Pros:
The first disc golf course in Ohio was designed 45 years ago in a neighbourhood park boasting rolling terrain, flats adjacent to a seasonally deep creek, and plenty of trees and wood lines to generate variety and lines of flight. Over the years, like any course, the local community added distance, options, and personal preferences such that there are usually two tees and one to three basket positions on each of the now 16 holes* (see cons).
Reasonable, mostly concrete (13 has 'tiled' blocks), 4x8 up to 4x12 tees are marked appropriately for blue (int to adv) or white (rec to int) skill levels. Baskets are sturdy DGAs with bright orange numbering (for all but hole 7, missing), and are usually easy enough to spot from the short tees. Basic post style signage includes number and distances, and are located at the long tees, though additional information usually accompanies the shorts, and there is some information engraved in the concrete itself. Over the years, steps, bridges, and path gravel, along with retaining timbers at most tees, have been added to improve accessibility.**
The disc golf play itself makes excellent use of the terrain, so that you are throwing at least half the holes either uphill, downhill, or shaping a shot around trees, but there is usually very little underbrush to cause a lost disc, at least not in any weeds. Expect a lot of greens though, to present you with roll away potential, or a chance to drop into the creek, so regulars will learn here how to control their upshots and putts, and learn when to go for it or play it safe. Overall, a great course for the disc golfer who is looking to bring their game up from the casual to the recreational or intermediate levels of tourney play.
Cons:
*: Some time after concrete tees were added (with the hole numbers 'engraved' in the concrete, the course 'lost' two holes which ventured to the other side of the railroad tracks, so if you look at the tee pads, you'll see they're 'off' after hole 7.
**: Much of the added landscaping is beginning to show its age, and really seems like it needs refreshing (by any of the many, many folks who play this aging gem regularly). Furthermore, they definitely need to add either gravel or some steps up the 2nd fairway bend, and up to the 11th tees, as they get very muddy and slippery when wet.
But my main 'cons' regarding how this course has evolved over the years are: 1) the challenges for first time player navigation (it could use re-measuring, re-mapping, new signage and 'next tee' info that works regardless of pin location), 2) ten of the sixteen holes play across, along, or nearly beside the extremely busy paved park path, 3) the short pin for 12 is far too close to the 11th short tee, and 4) you have to cross the 11th green to reach the 4th tee.
Other Thoughts:
I originally played Roscoe Ewing during my first year of play and decided to hold off on my review until I was able to re-visit. Now that I've seen and reviewed about 400 courses, but more importantly, have helped with some redesigns and seen how courses do mature, it's obvious how this 'original' course has evolved. Trivia: reportedly, hole 4 (I think) is the only remaining part originally designed by Steady Ed Headrick.
If you don't feel like 16 holes is quite enough, there is an adjacent course on the other side of those railroad tracks that you could play in tandem.
Finally, if they haven' done so already, I immediately noted that 'short' tee for 6 could play from the back left corner of the parking lot, making for a shorter, downhill, rewarding rhbh line?