm areas being thinned down.)

-You will have a better experience here, if you come with a friend or hook up with a local. You WILL need a spotter on some holes. (See previous Con)

-Better directions to Hole #2. (Across the road and 90 degrees to the left of the park entrance.)

-Hole #1 plays alongside the road and along a sidewalk. Mind your shots.

I know that my review may have sounded negative, but please don't mistake that. I had a lot of fun playing here, and I'm looking forward to going back to play it again. There are some things that you need to know before you play here, otherwise you may walk away frustrated.
1. Come with a friend and/or hook up with a local. This should be a requirement! You WILL need a spotter on many of the holes. Trust me on this!
2. Bring some discs you may not mind parting with.
3. Snap a picture of the map at the bulletin board, or print the one off this website.
4. Wear pants and covered shoes. At some point you will be traipsing through some very dense brush.
5. Bring some liquid. You are in the woods, but there are plenty of sunny open areas. It can get hot.
6. Be prepared to walk down the fairway to locate the basket.

If you take these things into consideration, you may just have a good time here. It is a challenging course but it can be fun if you prepare for it. I was told by my friend that it looked like they had done a bunch of clearing on this course. Despite that fact, it's still possible to lose a disc in the rough. It is definitely a course worth visiting!

If you are up for the challenge, then I totally recommend playing here. If you aren't confident with your throws yet, or are still a beginner, then I would suggest you opt out of this course for now. I think the key here is to play a little more conservative and strategic. It's not an impossible course, it just has its challenges.

Water hazards keep you on your toes. Long and narrow holes. Fun, but not a lot to it. Lots of trees to hit, this will make you work close to the ground.

Odd layout. Poorly marked.

Boots and jeans are necessary. Grab a local or you're never going to get through this.

Hole 1 - You actually walk across the street from where you park, toward how you drive in to hole 1's tee. This took me a minute to figure out.

18 holes of challenging disc golf. This course will challenge your game. This course has length if you have the arm to throw from the pro tees or is a little more merciful if you want to throw from the shorts. I like the fact that this is not a multi-use park. There aren't people in the way. I really liked hole 7 over the water and the two options on hole 8 where the left option is more of a tunnel shot and the right option is more of a hyzer route. I also like dual tees and pin placements as it gives the course that much more potential.

If I am back in the area this would be the course I would return to.

Locals were friendly although seemed like there were people off the beaten path smoking some weed or doing who knows what. I always love the "are you a cop" question when I meet people on the course.

This course needs signage...the cut phone polls just don't do it for me. They just aren't helpful when you can't see the pin on all the blind holes. You also can't tell if there is water present on many holes until you walk up there...would be great to have some better signs to help with this.

Lots of blind throws into palmettos which can be good or bad...it is a challenge. I only lost 1 disc and that is because it started raining as I was searching for it and had to give it up. The palmettos are numerous but not that bad if you are used to them. Just pay attention.

This course was fun for me since I am used to mtn. courses. I shot 5 over my first time playing so not bad.

I had a little trouble finding hole #1, but after that not bad. Also you could easily lose a disc if you have an erant throw.

Set mostly in an area of the park dedicated to disc golf. Two sets of concrete t-pads on most holes and some alt. pin placements. Very friendly locals. Some scenic holes, especially on the back nine. A good challenge for seasoned players, pro players will probably welcome the additional dificulty the pro t-pads offer.

Hole #1 runs alongside the exit road. The course is extremely dificult to navigate with no trailblazer signs telling you where to go from one hole to the next tee. The palmetto rough is brutal in some places, but is not as bad as when I previously played the course a few years ago. There seems to be some homeless people living in the park, but they didn't bother my group.

Do not bring beginers to this course as they will find it most frustating. Do try to play with locals on your first time through or you will have a hard time navigating the course. Spot each others throws or you will loose discs. Wear long pants and sturdy shoes.

That said I like this course! I can see where people visiting from other far off places don't care for the course as much, but this is the type of course SW Florida has. We only lost one disc out of our group of 5, and that was to the water not the rough!

Update: Course continues to improve every time that I go back down there and play it. Props to SWFDGA for continuing improvements!

18 baskets with two concrete tee pads on each.
3 Signature holes:
6 throws over the lake, which is short enough to feel confident, but risky enough to loose discs. Hole 10 is featured on their tournament discs, it is striaght shot to an elevated basket into a field of palmettos, high chance of disc loss. 18 can be played numerous ways, but it has water right behind the basket.
Course gives you the opportunity to try a wide variety of shots, lots of risk vs. reward opportunities.

