-Lots of protected greens
-Variety of lines and shots
-Good mix of open and wooded holes
-Good pads and baskets
-Good signage
-Very well maintained
-Heated bathrooms!

-Combination of protected greens and guardian trees can be frustrating
-Woods holes are interesting, but are somewhat of a lottery
-Lack of signs warning park users of flying discs

I usually like a play a course a few times before reviewing, but thought Pinhook could use a little more attention. In some ways I think it is an excellent course and I enjoyed my round. I also feel like it is a course that needs to be played several times to figure out the best lines and approaches.

I like courses with protected greens and guardian trees, but the combinations at Pinhook often cause more frustration than challenge. I was thrilled to hit C1 three times in regulation (considering I'm not a great player), but didn't have a single chance at a birdie due to bushes or trees near the basket. Another time I drove around a corner to within 50 feet of the basket only to find myself in a thicket with my only shot getting close to the basket being a roller.

I echo the comments of other reviewers about the woods holes. Making a hole shot only to have the disc knocked down by a stray branch sticking out into the fairway is annoying, as is hitting what appears to be a landing area and finding out that you have no shot at the basket. I'm pretty sure those rough edges will be smoothed over in time and I look forward to enjoying those holes and the course even more in the future.

Pinhook DGC in Grant County sits just a couple of minutes from I-75 . The parking isn't in abundance but there are bathrooms near the shelter at #4 . This is an 18 hole disc golf course and is the product of almost 7 years of time and effort .
The Equipment : First Class . A nice Course map greets you right at the first hole . The new cement tees are a large 4 1/2 X 9' size and level . The tee signs top of the line , on posts with all the necessary information for the hole and a nice flight path ( or paths ) . There are also some nice blue Next Tee signs to help you with navigation . The baskets are new blue rimmed Prodigy baskets with deep buckets .There are spots where there are multiple cement tees or alternate pin positions which add to the course appeal .
The Landscape - This park was mowed and trees trimmed when i was here .It is very clean and well kept . This park rolls a lot .The course is more a park style setting No extreme downhill or uphill shots , but the elevation is almost always present . The trees and obstacles are little factor until about #4 and will stay that way throughout the rest of your round . There is a nice woods trail and next to it houses woods holes .
Course Appearance/Atmosphere . The rural backdrop of this clean park is appealing and nice to look at . The course and its park make you feel comfortable and even willing to take a walk around it after finishing your round . This would make for a nice sunrise or sunset round . The atmosphere is laid back . The course isn't so overly challenging that you will bother other disc golfers . You may run into curious locals . Make sure they know that you aren't mean or standoffish .
The Highlights - With some extra tees and extra pin positions , your round can change in a hurry . Hole #4 is a nice slightly downhill drive ( 342' ) to a basket positioned on the right and behind some brush and small trees . #11 Is a nice buttonhook shot ( 345' ) moving left . #13 is a turning right to left shot through trees in the fairway #17 follows a line that starts uphill from the long pin , then descends to a basket on a downslope . #18 in the short pin position is just a rolling straight shot , 300' , but in the long position it would have been my favorite . The hole lengthens to 592' and the small green is bordered by high trees and growth on the left and overgrowth to the right and behind . It is something to see .
Signature Hole - #15 . It is sort of a gully shot on steroids . The slope of the course goes downward from right to left after being just downsloping from the tee . There are doorways which you much choose to throw through depending on the pin position . 1 position has it sitting on the hill to the right , and the one I had was in a grove of trees , in the fairway on the up slope .
Disc Risk - low to medium . There are spots like #6 , shooting into a narrow small green ( 306' ) where , if you go right or left , you will be in thick rough . There are a couple of spots in the woods , and hole #11 , just out of the woods has some thick rough down the right side .
The Time - It took me just over an hour to play this course . A foursome will finish a round in about 2 hours .
The course has enough variety and the extra tee pads and alternate pin positions are just enough to keep you interested throughout the 18 holes .

