The Whitworth Back 40 DGC starts just below the school's intramural building. The course plays five holes out, one up and then the last three back to the start. The baskets are brand new Mach 5s. The signs are the old style fiberglass ones. They have the hole #, distance and par. The tee pads have wood borders but are filled with wood chips which make for terrible run-ups. The first part of the course has been spray seeded and that has not quite taken hold yet.

You start with a 270' downhill which crosses a street/walking path and two little black plastic fences. # 5 is the longest hole at 438'. It crosses two ridges and plays to a basket set in the woods on the left.

I liked the last three holes the best.

# 7 is a fairly tight/straight 396' slight downhill toss through the trees
# 8 is a great little 180' ACE run.
# 9 is a 411' nice downhill with a slight hyzer needed at the end.

The course designers made two big mistakes IMO. #1 is the fiberglass signs. They look great now. In two years, they'll look shabby. In five years, they'll be beat to hell and be mostly unreadable. Every fiberglass sign on every disc golf course in America is unreadable after five years of teen vandalism and weathering.

Secondly, the wood chips in the tee boxes makes for terrible footing. This can be fairly easily remedied. Take out the wood chips and put in some patio blocks.

I'm a little concerned with # 9 being a safety hazard off the tee. Be careful of bikers/walkers/joggers coming up the path in front of you.

The DGCR review page says this a private course and not available to the public. I played by myself on a Sunday afternoon and saw one other person the course and no campus security.

I agree with the previous reviewer. It's worth playing on occasion just for a change of pace from Spokane other top notch courses.