Carlisle, PA

Coyote Hills DGC

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jamespenn
Silver level trusted reviewer
Experience: 4.2 years 35 played 36 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Lots to like (and dislike)

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:May 3, 2022 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

Teeboxes are flush to the ground and large (unless you're playing the reds)
The course routes back to the parking lot after #9, and really you're never very far away from your car, even though you feel like you are. It's easy to play a few holes or all 18.
There are several very exciting holes here and numerous birdies are possible.
While the corridors are excessively narrow at times, the woods are pretty cleared out. So if you go off the fairway you're still in relatively maintained areas.
The tee signs tell you how far it is to the corners of the doglegs (and there are a lot of doglegs)

Cons:

There are 3 sort of dull holes too.
Too many plinko type holes where you just throw into a grove of trees and hope for the best. If you see a short hole on the card, rest assured you're just throwing into trees.
some of the paths to the next hole are a little muddy and slippery.
If you mostly play Innova discs, your Leopard is going to get a serious workout, as it is silly to try to throw more than that off many tees.

Other Thoughts:

It's a good course that I want to like more than I do. I think the main problem is the course has such a promising beginning, but then it just piles on too much so that by the end you're kind of exhausted and disappointed, particularly if you're playing the blue tees to the far baskets. One is a serviceable starting hole, mostly in a field with a bunch of OB, then you play a series of jagged holes in the woods that are easy birdies IF you can throw it 250 feet down a corridor no wider than the tee box. You can air it out again on a long downhill par 3 around a cell phone tower, then back to the woods. #9 finishes close to #1 tee and by now you're probably excited to see what the back 9 has to offer. Unfortunately all it offers are narrower corridors requiring longer shots to reach the corner. The only wide hole is a 920 foot mostly uphill par 5. The overall sensation is like being in one of those movies where the ceiling or walls are closing in slowly on the main characters, as they yell for help. After a series of punishments, you reach #17 with it's hillside fortress basket and say "wow!" that's pretty cool and wonderful, and it is a great and fun drivable par 4. But then you reach 18 tee and look down a chute barely any wider than your disc, and the sign says 400 feet par 3 and you're back to reality. If you can throw a forehand that turns right after 250 feet, then back left after 350 feet, maybe you'll be somewhere near the basket in 1. Most people though, take your 5 or 6 and stomp to the car in a huff. This is a course where you're not missing much if you play the whites instead of the blues. In fact, the white tees give you more options from the tee, and is more exciting. I also wouldn't say that this course is "very hilly" although most holes do have some hills. There aren't any 200 foot climbs though.
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jjtwinnova
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 8.8 years 246 played 97 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Fun, Wooded Challenge 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 18, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

Coyote Hills is set in the wooded area of an otherwise solid looking park. The course winds it's way through the trees as it navigates the dense Eastern PA woods.

The holes are mostly wooded par threes, requiring accurate placement with a midrange or a fairway driver, hoping to give a look for a birdie. While not overly difficult, a single tree kick can turn a drop-in birdie into a double bogey.

The tee areas were nice, with very good concrete tee pads, and an adequate tee sign. The yellow discatchers were visible through the thick foliage.

Most of the lines that were carved out of the woods were very forgiving, as they led a path to the basket. While the lines were not the largest, they were definitely there. A few trees taken out in the future will further improve this course.

A lot of solid holes, mostly in the woods, but my favorite hole on the course was hole 6, which after a few really tight holes let me lay into a drive. The view from on top of the hill was quite picturesque.

Cons:

I played this course on a very hot, very muggy, August day. The gnats and mosquitoes were coming full force, something I wasn't too surprised to experience, but be prepared to wear bug spray.

The course plays through the woods, with well-carved out lines, as mentioned above, but the rough, is very rough. Knee high grasses and bushes and other nastiness attack your ankles, and finding a disc is difficult sometimes. Luckily, I suffered no casualties that day.

The par 3, wooded short course is one of my favorites to play, and it requires a lot of skill to score well, but it is not championship caliber. There are a few "longer" holes here, but it is not on the same page as Iron Hill, Moraine, and other top-rated wooded beasts. As much as I appreciate and love these types of courses, they are hard to rate at a high level.

Navigation was a little rough, but I kept a map up on my phone which helped in some of the stickier scenarios.

Other Thoughts:

I really appreciate what the club has done with this course, making something out of what was otherwise untapped land. The amount of work that it probably took to clear these fairways and make the course what it is today would have been astronomical, so kudos to the volunteers and designers!
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KniceZ
Experience: 13.2 years 104 played 15 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Not in the summer 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 16, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

Nice course layout with great mix of hole designs. No right or left bias.

Good signage and next tee indicators makes for easy navigation. Tee signs on both short and long pads.

Many holes with good benches.

Good use of available terrain and elevation.

Good concrete pads

A lot of time and money has been put into the trails and bridges.

Cons:

The pictures taken in the fall are misleading. The fairways are very tight and underbrush very thick. Good chance of disc lose. We only saw two other groups playing and both we looking for lost discs.

Some doglegs were very tight. Some seemed to be over 90 deg if you didn't want to risk going over the thick brush to cut the corner off fairways.

We didn't play Rec (reds) but they only had a row of pavers and no signs.

Only two hole that I felt that I could really let one go. All others I powered down / disced down to TRY (not very successfully) to stay out of the brush.

Other Thoughts:

In the fall or winter I'd possibly give this course a higher rating but when we played it the nats and deer flys are a P.I.T.A. Also the under brush is so bad if you get off the tight fairways there's no recovery. E.g. The long hole 13 requires throwing 250+ and hitting a tight fairway multiple times.

With the tight fairways and doglegs we started sending spotters down the fairway to ease disc recovery.

Overall a course worth checking out but bring your pin-point drive accuracy.
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prerube
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Premium Member
Experience: 16.9 years 275 played 236 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Coyote Hills DGC 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 23, 2011 Played the course:once

Pros:

18 holes with nice discatchers and concrete tee pads.

Maps, scorecards, and pencils were available at the start.

Moderately wooded with some elevation changes and one basket that was in a raised box.

Navigation was not too bad, but you do need the map.

Cons:

No tee signs on most tees. Map is needed for navigation.

More than half of the holes were blind shots and towards the end there were no real lines, just a chuck through the trees and pray.

No signature holes, no hole made me want to throw a second disc. I felt I had seen all this course had to offer by hole 10.

Several times I had to cross water and there was no way to cross. I am not sure if this was due to flooding, but 3 times I had to wade through shin deep water to finish the hole.

Hole 6 has a large tower surrounded by barbed wire, I saw several discs trapped behind the barb wire fence unable to be retrieved by their owners.

Several of the holes seem like they would eat discs in the summer when the foliage is in full force, such as 12 and 13.

Tee for 11 is behind basket 8, which makes it easy to skip holes 9 and 10, which I should have since both holes required me to again wade in shin deep water to complete the hole.

Other Thoughts:

There was a porto-potty and a soda machine on the other end of the parking lot by the pool.

The main road to get to the course was flooded and much of the course had water that probably would not normally be underwater.
The trails between holes provided pretty nice scenery.

I did not know this course was only a month old, it is a nice course for being so new, I am sure many improvements are coming.

Score card says for more information visit their yahoo site: http://sports.groups.yahoo.co...oup/CVDGACC/.
They also have a Facebook Carlisle Coyotes
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