1st hole (346 feet)

To get to the fairway, thread the needle through the first two big trees or try to hyzer around to it (watch out for low branches, and the utility pole, and the wires). Get on the fairway past those two trees and you'll be OK. Sharp slope away from the basket behind it on the right.

Chris: "If I can get past the first two trees, I have a par chance. More likely a bogie hole."

Ted: "Take a Cyclone and throw it straight at the pin with a slight turnover."

2d hole (212 feet)

Only two trees to worry about here: one 40 feet in front and a hair to the right of the basket...and a big one 10 feet dead in front of the tee. The basket itself is on the back side of a small berm that runs parallel to the tee line. Either a hyzer or an anhyzer will get you there.

Chris: "The anhyzer is a better shot if you can throw one, which I can't. I throw a hyzer right of the tree by the basket and usually have a 20-30 footer for bird, which I have hit a couple of times. Otherwise a par hole for me."

Ted: "Take an old XD, throw it to the left, and have it turn over into the basket."

3d hole (262 feet)

Yet another hyzer hole, uphill this time. The fairway is open for the first 150 feet, with several trees defining the last 100 feet. There are three trees guarding the basket, and there's generally more room right-to-left than left-to-right. The manhole cover lies 100 feet out.

Chris: "I usually par this one, unless I let go of the drive early and end up way left. There are only four or five trees to work through, but it seems like I'm always paying Tree Toll(tm) if I try."

Ted: "Panther a little bit out to the right, maybe 30-40 feet in the air, and have it die out and fall left past the trees."

4th hole (325 feet)

Uphill for the first 150 feet, and there's a very tight straight path available, or you can try an anhyzer to stay left of the trees on the right, or you can take advantage of a recent storm casualty and try a big hyzer.. A few small trees between the top of the hill and the basket make this a challenging approach. The manhole cover lies 110 feet from the basket.

Chris: "The top two ways to kick my butt: distance and uphill. I've parred this hole four times."

Ted: "There's a large tree that came down in a storm not too long ago on the right side which opens up a big hyzer around the trees in front of the basket."

5th hole (292 feet)

First off, it's a little tough to find. If you're standing at 4's basket looking at the pavillion, you'll see a telephone pole at about your 2 o'clock. The tee is right near it.

Fairly tight near the tee and open in the middle, with a phalanx of four large trees and one large stump 30 feet in front of the basket. Big arms will shoot past the hole and take the open putt back.

Chris: "I'm in no-mans land on this one. It's slightly downhill, and I can usually put it in the fairway, but I don't have the range to get to an open look for my second shot. So it's lob it over the stump and pray for a makeable putt afterwards. I have birdied a 130' approach shot from here, but it's more often a bogey hole for me."

Ted: "Old-style Classic Roc, throw it a little bit to the right of the forked tree in front of the basket. Try to get past the stump; it's a little tough to putt from behind it."

6th hole (ignore the tee sign; the distance is 235 feet)

Straight up the hill, with parallel rows of trees 20 feet apart to define the fairway. The tightest hole, beginning to end, on the course, but make it to the top of the hill and you've got a wide open putt from any direction.

Chris: "I par it when I stay in the fairway. When I start playing tree pinball, I get in trouble.

Update: I have accidentally found another way to get to this hole: a hyzer around the right side of the trees. You can put it on an open hill with a good look at the basket."

Ted: "Classic Roc straight at it with a little bit of turnover."

7th hole (240 feet, measured as 195 feet to the arrow tree and 45 feet from there to the basket)

A very interesting hole. A fairly open fairway for the first 195 feet (thanks to a storm that brought down a huge tree just to the right of the fairway) which abruptly turns left into the woods and narrows down to a footpath for the last 45 feet to the basket. An arrow painted on a tree marks the beginning of the path, and the basket in a clearing about 20 feet across. Alternatively, you can hyzer past the arrow tree and come in a much shorter trail on the back side, although it's a fairly tight fit between the arrow tree and the OB behind it.

Chris: "I like this hole even though I've never birdied it. I can't control my hyzer enough to throw one at the arrow tree and have it flatten out to go down the path, so I just throw at the arrow tree and hope for a straight approach. I par this one about half the time."

Ted: "Throw a beat-up old-style Classic Roc hard with a little hyzer right at the number tree and have it flatten out to go down the path and leave you an open shot at the basket." (I'd like to point out here that Ted does actually have more discs than just the Classic Roc.)

8th hole (242 feet)

A blind basket up a hill with only a couple of trees to worry about. Throw a hyzer right of the knobby tree (or a good straight shot just left of it) and you'll be fine.

Chris: "Pretty straightforward, but I sometimes have a bit of trouble with the small tree short and left of the pin interfering with my putting. I par it about 2/3 of the time."

Ted: "Go out to the right of the knobby tree with a slight hyzer with a Cyclone."

9th hole (207 feet)

Only three trees to worry about, but they're strategically placed. Best bet if you can't throw a laser is an anhyzer. Slopes away past the basket.

Chris: "This anhyzer is short enough that even I can throw it and have a birdie putt, which I finally hit (after about ten unsuccessful tries). Otherwise a par hole."

Ted: "Take a beat-up XD and throw it with a high angle anhzyer; there's a big hole to the left of the basket."

