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The Heritage reviews
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PastorofMuppets
Silver level trusted reviewer
Premium Member
Experience:
4.9 years
150 played
118 reviews
Traditional Golf with Discs
Reviewed:
Played on:Sep 24, 2022
Played the course:2-4 times
Pros:
What to Expect: Disc Golf on a traditional golf course that mostly follows established golf fairways at a local country club 9 hole golf course.
Amenities: Swimming Pool facility (with limited public hours), a Pro Shop for mostly traditional golf, lockerrooms, modern bathrooms, A top floor resturaunt (Mulligans) that serves bar food and alcohol, and golf carts for rent. Small parking lot area.
Tees/Signage/Baskets: Tee signs when I played were hand drawn pictures of the holes with distance and par on coorigated plastic staked in the ground. No course sign, map, or kiosk. A rough sky view google map printout of the course was available at the pro shop with hand drawn hole overlay and hand drawn scorecard. Course was not available on U-Disc at the time, but has since been added. Tees were mostly existing golf cart paths with spray painted lines/survey flags denoting position. There were are few full concrete tee pads, and half tee pads that extended off cart paths. Baskets were all new temp basket/portable Discatchers.
Design: There are two main layouts at the Heritage, the long MPO layout and the "daily" layout (which is also the FPO) layout. The Heritage offers tons of elevation both up and down and multiple water features. Definitely a big arm course with very lightly wooded areas. The trees that do exist on the property are large mature hardwoods. Very roller friendly course as most holes play up, down, or across well manicured traditional golf fairways. OB is mostly limited to existing cart paths, sand traps, golf greens and the few water features. For the most part landing zones are wide and forgiving throughout. The long MPO layout (over 10'000 feet) is not for everyone and takes a good bit of distance to play it well. The daily or FPO layout is considerably easier but still requires some distance to score low. Very straight forward design, long, but extremely forgiving.
Signature Holes: Hole #16 is probably the most aesthetically pleasing hole on the course and fun to play. Though I wouldn't consider it the hardest. A Par 5 at over 1'000 feet it can seem pretty daunting. This hole plays down traditional golf hole #9 from basically tee box to beside the green. Steeply downhill for the first 3/4 of the hole and flanked on each side by OB cart lines you have to get distance while staying in the middle. Roller is a great option off the tee here. There is a small creek that cuts across the fairway about 700 feet from the tee that you will need to dry up short of. The last 250-300 feet of the hole requires navigating around a massive Oak tree, avoiding the traditional golf green, and landing near the basket on a slope that is nestled between an OB parking lot and the side of the green. While this hole can certainly be eagled by those with strong arms or solid roller games, it can put up big numbers as well, and is probably the prettiest hole on the course to play. Sadly it Hole #16 and not your finishing hole.
Extras: This course is certainly not designed for the beginner/novice player though you might enjoy playing it (specifically the shorter layout). There is definitely some challenge to playing the course distance wise and avoiding the water, but you can pretty easily navigate the course (in more shots) without much danger.
Amenities: Swimming Pool facility (with limited public hours), a Pro Shop for mostly traditional golf, lockerrooms, modern bathrooms, A top floor resturaunt (Mulligans) that serves bar food and alcohol, and golf carts for rent. Small parking lot area.
Tees/Signage/Baskets: Tee signs when I played were hand drawn pictures of the holes with distance and par on coorigated plastic staked in the ground. No course sign, map, or kiosk. A rough sky view google map printout of the course was available at the pro shop with hand drawn hole overlay and hand drawn scorecard. Course was not available on U-Disc at the time, but has since been added. Tees were mostly existing golf cart paths with spray painted lines/survey flags denoting position. There were are few full concrete tee pads, and half tee pads that extended off cart paths. Baskets were all new temp basket/portable Discatchers.
Design: There are two main layouts at the Heritage, the long MPO layout and the "daily" layout (which is also the FPO) layout. The Heritage offers tons of elevation both up and down and multiple water features. Definitely a big arm course with very lightly wooded areas. The trees that do exist on the property are large mature hardwoods. Very roller friendly course as most holes play up, down, or across well manicured traditional golf fairways. OB is mostly limited to existing cart paths, sand traps, golf greens and the few water features. For the most part landing zones are wide and forgiving throughout. The long MPO layout (over 10'000 feet) is not for everyone and takes a good bit of distance to play it well. The daily or FPO layout is considerably easier but still requires some distance to score low. Very straight forward design, long, but extremely forgiving.
Signature Holes: Hole #16 is probably the most aesthetically pleasing hole on the course and fun to play. Though I wouldn't consider it the hardest. A Par 5 at over 1'000 feet it can seem pretty daunting. This hole plays down traditional golf hole #9 from basically tee box to beside the green. Steeply downhill for the first 3/4 of the hole and flanked on each side by OB cart lines you have to get distance while staying in the middle. Roller is a great option off the tee here. There is a small creek that cuts across the fairway about 700 feet from the tee that you will need to dry up short of. The last 250-300 feet of the hole requires navigating around a massive Oak tree, avoiding the traditional golf green, and landing near the basket on a slope that is nestled between an OB parking lot and the side of the green. While this hole can certainly be eagled by those with strong arms or solid roller games, it can put up big numbers as well, and is probably the prettiest hole on the course to play. Sadly it Hole #16 and not your finishing hole.
