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Butter Valley Golf Port DGC reviews
6
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Interrupted by Weather 2+ years
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Updated:
Played on:May 12, 2018
Played the course:once
Pros:
-Some holes were long distances, and would be more enjoyable for someone that can realistically throw 350'-400' semi-accurately and doesn't want to go all the way to Nockamixon or be amongst crowds.
-#5, especially, should be fun for canon arms.
-On the map, the DG course resides on the outer perimeter of the ball golf course, with sections in the woods, but a fair amount was shared among the fairways.
-Fairly hilly, with lots of downhill to uphill or vice-versa on the same hole.
-#5, especially, should be fun for canon arms.
-On the map, the DG course resides on the outer perimeter of the ball golf course, with sections in the woods, but a fair amount was shared among the fairways.
-Fairly hilly, with lots of downhill to uphill or vice-versa on the same hole.
Cons:
-Disc loss potential at #1.
-No rain checks? Check the weather before going.
-With our noodle arms, I and my friend were always getting off the carts again before they even started moving. Given that we also often chasing errant discs on decidedly cart unfriendly ground, not sure renting them really made sense or saved us much walking. I consider walking the course just part of the fun.
-No rain checks? Check the weather before going.
-With our noodle arms, I and my friend were always getting off the carts again before they even started moving. Given that we also often chasing errant discs on decidedly cart unfriendly ground, not sure renting them really made sense or saved us much walking. I consider walking the course just part of the fun.
Other Thoughts:
tldr; It's okay, but not astounding with the other courses around. If you don't throw over 300', I simply wouldn't recommend going here.
This is a pretty cool area, definitely off the beaten path. In the driveway, there's a stop sign because you're crossing a landing strip (!) with small planes parked nearby and it's a golf course to boot.
Prices didn't exactly match on the online description when I went, although that has been fixed in the meantime. For two people the cost, with cart, was $24. As I understood it at the counter, unlike previously stated in the description, it's not unlimited rounds that day. Each new round requires an additional cart rental fee.
Gotta say upfront that this is an incomplete review, I just didn't get to play the entire course. It was a perfect sunny day all day on some Tuesday (iirc) in May, which forecast a vague warning of rain coming, but I play, rain or shine. At basket#10 (which we somehow ended up at from tee 8, map misread); the sky darkened within minutes and we, and everyone else, were hastily shooed off the course because of a tornado warning. Super heavy rain came 10 minutes later, and even small hail. Weather in the area has been pretty sketchy this year.
We were just told to park the cart up front and wern't offered a raincheck or anything. I would have liked to finish up later that week, but I doubt I will come back until I can toss over 350'; and finishing a single round just for a review, in the meantime, to the tune of nearly $50 is too rich for my blood. But that didn't affect the star rating I gave the course.
#1. This is quite a ways from buildings, we were shown to the tees, driving the carts thre for a good minute or so. Throw downhill, with a sizable and deceptively grass stream ending in a big lake. Basket is uphill again. My partner, a beginner, lost 2 discs (Midrange Sharks - keep 'em) in the stream here, submerged in the swampy grass somewhere. The grass on the other side of the stream was treacherous to carts.
#2-4. This took us into the woods. #2 was a lengthy shot, mostly flat, before dropping into a ravine and back up again, basket on right. #3 and #4 got progressively shorter. At the time, the cart got nearly stuck on the path midway through 4 because of exposed drainage pipe blocking the way and needed a good amount of speed to bypass.
#5. A really long downhill shot, around 900' iirc from the farthest back tee. On the left, there's a deep trench on the course and somewhat swampy ground that made errant discs a pain to get. 2/3s way through, it started uphill again and basket was located past a patch of trees.
#6. Another downhill and uphill ravine with the basket fairly, short distance, with a line of trees at the streamline (?) offering an opening. #7 was a backtrack, with the downhill/uphill offering the same tree curtain, but much longer towards the basket, with a line of trees in the backhalf.
#8 was a ways away and was another lengthy one, slightly downhill. I went by the tee direction and shot through a big break in the treeline, only to find out we hit basket 10. A well-known phone app didn't have a map to this course yet. Basket#8 would have been in the woods and basket#10 was slightly uphill, nearly paralell to it.
Going by the map, #9, #10, #13, #14 look pretty short. #11, #12, #15 look medium distance. And the last three, #16-18 are long.
Based on another reviewer, I would have liked to shoot #18 for scenic value alone. Out of the ones I played, I enjoyed #1, #2, #5, and #6 the most. I might retry this course in a couple years when my distance improves. But it's nothing I'm raring to go again right now given the other options around.
This is a pretty cool area, definitely off the beaten path. In the driveway, there's a stop sign because you're crossing a landing strip (!) with small planes parked nearby and it's a golf course to boot.
Prices didn't exactly match on the online description when I went, although that has been fixed in the meantime. For two people the cost, with cart, was $24. As I understood it at the counter, unlike previously stated in the description, it's not unlimited rounds that day. Each new round requires an additional cart rental fee.
Gotta say upfront that this is an incomplete review, I just didn't get to play the entire course. It was a perfect sunny day all day on some Tuesday (iirc) in May, which forecast a vague warning of rain coming, but I play, rain or shine. At basket#10 (which we somehow ended up at from tee 8, map misread); the sky darkened within minutes and we, and everyone else, were hastily shooed off the course because of a tornado warning. Super heavy rain came 10 minutes later, and even small hail. Weather in the area has been pretty sketchy this year.
We were just told to park the cart up front and wern't offered a raincheck or anything. I would have liked to finish up later that week, but I doubt I will come back until I can toss over 350'; and finishing a single round just for a review, in the meantime, to the tune of nearly $50 is too rich for my blood. But that didn't affect the star rating I gave the course.
#1. This is quite a ways from buildings, we were shown to the tees, driving the carts thre for a good minute or so. Throw downhill, with a sizable and deceptively grass stream ending in a big lake. Basket is uphill again. My partner, a beginner, lost 2 discs (Midrange Sharks - keep 'em) in the stream here, submerged in the swampy grass somewhere. The grass on the other side of the stream was treacherous to carts.
#2-4. This took us into the woods. #2 was a lengthy shot, mostly flat, before dropping into a ravine and back up again, basket on right. #3 and #4 got progressively shorter. At the time, the cart got nearly stuck on the path midway through 4 because of exposed drainage pipe blocking the way and needed a good amount of speed to bypass.
#5. A really long downhill shot, around 900' iirc from the farthest back tee. On the left, there's a deep trench on the course and somewhat swampy ground that made errant discs a pain to get. 2/3s way through, it started uphill again and basket was located past a patch of trees.
#6. Another downhill and uphill ravine with the basket fairly, short distance, with a line of trees at the streamline (?) offering an opening. #7 was a backtrack, with the downhill/uphill offering the same tree curtain, but much longer towards the basket, with a line of trees in the backhalf.
#8 was a ways away and was another lengthy one, slightly downhill. I went by the tee direction and shot through a big break in the treeline, only to find out we hit basket 10. A well-known phone app didn't have a map to this course yet. Basket#8 would have been in the woods and basket#10 was slightly uphill, nearly paralell to it.
Going by the map, #9, #10, #13, #14 look pretty short. #11, #12, #15 look medium distance. And the last three, #16-18 are long.
Based on another reviewer, I would have liked to shoot #18 for scenic value alone. Out of the ones I played, I enjoyed #1, #2, #5, and #6 the most. I might retry this course in a couple years when my distance improves. But it's nothing I'm raring to go again right now given the other options around.
