Challenge and variety.

-Amenities: Typical for a solid course, with tee pads, mapped signage, and acceptable baskets. Clear paths between baskets. The maps are artistic but slightly misleading.

-Variety: A good mix of woods, open, and transitioning holes. (Mostly wooded on the front 9 with more open holes on the back 9.) Similarly, the variety of distances is good, ranging from about 200' to 600' with three par-4s. The course doesn't heavily favor one throwing style over another.

-Shot Shaping/Gameplay: There are all the elements of a very good course, though see cons below. Shots through the woods are diverse, and in the open they still require good placement to score well. A sampling of good holes: (1) is a basic forehand shape but 350', (4) is a right-turning protected woods green, (12) is almost a u-turn par-4 with an easy birdie or bogey opportunity, and (17) plays downhill and around a treeline at the last moment. The difficulty is pretty high for a local course, with a lot of par-3s in the upper 300' range.

-Navigation: The next tee is pretty obvious from the previous.

-9 & 9: Returns to the parking lot after the first half.

Many holes seem to have been warped out of a natural flight path.

-Unnatural Holes: A lot of the holes out here have curves that just don't lend themselves to disc-throwing. Last minute bends and straight lines after an initial turn are too common and sour the course as a whole. There are also some woods holes that are unrealistically tight towards the end of the front 9 that necessitate a poke and hope approach.

-Blind Tees: Due to the nature of the holes and the grey baskets, a lot of tee shots play blind. This is aggravated by the imprecise maps on the signage. There were quite a few holes where the fairway shape or basket placement surprised me quite a bit once I went down the fairway.

-Scrambleability: There were many holes where getting in the rough instantly took a par out of the question for me. Off the fairway the tree cover is very thick and leaves you with pitch-out or FH roller only.

-Compact: I could see some bleeding from one hole to another, especially on the woods front 9.

Sunrise Rotary is one of the most frustrating courses I have played in a while. It was often hard to know where the basket and fairway were, often hard to force a disc into the shape of the fairway, and often hard to do anything if I missed my drive. There are some really cool ideas out here, some of which are executed well, but the strange shapes force the score on this course down for me to Decent.

Extremely challenging. The course is clean and well kept. There is a little variety in shot...

...but not that much variety. There is a lack of elevation changes and there are too many throw and pray fairways with no real line to the basket.

nice tees ,great new baskets and a practice basket, next tee signs was a big help. very friendly locals were all pretty new to disc golf.

baskets were all very low to the ground. I guess you could call it a challenge instead of a con.we went at 12:30 pm on a weekday and the course was
already getting busy with several large groups.
as others have mentioned too many small trees were left in fairways to enable a well executed drive to fly. i have also never been a fan of 90 degree turns halfway down a fairway on a tight heavily wooded hole.

there were 4 holes i would love to move to my perfect course.
i think i'll wait a couple of years and let "Bubba" clear some of those extra trees out before driving a hour to visit again.

This 18 hole course flows nicely and is in a portion of the park that looks to be only dedicated to Disc Golf. No need to worry about pedestrians. Both the front and back 9 end up right at the parking lot and course flow seems natural between holes. Course Map shed at the parking lot shows the general layout and there was a box on the back side for scorecards but was empty when I was there. Plenty of pencils though. A nice touch.

The front 9 is mostly wooded holes while the back 9 has only 2 or 3 fully wooded holes so if you are looking for a more technical round you can play the front 9 only or if you are looking for more open holes, back 9 is your game. Fairways in the woods are well groomed. I've seen other courses that hack tree out and leave the 3" stumps everywhere but not at this course. Grass was even planted on the wooded holes to keep it looking nice.

A variety of shots is needed to excel on this course but accuracy will win over raw distance. Distance varies from under 200' to over 600' and pars are fair with a course par of 56 that seems accurate.

Full size concrete tee pads on each hole are all in great shape as well as the DGA baskets that are brand new and all catch very well. Mulch around most of the baskets caught missed putts well. Signs with distances look great and the few "Next Tee" signs where needed were helpful.

Most all baskets seemed to sunken in 6-8 inches lower than baskets I normally play on. I'm sure they are within regulation height though.

Many of the wooded fairways seemed a bit narrow and some holes such as 8 had too many guardian trees in the middle of the fairway.

The only hole I thought was a very poor design was hole 15. The sign is extremely incorrect and does not play straight at all. It plays about a 25-30 foot layup shot from the tee, hard dogleg right, then down a 12 foot alley 150 feet into the open where the basket is another 40 feet out of the woods. This hole felt very unfair.

I really enjoyed hole 12 which played out of the woods, to the right and back into the woods. I felt that this was one of the signature holes on the course and nothing could be done to improve it.

*Updated*
I first played this course in 2013, shortly after it opened. I played it again 4 years later and was very impressed with how nice the courses has matured and the care that has put in to it. Great to see improvements over time here instead of something wasting away.

18 holes set in a park-like area that appears to be 100% dedicated to the course. There is a mix of shorter woods, and longer open, and even a couple holes play from the open into woods and from woods into open.

The wooded holes are relatively short, but are plenty challenging as they often have sharp angles, strategic trees in the middle of the fairway, and punishing rough if you miss the fairway. Most open holes had few to no obstacles other than length, but there was a shorter grass fairway and long grass rough clearly defined by mowing that reminded of ball golf (in summertime).

Superb concrete tees with traction tops. Baskets still in fine shape, including a practice basket. Ample parking lot, kiosk with map. A very nice Disc Golf Course sign at the main road entrance. Course navigation was a breeze with plenty of quality permanent next tee signs and clear paths. Also, the permanent tee signs are really nice and classy, a big step up from the originals.

I really enjoyed the aesthetics of nature on this course. It looks amazing now compared to when it was under construction.

Overall, a decent beginner/intermediate course in a town that did not have a course nearby. If traveling down I-24 between Nashville and Chattanooga, the course is not too far from the interstate (12 miles) and most of that is highway.

Some tee shots that I would call unrealistic shapes of disc flight, where basically you have to conservatively putt it from the tee to the bend in the fairway, and then play your long upshot. On many of these it seemed to me there was a better, more obvious spot for the tee- would not have made it any easier, just more of a risk/reward option, rather than a play-it-safe option as your only option.

For me playing here occasionally is fine and enjoyable, but if this were my regular course, I think it could mastered in a short amount of time. The woods holes are pretty short and getting 3's is usually simple even with a putter on every shot. Many of the open holes are very open, with length as the only obstacle..

Not a con, but a potential one: I hope the open hole tall grass is not allowed to become a ridiculous length in the summer. The fairways are beautifully defined and manicured and plenty wide at least.

I have only played here when school was not in session, so I can't comment on playability during school hours- the park is set apart from the school, but the road to the parking area is the school road.