****April 2023 Update

-A heavily wooded course with tight lines, gaps, tunnels, and protected baskets. This course with discipline will develop your game.

-the hole maps on each tee pad are outstanding. they show the best flight path to the basket and some holes have a second and third flight path to choose. These maps are your best friend, baskets cannot be seen on most holes. That is how clutter the trees are on the fairways and rough.

-Wind for the most part is non-existent on the course due to heavy trees and foliage. There can be a strong wind outside the course, but you may only feel a calm wind. This gives you a chance to evaluate your form.

- Theirs a large and wide-open field to make some practice throws on while walking to the course.

-With the heavy woods, the directions from basket to the next tee are well marked with signs and arrows painted on trees. A rung on the basket is painted in the direction to the next tee. The course has good flow clockwise.

****Half of the back tee pads (white) are in good shape, because very few people play them, their difficult. See con.

- From the long tee pads, No. 16-18 are strong finishing holes.

-Beginners and recreational players will struggle. Intermediate will be challenged and Advanced will be challenged from the back tees.

-The course is isolated in an exceptionally large park, not likely to see other players on the course. I've seen no more than two dozen players total in three years. If you like quick rounds, this is the course.

-Theirs a club that preps the course for a yearly tournament. This past June a few of the short tees had fresh gravel poured. Some lines have been cleared and are now open. ****#18 long tee is the most recent line to open.

-I have seen deer on the course, and the elusive Woody the Woodpecker. Still waiting for my first encounter with Cheesy the Black Bear, and I still haven't met Cheesy or any other bear.

-tee pads are more narrow than other courses I have played, and the gravel is very uneven and sunken in on the majority of the red or short tees.

****Since my last visit a few months ago, about half of the long tees were gravel, no need to gravel them, they were firm the way they were, and the other half left alone still firm. There now just about as bad as the short tees.

-Some of the lines you see on the hole maps have disappeared from overgrowth.

-Some holes are repetitive, and not memorable.

-Horse/Deer flies are awful in the summer months. A good bug spray will keep away other insects. Picked up no ticks this year.

-no wind also means no breeze during the summer months. It can be stifling.

-footing is treacherous, there are branches, logs, rocks, roots all over the place including fairways. Some of it hidden under thick brush and grass. I have stumbled and tripped several times.

-if you play the back tees, there are no hole signs. But par and distance are stamped on top of a white painted pole.

-Heavy rain can make the course swampy and muddy. During the winter can take weeks to dry out, summer just a few days. Any torrential downpour can flood out the trail from the open field to the first tee, closing the course.

-Theirs a pond beside the trail to the course, be careful of snakes. I've only seen snakes on the course once May 2021, when I saw four including my disc landing between two.

-There is high lost disc potential off fairway high grass and leaves. I've only have lost one disc in casual water after heavy rain. But I've found several on the course.

****I've now have played 64 rounds on the course at the time of this update. It is a course where patience must be played and let the course come to you. It is a great course to develop your game with all the tight lines off the tee box. I try to get at least a hundred feet down fairway before hitting a tree, the short hole distances will keep in the hunt for a par. The fairways on most holes open to the basket after a hundred feet, but there's still guardian trees by the basket, you just have more room. Getting a 200-foot drive is a plus. From the back tees extremely more difficult lines and gaps, I have yet to birdie a par 3 from the back, ****still waiting. To score well, you must take advantage of the Par 4's and 5's. Out of the 109 courses I have played, its still one of the most difficult from back tees. ****My biggest personnel con is the majority of the short or red tee boxes are now rutted down effecting throws off of the tee, and now half of the long tees.

-Based on game development and an outstanding wooded layout I give the course a 5.0 rating, and that is where my overall rating is anchored on. However, with the short tees overall getting worse, I've knocked down the overall rating by a 1/2 point due to tees. The time to play from shorts avg. 65 minutes, longs 80 mins.

