-There are so many reasons why Liberty could be one of my favorite courses. There's a ton of elevation, involving two extreme downhill shots and multiple valley holes that dive down more than thirty feet. The two extreme downhills are both wonderfully designed. #13 being a 555' and reachable par four because it's down more than 60' in elevation and #16 is Virginia's Dropshot! About 305' from the short and maybe 360' from the long and immediately downhill the whole way. I mean, WAAAAYYY downhill down a tight fairway of cedars, offering a view of the football field. This is one of the holes I saw when I was driving on the highway about to reach the exit before I got here. It's a great ace opportunity and it's over 300'.

-#8 is a very neat valley shot in the woods. Drops about thirty feet and rises up maybe a little more. The designated fairway offers enough room to throw a driver for players with less distance. It's about 315' and to the left side. #11 from the short pad was really cool too, in the open. Offers an even bigger valley than #8 and plays down what appears to be a pipeline. #15 was a nice longer bomb that's also a valley but plays primarily uphill with the path in play on the left side. The first hole is a smaller valley shot but is definitely one of the most creative ace runs. Throw under a canopy from the field by the parking lot.

-The mix of open and wooded really enhances the variety that Liberty has to offer. You have opportunities to bomb a driver very far like on #13-15 since they are long and open. There are some very tight wooded lines that are rewarding if they are hit on the front nine. For instance, #6. It's a tight tunnel shot with the short pad maybe about 250' and the long being only about 30' longer but being to the right side behind the short pad. It's tight but very fair.

-There are tee signs that are accurate with nice diagrams. The turf pads worked fine for me. I think most of the holes had two tee signs with the ones with two pads.

-Two pin positions on most holes.

-The leaves. Like you would not believe. They are everywhere in the woods. The fallen leaves are ankle high the entire way on the front nine. They were stacked on top of one another and they covered up every fairway. The trees clearly have a ton of leaves, and more than other wooded courses because I've haven't seen this many leaves anywhere. It's almost a given that you will lose a disc here if you play in the fall. The open holes on the back nine do have rough wooded spots you could land in. I lost a shield on #13. Was a terrible shot, but I wouldn't have lost it if there weren't so many leaves. Reading the previous reviews, it's also pretty messy in the summer with vegetation. You'd probably be digging through some thorns to reach for your disc in some spots.

-#5 long. This hole is asking you to throw a wide hyzer down an extremely tight sharply left fairway down a big hill. The short pad offers a straight view, and it still is very tight from the short even. The long is bogus. The fairway is very tight regardless and takes you out of a small opening into the open instantly back uphill. If you were to hit the line, you would have to immediately turn right the second that your disc flies out of the woods because the opening is basically like a peninsula. And then turn sharply back left because the basket is far to the left side. If you throw straight out and land in the clear before the woods that are then straight ahead, you'll be out throwing steeply uphill directly facing the woods straight ahead of the clearing in which you landed. It's really hard to explain. You have to anhyzer really quick once you reach the clearing or else you are in the woods again because you threw it straight and hit the gap accurately. Could be a great hole with a more valid line to hit.

#11's long pad is ridiculous too. It's like 450+ to the basket and it has you throwing down an extremely low corridor. It's more of an "orifice" than a corridor, and was a real pain up my orifice. If you don't know what that is, look it up and you might know exactly what I mean by that. Granted, the hill declines not too far from the tee box, but it rises back up toward the end. It's impossible to reach unless leprechauns are real and regularly appear at Liberty riding down a rainbow. My drive on this hole suggested that that they are not real.

-#9, #18 and #19 from the longs are all are messy wooded holes that are either over 400' or they effectively play longer than 400'. #9 is about 390' and uphill probably 30-40' in elevation with tight lanes and a severely guarded basket by what maybe more than 50 trees to pass through. #18's long pad is really unapproachable. The line to reach this hole does not make any sort of sense. #19 is 472' and down a tight and crooked trail close to the edge of the ridge you are on. Big arms can try to throw a hyzer over the trees on the ridge and risk not making it back across because, well, there are so many retention trees that can stop a hyzer from crossing back over. This hole does give quite a view, and yes it could be an awesome hole, but being that long of a par three with as much lost disc potential, the extreme unlikelihood of even coming close to having a half sort of birdie look, and the growing of the trees you hyzer over makes it a real bust. I would've loved to see a hole that gives a great view of the campus on an elevated ridge without having to throw up instantly above hundreds of trees. It'd be too generous to even call these holes tweeners. They are too hard to be a 3.5 par or whatever you may call a tweener. I like long and challenging par threes, but not when they have weird lines along with being more than 400'.