#1 Navigation , print or take a picture of the map . There are some walks that will leave you confused if you don't have one . 3-4 and especially 14-15 will leave you looking a long time . 14-15 is back over and around the #2 and 3 fairways on the other side .
#2 Some will say that the course in certain pin positions will lack challenge . This is a medium challenge course . If you want a course to beat you up or leave you for dead , try Lincoln Ridge or Idlewild up the road .
Safety shouldn't be a concern , but some fairways and tees are going to come close to shelters or walking paths . The Grant County park patrons have not had time to acclimate to a brand new course ( ca 2019 ) . You are backed up close to a shelter . There was a group of people having a birthday party at the shelter when I played . Share the park .
Parking ? What parking ? - They have no defined parking in the area for disc golfers . There is some limited space in the building closest to hole 1 and some space at the shelter , but when the shelter is packed with a family outing , it will send you scrambling . I am sure it will be figured out in the future ..

The course is brand new and the city and park board are behind this course 100% . a mile from I-75 , I can see groups coming as far south as Lexington and from Northern Kentucky ( maybe Cincinnati ) to take a round or 2 on this course . Course Designers Rod Angel and Dan Bayless worked for years trying to bring Disc Golf to the I-75 corridor and it has finally paid off . Dan is the owner and operator of Disc 'n Dat off of Turfway Road in Florence ( exit 182 ) drop by , shop and tell him what you think about the course .
This new course is a solid play . It will be even better when broken in and a few tournaments are held here . If you can check the course out now , do it . You can say you played here in it's infancy stages in case it is either added or lengthened .

My Recommendation - The Fun Factor is high here . Challenging ? It can be , but the foot can be taken off the gas a little because of the pin positions and added tees .
This has some good holes as an intro course . Newbies can grow into it and move into the harder pads and tees . If you are living in Grant County and like disc golf , this can be your local hangout . Intermediates and Ams have chances to air out some drives , then work on their technical game . Pros might only be using this a practice , but can try out their new midranges and putters at the angles & differing slopes . Travelers cna come off of the exit , play a full round , then be out of the county in an hour and a half or less . Course Collectors can add this , maybe Hidden Ridge ( a gem of a private course just 9 or 10 miles away ) and 9 hole Walton Community Park in just one morning . Not a destination course , but if anywhere in the area , just too good to pass up . Play It !!!

This course is good course. Being someone who has been around a number of disc golf courses, there was definitely logical thought process for laying out this course.

The pads are short but adequate. The signage is very good for following the course. As time goes on and with more people playing it, the course will get more cleaned up such as was with the early days of Idlewild.

The course is appropriate for its location. While it won't necessarily be a destination course like Idlewild or Mt. Airy, it is a fun course.

There are definitely some challenging holes for the typical amateur disc golfer. Most of the longer holes have a couple routes that work for left or right handed throwers. With foliage, some of the baskets cannot be seen until you actually walk down a significant portion of the fairway. Distances on the signs are fairly accurate.

There are too many short woods holes in succession for enjoyment in that section of the course. Even with a putter, the trees and foliage make it difficult for the average disc golfer get a decent birdie shot. They are more of pitch and putt holes.

I think over time with more players playing, they will get better. I would personally like to see the four, short wooded holes be combined to make two longer, technical holes and place a couple more out in the park. Time will tell.

It is a fun course. There were about five other groups playing when my group was there so it made for a quick round of 18. The greater Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky area has many very good courses (excellent courses for a few of them). If someone were traveling through the area for a sampling, this would be a fun, little course to visit for a round. Enjoy!

Grant County Park DGC is set in a smaller park with a few baseball fields and a playground or two, with the disc golf course filling the open fields in previously untouched wooded regions. Only being in the ground a few months, this course has already seen a lot of work put into it.

This course serves as a new entry to the disc golf scene south of the Ohio border. While there are a plethora of options in the immediate Cincinnati region, the disc golfers in the town of Crittenden would be driving a little bit longer to play around than others.

