The course is well maintained and is in the process of getting some updates. New steps have been added in recent months to make some of the hillsides safer to navigate and they've added some alternate pin placements. Due to that, signage on a few of the holes is temporary but good enough to play a casual round.

The majority of holes are challenging with only one obvious path to take and you can usually spot the pin from the tee pad.

Pads are concrete and of appropriate length for the holes and the navigating usually makes sense between holes.

Almost completely shaded at all times of the day and drainage is usually pretty good. No drastic elevation changes but what is available is taken advantage of with a few holes running alongside the hills.

Variety is the biggest one for me, as its all short, wooded, technical shots, but if you go in knowing that's what you're in for, it can be fun.

I understand adding some new pin placements to keep things enjoyable, but putting the baskets further back and in stands of trees with no clear shot through, doesn't make much sense to me. You're taking skill out of the equation and just forcing a chuck for luck approach.

With the new pin placement par should be updated or reevaluated, as you've converted easy to birdie 3s into likely to bogey 3s.

Interaction with other park goers is likely on holes that have paths along side them, so be aware of that before your shot. Picnic tables & pavilions come in play as well on a couple of holes.

The course description mentions water hazards you need to throw over, but I guess it means the dry creek beds or drainage ditches, as I've played the course dozens of times and the only water I've seen is in the rough swampy areas on a few of the lower holes.

If you want to play a short, shaded, woods course this definitely fits the bill and is enjoyable. If you want more variety or want to use your drivers more, come back here another day.

For a course that lies in the center of a wooded park that is mainly used for its picnic area and walking paths, it has some merit that it was installed at all.

The course relies on tight lines and elevation to create the holes and that is the main theme. Hit the gap, get a putt, and on the holes where the creek and sinkholes are in play, try not to get wet.

Use of elevation here makes it a real course to me, if this was flat then it would be incredibly boring.

The signs are huge and beautiful, probably the best I've ever seen. If there were a way to denote which placement the basket was in for the ones that have multiple, I would say they could not be better. These had to have been expensive, as were the next tee sign, which they have on almost every hole. Sometimes two of them if the path turns.

I'm not talking dinky arrows or switch covers drilled into trees either. Giant metal and plastic signs that you can't miss.

Baskets were all new and easy to spot once they got in view, though many holes are blind.

There are also benches near many holes, though few by the actual tee.

I got tired of it by the end. The woods were beautiful, and the park was peaceful but I found myself finding the sharp hyzer shots through tight gaps tiring.

For a course that is beginner distances, I'm sure many new players have such a hard time hitting the gaps that it's frustrating.

Despite that the middle section, which has several consecutive sub 200ft holes can make it almost too easy to be fun for experienced players.

While some holes like 2 and 17 have such tight wickedly bending lines, there is almost no way to reach them in the air(forget rollers, it's all roots and rocks on the ground).

I had a hard time pinning down the target market for the course.

Navigation is usually very easy, but 11-12 across the parking lot isn't marked.

Also seems like it could get pretty muddy and hard to play after a hard rain. After 6 hours of misty rain it was slick on the hills and the sinkholes were full.

For all of its issues, it's popular. There were 10+ groups playing in the time I was there and it was a wide variety of types as well. Families, very solid older players, groups of teens and one guy who I feel like may be the ideal player type for this course.

It was a fit middle aged guy, with his dog and two discs. He was throwing nice lines with a beat up DX shark and playing hella fast up and down these hills in the woods.

He might have had the right idea for how this one is to be played. Quick, casual and without the burden of caring too much about your score or lugging a heavy bag.

I won't make the somewhat long trip here just to play this one, and wouldn't tell anyone else they should. But it has some sort of merit, if only because it's a vey place to play this game in a serene setting.

I would play it again, but if I do it will be with my small travel bag equipped with only mids and putters.

A beautiful, heavily wooded course that will test your needle-line shaping abilities.

-Amenities: Concrete pads, DISCatchers, tee signs including map.

-Beauty: One of the prettier courses for a suburban park. The woods are lush from the moment you get to basket (1) until the end. Very pleasant.

-Elevation: Big asset for a course on the shorter side like Suwanee. There are big uphills, big downhills, dangerous side slopes, valleys, and receding greens.

-Navigation: I seem to recall it being almost flawless my first play. Maybe a little confusing from (11) to (12) crossing the parking lot, but otherwise very self-evident.

-Shot Shaping/Gameplay: A gauntlet of tight and challenging woods holes. The distances are all under 300 feet, but there's still plenty to keep your mind occupied here. The shapes vary substantially, from straight to left and right turning to some doglegs and a split fairway or two. Combine that variability with the elevation possibilities, and Suwanee is mostly a non-repetitive course. Some ace runs, especially (8), and some holes that are going to be extremely difficult (like throw-ins only) to birdie for the 2. I'd say the difficulty is upper rec to low intermediate for the first 6 holes or so (thanks to steep uphills, particular curves, and substantial distance), drops off considerably in the middle of the course (which is full of putter runs), and ramps up towards the end with killer side hills and tougher lines.

