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Charlottesville, VA

PVCC DGC

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HyooMac
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Experience: 6.9 years 425 played 393 reviews
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Not a course - but a beautiful walk 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 11, 2021 Played the course:once

Pros:

No tees, no signs - it's 9 baskets placed around a campus




+ There are a couple of nice holes. #1 is pretty: looking down from the edge of the parking lot at a basket sitting under a big spreading tree. Then the better holes are in the other part of the course, with some open fields, some elevation, and a nice finisher down an alley of spruce trees to one of the building entrances



Cons:

- The nine holes are divided into two groupings at opposite ends of the campus. More than 1/4 mile separates them, and the most direct route is through parking lots. I drove between the two sections and didn't feel at all lazy about it (especially since parking in one spot meant doubling the long walk)


- There's significant danger in the design: the teeshot on #4 bisects a main walking path. It plays down to a nicely-placed basket below a steep hill, but an OB baseball outfield really forces your throw directly over the walking path, especially since it's a blind shot at the basket


- After holing out on #4, you walk back up the hill toward the tee (danger: anyone playing 4 behind you won't see you on the green or walking up the hill back toward the tee) and you throw from the walking path down into the woods to find basket #5.


- There are no tees, or any indication of where tees might be, so you're going to be approximating with uDisc. Come to think of it, the course probably can't be played without uDisc.


Other Thoughts:

~ The closing holes play high up on a west facing ridge, and the views at sunset must be spectacular. I'm happy to find any campus that includes disc golf, and I imagine regular players get to know the various quirks of this layout. For those of us just stopping by, I suggest playing with uDisc in hand, with the expectation of a long round and lots of backtracking to find tees and baskets, and a slow pace to really enjoy the views. It's not much of a course, but' it's a nice walk on a pretty community college campus


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