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Troutville, VA

Greenfield DGC

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4.115(based on 32 reviews)
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aredoubles
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 7.9 years 258 played 41 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Overshadowed completely 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 4, 2019 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

- Nice variety of holes, with many of the open holes being particularly memorable, with beautiful views of the surrounding mountains.
- Some of the wooded holes ask for very creative shot-shaping under low ceilings, which are fun to practice. (But sometimes it's a bit much, see below).
- Quite a few holes offer multiple options/routes off the tee, which is always welcome. Particularly notable is the water carry on hole 11, which has backhand and forehand options. Another fun one is hole 10, where there's the obvious straight tunnel shot, but also a less obvious sky hyzer over the trees that might actually be the best play!

Cons:

- Navigation can be a challenge. At times, there are multiple paths after the basket, and you're hunting for tiny blue/white arrows that may or may not actually be there.
- Maintenance seems to be slipping, based on reading past reviews. The rough is thick, bridges are rickety, some teepads aren't great, etc.
- I really, really dislike the tee shot on Hole 9. It seems like your only option is to throw a giant sky anny over the trees, in which case you have absolutely no idea where it will land, especially if it fades early in the woods. This is especially egregious because the rest of the hole is so outstanding. Please move the teepad(s) forward, past the woods!
- Generally, some of the lines and basket locations are odd and non-sensical to me. They can force some creative shot-shaping, which is a good thing, but sometimes that tips too strongly into just being overly demanding and unreasonable.

Other Thoughts:

I'm surprised by the high overall rating here. This course is clearly overshadowed by Mayflower Hills, which has the same variety of holes, but has far better design and execution in every way. If we picked amongst all of Mayflower and Greenfield's holes, I'd probably pick 16 holes from Mayflower, and only take two from Greenfield. That's progress in local disc golf. This is a fine Option B for the Roanoke area, but don't expect more than that, and make Mayflower Hills your main destination.
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discNDav
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Experience: 38 years 437 played 91 reviews
3.50 star(s)

nice course with elevation 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Oct 3, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

The elevation changes in this park are superb. Well maintained course with cut grass. Great tee signs and well placed behind each tee so they aren't in play. A stream and pond come into play on many holes.

Wooden steps and small bridges help you navigate over water or muddy spots. Some par 4's and a long par 5, par 61 course. No map is needed since there are plenty of arrows pointing towards the next tee.

Colorful flags on top of most baskets help show the wind and the basket itself, this is a nice touch.

I loved the tee shot on hole #10 downhill and a gap to hit before sloping back uphill. #16 was a hard hole with a sloping fairway towards water but I thought it was very fair par 4.

Cons:

Short cement tee pads, they should be double their current size.

It was extremely muddy in the lower lying parts but this region has received a lot of rain in 2018. #12 felt like a filler hole. #17 is a poke and hope hole with no clear fairway.

Other Thoughts:

I wanted to rate this 4 stars immediately after playing it but then played nearby Mayflower 2 days later and it was much better. Greenfield is fun to play though.

Greenfield is located just 5 minutes from I-81 so it is easy to get to while traveling through this part of VA.

This course is hilly in spots but I expected even more elevation to be utilized from looking at it from the parking lot.





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BrotherDave
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Experience: 16.8 years 192 played 189 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Super Green, Corbin Dallas. 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 1, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

Some gonzo elevation change in effect here. This course has mostly two songs: Wide open bombs across the hills and flat, tree-filled holes around the creek and pond. They're both toe-tappin' and crowd pleasin' and so you basically swing from one extreme to the other. A handful of holes do mix the two up a bit but for the most part you're either bombing away or very carefully lining up a precise FH or finesse BH.

Tees are concrete and adequate though some are a little short. Baskets are good and tee signs do the job. Practice basket.

Absolutely verdant, lush, idyllic natural surroundings. In one round I saw: A fawn, a yellow-bellied slider (turtle), a rabbit, and a groundhog. Mother Nature plays this course regularly. Most of the holes along the creek are completely shaded yet the fairways are carpeted with green grass. You'd be hard-pressed to take a bad photograph of this course.

