Triple tees on all 18 holes with single basket position providing a good variety of shot shaping left, right, and straight, and varying the distance and challenge for different level players. Good use of the elevation and wooded terrain. Surprisingly little underbrush in the woods.Two loops of nine holes back to parking lot and pavilion.

Lacks in signage. Hard to find some of the tees in the open as they are only marked by wood planks flush to the ground. Some people may list the natural and gravel tees in the cons, although I think they are just fine.

Overall Sontag is a very good and challenging course. While I enjoyed most of the course it seemed to be a little too extremely open on the few open holes, and extremely wooded on the rest. Holes 2, 10 and 17 were my favorite as they play from the open or woods and then finish opposite. I have to agree with what most of the other reviews say about the wooded holes bottlenecking too much and making them become more random than skill based challenge. If a few more trees were strategically removed from some of the fairways, this could be a top notch course. At any rate, if you are in the area I'd recommend it.

Terrific course that with a little tweaking and refinement could be among the echelon of best courses. Good balance of open and wooded, some in & out of woods type holes and an abundance of multi-shot holes (legit par 4s, etc).

It's set in a beautiful, rustic VA locale near the mountains so the terrain is terrific for disc golf. Good elevation, mature forests and well-mowed fields combine to create a disc golf cocktail sure to intoxicate most players. Three sets of tees with short reds, butt-kicking whites, and god knows how tough blues (only played the whites for the record).

Not too much trouble figuring out directions as little signs point the way to holes okay enough and the fairways are well-defined and intuitive for the most part. This is a course that validates you for hauling around a small warehouse of discs in your bag although you'll likely be regretting leaving home those magical straight discs we never seem to have with us. The whole course is a fine symphony that seems to get better as it goes on.

The symphony ends on a sour note unfortunately. The last hole is a blah open field shot straight uphill.

The orchestra makes beautiful music but on certain holes it sounds like the instruments weren't quite in tune. The natural, often gravel, tees were decent enough but having anything short of concrete for a course of this caliber is like having bucket seats in a luxury car. You're often subconsciously wondering "Would I have hit that tight gap if my foot didn't shift slightly in the gravel?"

Another con for me was many holes bottlenecking too harshly. Lots of big, wide open fairways rushed into a thimble of a green, I felt like Yosemite Sam being tricked into diving into a shot glass of water by Bugs Bunny. The big, open, downhill hole (10 I think) is a good example of this. A great hole, but asking players to hit the ~30' landing zone necessary to navigate the last 150-200' of spandex tight fairway from ~500' away uphill is a bit much. More than this flatlander can do without luck or steady replay. A lot of the wooded tunnel holes would hourglass into this hallway narrow gap that really seemed to ramp up the luck factor. I think some very calculated fairway widening would zoom this course into the 4-4.5 category.

Some of the tees can be hard to spot as they are mostly just posts of wood lying on the ground. Tee signs are old and could use some repainting or updating. Kind of disappointed that water didn't come into play really, especially that pond you hyzer over the corner of.

My technical nitpicking aside, this is a fantastic course and very well worth a trip. The whites here and the shorts at Ferrum make for a terrific combo of courses as the whites are really blues anywhere else. I'd like to come here sometime during the fall or winter when the trees are bare to see if it plays any more forgiving. One of those courses that can refill your cup if your zeal for disc golf might be waning.

- A true golf course, where you will throw every shot you have in your bag
- Tees are better than ever for the holes in the woods. Railroad ties frame the spacious tees that are filled with gravel (57s) and sheeting (gravel dust) mixture. Excellent footing in any weather condition.
- Championship level course. Tee shots require accuracy to set-up either your birdie putt or fairway approach. Miss off of the tee and your score will rise.
- 2 9 hole loops around a central location. Swing by your car, stop after 9 holes, or play the back nine first. This design aspect is sadly lost on a lot of good disc golf courses

- Fairways tend to tighten up the closer you get to the basket on most of the holes
- Half of the course is brand new as of June 2012 so there is lots of sticks, stumps, and other derbis either on or just right off of the fairways
- Championship level course: while this is a PRO, it can be a CON as well if your game is not on when you play the course

The Sontag Disc Golf Course was forced to be re-designed or removed by the Virginia Dept. Of Environmenal Quality in late 2011-early 2012 due to it's close proximity to the area's expanding landfill. They designated that the course could not be within 150' of the 2 streams that ran thru the old design. While re-designing the course and the tremendous amount of work is not what any of the local disc golfers around here wanted, it was either that or no course at all. And all of the work that was done on the re-design was done by a group of golfers numbering LESS THAN 10 in hot conditions.