Biggest problem is hole 1. The fairway is a bike trail with a busy road on the left. It is a stupid unsafe hole.
There is no way you can just show up and figure out where to go, we had to grab some locals to show us around because the flow was so confusing.
No tee signs or navigational signs, just Peir posts with distances.
High risk of disk loss in the palmettos, you need to wear jeans or you will bleed.
Several of the holes were similar to others, lots of straight shots with slight turns at the end.

This is not a beginners course at all, This course is the best with a large group of expereinced players with spotters and an army of people to search for each disc. I would NEVER play this one alone.
No dogs allowed in park

1. The 18 hole putting practice course is nice. Also a bit challenging.
2. Holes 1-8 are okay.
3. Holes #2 and #3 are my favorite.
4. Fence is fixed and the hooker can't walk the fence line anymore.

1. Homeless people live in the Palmettos. When you go to find a lost disc, you ARE going into someone's bedroom.
2. Palmettos everywhere, you will lose discs every time you play. I've lost as many as 4 in one round.
3. Basket placement changes every time I play the course. Leave them alone.
4. If you play on the weekends or when school is out, there are kids that ride around the course on their BMX bikes. When they find a disc laying on the ground, they pick it up and throw it in the pond.
5. No directions to the next tee.
6. Says "No Dogs" but there are plenty of dogs in the park.
7. Lots of crap on the course...dog and otherwise.
8. Fence line that eats discs. You can go get them, but the other side is trailer trash people with pit bulls. They have nothing of value but have nasty dogs to guard their stuff.
9. I never walk this course without Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson.
10. Course is greener when it rains, now you can't see your disc at all when it goes off course.

A very hard course to play, NOT for beginners. This course is 8 miles from my house, but I drive 40 miles to play at the North Port course.

*Practice basket and information board near parking lot.
*Dual tees and alternate pin locations allow for different course settings.
*Great amount of variety throughout the course including open/tight holes, left/right turning holes, short/long holes.
*Landing areas and fairways are used throughout the course.
*Painted telephone posts at each tee designating Pro or Am tee and providing distance.
*Nice Mach III baskets.
*Trees near baskets are marked with ribbon to help show where basket it since many palmettos are taller than the basket.
*Good shots are rewarded and bad shots are punished.

*Walking path and road come into play on hole 1.
*Navigation can be tricky for the first timer, use a map or play with a local if possible.
*Palmettos are everywhere and will eat your discs. As Rollercoasters mentioned, a spotter is a must on many holes.
*Map lay-out of each hole not available. I had to walk half way up the fairway at most holes to see the basket before teeing off.

I played 3 courses while in Fort Myers area and this course was by far my favorite. Two sets of tees make the course playable for beginners and the experienced pros. I chose to play the pro tees and it was quite a challenge, but fun. Your shots really have to be on to score well here.

It is highly recommended to play with a spotter. There are many blind holes some holes where you are shooting over a massive field of palmettos. Without a spotter, be prepared to lose a disc or two.

If you are in Fort Myers area and are up for a challenge, definitley play this course. If you're afraid of losing plastic, skip it and go to Bay Oaks.

This course is the most challenging course among the 4 courses that Fort Myers has to offer. It offers a challenge for even the best players. It has concrete tees, well marked tee signs and Mach III baskets that are in good shape. There are alternate tee positions on every hole and they get moved frequently. The local club has done a lot of work to get it cleared out and more navigable. You will want to use a spotter on at least 12 of the holes as tight fairways and palmetto fields will claim a drive that strays even a little off course.

Thick palmetto fields. If you haven't played much in Florida you may not be familiar with palmettos. After playing this course, you will be! Palmettos are a palm type plant that grows on the ground. Think palm tree without the trunk. The problem is that they are razor sharp along all edges. It is recommended to wear long pants when playing this course. You should also be careful when moving them to look for discs. Your hands will come back bloody. I like to take a disc in each hand to root around while searching.

This course plays as two totally different courses - Pro Tee Course and Amateur Tee Course. From the amateur tees, this is a good test with lots of danger on nearly every hole, but most danger can be taken out of play with a pretty good tee shot. From the pro tees however, you need to be a very good player to take the danger out of each hole. The danger that I am referring to is thick palmetto fields that have razor sharp edges, thick underbrush, a lake and very narrow to non existent fairways. Unless you are a pro, I would not recommend playing from the long tees by yourself. You need at least one spotter and having three or four players doesn't guarantee that you will be able to find all of your discs. To illustrate my point, at our recent club championship the difference between the pro tees and amateur was between 15 and 20 strokes for most of the amateur players. I don't mean to discourage any players, but just be ready for what you are getting yourself into. There is a league that plays on Saturday mornings around 10:00 a.m. and visitors are always welcome. I like playing this course, but you must be up for the challenge.