Extras: This course is certainly not designed for the beginner/novice player though you might enjoy playing it (specifically the shorter layout). There is definitely some challenge to playing the course distance wise and avoiding the water, but you can pretty easily navigate the course (in more shots) without much danger.
Cons:
Pay to Play: Not a major con, but I dislike having to pay to play disc golf unless its a whole experience (think staying at the cabins on vacation at Eagles Crossing, or staying at Smuggler's Notch, etc) It is only $5 per round, or $10 per day, and cart rentals are $10 per round. But when there is a course I can play for free (that is honestly a better course) it makes it difficult for me to justify paying to play here (especially as a local).
Design: I'm not going to knock the course designer, as he was like 18 or 19 when he designed the course, and he can crush. He was also restricted by the property owner on where he was allowed to put baskets and tee pads. That is certainly not his fault. The result however was the creation of tons of 400 foot hyzers. Mostly RHBH, with a few 350-400 RHFH hyzers. One person I played with summed up the course best as we were playing. He said, "I can throw 400 feet, but I don't like having to prove it on every shot. I'd rather have to hit a gap 15 feet in front of me than throw 400 foot hyzers into a field." And I agree with him. I am not a fan of disc golf on traditional golf courses (same property is fine when they use the unique sections of the course, the woods, the water features, the "nature" portion) It's not a bad design, its just a very monotonous one, which is hard to avoid given the designers restrictions. I threw roller on 11 holes and scored very well.
Upkeep: While the fairways and rough are well mowed the infrastructure is definitely not as good as it could be. Multiple cart paths are broken, damaged, or outright destroyed piles of rubble from I'm guessing weather events. Near Hole #17 tee pad for instance what used to be a cart path is a large jagged pile of concrete debris. Some of the bridges over the small creeks throughout at damaged beyond use or showing signs of age and need repair. The concrete tee pads that were put in were obviously not professionally done and aren't flat.
Traditional Golfers: This course is a private country club and you will have tons of golfers flying all over the place. Some of them are not very happy a disc golf course exists there. There are multiple blind shots and we had kids in golf carts running over our discs and on several occasions had golf balls hit at us or near us.
Tons of Potential, But Poor Implementation: This course could be great but will need quite a bit of upgrades to reach its potential. While not bad, it just misses on a lot of the things that make pay to play courses worth the price of admission, and a return trip.
Availability: This course closes often for golf leagues, tournaments, and events. It is probably best to call ahead if you are planning on making a trip in to play this course. Multiple days a week there will be things that conflict, so call ahead.
Design: I'm not going to knock the course designer, as he was like 18 or 19 when he designed the course, and he can crush. He was also restricted by the property owner on where he was allowed to put baskets and tee pads. That is certainly not his fault. The result however was the creation of tons of 400 foot hyzers. Mostly RHBH, with a few 350-400 RHFH hyzers. One person I played with summed up the course best as we were playing. He said, "I can throw 400 feet, but I don't like having to prove it on every shot. I'd rather have to hit a gap 15 feet in front of me than throw 400 foot hyzers into a field." And I agree with him. I am not a fan of disc golf on traditional golf courses (same property is fine when they use the unique sections of the course, the woods, the water features, the "nature" portion) It's not a bad design, its just a very monotonous one, which is hard to avoid given the designers restrictions. I threw roller on 11 holes and scored very well.
Upkeep: While the fairways and rough are well mowed the infrastructure is definitely not as good as it could be. Multiple cart paths are broken, damaged, or outright destroyed piles of rubble from I'm guessing weather events. Near Hole #17 tee pad for instance what used to be a cart path is a large jagged pile of concrete debris. Some of the bridges over the small creeks throughout at damaged beyond use or showing signs of age and need repair. The concrete tee pads that were put in were obviously not professionally done and aren't flat.
Traditional Golfers: This course is a private country club and you will have tons of golfers flying all over the place. Some of them are not very happy a disc golf course exists there. There are multiple blind shots and we had kids in golf carts running over our discs and on several occasions had golf balls hit at us or near us.
Tons of Potential, But Poor Implementation: This course could be great but will need quite a bit of upgrades to reach its potential. While not bad, it just misses on a lot of the things that make pay to play courses worth the price of admission, and a return trip.
Availability: This course closes often for golf leagues, tournaments, and events. It is probably best to call ahead if you are planning on making a trip in to play this course. Multiple days a week there will be things that conflict, so call ahead.
Other Thoughts:
While certainly not a bad course, this course falls flat on being impressive or fun. I have given it several opportunities to see if it improves but I just haven't once enjoyed playing there enough to warrant recommending it to friends or returning (especially because it is pay to play). I could see coming in for a tournament, or if you are trying to bag them all, but without quality hotels, camping locations, or other reasons to be in the area it's hard to justify coming here to play this course. I will gladly update my review if this course changes or improves. Might be wonderful for some people, but not my cup of tea. The new course in Cadiz for those in the area is probably a much better visit for those who enjoy tight lines and picturesque wooded holes over golf fairways (and it's free).