10th hole (364 feet)

Strongly downhill. Wide open on the right; big trees on the left. The closest of them lies at the bottom of the hill about 130 feet out.

Chris: "Not terribly complicated--throw down to the last tree, approach, and putt out. Par about 2/3 of the time."

Ted: "This is definitely a 'grip it and rip it' hole. If you're a big thrower you can go beyond it. You gotta watch out for the wires 'cause they'll definitely screw you. Take it out right of the hole and have it fall in left. It's strongly downhill, so you have to be careful how high the disc goes."

11th hole (278 feet)

Lots of trees between the tee and the basket, but wide open to the right and open to the left if you can throw an anhyzer over the road. Most players hyzer, but some will anhyzer, and a few brave souls will try to laser through the low ceiling or even throw a roller. The telephone lines grab their share of hyzers, and the speed limit sign is practically a disc magnet on anhyzers.

Chris: "I hyzer this one, which with my rag arm usually means that I'm left with about a 100' wide open approach. I can generally par this hole."

Ted: "There's a couple of different options--a straight shot or roller right down the middle, or a big hyzer around the hole, depending on the wind."

12th hole (242 feet)

Same concept: either a hyzer around the bushy pine, an anhyzer over the road, or a laser straight at the basket. The basket is much closer to the road, which reduces the margin on straight or anhyzer shots.

Chris: "Another hyzer hole for me. I can just about drive the hole via this route; ironically, I've birdied more 80-footish approaches after bad drives (four) than makeable long birdie putts (one). I almost always par this one."

Ted: "Just bring it out right of the pine and have it fall left to the basket. Don't get it so high that it carries into the road."

13th hole (256 feet)

The big tree about 80' off the tee - and the left mando - pretty much takes away the hyzer, but a straight shot at the basket is a lot less complicated here than at 11 or 12. Small trees hinder approaches if you're to the right of the direct line, and long left puts you at risk of OB in the road.

Chris: "Well, I try to throw it straight, but I almost always end up leaving it short and to the left, which is better now than it was before they moved the basket out of the trees. I par it about two-thirds of the time."

Ted: "Comet straight at it with a little turnover. Don't let it go early because then the road comes into play."

14th hole (290 feet)

Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum (two trees close to the fairway barely 30 feet from the tee) shouldn't really be a problem, but Tweedle-dum shuts down any thoughts of a big hyzer. There are a few trees near the pin, and OB looms about 40 feet past it.

Chris: "I pranged Tweedle-dum three rounds in a row with my RDGA Cyclone, which pretty much explains why it turns over the way it does now. The trees near the pin generally aren't too much trouble. I par this one about half the time."

Ted: "It's a nice shot if you take a Comet to the right of the hole and have it fall left. If you're throwing far, be careful what you're throwing since the road comes into play then."

15th hole (416 feet)

Tamed considerably in 1999 (shortened from 669 feet), but the basket was moved from the middle of an open field to behind a line of small trees, although it's open until you get there.

Chris: "I usually have a reasonable par putt if I keep my second shot out of the trees. I par this not quite half the time."

Ted: "This can definitely play tough. A safe route is a little left of the basket since you've got a bigger hole from there. It'll take a big arm to clear the trees; a lot of times, you'll hit the trees and fall short anyhow, so you don't want to pin yourself far to the right because then you'll have no shot at the basket because of the trees."

16th hole (390 feet)

Another nontrivial hole to find. Face 15's basket with your back to 13's basket. Between the two big trees about 100 yards away is the tee sign for 13.

Open except for a large tree near the pin. Big arms will go right and come in from behind the tree, but there's plenty of room to go straight at the pin if you can get a little hook at the end. The little tree on the left side of the fairway lies 162 feet from the pin.

Chris: "Another hole not favored by us short drivers. I'm happy if I can drive it pass the first tree. If I can, I'm usually looking at a par. I'll par this hole about half the time."

Ted: "Nice hard hyzer with an Eclipse or Gazelle and get it to flatten out and fall left at the pin."

17th hole (287 feet)

Plays shorter since it's downhill. Basket set in a clump of crabapple trees. You can go straight at the pin, but players who can throw a hyzer that far often do so, since there's a better opening to the basket from the right.

Chris: "Probably my favorite hole on the back nine. I often end up with a long birdie try from the left. Every now and then I actually make it."

Ted: "Old-style Roc or take a lot off a Cyclone. Throw it right and have it come back left into the basket. It has to be low enough to get under the crabapple trees. You don't want to hit those trees high, because they'll catch it and keep it."

18th hole (236 feet)

Plays longer since it's uphill. A large band of trees just in front of and to the right of the basket blocks the regular hyzer. Big arms will throw the super-hyzer and come in from behind, where a putt missed long lands on fairly level ground. Regular throwers will try to drop one just left of the trees; however, putting long here means watching your disc roll, and roll, and roll...

Chris: "My strategy here is to throw dead at the trees--that guarantees I won't end up there. Usually an easy par, and I've holed a few approach shots. Every now and then, I'll miss a putt long..."

Ted: "Cyclone 2 and take it out pretty far right and high so it stalls out and falls backwards to the hole. If you get stuck in the middle or just behind the middle of the trees, there's a pretty open putt, so you can challenge the trees."

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