Course was easy to figure out AFTER we walked the whole thing backwards. Pro and Am tees are nice, not much sign-age, but once you figure out the layout you can tell where tees and holes are. Right in my backyard so I will play it again, but not the easiest for a beginner such as myself.

Not very well maintained. Throwing along the dirt road is fine, and the few open areas are fairly well mowed. But the minute you hook to the right or left, you need a machete to find your disc because of the Palmetto's and Very thick underbrush. Have to throw pretty conservatively to avoid losing your disc to a gator, being bitten by a snake while you dig, or just losing your disc in general.

Kinda felt like I was gonna bean a homeless person with my next throw, or get mugged by one. Had to pee, picked a spot near a bench on one hole. During the next, a guy rode his bike up to the very bench and made him self comfortable. I think we peed in his living room, "sorry buddy".

Has pro and am concrete tees w/ a good mix of long and short holes. League changes pin placement every so often. Unlike FGCU, you could still end up paring the holes w/ shanked or not so great drives. By far the best course Sw florida.

Not much Signage. PALMETTOS! Wildlife. Must have a spotter. Not uncommon to lose a disc in the rainy season.(hole9)

Moved out here from Miami in Jan 2009 and was used to playing open courses like Indian Hammocks and Tradewinds. Inicially it was a nightmare. Heavy palmettos and constantly looking for discs. Try not to get frustrated. The course will make you a better player.

My home course, good baskets and concrete pads, Rewards you will good controlled shots course is always being worked on by club gets better every year

Very wet in the rainy season, Def need a spotter playing the longs, super dense vegetation, an off shot can kill your round here

DO NOT WEAR SANDALS HERE!!! If this is your first trip out here wear pants and play the shorts you will be bleeding from razor palms LOL. The vegetation is brutal, but with controlled shots a very playable and fun course. If you are just passing through the area play in the winter the course is dry... in the summer the water hazzards increase 5 fold and without a local this is a losing battle and there is wildlife in that water. New pin placement on 14 and started looking into extending 15 for a third placement for very long par 3 at around 400+. Installing a new pin placement for 9 short. The new 9th hole short pin setting is complete and turned out great..The new pin set is in place for 15 long and the course is mowed and playing very nicely ENJOY!

Challenging course. It's the best I've played in Fl. I do not like wide open courses and this one definitely isn't wide open. You can easily bring a cooler on wheels full of your favorite beverage

Palmetto bushes. A spotter is needed on multiple holes. Wear pants you will be in the bushes looking for your discs

The best course at the moment in southwest florida. Nicely maintained, nicely designed, etc. Some tight holes, some very open. Great shots are well-rewarded (as it should be). Nice DGA baskets.

See that note above about tight holes? yeah. Get used to walking around in palmetto brush. It swallows discs! Also...little to know helps from the tee signs. Definitely need to play with a local.

If you're an avid disc golfer, this is where you should go. Easy as that.

What I personally like and how this course stacks up:
1) Holes with good risk/reward -- A
2) Holes that have rewarding birdie opportunities -- B-
3) More wooded than open - lots of variety of shots required caused by hole shape and topography -- B+
4) Natural beauty (Appalachian beauty preferred) and seclusion -- C
5) Multi-shot holes with defined landing zones, good risk/reward and multiple options to play them -- C+

I ranked this course subjectively based on my own personal enjoyment factor...more accurately my "personal addiction factor". Since I have played a decent number of courses (115 18-hole, 50 9-hole as of early 2009), my hope is that players/explorers who have similar tastes will find my ratings list helpful as they chose courses to play and explore.

Over time, I expect to fill some of my reviews in with more descriptive verbiage...if what I say adds anything to what has already been written. For now, my list is more important to me than the verbiage of my reviews.

I fully expect others with different tastes/philosophies to disagree with me. See my profile for my rating philosophy.

A few holes fit the basic standards of reasonability for fairway width and number of obstacles

Too may palmetto bushes. These things are ridiculously dense. Lost a Star Beast in plain sight. Devoured by the palmetto. Many fairways are just too tight to allow for a standard disc flight pattern.

Trash/beer cans marred a particular section near the lake.

