This course plays through an abandoned neighborhood along White Oak Bayou. It has two sets of tees that are vastly different looks on each of the holes. The baskets are older baskets, some from Tom Bass (RIP), but they all still catch fairly well.

I was impressed with the large difference of length within the holes. You have your shorter easy birdie holes, and you have longer holes that make a two or three very tough to obtain. Being in an old neighborhood, the course is littered with large trees that will knock down errant shots. Though all of the lines are fair off of the tee. I really enjoyed hole 2 as it has a solid risk/reward type look.

The course is almost impossible to navigate without the map here on DGCR. All of the tees are marked with bricks, but being level with the ground, you are not able to see them from the previous basket.

Though there was a big difference in hole length, the course does not really offer anything unique that you can't find anywhere in Houston or hole-by-hole in the course. Also being an old neighborhood, the course may be the flattest in the entire city beyond the six inch curbs you will have to cross.

It was surreal playing here. The golf was decent, but it is surreal playing through empty streets and empty lots that have all been washed away by flooding. It really speaks to the power of Mother Nature especially here in Houston. It was a weird feeling playing where people spent their lives and grew up.

With that, there is also the feeling that this area brought people a load of grief. People probably left these homes for the last time via boat, and the grief of the aftermath of dealing with flooded homes and belongings.

It was an odd round, one that was fun to play, but the empty streets and empty cul-de-sacs brought a surreal feeling.

Well manicured
Variety of foliage
Usually 2 lines on each drive

Still some trash around.
No way to navigate without a map
Baskets are worn bit still catch

The course is quite good. 3.25 stars. White tees offer some shorter birdie runs and the Blue's, while longer, are still fair with the addition of 4 par 4's. This course will not take over as a tournament course by any means but it could serve as a unique alternative in the area, a la Nottingham to Moffit (not to mention the 12 hole layout). Played twice it is a solid 24 holes with a track interesting enough to want to play it again another day.

White Oak Bayou Bandit. I always wondered what was at the end of the White Oak Bayou Bike Trail and it is what we all hoped it would be. Disc golf amongst older growth trees in a former neighborhood that Houston's flooding has rendered uninhabitable. The Houston disc golf scene is blessed in a way because the areas right along our waterways flood so frequently. Over time they have become parkland and public space due to government buyouts. I do not know the details surrounding the area this course is in, but much like McDade in Conroe, homes once stood where we are now hucking plastic. It will not be unusual during your round to see an old banana tree or two giant evergreen firs surrounding an electrical breaker in the middle of the fairway. Parking is along the Cul De-Sac on Loren Ln. use 9198 Loren Ln. as the address to course.