(1.893 Rating) A heavily wooded course needing a caretaker.
- RAW BEAUTY - I rolled up to Mountain View Park under a medium dense fog. Other than hole (1), which is open, seeing these wooded lines with shifting elevation in route to the basket in the fog was mystifying. I really liked hole (3) which sort of has lake Hartwell in the backdrop behind the basket. Hole (6) and (8) also have views of the lake through the trees off to the right. Elements like these would normally take my overall beauty score way up there, but there are some drawbacks. Hole (5) appears to be the city's dumping grounds for leaves and dirt fill. The course did not feel like it was maintained well and it had also recently experienced a fringe hit by a tornado in April 2020. Regardless, the course beauty overall is the main reason I've scored this course a 2.0 instead of a 1.5.
- SHOT SHAPING ACEABILITY - Some of the holes are so short that aces are bound to happen. Three holes are sub 150-feet, but a disc will need to be guided down a constricted lane. I personally find this ace run style way more enjoyable than the open variety.
- QUICK PLAY - Twenty-six minutes for this quick solo player. I would imagine groups of four could be done in an hour.

Upkeep.
- MAINTENANCE - It does not appear anyone volunteers to keep this course in check despite noticeable play. Right away on tee box (1) I was presented with a bit of an unlevel surface with a couple roots protruding. It was a precursor of things to come as none of the tee boxes were in good shape. Lots of tree debris along the course layout as a tornado had passed near-by recently as noted above. Most of the big stuff was chainsaw'd up, but there was still a bunch of work to be done. One tee sign was uprooted (5), and a couple baskets were dinged up.
- LACK OF CHALLENGE - The lengths would suggest this is a beginners course but the density of the woods makes that not so and more like an upper novice level course. As noted above, three holes are under a 150-feet in length and only two holes are over 200-feet. The two-hundred footers are holes (4) and (9), and they are listed as par 4s. These two holes look hard to deuce due to the angles and tree coverage's, but at the same time also hard to score higher than a 3 for veteran players. They are not very good holes in my opinion.
- AMENITIES AND EXTRAS - As alluded to above, the tees are sub-par and a natural surface. The tee signs are simple and adequate, but nothing more. The baskets are Mach IIs and were generally in passable shape. That's it for the amenities and extras.
- HOLE VARIETY - It's ok for a niner. There's some shifty lines that break both ways. Hole (1) is an open shot to get the arm aim warmed up. The distances are definitely on the short side and it would probably be played all 3s by numerous higher skilled players. There's a bit of monotony after (1) with all the highly constricted line plays.

Mountain View was a decent bagger hit for me. I liked the tranquility of the woods and the debate in my head on what gap to shoot on these shorty ace runs. This course is going to have a niche of players that adore it, but most skilled veterans beyond 5 miles are not going to be making frequent stops here. For the course baggers out there, this one reminds of me courses like Johnston Woods Retreat in Nooga, Common Ground south of Nashville and Towering Pines in Mississippi. These are all short heavily wooded niners that I've scored between a 1.5 and 2.0. Mountain View fits in well with them.
- NAVIGATION - Considering hole (1) tee and basket were easily spotted on the drive-in, I had no problems starting the layout. Tee signs have next tee direction on them. Next tees are generally very close by, or there's a somewhat intuitive short path leading to the next tee. If I recall correctly, I had a one-minute recon excursion to find (6), but that was the extent of my hassles to get around.

Don't need many discs....I finished this one with 2 I think
Short quick course
Good for learning lines

Not very well maintained.
Can be confusing getting to next tee
Extremely wooded without much variety

This course is right near where I go to church so it is a fun little course for a after church quick round. It isn't all bad...just needs some TLC

This course is really close to campus with a lot of parking right next to Tee 1 and Basket 18, and the course is located on the shores of Lake Hartwell. The ruggedness of the course is a perfect blend of wooded and navigational. Tee shots are definitely important to playing each hole as the fairways are really narrow for the most part except for a few holes. Elevation changes on the course are nice as well with nice floating downhill throws and uphill shots requiring good placement.

Only having 9 holes is a big downfall for this course. The amount of land used could easily have a few more incorporated. Tightness of some of the fairways might discourage a few players as well.

While the course was heavily wooded for the most part there was very little underbrush to lose a disc in. Obviously some work was put in to creating it and I think, if it is up-kept, in the future it could mature into a really nice technical course to play at.

A great place to learn how to shape lines.
Defined tee areas and decent signs.
A pretty good variety of shots for a 9 holer.
Starts gentle and then the whip and handcuffs come out.
Good warm up for several courses that are nearby.

Several poke and pray holes.
Generally good navigation but a next tee sign or two would help first timers.

This course plays on the side of a large hill in a park that appears to be more of a boat ramp than anything else. It starts you off with an easy 172' straight shot with the woods on one side and the road on the other. As Admiral Akbar would say..."It's a trap!!" as this will be your last easy bird. Hole 2 has a weird archeology looking site and even featured a spine, though it was really clean so it was probably plastic. I didn't have my DG forensics kit...sorry.

A solid workday with a chainsaw could easily bump this puppy to 2.5 discs, a solid weekend of work could put it in the 3 disc range, it is a cool course but there is just too much luck involved.

I did enjoy it and it was only 1.5mi from where we were staying so that was part of it, I wouldn't drive across town for it but if I ever find myself passing through Clemson again I am there!