A flawed, heavily wooded course that may not care about your needle-line shaping abilities.

-Design: Some interesting curves out here. There are short holes that will be literally impossible to park, forcing a play for par. (10), (16), and (17) definitely fall into this category, as they all require either insane levels of turn or a turn followed by a long straight tunnel. (Expand those holes by 70% and you'd have nice, two-shot par-4s, but that's obviously not possible on the track of land.) Many other holes, like (2), (5), (7), and (11), are possibly doable but require some really creative and super precise technique to make it work.

-Forgiveness: This course probably has the most beatdown per foot of anywhere in town. Anything off from the thin line could go into unscramble-able territory. Paramount to surviving Suwanee will be the ability to realize when you can reliably make a shot and when you can't, and then laying up when you can't. These first two cons can make Suwanee a bit of a downer to play unless you're just nailing everything.

-Terrain: A workout when dry, a dangerous mess when muddy.

-Disc Loss: Definitely a possibility, mainly due to some blind shots down or along slopes. If possible, you'll want a spotter on at least (4), (16), and (17).

-Mono-Thematic: Suwanee Creek is a one-trick pony--short, technical woods. The only reason it holds my attention through 18 holes is that it's a pretty quick play if you're not searching for discs or ricocheting too badly.

-Length: The series of sub-200' holes in the middle is just boring, and almost enough for me to drop my rating by a half-point.

-Walking Path: Be careful and look before you throw.

There are some things I like a lot about Suwanee Creek and some things I hate, and that's probably why the reviews on this site are so widespread and polarized. Overall, I think it's a cute technical course with a substantial number of lightly to seriously flawed holes. Going in with the expectation that you'll have to play some lame lay-up holes, I think you can still have plenty of fun gunning for the available birdies and enjoying the terrain. I'll stick with the lower end of Decent for now.

(2.684 Rating) A heavily wooded short technical course.
- NATURAL BEAUTY - A beautiful track of land can hide a lot of inner flaws. The landscape at Suwanee Creek is a tree-laden modest slopping valley with some small headwater creeks. The park appears to be the kind that stays well maintained. Several tee shot lines were trimmed up nicely and photo worthy. It reminded me of East Roswell Park, but a compact version. Overall I scored the course beauty at around 80 percentile and it is clearly the best aspect of this course.
- CHARACTER - The parks department put some money into this course. Well designed beautiful tee signs and course map. Benches at many holes. Concrete tee pads and two alternate pads. Lots of alternate basket placements and DISCatcher baskets. Restrooms are near tee (4) and there are shelters in the park.
- ACEABILITY - Although many baskets are impossible to ace, There are many here that are going to be continuously rung up. Hole (13) was in the short position on my appearance, which is a 132 foot straight putter run between two trees. I personally splash chained out on hole (3). Players are probably 2 or 3 times more likely to ace here than at a normal course.
- NAVIGATION - Excellent navigation with numerous navigational markers. I only looked at the map once between (12) and (13) which is a double back.
- SHOT SHAPING - Lots
- QUICK PLAY - Figure 45 minutes for solos and 90 minutes for foursomes. My tired twosome completed the course in an hour.

SMH
- DESIGN - The fairways on this course the cross the line of ridiculousness way too many times. I'd say at least 5 holes are gravely flawed and another 3 are partially flawed. First, hole (7). A narrow line that hooks right so far that it would take divine intervention to even make circle 1 for the far basket placement. Then hole (10) is an 8 foot wide tunnel shot that makes an abrupt angle to the left 125 feet ahead and then continues straight for another 100 feet while narrowing to 6 feet wide. I've checked all the disc flight patterns and have yet to find one that can become self-aware and make Jerry Rice slant hooks to the left. Moving on to hole (11) where the far placement is tucked left 75 feet from a continuous row of trees completely blocking all left turning shots. Then hole (16), an uphill, 10 foot wide, ludicrous right arcing hole, where putting it in inside fifty feet means the next shot has a chance to save par. Next up, (17), I laughed out loud on the tee... "You got to be kidding me!" An impossible narrow right hooking slightly uphill shot where nearly all discs will land left of the fairway and onto a down slope and then trickle downhill into moderate overgrowth. Honestly the best play might be a controlled 125 foot up shot. Finally, holes (2), (5) and (15) I'd all label borderline hokey. There was no thought into the lines on how a disc moves for this course. Concrete tees were also built backwards. The front ends were widened instead of back which goes against PDGA course design recommendations.
- SAFETY HAZARDS - Walking paths come into play several times and I had to pause for my tee shot several times. Tee (4) plays fairly close to an amphitheater looking bench set-up and (18) finishing nearly on top of a pavilion.
- LACK OF CHALLENGE -More difficult than presented on paper, but much of this difficulty is flawed or luck based. 15 tee shots are 260 feet or less. I personally thru a lot of mids and putters off the tee and I don't throw that far. This is one those courses that a local rec player could beat a 1000 rated player if the stars align.
- FORGIVENESS - Go to your bag and ask your discs to forgive you for the amount of trees you are about to throw them into.
- UNIQUENESS - Almost all short technical holes. The poke and hope shot is a common theme.
- BEGINNER FRIENDLY - Beginner distances, but not for beginners. To constricting.
- SKILL LEVEL FRIENDLY - I honestly don't know who comes in here and loves this course. Maybe the course designers, but that's it.
- TERRAIN - Not a good pick for those with knee pain issues.
- PARKING - Only a couple parking spots by tee (1). There is extra parking by (12/13) and tee (4).
- SPACING - The course feels squeezed. After researching the park boundaries, I was left even more disappointed.