Course Isolation:

-With the isolation in a darken woods, I can get creep out sometimes, and always think of the movie "The Blair Witch Project". With little sunlight can also feel dark and dreary, and the hearing of unseen footsteps likely deer can heighten the creeped out feeling. Just to give you a feel what it's like to be alone on the course.

Featured Holes:

No. 5 Long tee Par 3, 315 feet has a 20-foot-wide fairway that lazy to the right, at about 115 feet turns left at the short tee pad and runs rest of the way straight and tree lined. The basket is tucked away on the right with guardian trees. However, I like to cut across the rough and there are gaps thru trees, rejoining the fairway at 200 feet. Fauna grows 2-4 feet high where your disc sails over the rough its very scenic, and no other flight like it on other courses I have played. Hit a tree, you are likely to be okay for an approach. Shoot across the fairway you will be blocked off.

No. 6 Long tee par 5, 606 feet. A lazy dog leg left at short tee pad at 156 feet. It's very narrow straight down the fairway and protect by large trees all the way down, just a little more room for a semi to pass thru. If you miss the fairway, the trees are too thick to pass thru and you're tossing your next shot with very little advancement. There is a 90-degree dogleg right 300 feet from the short tee pad. There is no short cut because of the trees. You need to place your shot precisely at 300 feet give or take 20 feet. The last 150 feet to basket is narrow at 15 to 20 feet cluttered with skinny trees, these trees also protect the basket.

No. 8 Short tee Par 3, 217 feet is a grove of trees in front of the tee pad at 20 feet. You can go right or left. Both fairways are 15 feet wide. The gap is more severe to the left at 6 feet, not so bad to the right at 8 feet. To the left a very sharp turn to the right on the fairway at a hundred feet. To the right you have a straight throw but can run into the woods at 180 feet from tee. I've never have hit the fairway either way. Approach putts are always cluttered with small trees with no clear shot at the basket.

No. 17 Long tee par 4, 406 feet is a dog leg right that slopes down to 180 feet to the dog leg. Then straight up slope for the rest of the distance where the basket is tucked to the left with guardian trees. There are a few lines to cut thru the woods and to the basket starting about 100 feet from the basket. It is the widest fairway on the course at 45 feet with grass. Sunlight can appear from above, that can't be seen on the rest of the course. With sunlight and some thinner leafy trees its very scenic with a large tree at the end of the fairway, halfway up the tree (30 ft) is a zip line stand (not in use) The stand can be used to target your approach shot. The basket is short and to the left of the tree, you'll find yourself on the edge of the putting circle.

Signature Hole No. 18 Long tee par 5, 525 feet is a dog leg left at the short tee pad at 140 feet. Then straight down to the edge of the putting circle where the basket is tucked on the left with guardian trees. Its narrow fairway from tee to basket at 20 to 30 feet. From the short tee is a small pond just off the left fairway at 15 feet, 180 feet from short tee pad. At 200 feet the fairway slopes down for 40 feet and levels out the rest of the way. 75 feet from the basket are a few lines to cut thru the woods to the basket. It's a fun and scenic finishing hole.

Trouble Hole No. 16 Long tee par 4, 485 feet dogleg left at the short tee pad at 175 feet with a 20-foot-wide fairway with protruding and over hanging branches that can slap a disc down. From the dogleg to the basket the fairway opens to about 35 feet, there is a group of trees in the middle just 10 to 20 feet in front of the dogleg. These trees can block an approach shot. The fairway bends left at 75 feet from basket and narrows to 25 feet, then hooks right to the basket at the putting circle. The basket is tucked to the right behind guardian trees.

Very challenging wooded course. You have to be creative with your shot selection and be a good distance putter to birdie most holes. The course is knarley. It will make you a better player. New benches have been installed at each hole and there are new directional
signs.

The course may be too tight. Tee boxes need some work.

Better played in fall.

One of the more challenging courses in the area. Have to have some control over your discs.

It is easy to go over par and hard to get it back needs to have a couple of holes cleared out some more to make up bad shots like most places.

Paths to the next holes need to be better. Some metal signs would be nice you can get turned around on a few holes easy

Still has some work but with some help it will be nice course.