1. The land! Water, elevation, woods, and scenery.
2. The money spent on this course is impressive. There are several wood platform tee pads with benches that are so large they could be framed up into a small cabin. These include turf tees on top of the wood platform, making the ideal tee pad.
3. Multiple different shots throughout the course. This course will not bore you. You might even empty your bag on a few holes. I suggest holes 9 and 15 when it's in the original basket position.
4. Options. There's something for everyone out here. Front 9 has woods while the back 9 is longer and more open. If you don't want to play in the insane heat, stay in the woods!
5. Fair water hazards. While the water does present a hazard, it's not impossible to avoid.

1. Not extremely challenging. I'm rec rated and shot even a couple of times. Just stay out of the water, hit the fairway on the front nine, and rip drives on the back nine.
2. I don't care for the gravel OB on hole 12. You can be parked in the circle and OB. Just over throw the basket to stay safe.

It's difficult to think of more cons. A lot of players love hole 18, but I don't. It's an easy 3. Lay up, easy jump putt across the water, and drop in putt. Why anyone would run it, I'll never know. There's not much room to land on that island.

Start on hole 10. I think it plays better that way. Plus, you have the longer, open, lack of shade part of the course done early. Hole 9 is a fun hole to finish.

Speaking of hole 9, the basket you can see from the teepad is hole 10. This looks like it could be an awesome hole also. I'm sure a lot of players make this mistake the first time they play it and throw towards hole 10 like I did.

Really fun course with a little bit of everything. Water carries, wooded tunnel shots, wide-open downhill bombs and standard fair "regular" shots make this course really engaging for the experienced players and novices alike.

Multiple holes have built-up wooden platform decks with ample benches as tee areas.

Cabins are available to rent on site in a beautiful setting.

This is nitpicky, but a good bit of the course needed a heavy mowing, especially hole 16.

Holes 7 and 14 are a little gimmicky.

We rented a cabin and stayed at the resort to play multiple times over a weekend. If you're looking for a destination course with lodging, this is a great option.

Kudzu Cove was recommended to me on a recent trip by Wellsbranch250 and while coming to play a tournament nearby I decided to stop in.

Very glad I did and this unique property has a course that will challenge many players and leave all in awe of it's beautiful surroundings.

It lies near the lake in Guntersville, and though the lake itself never comes into play you can see it from the top of the hill on holes 12/13/15 and that is a beautiful view.

The course winds through and behind a group of cabins that seemed to be mainly used by out of town fishing enthusiasts as there were many boats parked outside, or departing as I was playing.

The gravel lot has course info and some trash cans, and your first tee and last basket are within 200 ft, which is nice.

To begin you throw a shot shaping hole around the pond and shaping shots and contending with OB will be a common theme for a few holes. 2 has an OB road with the basket in the middle of some trees on a hill.

Many of the pads, including 3 have big wooden platform pads with seating attached, 3 is built into the side of a large rock chimney, which was cool to see. 5/6 contend with a different pond and then you play a few short tight wooded holes before hitting two of my favorites.

8 plays back across the pond and is a pretty legit par 4 with chance for OB in the pond and road. 9 I'm has another of the huge platform pads, this one with a roof as well, and plays around 600ft with a substantial downhill.

The course then winds its way up the hill and has the great views I was speaking about. You are mainly trying to stick hyzers into these steep hillsides for a few holes, and then play some fun downhill shots on 15/16 to set you up for the final run down to the island on 18.

Baskets were all newer and in good shape, most holes had seating including the big platform tees, and there were trash cans dotted in high traffic spots as well.

The tees are turf, and mainly in pretty good shape, the ones on the platforms are perfect.

The have a publicly available water pump by hole 18. I'll tell you why i cared about that later.

The cons for most players will be few, there are a coup of holes that feel like filler. 10/11,14 and 17 come to mind as ones that more get you going where you need to be for the next feature hole, rather than their own unique experience. Though the designer/owner did note that 14 would be redesigned in the near future.

A few of the hillside pads that were not on platforms are getting a little uneven, nothing another few bags of gravel couldn't fix, but this will probably be a regular need for those pads.