This is a wasted piece of beautiful property and it left a sour taste in my mouth after playing it. I'm sure the designers of this course are great stewards of the disc golf community. But, just because someone may be talented in one of the many facets of this game, doesn't qualify them to design a course. Complex landscapes like Suwanee Creek need professional design. Yet this critical task was likely given to someone with no such track record. I could see a higher rated player giving this course a 2.0 or even much lower. If it weren't for the amazing tranquil landscape, I'd put it down there too.

Suwanee Creek Park hosts a fun little disc golf course. It is a short, compact design that weaves its way through a generally passive park while sharing some of the real estate with a network of walking trails and paths.

The course uses some of the varied elevation changes pretty well considering the constraints of the park. Although the course has very short holes the designers were able to incorporate assorted hole types with a mix of strait, left and right turning, and a few (if not too many) dog legged fairways. It's pretty much a steady diet of tightly wooded holes with only hole one being predominantly open and a couple others that could be considered as lightly wooded.

As far as amenities are concerned, you'll find some nice features here. Beginning with the course, there's reasonably sized concrete pads on all the holes and even a couple with a duel set. The majority of holes also have multiple pin placements. The brand new yellow DISCatcher's are helpful when trying to spot the basket in the dense woods, especially when having to walk up to spot them on the many blind holes. Large Innova flags top them off and help with spotting them as well. There are well-made tee signs that provide distances and a map of the holes. Navigation was pretty easy thanks to some large next tee signs, save for some minor backpedaling at the transition at holes 11-13.

The park itself is nice too. A pavilion at hole one makes a pretty good meeting place and will be nice for tourneys or leagues. Clean bathrooms not too far away behind hole two will be appreciated as there are not too many places to "duck behind a tree" with the busy walking trails everywhere. When needed there are some super nice timber steps throughout the course along with a few footbridges to cross the creek.

The course is short. I absolutely love playing short wooded courses but it seems that the designer(s) tried to introduce difficulty by making several holes shaped in ways that discs don't naturally fly. Consequently, there is not a clear, repeatable way to reach the basket on many holes. On several quirky holes, like 17 for example, the overwhelming majority of folks will probably have to settle for a three almost every time even though it's way less than 300'. As mentioned in previous reviews, the hard turning fairways turn too quickly. It's almost as if they tried to mimic a 450' multi shot par 4 but scaled it down and they just don't seem to work.

There are still many places that need some trimming of limbs in the flight path. Given the narrow fairways, many areas need to have the shule cut back too, at least as you're nearing the basket. Many times a good shot is going to be punished by landing behind a wall of vines, briars or small scrubby bushes just off the fairway.

Sharing a course area with walkers and other park users/features never comes without penalty. A few safety issues coupled with congested areas can take away from the overall enjoyment of the round. This started at hole one. The hole runs along an area directly beside an active pavilion. Anytime the pavilion is in use, the chances are that the open field beside it (which is hole one's fairway) will be used by other non-disc golfing park users (which was the case when I played). There are even two picnic tables on the left fairway, which is exactly where a new player's disc is going to fade to from 50' in the air! Other times along the course, you'll have to be mindful of walkers who are often oblivious to fact that they need to be watchful of flying discs. Beyond hole one, the layout of the course and paths encounter one another often. Many times the fairways play along or near these paths. In addition, there is a time or two where you'll be near a road or parking lot.

Many times the maps on the tee signs grossly understate the turn of the fairways. First timers should walk up the fairway to see the basket rather than relying on the tee sign map.

At the end of the day, even with some frustration on a few holes, this was a reasonably fun course to me. As it gets broken in a little more (and hopefully with some attentive and careful pruning) some of the holes will eventually clear up and add some of what many folks refer to as "validity". Now that's coming from a low 900's rated player. I don't see this as a course that will ever really appeal to high 900's rated players and certainly not to top pros. And you know, that's too bad because with the resources that were put into the course I wish it was something that would have been appealing for all skill levels. However, I'm looking forward to going back and playing it a few more times and seeing if it grows on me a little more. If nothing else, it's the most challenging short course I've ever played.