Pros:
Just finding the course is this huge park us tricky. The park has everything including a zoo, fishing lakes, summer camp facilities and anything that any other park has. The course has a very, typical useless course information at the beginning. It also has a mailbox for maps and amazingly enough, there were actually course maps in there. My absolute favorite thing about this course is the way cool tee sign posts. They are gnarled, unique looking tree stumps with one place where a small tee sign is fastened on. The tee pads are natural with boards on the side. Most were very serviceable but 2-3 were pretty rough, # 12 comes to mind. The baskets are about shiniest DGA models I've ever seen.
Even with the helpful map, navigation was dicey. I found myself constantly walking up and around trying to locate tee pads.
Holes 1 & 2 play across a field, then 3 to 7 enter the swampy area with mowed fairways and tall, tall grass (like 6-8' tall). I don't know if this is elephant grass, swamp grass or prairie grass but it's way over my head in places. I spent 15 minutes hunting for a disc in it. There were two college guys, beginner types, and their round was taking them forever as they couldn't throw anything straight. I felt sorry for them.
I did enjoy the variety of hole lengths, ranging from 135' up to 445'.
Cons:
The tall grass just off the fairways is a major problem. It could wreck most anyone's round.
The course is difficult to navigate, even with the map.
Natural pads were mostly OK but a couple needed work. Weeds growing up in several. How much play does this course get?
Several walkouts are fairly long.
The area where holes 2-7 play are in a marshy land which must get pretty saturated during some times of the year.
Other Thoughts:
I'm not sure why this course didn't excite me more? I think by the time I got through the swampy area with the high grass, I was pretty well tuned out. I had spent valuable time hunting for a disc in the swamps. I had spent valuable time walking about trying to find different holes. I was just ready to be done with this course and move on down the road. That's not exactly a glowing endorsement for this course, is it?