Hawthorne Park

The colorful purple Chainstar baskets are in for the majority of the 18 holes. Park on the far right side of the lot by the playground to be near the practice basket and hole1. New cement pads for this superb layout. The course is very challenging and has a variety of wooded and open holes with nice elevation. Holes 1-13 are technical and moderately wooded with some unforgiving roughs and mild elevation. Holes 14-18 are more open (lightly wooded) with increased elevation. Hole 18 has a water h ...
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The colorful purple Chainstar baskets are in for the majority of the 18 holes. Park on the far right side of the lot by the playground to be near the practice basket and hole1. New cement pads for this superb layout. The course is very challenging and has a variety of wooded and open holes with nice elevation. Holes 1-13 are technical and moderately wooded with some unforgiving roughs and mild elevation. Holes 14-18 are more open (lightly wooded) with increased elevation. Hole 18 has a water hazard along the left side of the fairway. Overall creative basket placement. Shot placement in lading zones necessary for a few longer holes. Some holes can play from the shorts. The park and particularly the course is maintained. Some litter in and near the parking lot area but plenty of trash cans. Restrooms and picnic tables available. Difficult to navigate with incomplete signage but understandable….the course is still in it’s infancy. UDisc tremendously aids navigation for shorts and longs. Great job to all who spent a lot of time and hard work clearing and continual development of this outstanding course.
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Right now this is one of the best courses on the east side of the state. It has so much potential and a great club behind it! I just played it as my 300th course. I have seen courses all over the united states. This course has SOO much potential. I have heard things about this that made me question it. It's 100% worth the time to check out! This course used the land provided so well. It has a mixture of woods, and open shots, from the longs there are some GREAT placement shots on the par 4s, ...
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Right now this is one of the best courses on the east side of the state. It has so much potential and a great club behind it! I just played it as my 300th course. I have seen courses all over the united states. This course has SOO much potential. I have heard things about this that made me question it. It's 100% worth the time to check out!

This course used the land provided so well. It has a mixture of woods, and open shots, from the longs there are some GREAT placement shots on the par 4s, and it's still SOO new. This course will beat in well along the rough and they are still improving it.

It could use a mando or two to make it play a little harder, but it's not needed. The holes played well and were good holes. The Par 3s were fair and some had some super cool lines.

Anyways that's enough... go PLAY IT

Ohh signage, got a little lost from 6/7, but I managed. Until then maybe a few more cheap arrows.
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What a gem of a course! I love the combination of short and long holes, the technical shots through the trees, as well as a few of the wide open alleys that end a round of 18. Definitely going to be playing this course again soon. I love a course that challenges you technically, like this one does. You are required to make many types of throws, even when you are playing well, in order to get up and down. There are many birdie opportunities, even for a short-throwing player like me, and lots o ...
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What a gem of a course! I love the combination of short and long holes, the technical shots through the trees, as well as a few of the wide open alleys that end a round of 18. Definitely going to be playing this course again soon.

I love a course that challenges you technically, like this one does. You are required to make many types of throws, even when you are playing well, in order to get up and down. There are many birdie opportunities, even for a short-throwing player like me, and lots of well-designed landing zones for some of the longer holes. Big arm players also have the opportunity to go big on some risk-reward tee shots, making a few eagle opportunities possible. It's also nice to have short and long tees (this review is based on the longs) to mix things up a bit.

The course isn't marked out super well, so you have to have an app to guide you from hole-to-hole, and there are quite a few blind tee shots throughout (pro tip: Red tape has been placed on each basket that at least points you toward the next tee pad). So if you don't know the course and aren't playing with someone who does, you may have to scout out ahead to see where you are actually throwing. Also, there are a number of really strong dog-legs that require hitting a landing zone (which are plentiful) but make low scores more challenging (which I'm not opposed to). I love that they have updated most of their baskets to chain stars, but be aware that a handful of cages are old school with single or double chains only.

Overall, this is a really fun course, it has some great shots, clever basket placements, it was well maintained, and worth visiting a time or two, for sure!
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Tough course that requires a variety of shots. Very tight and technical at first, gradually opening up as you go. Good variety in length and use of elevation too. The cement tee pads are nice with short and long on most holes. A few holes have alternate baskets too. Appears they have recently gone through with a brush hog to make it a little more friendly. But a lot of the remains were left scattered, so the fairways are not so nicely groomed in the woodsy areas. A lot of stumps in the f ...
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Tough course that requires a variety of shots. Very tight and technical at first, gradually opening up as you go. Good variety in length and use of elevation too.

The cement tee pads are nice with short and long on most holes. A few holes have alternate baskets too.

Appears they have recently gone through with a brush hog to make it a little more friendly. But a lot of the remains were left scattered, so the fairways are not so nicely groomed in the woodsy areas. A lot of stumps in the fairways. I recall a few holes have heavy poison ivy in the summer as well.

Definitely worth checking out.
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As a local casual but halfway serious player, I want to thank everybody that has put time and effort into this course. My first round at The Thorne was in April of 2022 (I wouldve rated it around C+/B- at that time). In the months since then, it has improved by leaps and bounds in every aspect. There are a couple of seemingly odd layout aspects (that have been minimized with better signage/trail marking/brush clearing), but the usage of the land to create different kinds of holes is great. For w ...
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As a local casual but halfway serious player, I want to thank everybody that has put time and effort into this course. My first round at The Thorne was in April of 2022 (I wouldve rated it around C+/B- at that time). In the months since then, it has improved by leaps and bounds in every aspect. There are a couple of seemingly odd layout aspects (that have been minimized with better signage/trail marking/brush clearing), but the usage of the land to create different kinds of holes is great. For whatever reason, this place seems to have a bad rap amongst a large portion of serious southeast Michigan/metro Detroit disc golfers. In the meantime, I'll take advantage of this course that is never crowded and offers the opportunity to play wooded, open, technical, and simple disc golf holes.
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