-Some of the walks can get extremely slick when wet. I tripped a few times. While we are at it, the course could use more benches. There are a few but not many.

-I was honestly very disappointed. I love courses with extreme elevation and a fair mix of open and wooded. Usually if a course is hilly and about 50-70% wooded, it'll be a 4 at the least but Liberty was a let down. It could be a whole lot better than what it is. Several fairways don't make sense, there were a few bland open holes which weren't fun either but were a breath of fresh air from all the small cracks I failed to throw through and the constant searching under leaves. #20 isn't a great hole, but it's a nice birdie opportunity because it's straight, open, and not as long as some of the holes here.

-If you decide to play here, I pretty much know for sure that you'll have more fun playing the short pads with the exception of #8, 12, 13, and maybe #6 and #20. #16 I think has a long pad further up the hill that you throw off in the woods. There was a flat service that appeared to have a faded print from what would possibly be a missing turf tee pad. That was a very fun shot too. I really enjoyed this hole and threw many putters on it. For the rest of it, play the whites. They will likely spare you from feeling like Eeyore.

-I know for sure that you'll love a least a couple of holes here if you decide to play it, and the ones you'll love you will remember. It does have some special hole quality that'll make you remember those holes but aside from that, this course isn't too great.....

-I thought it would be a WHOLE lot better than this. It's an okay course with some great holes I will safely say but it really falls FAR behind on some ground expectations for a course with 20 holes. It could be a real destination course. I signed up for a tournament at Mayflower Hills (a destination course for sure) and thought Liberty would be well worth the hour drive from my hotel but I wish I played somewhere else for the most part. Luckily, I got to play Greenfield a couple days later and that is an awesome course!

20 DisCatcher baskets and dual turf tees. The short grass turf tees are fantastic when wet. Nice tee signs. Some benches. Almost zero underbrush in the woods.

Good use of elevation and variety of straight and left/right turning shots. Course is more wooded than open. Good workout hiking the course.

Safety on holes 16 and 17, they put up some nets, but I still nearly went on the field on both holes and were actually drives that put me in the circle. Hole 19 is huge downhill that plays over the new parking lot. Some of the holes in the front 11 play a little close together. The turf tees with the longer grass were a little slick.

Directional aids were hard to find in a few spots. Course Tip - when in doubt of where the next tee is, walk uphill and keep walking uphill. Only one loop of hole back to parking lot.

In the summer the coupe holes in the field don't get mowed although it's not that hard to find discs. Hole 13 is a monster downhill and might be the signature hole although I didn't play it because the fairway was lined with waist high weeds. I probably could have played with little issue in retrospect because the landing area was not as bad. If you don't throw over 350' you might not hit the landing area and have to search through the rough in the fairway.

Finding the course. The address listed here takes you to the opposite of the campus. You need to be on the other side of the highway on the east campus and you will see signs for the course.

When I arrived at the course, the siren started sounding off with a repeated weather warning to take immediate cover inside. I checked the radar and looked like the worst had already past, so I waited out the rest of the storm in the vehicle about 20 minutes. After that the weather was calm yet steamy hot. I marveled at the huge spinning radar on top the mountain and that you climb nearly up to it on the course. This course is serious mountain climb and was grueling in the heat in the middle/end of the course.

The course is generally on the short side although there are a couple longer holes. The course is fairly technical, it's fair for the most part from the short tees, while some of the long tees seemed a little too much luck. You will hit some trees playing here at any rate.

Apparently there is another 20 hole course on the other side of campus with Prodigy baskets and is supposed to be more fair and mostly wooded.

Overall Liberty ironically felt restricted. If the course had some more room to itself I feel like it could be a great course. I never played the course before the recent redesign, although from the old map I think I would have much preferred to play the older design. There's not much that is going to wow you here, but if you are in the Lynchburg area and looking to play a course, this would be an ok pick.

Great use of elevation. Course requires you to have a good whip on the back nine and accuracy on the front in the woods. Big fan of some of the huge, downhill shots on the back nine, too.