The course has three main hole types. Short and technical, mid-length and mostly open, and mid-length wide open. The first third of the course is the latter two, while the next four cover the wooded portion. After that, you go back into the mostly open/open 300-400 foot shots. I would say this is a pretty standard layout for park golf.

Every hole has a concrete tee with a tee post that will soon see a very nice metal tee sign with a map, hole distance and par. The baskets are brand new Prodigy targets painted blue, which I think is a great color for seeing in both the woods and open.

My favorite hole on the course is hole 15. You're throwing a decently powered shot mostly down a hill to a guarded green, and it takes either a RHBH hyzer or a well-played flex shot to get to the pin. However, for the lefty like me, I could throw the flat to fade type shot and watch it coast to the basket.

First, there is only one tee and one basket position as of now on a majority of the holes. If you plan on playing this course a lot, you won't be seeing a lot of different layouts. In addition to that, there is a decent amount of repetition with the open holes, including a little bit of favoring towards the left-handed player.

I would love to see some of the more open par 3s pushed to be made a more challenging par 4, but I figure that is not what the designer was going for. However, some of the 300-350 foot par 3s left me unsatisfied.

As much as I prefer wooded, technical golf over the wide-open shots, the wooded portion of the course leaves much to be desired. Do not be expecting to shape drives through this stretch, as it is mostly goofy lines through the trees. They are somewhat fun to play, but not championship level.

Off the fairway, there is a lot of debris and brush that will make getting to your poorly thrown shots difficult. Over time, this will clear out with play and the work of the local volunteers.

In January, there was not much foot traffic, but on a summer day I could see the occasional jogger or dog-walker wandering the fairways of the course. There were a few benches and other park amenities that are near the fairways and may interfere with play.

Kudos to the crew that was able to put this course in play! In what is already a great disc golf area, the Grant County Park course is a great addition to the area that is well south of the Cincinnati downtown area.

If you are coming to Cincinnati for a day or two, this course is skippable, but for those that are living in the area or want to explore every course in the area, this would be a great stop.

With time and love, this course will definitely improve, but it's already shaping up to be a solid course. It fits right into the park-style archetype and will serve as a great place for locals to hone in their skills.

This brand new, park style, recreational to intermediate level course does a pretty good job helping to fill in a little bit more of the gaps in the disc golf corridor up and down I-75 in northern Kentucky. It has some variety in elevation and woodedness, excellent Prodigy baskets, and well-installed concrete tees. There are holes that will have you reaching for a little more distance off the tee and technical lines in the woods where controlling your putter (or Comet!) is going to be the skill set tested.

The course layout and design is quite good, clearly showing it was conceived by disc golfers (thanks Rod & Dan!), and not just a parks and rec representative. Ps: expect the course to take the place of AJ Jolly for the annual Disc n Dat Ice Bowl fundraisers!

With the recent installation of Hidden Ridge (private course in Dry Ridge, KY), and the little park nine holer in Walton, there is now a good variety of options in the area!

The opening holes are not going to impress you, with wide open lines to the green on 1 & 2, and a bench in the right side line of play on 3 that faces away, so that careless disc golfers might hit an unsuspecting 'civilian'. Hang in there til you at least reach hole 4, with its cleverly guarded green.

The frequency with which you'll encounter holes in the 300' to 350'+ range (the first six, and twelve overall) might be a bit daunting if you only drive in the 250'+ range. I found myself knowing I had a three before playing the hole, time after time.

Pro or con? The course slightly favors left to right lines of flight, and hole 12 was intentionally designed with a steep , rollaway green (listed as a negative because it is dangerously slick there if even a little wet). There's no formal parking lot near hole one, but the shelter by the (seasonal) bathrooms, at the fork in the drive, will suffice for casual groups.

Finally, take the map. Tee signs are up on 4x4 posts, but there aren't 'next tee' signs yet, and they would be helpful in a few spots, especially the longer walks between 3 & 4, and 14 & 15.

At present, the course is completely playable, but know going in that it's new, and often, the clearing near the green still has a lot of thicket and even debris piles, so control your approaches.