Great potential, and with the work the local club is doing this will soon be a great course. God varity of layouts of holes, and varing distances. Signs were being replaced and weed eaters were going the day I played.

Need spotter, and a course map would be nice, as it is hard to find way around.

1) Practice basket is located near the shuffleboard courts and behind the 6th tee.

2) Dual concrete tees are positive feature of this course. Its the same as all other SW Florida courses in that the soil is mostly sand and having to throw off sand would be tough especially when using a runup.

3) PVC risers and ribbons hanging from baskets and tree branches are very helpful in locating baskets over the 5' palmettos shrubs.

4) Telephone posts are painted to indicate Pro or Am tees. Pro are painted blue and Am are painted white. A few tees that share one tee are still painted blue but say Pro/Am.

5) Lots of work is required to keep the palmettos at bay. They have done a lot of work clearing around baskets since I played here exactly 1 year ago today and that is the main reason I am rewriting this review.

6) I met the guy who does a lot of the maintenance (Bob is his name) and it sounds like they are doing a lot of work and are given virtually free reign to do what they need to. He was out with his truck, trailer, and chainsaw clearing areas round baskets and creating new basket locations. He also said they may be able to expand this course to 9 holes. Obviously this is a positive to have a guy like Bob, but also a receptive community.

7) Challenge is virtually ever present. There are multiple ways that you can get in toruble. First you can hit a tree with your driver and shoot off into the palmettos fields. Second you can throw into the pond on holes #6 and #7. Third you can throw into the water canal located along Hole #8 and #9. Then there is the ever present palmetto fields that can force you to have a tough approach to a basket that is hard to see.

8) Elevated basket is a cool hole, where you have to clear a few hundred feet of palmettos.

9) Two sets of tees seem to be appropriate distances. The forward tees are short enough to help beginner move through this course. They also take away the majority of the difficulty of throwing near the pond on holes #6 and 7.

10) Distance variations are pretty good. I like that there are a couple multiple shot holes. Many of the shorter holes will also feel like multiple shot holes because you will likely get knocked down by a tree or two.

1) More signage would be helpful to navigation. There are a few paths through the palmetto fields that might confuse you and lead you to the wrong area.

2) Sourse starts away from the practice basket, and is completely disjointed from the rest of the course. #1 is the only hole on the other side of the road.

3) The walk path is in play (at the #1 tee since you throw from the sidewalk), but it also brings the entrance road into play. This is just a horrible place for the first hole.

4) Palmetto's are still too dense. This course would be so much better if it got more play and more and more people went through the palmetto areas. These areas would get trampled and finding your disc would not be a problem.

5) There is no sign directing you to Hole #1, nor a sign directing you from Hole #1 to find Hole #2. These are the two worst areas for navigation, and the solution is a couple $ sign that has not been made.

6) Another Florida course with zero elevation. I know it is simply the property they are given, but I still consider no elevation a negative. The only thing that acts like elevation is when you have to throw over the top of the palmettos. You have to elevate your disc as if you were throwing uphill to avoid hitting the tops of those palmettos leaves.

7) Course is not beginner friendly despite the duel tees. The water is still in play because the right bail out zone is thick palmettos and overgrown brush. The palmetto areas will be very frustrating to a beginner, and the likelihood of a lost disc is high. This will be a negative for most beginners.

I love the fact that there are 20-30 older people playing shuffleboard here everyday. It reminds me of grandma and grandpa at their mobile home. I wanted to go in there and see if anyone would take a challenge by a 34 year old disc golfer. Why, because I am a good shuffleboard player! Yep I admitted it. I don't play often, maybe 5 tmes int he last 20 year but when I was a kid I loved staying in hotels that had shuffleboard.

I played this course for the first time in exactly 1 year. However when I played last year I had only played Freeman Lake in Elizabethtown KY, Bay Oaks in Fort Myers Beach and Florida Gulf Coast University. I didnt have much to compare, I just knew I didnt like the palmettos being so difficult to walk through, hard to find discs in, and that they were everywhere on the course. I can appreciate this course much more now than when I had only played about 4 rounds and 4 courses. Now I have played 145 courses and about 400 rounds in just over 1 year so I have a lot more to compare it to. I had a great time today playing the shorts and I would enjoy the longs too, now that I can hit fairways and thread the needle. WHen I first played I was still throwing everything like a spike hyzer because I didnt have the right form. Now I know how to play the game and I have to upgrade this course rating, despite the issues on the course. It is a fun course, but it could use just a little more maintenance.