Wind comes into play at the end of the back nine/beginning of front nine making it particularly challenging at times. Hole 19 and 20 have precarious basket positions which make them even more challenging in the wind.

I am definitely a fan of the hanging basket hole as well as the updated, 20 hole layout. There was a couple new shots on the back which made great use of elevation and the potential wind factor.

From a year ago:
Some holes on the front nine. There are a few exceptions, but there are at least 3 different holes which will penalize a player even for a shot down the fairway. It was laughable at how a couple fairways had trees blocking the supposed route to the baskets. Very frustrating to throw and simply hope to get lucky.

// I was surprised to play this course again a year later and find this to still be true. The remodel of hole 6 into two holes was a great adjustment (even though the rough on current 6 is jail), but holes 3 and 9 still have fairways which end about 200 feet from the teepad and from then on it is random trees. This would be a 3.5+ star course for me if about 4 trees were cut down on each of those two holes.

With the elimination of some trees on the front nine to create more distinct lines to the basket, this course would be great. It has good variety, requires stamina to traverse the mountain, concentration to hit the narrow gaps, and a strong arm to conquer the longer holes.

Its a new course in Virginia.

Five or six really cool shots, but also 5 or 6 from a design standpoint were odd. and Five or six filler type( or ones that felt the same) holes. (Holes 11-17 are a really good stretch for the course.) I really like the uphill ace run and were it was positioned in the course it felt like the right time for that hole.

Good use of elevation for the most part.

Even what I loved the view from 17 etc... Not a great Golf Hole. At least where the B pin is. Put that pin in the woods with a nice fair lane out of the field into and now you can get some scoring seperation from people going for the pin and by having some trouble on the upshot to the pin. For most players the second shot is not a golf shot either a 80-130 foot upshot.

- No bathrooms - No trash cans - No signage on holes 1 & 2. -No Benches.

Tee Pads are atrocious. Big bomber holes with 5 foot teepads that are already unlevel and have like #50 gravel in em. (get some crush and run or trail dust and tamp them). Unfortanetly in the rules of disc golf you have to tee from the tee pads but on quite a few of the longer holes i went to the side. Secondly if you're going to make them short don't put a back log on the Tee box so at least you can step onto without a big up and down step.

In the woods there are some specific trees I would remove a designer, but also as a designer and being on a college campus once you cut it its gone and usually you lose some smaller stuff from damage unfortanetly. Hopefully as the course grows in they can trim it up. (Hole 11- low ceiling shot downhill across ravine the short stuff growing up just across the road has to go. Its a low ceiling shot already)

Hole 13 - Long hole downhill out of reach for most am and rec players. Please run a bobcat (its sitting beside the intramural fields) trail into the woods on both sides so you can at least walk through to try and find you disc. If you're out of the fairway you're lost and that really can deject your average rec player.

From a design point in the woods I would have liked to see more demand for different shot shapes. (baskets were in B postion). Almost all the holes were turn right at the end from the whites and were a pro style hyzer-flat shot shape to get there.

Hole 18 is a filler hole (open field no trouble out of reach for rec, but a two for pros no scoring seperation within division. Not really a golf hole) after a great hole 17.

I played the white tees only was pressed for time a little and I will play again and edit the review if I feel like I did any injustices. Very few amenities out at the course. - No bathrooms - No trash cans - No signage on holes 1 & 2. -No Benches +signage up for paths to next hole at baskets +signage was up for basket position. - Blind shots/landing areas (alot of em). This course does has potential, but in no way deserves a 4 or 4.5 or 5 rating as is. Could get there, but not even close now.

There were quite a few across ravine shots and downhillers on the Par 4/longer holes, but i was really looking for the hole where you would shoot flat or down and then finish with a uphill up shot with some distance. At times on the times there were holes that end up with shots that are not a golf shot for more advanced players.

Usually I take notes as I play when I am going to review a course and this I didn't so next time I play I will and if necessary edit review, but I feel like it is a fair review in comparison to other area courses.

-good ideas on lines
-pretty view/surroundings
-secluded
-baskets and signs

-short uneven ...scarry tee pads
- tee pads are really short and need some work
- first 6 holes were really tight but i felt like more of a poke and hope and less of a skill shot. #2 was an exception.

- more holes need to be cleared out up high

after hole 8 the course seemed to get much better. fun course all and all