Riverbend DGC

@jed003

6

I had read the unfavorable reviews, and was avoiding this course as a result. After going, most of the criticism is fair, but I still think it’s worth playing. The holes are reasonably short. Even though the “fairway” is narrow, most of the woods to the sides is pretty open so it wasn’t too hard to find the inevitably errant toss. The narrow fairways are challenging, but it still seems relatively beginner friendly. You focus on just throwing down the corridor. Some of the tee locations (mostly signified by a short post sticking less than a foot out of the ground next to the trail), I wasn’t able to find. Unfortunately, this was also the case for tee 1. I came upon the basket, backtracked, never found it, and eventually threw from where I figured it probably should have been, near the trail off to the side that goes to some civil war historical markers. The woods was pretty and there was a big variety of moths and dragonflies. It was surprisingly nice that the course goes in a loop, which adds a sense of spatial progression. On the whole, the narrow fairways and poor conveying of information are negatives, but I don’t regret checking this course out, and would go back.

@roadto501

888

Potential here but the fields are marked not for public use/trespassing. I assume that would include the cross country trail. Even if the disc golf is just for students, a good project would be to better define the fairways and of course mark them more clearly.