1) The amount of variety is very nice. You literally have everything. Your long arm guys wont be very happy because only one hole will really reward them and even then its pretty hard thanks to the low ceiling.

2) Use of the old picnic table pads is a great use of old concrete. Its pretty great to see a designer use what they were given.

3) The scenery is amazing. Playing along the lake a few holes and then walking through the woods on the rest really adds to the course.

4) Hole layout was great. Here are what I thought were the best.
2. is a great uphill shot. A tree right off the teepad forces you to really throw an uncomfortable line.
4. fun hyzer shot throw a lane of trees.
8. blind hyzer throw that goes through an great line
9. ridiculous S shot required. Basket is VERY guarded.
10. fun blind anhyzer/hyzer shot
17. shot choice extremely important, great looking hole

5) Great baskets. Brand new disccatchers.

6) Facilities are awesome. Not used to see actual good bathrooms near my local courses.

1) Needs a course map VERY desperately.

2) Tee signs need to be permanent and accurate. Distances on some holes are way off.

3) Fairways. Some holes are super small for the type of shot they ask you for. If Im throwing 300+ I want to be able to have a landing spot that is wider than 12 ft. Spent a little bit too much time searching through the tall grass finding discs. One was only a foot off the cut grass but still took a good minute or so to find.

4) While having the next tee on the tee signs it would be great to have a small arrow on the baskets as well. Especially on 2 where you can see 3 tees from the basket.

5) Absolutely hate the layout on 14. Its way too close to the playground and requires a super blind anhyzer to reach the basket. It needs to be rethought even if the playground has no one ever on it.

6) No warm up basket/area. While not a big con its annoying especially when the second hole is a long uphill shot.

This is an easy 4.5 course once the tee signs are in place and the distance is updated. The fairways do need some work but its really not THAT big of an issue. Just a large annoyance especially with sticktites that are pretty prevalent in the weeds.

If you are in the area, I'd say its a must play. Not sure if I'd plan a day trip around it just quite yet but its easy to play a few rounds at this course.

Overall, it is much better than the ratings and Im very glad I played it while I was in town.

This place has alot of shade for those summer days but still with a few holes to really air out some drives and some spots were you need to really be technical in the woods. Wooded holes are very well shaped with not too many throw and hope holes as most have certain gaps that can be hit if executed well. Although you really don't have any holes where Rend Lake really truly comes into play you do play near it at one point and it makes for a good view.

Very few trashcans at all and no benches in the woods or very many other spots besides near the beginning and the end. Tee sign distance is messed up for the front 9. A couple of the tee pads are placed in odd spots as far as their direction goes.

The first hole is open but with a guarded basket in the trees, #2 is a low tee off shot with some trees after that. 3-5 play near the lake and have several obstacles to avoid and then you enter the woods And then play 3 holes in a field but still with many obstacles to avoid. After that there is a really long hole with many trees before finishing up with a few holes that avg about 200-300 with some trees and a water hazard on hole #17.