My Three pros:

- Very beginner friendly course with no water or heavily wooded holes to lose discs. Most holes are in the ~300' range with three longer holes ~400' spread through the 18. Several holes, especially the 3 longer holes are marked as par 4 on the new tee signs, so the 'official' pars are set for beginner level play, although most folks play the course as all par 3's and par 54 total. Most holes are very open, typical for the Denver area course, and only bring a few trees or shrubs into play on several holes. Due to the openness it possible to play most of course however you like - backhand/forehand/hyzer/straight etc. with only a few holes that actually force a certain line. The front & back 9 holes are in loops that allow players to jump in hole 1 or 10 depending on the backup at 1; though its a bit far to try to get back to the car and back between the front and back 9.

-The park has gone though allot of effort in the last couple years to improve the course and surrounding park. Now course has new tee signs, new trashcans at most holes, and most recently they have added mulch at most of the greens and nice mud-scraper metal grates at every hole to remove mud before throwing. They also recently built a nice bathroom at the course entry and pavillion area that people use to queue up before leagues and such. The course already had and still has nice, large concrete tees and quality baskets and practice basket. The navigation is a breeze for the most part but there is a nice course map posted at the course entry as well. This course is nestled at the back of a big park so there is a large parking lot that only fills when there are games going on at the nearby fields.

- The course holes are unique enough to give an enjoyable round despite the easier holes. If theres only short time available to play, the front or back nine can be played quickly (if its not too busy) and still get a quality 9 holes in, I do this frequently on my lunch break in about 30 minutes. The long holes are long enough that 2's on those are well earned and several holes are within ace-able distance to make the shorter holes engaging as well. Despite being in the plains rather than the mountains there are several holes that use minor elevation change to add challenge as well.

My Three Cons:

- The course is a little too open and easy, which makes for a pro when you want to practice but a con if looking for a challenge. The biggest challenge here is the very frequent wind, especially in the spring months. Other parts of town can seem totally still and it still be whipping wind at the course somehow. There are few holes with mandos (for safety) and the three long holes, otherwise most players are looking to reach and score on most of the holes.

- The course is beginner friendly and therefor can be very busy on weekends and nice afternoons. Furthermore, they hold league matches at the course twice a week in nice weather months, come early or plan to go slow and keep an eye out for errant discs. With several holes squished together in places it is imperative to watch out for others throwing at you or risk getting hit.

-The course gets very muddy after snow melts or heavy rains and can be pretty tough to play in. Due to the high traffic there is not much grass, and due to the low grass there is high amounts of mud when it gets wet. The new mudscrapers should help with this issue.

This has been my home course for the last couple years and really is a fine 3-star typical park course. My favorite thing to do here is decide from the getgo on hole 1 am I: playing for low score? all backhand? all forehand? alternating backahnd & forhand? putter only? maybe I'll just try out this new disc. The course is open enough that it can be attacked any way and allows for some fun creative rounds that would just be punishing on a tougher/tighter course.

Other notes: You can see the mountains in the distance from the course if thats an important thing for traveling players, I found it nice my first time. The grass can get very high and that is main cause of disc loss here, keep an eye on those discs. There is a state park across the road with a nice lake and dog park, among other attractions. The Village greens park itself has nice beginner mountain bike trails and connects to the cherry creek bike trail that runs up and through denver - if its a nice day you will see cyclists galore. Luckily those trails are mostly all kept far enough from the course that they dont get in the way.

RIP to the really cool sandstone cairn tee markers that had each holemap engraved into the stones at each hole so they could be replaced with cheesy, but far more noticeable, teesigns that hardly depict the actual hole to be played. Wish they brought the cairns back. Oh well, come play!

