Pros:
- Golf Carts: You can walk the course or rent a golf cart. Renting the cart makes this a truly unique and fun disc golf experience. Your bag is in the back; you have a built in cooler; and the breeze in your face on hot days between holes is great. However, I would only play this course and rent a cart when it is not "cart path only" due to rain. This would make for a very significant amount of walking.
- Bar/Grill: Many of the pros of this course involve the amenities that come with "ball" golf. You can buy food and drinks to take with you on your round, or stop in for those afterwards.
- Groomed: As well groomed as an average golf course which is high in disc golf standards. Throwing second shots off of the fairway feels better than plenty of tee pads of thrown off of at other courses. However, when it dips in the woods on a few greens, you can tell the grooming is at a minimum. This is rare though.
- Challenge: Even the best of the best will stretch their arm out on a few holes here. For the amateur, this just means more fun time riding around in the cart.
- Beauty: Great use of creeks, woods, and ball golf fairways. Makes for some really stunning shots
Cons:
- Ball Golfers: Bringing two worlds together can create tensions. I did not have any problems with this, but I could certainly see where it could arise. I went above and beyond to get out of the way and give them the right of way. This was stressful at times and affected my experience, but I felt it was the right thing to do to shine a good light on our sport.
- Tee Pads: Concrete is almost always preferred, but the turf was in ok condition. More effort could have been put into putting something under the turf to level the tees as this was an issue at times.
- Tee Signs: Only the hole number and a QR code are labeled on each tee sign. I think a little more description without having to use your phone would be a big improvement.
Other Thoughts:
Not pros or cons:
- Baskets: The new 1/2 diameter StrikeZone baskets are nice but thoroughly challenging.
This course was a little hard to rate. Where it lacks in some of the basic disc golf amenities, it shines in others. When it comes to lacking tee pad and signage, I frequently found myself thinking "who cares, I'm in a golf cart!" But with the golf course perks, comes the stress of lots of different types of users especially when it's busy. At the end of the day, a very unique experience that I would highly recommend everyone give a shot and see if it is for them.