A fun mix of shots, lots of bench's.

Short and simple the rough and stumps but this is a new course so that will work out with time. You really need to use spotters to speed up play and cut down on lost discs as it stands right now. In a few places it can be a bit confusing as to where to go next because there are numerous hiking paths in the area.

This course plays a little longer than suits my skill level but I enjoy playing it we go there several times a year to play, especially for the big Winter Wizards event there which hs taken off in the last couple years. The course is right behind the VFW so there is a place to get food and drinks and have been very supportive of the course. This could easily be a championship level course and there is another less than a half hour away so it can be a hell of a weekend get away if you road trip and camp. Once the rough gets better I will raise my rating for the course for sure.

This course is set on a beautiful piece of land dedicated exclusively to disc golf. The design here is excellent. Absolutely amazing use of the land available. The baskets are chainstars that were all in great shape and catch great too. The tees are natural but were still in decent enough shape. This is still a new course so maybe concrete will be added at some point anyway. The course is permanent and free to play. There are basic signs at each hole and arrows and next tee signs at every hole which makes navigation a breeze. The fairways were all mowed and in good shape when we were here. The town of Viroqua is not very big and is not really near too much else so I doubt it would ever be busy. There is a great mix of open and wooded holes here. Also the elevation here is abundant and used very nicely. A number of the holes have short pads, though not all of them. It would be nice for newer players to have shorter, easier options on all of the holes. But this is a championship caliber course so you should recognize that going in. I thought the mix of shots was fine/normal here. Most courses do favor RHBH and this wasn't any different. But this place will require all shots and discs in your bag. I can't state how fun and challenging this course is accurately. I can nitpick this and that but It's just plain fun. Not for fair weather players by any means.

The cons I have can and probably will all be addressed at some point since this is a very new course. First the tee pads. If they put concrete or even rubber pads in here it would really upgrade the overall experience. Second the signs, the current ones are very basic. If these were updated it would make the course more appealing. As they are currently though, serve their purpose.

This is just a flat out very fun yet challenging course that was designed to make the absolute most of the available land. I personally would rank this in the top 20 in WI out of the about 200 I've played. It kind of reminds me of maybe the middle brother out of the Justin Trail's little and big brothers. With better signs and tees this is a 4.5 for sure. As it stands now in it's infancy it is still a solid 4. Go out of your way to play this, It's that good. You won't be disappointed unless you only like plain park style courses. This paired with Justin Trail's would be an absolute brutal but awesome day of disc golf. About as good as you'd find in WI.

If you were to look at each hole individually and out of context, each is practically a masterpiece of design. The course is laid out well, easy to follow and a challenging hike that offers great exercise. It is also among the most difficult disc golf I have ever played, owing to the slopes, elevation and length.

No concrete tee pads. I know this doesn't bother many, but on a course of this length, it reduces my distance from the tee by about 15% and takes about a half dozen holes out of birdie range and into a range where I must be careful to avoid a bogie.

The length between holes ranges from long to extremely long in some cases, though I forgive this because they were utilizing the land so well to create great holes.

There should be a sign to show you the well hidden path down to the first hole. If you didn't look at the map, you will walk well past it, see a path that leads down, and end up at the green and forced to walk over 300 feet back to the tee. The signage is pretty terrible overall, with the exception of the arrows that indicate where to go next. Hole 4 is illustrated as a big, long right to left curve, when it is absolutely straight when you look back to the tee. Hole 15 is also illustrated as a left to right curve, when the shot is in fact a left to right.

The BIGGEST FLAW, however, is that the course is utterly lacking in balance from the short tees to the long pins that I played that day. I am a lefty backhand player, and only three holes fit that configuration (3, 5, 8, and 5 and 8 are inordinately long and impossible to get a deuce). Only four holes are balanced (7, 15, 16, 17, and 15 is so well guarded that deuce is nearly impossible and only players who can throw well beyond 450' have any chance of a part on 16).
Holes 1,2,4,6,9,10,11,12,13,14, and 18 ALL favor a RHBH throw and 4,6,9,12, and 13 are so long that a lefty really struggles for par (even a short hole like 2, that a lefty could reach, is nearly impossible).

Hole #11 is patently unfair. A tree on the right is marked to be taken down, but this favors the righty that is already favored on that hole. A minimum of a half dozen trees to the left should be removed to make the hole fair (it is reachable at 280, but has such a protected green in an arroyo that having an impossible fairway is beyond punishing and unfair).

The rough to the left on #4 needs to be cleared a bit and a lot of deadfall removed. It is nearly impossible to find a disc in there without a long search and many trees make the possibility of ricocheting to the left likely.

#13 is disastrously unfair to the lefty from the short tee.

The land is exceptional and the design pretty good. There are not alternate tees on every hole, and creating a few more that are shorter--the course is championship caliber, but even a former pro over 50 like myself will struggle a little, though I only bogied 16 in each round--and that don't have completely impossible slopes, hills and design tricks.

There is a difference between challenging and fair and unfair, and this course is mostly unfair with the potential for changes that would bump up my review to 5 stars and put it in my favorites (I am taking off a half star for the lack of tee pads, and a half star for the ridiculously unbalanced favoritism to the righties and the bad signage).