Pros:
•Big, beautiful concrete tee-pads.
•Variety: half tight, wooded fairways, half open with mature trees.
•Signs at every tee with map and distance.
•Beautiful setting near Mississippi River, views of downtown La Crosse.
Cons:
•Lots of trash at every tee-pad.
•Map is all wrong. The course has been redesigned, but it's up to the user to figure that out. Many of the nice signs at tee pads are wrong as a result.
Other Thoughts:
I can't complain too much about the shortcomings of Pettibone, it is such a beautiful spot. I enjoyed the variety this course offers, with short wooded holes on the front nine, to longer holes in a setting of randomly spaced, mature trees that offer some great shot shaping opportunities.
Overall it is a pretty easy course, which I don't mind. The wooded holes are short ... some are really short.
You will want to bring a variety of discs: I play LHBH exclusively, so I had my Saint for distance or fading shots, Underworld for left turns, of which there were a lot (this might be the first course I've played that favors right handers). I used a Pain for several shots that were too short for a driver but too long for a putter. A couple holes were short enough to drive with the Swan 2. The guy I played with is RHBH, and the Ace Race 2013 disc was money on this couse.
Overall, a very fun early fall afternoon of disc golf, and well worth a visit.