Pros:
-- Well-textured concrete tee pads, 5x10. A few are cracked, but most are in good shape.
-- Practice basket.
-- Restrooms and water fountain at parking lot.
-- Benches or picnic tables offer places to sit, and trash cans are spread throughout the park.
-- The better holes tend to be the shorter ones because they reward placement and shot shaping over raw power. No. 5 blue is 297 feet with the basket on a small hill near an OB fence. No. 7 is the first time the river comes into play. The hole is 228 feet (one basket) straight. You've got OB road right, river left and three large trees about 160 feet from the tee. At the basket, the drop-off toward the river starts 8 feet left of the basket and the OB road is 15 feet right. Twelve is 277 feet (one basket) RHBH hyzer following the gentle curve of the river. Basket sits in the middle of a 40-50 foot wide piece of land with river left and OB road right. No. 13 is 207 feet RHFH around a line of trees/buses about 125 feet from the tee. Those trees sit in a ditch that appears that it could have water at some times as an inlet from the river.
-- You come back by the parking lot after 12, and 18 ends nearby.
-- Hole length variety is awesome. The shortest hole is 207 feet with the longest longer than 700 feet. Two holes offer baskets longer than 700 feet and three more longer than 600 feet. On two holes, the shortest (or only) basket plays longer than 600 feet.
Cons:
-- This is a standard public park course, but it underutilizes the available features and frequently relies on length to add challenge.
-- Multiple pins (and baskets!) on most holes. I'm a big fan of that. Unfortunately, the signs and number of pin positions don't match about half of the time. Also, some effort was made to match basket colors (short/red, long/blue), but some holes have one yellow basket and at least one hole has two yellow baskets.
-- Navigation is mostly good, but a few times you are left searching because of long walks and basket placements that are not on the signs. Crossing the park roads 7 times doesn't help. And you intersect with the other course in the park, adding even more confusion. You also cross the 14 fairway getting from 17 to 18.
-- Tee signs are good, when they are accurate. They offer par, distance, a map of the hole with basket placement(s) and next tee indicator.
-- Plenty of tall, well-spaced trees with the limbs high enough to allow full throws beneath them. Unfortunately, many of the holes are so long that it often has the feel of an open course. Below the grass is mostly in decent shape (except a couple of holes near the water).
Other Thoughts:
-- Holes A, B and C (mentioned in the previous review, 9 years ago) appear to no longer exist. My guess is that they were incorporated into the other 18-hole course in the park.
-- Long, open holes aren't my thing. If you have a big arm and like grip-it-and-rip-it, you'll probably rate this course higher than I do.