Could add some longer pads for a few holes to make it more challenging for some. I'm an advanced player and shot -6 first time through with one bogey, I feel like to shoot 950 out there it would need to be -8 in an event.

Overall this is a well thought out, great use of land and I really loved playing there. Wouldn't mind renting a cabin in the future and playing it several more times.

The owners were also very helpful and open that this course is primarily targeted to intermediate players, and I think that that level of player would be most happy to play here, and anyone will have a good time(unless they are very new, then they will probably lose discs on 1,4,5,8,18 in the ponds).

Also note, the edges of the island on 18 can be very slippery. I was getting into my stance at the edge of the island and slipped into the pond knee deep...as well as elbow deep. Hence the need for the water pump.

Definitely a must play in this area!

Surrounded by the Tennessee River and Guntersville Lake on land that's nearly an island, the Kudzu Cove DGC offers incredible picturesque views and some darn good disc golf.

First, if you're worried about lots of kudzu, fear not. Except for maybe a spot or two, it exists in name only.

When I played the course in December 2019, I gave it a 3.5 and slightly based it on potential. I played the course for a second time recently, and Kudzu Cove has implemented several excellent improvements to the course, pushing it past the 3.75 threshold and prompting me to boost its rating and update my review.

These improvements include new customized signs with excellent instructions on where the out-of-bounds areas are. New turf tees have been installed on a number of holes to replace the natural tees. Also, several enormous wooden decks have been added to significantly improve the teepad area; these structures also include seating, shade and space. Check out the photos of this tremendous construction work. The designers are going the extra mile to provide the amenities that make for a top-ranked course.

Even better, the designers have tweaked several of the holes and added some alternative pin placements. All of the design changes they have made so far get a thumbs-up from me.

As for the course, the opening hole offers a foretaste of some of the fantastic designs available. A slightly downhill and fairly open hole is no simple task with a small hill guarding the pond on the left side and a mando tree and cabin on the right side.

Kudzu Cove includes three ponds in its design, leading to some of the cooler holes on the course. Hole #3 features a wooden hearth teepad and a downhill approach with the largest pond on the left, while Hole #4 includes a deck over water that will have you driving from near the middle of the pond. Hole #8 also utilizes the edge of this pond and a tighter fairway, thanks to a mando tree on the right side.

The back nine offers a couple of awesome downhill throws - Holes #13 and #15. Plus, while on Hole #13's teepad, you'll want to pause and gaze at the gorgeous views overlooking the surrounding waterways.

Hole #16 was previously a wide-open, blah hole that felt like a filler. But the designer moved the teepad location to a spot in the woods that requires more shot-shaping precision for the drive.

Finally, Hole #18 is one of the sexiest finishing holes I've played. At only 222 feet, this classic closer features a bona fide island green about 60 feet across, generating the vision of Hole #17 at the TPC Sawgrass golf course in Florida, and prompting you to decide if you feel lucky, punk. Don't worry, there's a wooden bridge to cross the pond, plus the shallow water means a possibility of recovery if your drive goes splash.

If you're approaching the course and see a locked gate with "No Trespassing" signs, keep driving; you're almost to the entrance of the resort area. After you enter the resort, drive past the pond and there's parking on the right side. The first hole is just across the gravel road on the left side.

There are a couple mandos on the course, and while the mando on Hole #1 encourages safety, the mando on Hole #8 isn't as necessary but adds to the difficulty by eliminating a bailout shot over the pond toward the more open area.

Hole #11 has a watery mudhole on the left side of the fairway, and it isn't visible from the teepad, so you may want to check the water level before throwing. Or stay right.

A couple holes on the back nine indicate that the gravel road is out-of-bounds, which seems a bit random and like mediocre design.

With water in play on up to half a dozen holes, your chances of drowning a disc are decent.

Kudzu Cove DGC offers tremendous variety, breathtaking views and lots of smiles. And the dedicated designers are intent on continuing to improve their offering. When I visited recently, a number of green baskets were also set up in a separate, lightly wooded area for some putting and upshot practice.

Don't tell the owners, but this course could benefit from a donation box. The Kudzu Cove DGC course is worth a couple-hour drive to play.