+ Wide open; good place to practice new discs and shots
+ Good park amenities; bathrooms, resting places, etc..
+ Nice concrete tee pads
+ Baskets in good condition
+ Nice variation in elevation on some holes

- Some holes have little to no obstacles
- Some of the stone engravings for the hole number and distance are damaged
- A couple holes play literally right next to each other and stray shots can come flying very close to you

All around a fun course, I actually found it more difficult to come up with a list of cons then pros. The course can get pretty muddy from snow melt or rain but I didn't think that was fair to put as a con since that's the nature of playing a course in a natural grass area rather than a manicured lawn. Definitely a course I will be adding to my normal rotation this year.

Wide open course that is easy to find your disc everywhere except #14

Easy course and shots

Trashcans

Bathroom

Easy to navigate (if you read the course layout before starting.

Practice basket as well as big fields for warm ups

Some tree benches

Minor elevation changes.

Not much obstructions to test shots

Crowded

Weekend parking can get slim (other events like soccer and baseball)

Perfect for beginners to learn the game and build their skills

There are only four par 4's here and one of them is hole 1

I like this course to try out new discs and forehands.

Being from indiana, I wasn't sure what to expect from Colorado disc golf. Would I puke from the elevation sickness? Could I throw 45% further because of the thin air? Would I just get really stoned on all of the second hand, legal weed? I am glad I got to answer all of those questions.

baskets - seem new. Maybe they aren't, but every basket on the course was in great condition and didn't show any signs of wear and/or tear. The practice basket was also in pristine shape. So I am assuming this course has not been in for a super long time. If it has, I am happy to be wrong about that.

layout - a blind man could find his way around this course. it follows a very natural layout and it makes sense without having to memorize a map. It also does a good job of following the natural terrain in the area and making good use of that.

signs - super neat, very unique signs that are made into the rock of the hole marker. There's a little map on each hole, with the hole number and distance right there. I enjoyed that these were clearly local materials and using them made it feel more like we were out in the desert a little bit.

shots - a decent variety of shots out there. I like that the elevation changes were used to make you consider a couple of alternatives from time to time. The hard pan floor was also something different for me, and I had to learn how to shape my shots a little differently so the discs would skip a mile away. I also like the use of the swampy area on 16 to make a super unique shot.

fun factor - I got to see real life Prairie Dogs, in person. On the course! So I am going to fan girl out and tell you how much fun that was . It was also throwing a midrange a mile, off of the hole hill on the front . Very neat little shot.

As much as this course could be, there just isn't a lot chances to create a ton of interesting shots. It's pretty wide open out on this course, and it does feel a little repetitive on a couple of holes.

While I loved the idea of the signs, I would have liked them to be a little easier to read. There were a couple of signs that were tough to read because of the size of the font, and the dust that had covered them.

It was pretty massively crowded on the day we played. I can see how this might be an issue.

There are some layout issues. a couple of the holes are way too close to one another, and a disc came into my fairway with little to no warning.

This is a good course. Not great.
With some different pin positions, or a pro pin, or some creative use of artificial elevation, this place could be pretty neat. As it stands, most of the holes are wide open, straight ahead shots that depend solely on an elevation change for the challenge.

And while the signs are unique, they aren't always good.

Really enjoyed the hole variety
Easy to follow, good tee boxes and holes
Easy to access from the parking lot

Very crowded during weekday
Thick vegetation made losing discs a high possibility

Fun course to play right by Cherry Creek

Actually has some elevation, and vegetation to make things a bit more interesting. Course will be much better in years to come when some of the trees have actually grown in. Not a very difficult course, but always very fun and enjoyable to play.

Concrete tee pads are somewhat small. Not a huge issue because most of the holes are relatively short, but it would be nice to have a full size pad on the few long holes. There are some very nice sculptures on each hole that are intended to show the distance and layout of the hole. Unfortunately, they have not weathered well and are very difficult to read. I'm sure at one point in time they were awesome, but now they just look like extra rocks pilled up next to the tee pad. Hopefully they will be restored or replaced so people can actually read them.

This is one of the better courses around the Denver Metro Area (This isn't saying a lot considering how bad some of the other courses are, but it is still better than nothing). All and all a very fun and enjoyable course.

