Fair solid lines requiring a variety of shots to score well.
Great Baskets on every hole.
Holes with fly pads are in good shape.
Mix of par 4s and 3s.
Water on 14!
Ability to play a quick 9 loop or a full 18.
Lots of fun lines and shoot during play.
Excellent New England woods golf with plenty of air out opportunities along the way
Clean course.
In season bathrooms near first hole.
Positive community of players.

Holes without fly pads need them.
Layout can get confusing if never played before.
Lack of tee signs and next hole arrows.
Not really any seating along the way (couple of rocks and stumps here and there).
Summer months sees a ton of brier along fairways (keep it tight!)
Took out Island Green Hole (dam you RI DEM!!!)

SK (Curtis Corner ) will test your ability to keep your lines tight and land in areas to set up your approach shots.
Final run of holes will test your arm and ability to air things out.
The water hole on 14 seems like an easy throw out into a field with the OB on the left, but...I've seen good players dump a few in that pond, so believe in your throw and let it go!
This course has made vast improvements over last few years, with the community of players always looking to increase the experience of playing here.
Come on down beyond the tower on RT1 and let it rip in RI.

The signage was very good although I am not sure where the 17 tee actually is. There is a stone dust mound that looks like a tee, but there are markings on the bike path that indicate it might be there.

We brought some first timers with us and we had a great time.

Everything was trimmed on the fairway but the rough could be very thorny. Especially the 7th hole right of the tee 50-75 feet on the left between the fairway and the field. Be warned leave the disk.... save your skin.

If you played Ninigret and bragged that you played every course in Rhode Island, you've got more work to do.

There is some terrific variety, especially considering how New England courses tend to feature only wooded holes. Holes 16-18 are pretty open holes where the main danger is the sidewalk OB. Hole 14 is one of the best holes, a tricky shot over water where a strip of land is the fairway for the first 300 feet or so with water to the left and OB woods to the right. You either need to bomb past the it all to the wider area after 300 feet or throw a careful but reasonable placement shot. This was a great tournament hole with good score separation.

The wooded holes have a good range of distance and use the elevation changes very well. Hole 2 is a fun steep uphill bomb. Hole 10 is a long uphill drive with gentle S shape that demands long placement shots to card the 3. Hole 13 has a placement drive around a 90-degree dogleg right before hitting one of the only tight fairways. There are a lot of lines, but if you clip a tree, you're in the briars.

Oh, and there are at least four aceable holes.

Navigation was pretty easy, although I played in a tournament and don't know how permanent the "next tee" signs are.

A few of the tee pads are unfinished and natural, including one that is still on an incline (hole 12?). Tee signs are on about half the holes.

Briars are mostly cleared out of the front side of the course but can be really bad on several of the holes around the lake. If you go off the fairway, it's really easy to take a step and realize too late that you have thorns around your ankle. Ouch.

This is a much needed addition to a state that is curiously lacking in courses. The full 18 baskets were just recently completed, so bear in mind the previous ratings are underrating the current course.

UPDATED August 28th:

The tournament was today, and the course was looking fantastic for it. All holes have been cleaned up very nicely and the back 9 are immensely better than they were before. It was a great tournament.
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Pros
- Good baskets, Innova DISCatchers (and I think some Discraft Chainstars
- Full 18 holes now
- Good mix of holes, elevation changes, etc.
- Challenging trees (also a con)

- Some of the teepads aren't 100% finished, hole 12 and 13 have a piece of wood marking the edge of it
- Some of the back 9 don't have permanent wooden signs, but they were labeled nicely for the tournament
- Hole 14, the lake hole can be pretty dangerous (watch out for swampy mud to the right of the fairway), but it's okay if you play it it safe
- Hole 13 should definitely be changed from a par 3 to par 4 because it's extremely hard, and there are many obstacles

The tournament was fantastic, thank you Matt, Norm, Tim, and everyone who helped. The course has improved a lot and is much better. One of my favorite courses, great for beginners and experienced players.

10 holes playable right now with good baskets. Mostly wooded course with solid lines on most holes and some tighter lines on others. Good mix of lefty and righty lines as well. Most holes reachable with clean drives for birdie chances. The elevation available to the designer was utilized well. Good for teaching new players. Open field on other side for practice before/after round(s). For a relatively new course, it was well manicured. Bathrooms on site and clean.

I can see why there is so much OB here. The walking path comes into play on quite a few holes. While it didn't seem like it was heavily used when I played, players should be alert for walkers nearby. There is a double mando on hole one, and I am never a fan of unnecessary mandos. Granted, that is the line you want to hit, but it seems forced more than it is a must have mando. The one on four just seems overexcessive too. I see why the designer put one there (the walking path), but just play the path OB. Mando forces new player to hit seven foot gap, pretty tough even for a player with some experience. Other than that, everything else is okay.

I played this course for a tournament yesterday and there is high potential here. There are great plans in place for a playable 18 before the end of the calendar year, and a crew led by course designer Jimmy Blakeney are working hard. Potential holes include an island green and a signature hole over the same lake with OB right as well. Right now as it is, South KIngstown DGC is not a destination course, but with some more time and pruning, plus the installation of these other holes, it will be worth your trip in 2016 should you be passing through Rhode Island.

No fee to play. Course is great for beginners with a blend of short and medium length holes. Lotta character with old stones walls. Courses are well designed with a couple challenging basket locations.

Trails between tees could use more foot traffic as there are a lots of briars. Hole 4 and 8 out-of-bounds is covered in poison ivy. Tees 9 & 10 are unfinished at the time of this review.

Only 3 DG courses in RI, and this is the best imho. Can't wait for holes 11-18 to be completed.

Great new course to southern Rhode Island. Mostly wooded with stone walls and hills. 10 baskets are in the ground with 8 more being planned. Rubber teepads on most holes. Keep up the great work RIDG.

Still needs more work clearing brush and dead trees. briars and ticks can be bothersome. Its behind a school so no swearing and drinking.

Love the new course and hope for many more in RI