Pros:
This a truly a destination course for the GVRD, BC, and Pacific Northwest. At a Par 63, it has it all--length, elevation, water, rough, wooded and open holes. Multiple tees on most holes and multiple pin placements add to a diverse set of play options. The tee boxes are excellent, particularly for those with long run ups (FYI: the line on each tee is a foot fault line to prevent erosion-inducing run throughs on your drives).
Many of the tee and pin placements are artistically installed (elevated with stairs for example, and there is the Raptor hole, which when viewed from the air shows a raptor in flight). Wet areas have bridges to help you stay dry, fairways are manicured and mown.
Many of the basket placements also use greenery to screen the basket, increasing the importance of your approach shot or drive being targeted at a landing area, rather than the putting circle--an excellent design feature to increase the complexity of shorter holes.
Similarly there is the attractive and challenging use of hazard areas on a number of holes, allowing aggressive throws and increased risk taking with the compromise of a one-shot penalty if you stick in the hazard. This is another nice feature that adds a wrinkle to your game management skills. Most holes offer a choice of attack strategies and balance of RHBH/LHBH lines. There is a ton of OB marked by stakes on the course and most of it makes sense and is fairly placed (but see cons below).
The course will have a driving range for warm up and other quality-extending features focused on creating a unique golf experience.
Cons:
Some of the OB is overly restrictive, but less than in my earlier review. Course managers have tweaked much of the OB and opened up some lines. The shots are still tough, but quite fair.
Other Thoughts:
Get to the course soon, as scores will only go up over time. Most of the now-open fairways have younger trees waiting to grow into your hyzer-bomb lines, so placement and strategy will become even more important over time.
The course has benefited from thousands of hours of volunteer time and its maintenance continues to be driven by volunteer labour. It will be interesting to see how this plays out over time. Similarly, this is a close collaboration between the DG community and municipality, and the long term institutionalization of the relationship will be important to ensure design quality is maintained and kept within the DG community (rather than ceded to municipal parks, which tend to lack expertise in disc golf course design and maintenance planning).
It's a long course and will get hot in the summer. Bring water and snacks. The course is intentionally designed to require players to pack it in and out, so please, give a hoot and don't pollute! I know many players like to engage in their own version of "course maintenance" by moving (or removing) obstacles (like trees and branches). Everything here has been placed with intent--change your shot, not the course.
I'm looking forward to years of great play here!