I truly believe this is the best course in the eastern metro area. The tee pad for one and ten are both right by the parking lot so its really easy to do just a half round. They did a really good job with the layout of the couse, and the park as a whole. There is really no reason to be any where near the course if you're not playing disc golf; the course flows very well even without a map its not hard for a first timer to find their way around, also the course is easy enough to not be frustrating and you probably won't lost a disc so bad it can't be found

one of the big down sides to the lay out is that nine is right in the middle of the fairway for one. This is really the only thing on the course that makes you say "why did they do that?
While there are some interesting elevation changes on the front nine; after hole #13 it was just all flat
Prairie dog holes and uneven ground make run ups on second shots dicey

this will be a really cool course in 15 year if the veg lives
also this course connects to the Dayton light rail station via a path which starting in 2016 will connect to the air port so you could paly this course on a long layover (say at least 6 hours to do it justice) via just foot and trian

-Low risk of losing a disc
-Good use of elevation
-Strategically placed trees can be challenging
-Nice variety of distance
-Concrete tees
-Decorative rocks with information on each hole.
-Away form other park users

-Fairways can be very close together
-Grass can get out of control
-Trees are new and small
-Greens are really fast

This is my home course and the course I learned to play on. I've played here about 50 times and still enjoy it. The course presents a nice challenge due to the strategically placed trees right off of the tees.

Longer holes and nobody else on the area make for a good round. Course is easy to follow with nice pads and signage pointing the way.

Very open. Not a lot of greenery. There are a couple of trees planted, that when mature, will make a little more challenging. Only one position for the baskets. The same course layout over and over again.

A nice course if you're in the area. Maybe a few hole changes to mix it up a little bit.

Nice concrete tee pads on every hole. The tee signs are custom, carved rocks with a hole diagram and distances engraved in the rock. Good variety of distances. The course is mostly flat, but does use the elevation it does have nicely, with a couple of nice uphill and downhill shots. The 15th is a fun ace run if you know where to throw across the small river between the tee and basket, which is blind from the tee.

Only one tee and basket per hole, means players of every skill level are stuck playing the same course. A few holes might be a little long for beginners. The course is mainly wide open, and even though there isn't a practical need for a defined fairway, it does make it less fun when you have to walk through the wild prairie grass on most of the holes. A couple holes play close to eachother, and there are a couple tees from which you could easily throw to the wrong basket the first time you play this course. Not a big issue if you play this course more than once, but something to be aware of the first time you play this course.

This course can get really windy. I've been caught off guard a few times when arriving at this course. A light breeze at my home, which is just 5 miles from this course, can be a strong wind at this park. Don't know if it is because it is so open, or if the nearby dam intensifies the wind, but I've cut short a couple rounds because of the wind here. There is plenty of evidence that they plan on having improved landscaping on this course in the future. There are a bunch of newly planted trees and bushes with irrigation systems throughout the course. Hopefully, they take good care of this course, as the layout has plenty of potential if the landscaping that they have started is allowed to mature. If the trees and bushes are allowed to fill in, there is definitely potential for the rating of this course to go up. This is a fun course to play when the weather is nice, but can get frustrating when the wind is up.

Well laid out course once you know it. The end of the front 9 and the back nine is in the same place, right next to the parking lot. It makes it easy to play 9 holes and go back to the car or 27 if you're like me and you want to play the back 9 twice.

Front 9 is pretty easy. Great place for beginners to learn how to play. Lots of wide open shots, little to no risk of losing a disc. The back 9 is a little more advanced, and I think more fun.

There's a few long par 4's mixed in that improve the course. You can really test your throwing arm if you want to come in under par.

The city spent a lot of money doing landscaping and putting in trees, sprinklers, beautiful carved stone tee markers and so on. A for effort on that part.

There is maybe 1 mature tree on the course. This makes for a lot of wide open, easy shots that really only test your throwing ability. Once the trees that the city put in do grow in it will be a lot more fun, probably one of the better courses in Denver Metro.

