After playing Mt. Airy and Idelwild back to back, I fell back into my old course bagging ways and showed up at RA Jones Middle School. RA Jones has nice amenities for a school course. It has nice sized concrete tee pads, decent small metals signs and Discatchers with the yellow bands and numbers.

The course has some decently long holes with # 7 playing at 375'. The first hole plays the shortest at just 130'. Most are just straight throws with the biggest challenge will be just keeping your disc on it's intended line.

# 1 plays down to the softball field and close to the parking lot. # 2 plays along the end of the soccer field. Then you enter Barking Dog Alley or holes 3-5. These holes play down along beside the neighbor's fences. As you walk past each house, their menacing mutts go crazy, barking loudly and passing it on to the next dog. It seemed as though every house owned a deranged pet. My question is? If these canines get so crazy with one tired old disc golfer walking back by, how do they react with scores of middle school mutants, carrying on only as middle schoolers can act?

As much as I love seeing courses being installed in our schools and then used for Phys Ed classes and after school programs, I have some serious concerns about this course at RA Jones. So many disc will find their way into the neighbor's yards along Barking Dog Alley. Also, # 7 is a 375' hole that plays along a sloping lawn that borders a deep, nasty rough. So many disc will find their way into that rough. And then, some students will manage to get their discs up on the roof on hole 9. Having taught at the middle school level for four, very long, years, I know that some middle school boys will have a grand old attempting to launch their discs up on the roof.

I had a pretty relaxing round here, despite the menacing mongrels of Barking Dod Alley. I'm rooting for this course in spite of all the lost discs possibility. I fear that school officials will get awfully weary of dealing with the neighbor's complaints.

This is a course designed for beginner / rec players (Middle school kids course). Tees will be grass. Tee areas and signs due to be installed in Fall 2013. Safety was a forethought in design knowing kids will be playing this regularly. Tees will be away from baskets. There are no fairways crossing or next to each other.

The course is mostly open. It goes around perimeter of school grounds. Holes are short. Wind will be the majority of the difficulty.

It is designed with kids in mind since the school will be conducting PE class competitions. Once hole lengths and par are determined, the hole info tab will be updated.