Pros:
- challenging wooded and prairie areas
- narrow fairways and obstacles force shot placement
- mostly dedicated area for disc golf
- expanded to 18 holes
- navigation is improved
- turf tees have been added
- some next tee signs
- permanent baskets have been installed
Cons:
- tee signs are still temporary
- no course map
- baskets are not numbered
- navigation is much improved from a few years ago but still is a bit confusing
- fairway on hole 15 is unrealistically narrow; too much reliability on luck vs. skill
- directions to course are a bit confusing
- near fenced dog run so some people use course for walking dogs
- wastewater treatment plant next to course has a slightly unpleasant odor
Other Thoughts:
UPDATES 8/23:
I returned to the Bailey's Harbor DGC, now Wild Berry Fields DGC. The course has improved immensely since I last visited, so my rating has increased from 1 to 2.5. Honestly, I still don't love this course. I think some of that is my own subjective opinion, and the property has a fair amount of potential, but I just don't really enjoy playing this course for whatever reason.
I think two of the main reasons are that there are still navigation issues, despite next tee signs being added and this being immensely improved. In addition, the rough on some of the back 9 holes is really rough and thorny and gets tiresome after awhile. The layout of this course seems a bit chaotic.
The permanent baskets, turf tees, and expansion to a full 18 holes make this course much improved. Some permanent tee signs instead of the laminated, deteriorating papers would definitely improve it a bit more. This is the only 18 hole course in the upper part of the Door County peninsula currently, and it's respectable enough to play a round at. For me, I'd rather make the drive down to Sugar Creek County Park in Gardner, WI which is a far superior course.
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I want to like this course but it barely qualifies as a course right now. There are so many problems. I'm all for multiple tee placements if they are documented. These baskets are on wheels so I'm concerned even if this course was better documented it might change and not be updated. I also worry about theft since it didn't look like these baskets were attached to anything.
The biggest issue with this course is confusion and navigation. There are no tees and no tee signs, just stakes with a hole number and length. These only continued until Hole 7 as far as I could tell. I gave up when I couldn't figure out where 8 and 9 started. Arrows in the basket generally pointed to the next tee which helped but since the baskets can be moved around this isn't especially dependable.
To add to the confusion it looks like more than 9 baskets have been added. Some play through the woods and look like they would be fine but I couldn't find the tees for any of these. The baskets are not numbered so it's super confusing what goes with what. I could see this course potentially being a 3 disc course if they made some basic improvements.
Directions said to park at the end of the lot, turns out they meant the gravel drive next to the dog run. I wouldn't call this a lot so I ended up parking by the baseball field in the actual lot. This works if you want over to the course on the other side of the water treatment plant but you'll end up around the end of Hole 2.
Unfortunately, I found this course too frustrating to enjoy much. There is definitely some challenge due to the technical nature of parts of this course and a lot of potential for a fun course. There are high risk areas to lose discs in rough as well. I'd love to see this course improved but wouldn't come back until some infrastructure was added. I recommend checking out the nearby Jacksonport course instead.