The course can be ridiculously windy. Be sure to bring something super overstable and something super understable for throwing with and against the wind.

Pretty easy, just not a lot of difficulty here. There are maybe 2 holes that require any kind of technical shot making.

I play this course a lot. A lot a lot, because it's 2 miles from my house. When I first played it I didn't like it at all. I thought that the city really failed with the course. But the more I played it, the more I like it. It has really grown on me a lot. Kudos to Centennial for doing the best that they could to put in a course in a pretty barren area. If you enjoy mountain biking there is a cool course to ride here that circles the frolf course. Not to mention the marina, soccer fields, baseball fields and so on. You could really make a day of all the activities there are to do around here. If you come out to play, I hope to see you there.

You can't brush aside the sheer amount of money that the city put in to this course. Landscaping and irrigation alone cost more than most cities would even sniff at spending. Tee signs are carved in stone (literally), and the course is free of trash and well maintained. Other lush facilities at the park (expansive fields for picnics, mountain bike trail, baseball fields, etc make for a complete day in the swanky Cherry Creek area of Denver. Birdie opportunities abound, pretty much regardless of your cannon or noodle arm. What little elevation there is, they tried to utilize. Nice course map at the start, well placed rocks and logs for benches blend in to the landscape of the park. If you want to see how the richer folks live, spend a round here in Cherry Creek, so you can ponder all of the poor choices you've made in life that prohibit you from living in this area. I did. Holes 14-15 bring a small amount of dense foliage in to play and are interesting, but you shouldn't really lose a disc in there unless you release early (rhbh). Quality baskets. Course rounds back to the parking from 1 to 18 nicely.

Let's face it, this is an open field. The trees planted will create a small degree of obstacles in 10-20 years, but hey, i'm all for planning for the future. Not many trash cans, but not much trash either. A lot of point and shoot holes right now, and there is no single obstacle on the course that you can't throw over. They may have been limited by the land given, but it's a bit cramped. You can see 2-3 baskets at any one tee pad and not be sure which one is the target. Could use a few longer holes for such a large expanse of space. Has a few par 4's (such as 450') that really should be par 3's. A bit repetitive, and some holes seem to be the same, leading to a propensity to have to search for discs for a couple of minutes in the seemingly same visual landscape of native grasses. No shade, and i imagine the wind can get nasty at times.

I never want to slag a city that is willing to put in a course a such great expense. It's a fun course if you are in the area, but i wouldn't drive from outside the Denver metro area to play it. Maybe in a few years.

New 18 holes in Metro Denver.

Space is removed from most other users of the park.

Planned and built on the assumption that DG'ers are going to take good care of an attractive course.

The Cherry Creek Dam produces a variety of wind conditions. WHen I played, a mild upslope disappeared behind the dam in the lower portions of the course.

Attractive tee markers with a map, lines, and distance for each hole etched into a rock face.

Big wood chip circles around basket should prevent the mud-hole creation seen at so many metro courses.

Out and back travel pattern starts and ends close to parking lot.

Lots of vegeation has been added, along with drip irrigation systems. If we don't trudge over the plants, they will grow into some great obstacles.

So far, the course is clean and tidy. I only packed out a couple of wind-blown bags and bottles.

Wood chip circles make for very fast greens. Little chance of the lucky dig at the basket (maybe the challenge this presents is really a good thing)

This course will be a mud pit until some more vegetation takes root.

Several cross shot opportunities. Keep your head up! WIth the mountain bike course ringing the course, there may be opportunity for unintentional moving targets, as well.

I am not a good judge of distance, but hitting 2/3 of the long shots in 3, and the last one in an easy 4 shots makes me wonder about the numbers posted on the rocks. Maybe I'm getting more distance?

I thought this was a fun course, variety of shots, and an interesting stroll through a neighborhood that I do not know at all.

I can't wait to see it grow, and I hope that some responsible locals take over, and set a positive tone here. It would be sad to see Village Greens turn into Expo.