Great cement tee pads, tee signs and brand new Discatchers. The tees are all level and a very good size. The signs have hole #, par, distance and a hole diagram. Better than most.
Not a pitch and putt niner, decent hole lengths, with a legit Par 4.
On an unused patch of land near the ball golf course (Paschal), so no interference from others. (The ball golf course is were Arnold Palmer played when he was here at Wake Forest Univ.)
Pretty good mix of left and right holes. Mostly open course with enough trees to make you hit your spots.
Plenty of parking.

Restricted to use by the faculty, staff and students of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. This is the only course in Wake Forest and the only one for about 10 miles, sure would be nice if visitors were welcome.
#5 - A right turning hole, through a very tight gap in the trees. Since this is not a championship level course, it would be nice to see this opened up, so beginners don't get frustrated.
A couple of fairways cross (#3 and #9), but since it is right at the tees, and not a lot of traffic on this course, not a big deal.

As I mentioned, a pretty good niner, and at 2550', it has some distance.
It has several pretty good holes - #3 - slightly uphill par 3 to a basket underneath a low-hanger tree, tough green. #7 - Mostly uphill par 4 with the basket behind a large bushy tree, make the upshot a premium. #9 - also uphill, parallel to #3, that finishes to the right, around some bamboo, nice finisher.
If this course would get busier, a path should be cut through the woods to the parking lot from #9. Right now, you walk around a corner of woods and you are right in #1 fairway, just below the elevated tee.
Have I said it would be great to have this open to the public? I drive past this course several times a week, and I see players maybe 15-20% of the time. If the SEBTS sold memberships to the general public ($25-$30 annually) they could cover the "insurance" for these players, build a course fund and get more activity and "eyes" on this part of the campus.

I'll start by saying that this course is quite literally in my back yard. I'll try not to let the convenience of the location color my review too much. That said, if you live north of Raleigh and outside of 540, finding a convenient place to play can be a tough task. Sure, there is Cedar Hills, which offers some of the best holes in the triangle area. However, unless it's on your way home, good luck summoning the will to consistently fight through the evening rush to play/practice.

Enter this brand new nine hole course on Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. The course is set on a gently rolling tract of land between the campus and the nine hole golf course (also owned by the seminary). Each hole is marked with a detailed sign including distance, par, and a cursory map. The tees are now filled in with concrete, which is a huge improvement over what I suspect the original plan was (some sort of sand mixture and large gravel).

Now to the holes. Given that the course plays over mostly open rolling hills, I'm somewhat impressed with how the designers have made good use of the bordering treelines to create natural fairways. Outside of the tunnel through a grove on hole #5 and a shot through two staggered outcrops of trees on #8 you won't find a lot of tight control shots on the course (actually, #2 does feature a wide hole right off the tee). What the course excels on is letting you take a series of forgiving, but enjoyable drives in the 200'-300' range. The most challenging hole, #7, whose sign measures it at 500', is a mostly wide open shot which forces you to control your drive and shoot it through a gap between two groves around the half way mark. It's a fairly basic shot, but the gap falls at a range where most casual players likely top out at combining distance and accuracy. The next hole, which is my personal favorite, is an upshot that again requires a gap shot to get around a cluster of trees to the left that hides the basket.

This all unfolds over roughly 10 acres of beautiful rolling grassland. And since it's about 2 minutes off of route 1 it is extremely accessible.

As I mentioned earlier, most of the course is wide open. This really limits the diversity of holes you'll find. If you want to really test your accuracy over long distance you'll be left a little wanting. There aren't really that many landmarks out in the open either, so gauging your distance on the more open shots can be a little tricky.

The real con here is the condition of the rough on the middle holes. It's been cleared out a little since the course first became operational, but the cluster of trees backing up hole 5 is a beast. And that's not even mentioning the bramble which you have to work through if you don't nail your shot through the tunnel. These aren't dealbreakers by any means, though, as you'll have to really lose track of your shot to lose a disc here.

As nine hole courses go, you couldn't really ask for much more. The course will give you an enjoyable hour of easy to moderate open holes over gently sloping hills to go with excellent signage and hardware. Care and effort have been put into designing the holes, especially given the limitations of having almost no brush or features on the fairways themselves. Is it a destination course? No, but I don't feel like that should be the expectation. What it is, though, is the only set of chains north of Cedar Hills. And it's a darn good set of them.