Design-wise the course plays rather tough. I was flat-lining in terms of energy when I played but I think it's still got some teeth. This is due to the beautiful but deadly (to your scores) aspect conveyed by Nature. The fairways are fair enough for the most part but the thickness of the rough really tightens up the landing zones and makes scrambling nigh impossible. The lines are there but hitting them can be daunting when the course is fully leafed out. I mostly played the Blues with a few Whites mixed in (some by choice, some by accident) and I thought the variety of lines and discs needed was pretty good.

Cons:

The open holes could be monotonous if you don't have the distance for them. The wooded holes could be anxiety-attack inducing if you're really attached to your discs b/c losing discs is very easy to do here. Hole 10 is a good example of a cool hole that you can hate very quickly. It's an open tee off to a gap in the forest way downhill and if you don't hit that gap you need to watch where your disc goes into the green wall of trees and bushes with hawk eyes. We accidentally threw in on two other players b/c we had no idea they were down there. While looking for my disc (eventually located stuck in a tree) the four of us ended up finding 4-5 other people's discs. Because much of the course plays along a creek and pond, it's very thick with weeds there. Even the open holes have large swathes of tall weeds that desperately need bush hogging so you're always on high alert.

Some of these wooded holes were a combination of distance and tightness that made getting a look at birdie practically impossible. The beautiful green grass on the floor of wooded holes just murders your skips and FH rollers which makes it extra difficult to reach certain greens. If you can't throw a power FH and keep it 3-4' off the ground the whole way you'll be vexed.

I liked the Blues but on a few holes they were ridiculous. Literally no fairway visible or the trees had grown out so much that the fairway was barely wide enough for single-file walking. I don't mind a blind shot here and there but the rough was so omnipresent I was looking for my discs enough with the shots I could follow. Even good drives straight down the middle could frustratingly find a pocket of weeds to hide from you.

The 'next tee' arrows help a lot but a lot of them were as hard to find as the next hole was thanks to vines and foliage. Fortunately I glanced at the course map long enough to remember that the course is laid out in a figure 8, front and back 9 loops, b/c overlapping trails can be misleading.

Gnats are merciless here.

Other Thoughts:

I played this course in peak, indomitable nature season but if you play in the fall or winter or even before the bugs come out you'll probably rate this course much higher than I did and I wouldn't blame you. There's a lot of fantastic disc golf and memorable holes here. Nature just happened to be out-pacing the maintenance the day I happened to play it. But I'd definitely play here again just b/c now I know where the holes are. For example I totally misread hole 9, a very interesting hole. You climb a steep hill and tee off basically the highest point in the park and you literally throw over the treeline of mature trees way down the hill. I thought I just wanted to clear the trees and go immediately left but it's actually a lot straighter and farther beyond the trees.

So bring your extremely bright, visible throwaway discs and check it out. Maybe wear pants. But definitely worth a visit even if just because the course is prettier than what your scorecard will probably look like.
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KniceZ
Experience: 13.3 years 104 played 15 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Has potential 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 19, 2014 Played the course:once

Pros:

Stopped by while in the area to play this new course. Had high hopes given the posted reviews.

- Sign board at the parking lot.
- Good fairway mowing
- Very good variety - wooded/open, up/down, right/left, short/long. This course has them all and they are mixed up well so you never get tired of repetitive holes.
- Good double 9 loops
- Some nice bridges
- Signs at the white pads

Cons:

- The tee pads are pretty rough. The white pads have some gravel. But many aren't level. The reds are only marked with a painted board. We couldn't even find several of the red or blue pads.
- There are many places that if you get out of the fairway you're really in the rough and not likely to find your discs.
- Hole 13 is a ridiculously long par 5 given that it's also uphill.
- Hole 15 had a downed tree blocking the approach to the basket. And the tree didn't look like it was a recent fall but was intentionally left in place.
- There are no amenities - benches, trash cans. If you like these sorts of things.

Other Thoughts:

While this course has a lot of potential it's still very new and kind of rough. Upgrading the pads is a must. It may some day be a 4+ rated course but not yet.

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