(3.208 Rating) A moderately wooded city park course on some beautiful land created by damming up a small creek.
- NATURAL BEAUTY - The Scenery is clearly the best aspect at Citronelle. This is not the typical municipal park setting. The course is located adjacent to Citronelle Lake and is comprised of mostly moderately wooded holes. The landscape has lots of gentle slopes in the 10 to 30 foot grade change range and its usage made a few lines pop. Only a few manmade features are in view. The only drawback is the lack of maintenance and it brought my overall beauty score down just a touch. I scored the beauty a 3.75, roughly 82 percentile in my rankings.
- UNIQUENESS - Solid hole type variety. Up shots, down shots, left and right. A couple holes require some solid shot-shaping. There is one bomber par 4 to end it and a good dogleg par 4 on hole (6). I really liked the green on (14) which has the basket on a mini bluff. Water is in view on a few holes, but is usage is mostly just fringe punishment. The water element could change if the dam water were at the maximum level.
- CHALLENGING - I played the White tees and thought the challenge was a touch light for my Intermediate level skills. I took a look at many of the back (Blue) tee lines as well and I think the extra length would have delivered the challenge I desire. My only wish is that these tees were paved like the white tees.
- NAVIGATION - Surprisingly not too bad considering my signage con listed below. There are also deteriorating navigational markers between several holes. Several next tees were in site of the prior basket, some transitions were intuitive and a couple times I guessed right. No course map on site. The course is mostly cart friendly. Only hole (14) looks difficult to lug a cart around.
- MULTIPLE TEES - I like it when a course offers multiple skill level options. Three tees on many holes. The tees are colored coded according the PDGA recommendations. Blue for Advanced, White for Intermediate and Red of Recreational. Although, as with many older courses, its skill level alignment is off a touch. I'd say they are closer to Intermediate for the Blue tees, Recreational for White and Novice for the Reds. Regardless, this course will appeal to a wide swath of the disc golf population.

Could use an overhaul of the basics.
- TEES - Asphalt tees that are passable but not ideal. Several are too small and a few have surfaces needing repair. I had planned on showing up and playing the Blue tees, but those markers were on natural ground except for the few that were shared with the White tees.
- CHAINS - Mach 2 baskets that oddly caught all of my putts. The concrete base on basket (16) is almost completely out of the ground due to erosion.
- SIGNAGE - All the signage needs attention. The tee signs and navigational cues are fading and a few are unreadable. A lack of numbers on the baskets and no course map posted on site.
- NO BENCHES - A surprising omission for such a nice course. I typically like to have a tee bench on the next hole when I walk up 30 feet in grade on a hole. Bring the Zuca if you got it.
- TIME PLAY - Not a quickie course. Figure north of an hour for solos and 2 1/2 hours for foursomes.

If Citronelle qualifies as a Mobile area course, then it would be my second favorite of the 15 area courses I've played as of this review. Way behind the Admiral, but ahead of courses like Chickasaw County, Chickasaw Community, Langan and Fairhope. I have not played highly rated Daphne or South Alabama yet. Definitely worth it for a Mobile area resident to make the 40 minute drive from downtown to play here. In its heyday I likely would have given this course a 3.5, but I'd say its slipping due to a lack of maintenance. Currently listed just inside the DGCR top ten for Alabama, but IMO it should slide out and into the top 15.
- PAY TO PLAY - I didn't pay anything to play here and I never saw any indication on where to pay.

Course is in a state-park-like county park, so the aesthetics are nice (peaceful, pretty, no bad neighborhood). It's situated among tall pines, partly in a developed area with grass and no underbrush, partly in woods that are not too dense. Good variety of hole design, some good use of elevation. Easy to follow routing.

If you're off the fairway, there's usually a chance to recover with an excellent upshot.

For campers, the course is only a few feet from the campground at one point.

Good holes, but no really great holes.

Sand teepads.

I played most of the Mobile courses during a blazing hot summer vacation. With the filtered shade of the pine trees and the mostly unblocked breeze off the lake, this was the most comfortable one.

Worth the drive out from Mobile.