Walker, WV

The Mountwood Monster

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gcoghill
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Experience: 23.9 years 74 played 68 reviews
2.00 star(s)

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Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Sep 16, 2016 Played the course:once

Pros:

Some very cool holes with dramatic elevation. Well-maintained park (not including the course).

Cons:

Abysmal navigation. Dilapidated tee signs (those few that remain). Tee boxes that look more like an archaeological dig. Did I mention the abysmal navigation? Severely neglected course.

Other Thoughts:

This course started out somewhat disappointing, with no tee pad for hole #1 (let alone a kiosk or tee sign). The basket was on the side of a hill, near the road, and behind an abandoned park bathroom. Not the most cheerful setting.

But the few holes that followed were promising -- winding, wooded fairways with just the right balance of challenge, fun and scenery. There was also some exceptional elevation on holes 4 & 5. Throwing back down to 6 was good fun. That's when the round stopped being enjoyable...

Holes 7 & 8 were decent enough, but I knew they were just slogging me back to the parking lot and to tee 9 (I'm guessing this was a 9 hole course to begin with, many discs ago).

I never found the tee for 9, despite there being the only sign in the parking lot pointing to any of the tees. The basket you drive right past on your way in to the parking lot for the course.

It took a while to realize I had to cross the street to get to hole 10. I wandered around in the woods near the basket for 10, looking for 11. Of course, about 500 yards away there was a tiny sign on a building that pointed to "Next tee". Unfortunately, I never found tee 11, despite walking right past the basket for 18, then 17, then 16. I looked into the woods a bit and saw a few yellow basket rims, but got tired of walking and the holes I already passed were pretty uninspiring anyways.

The few reviews there are for this course are all very old. This course was on my way to another destination, so it wasn't a total loss. But let me save you from a total loss: avoid this course. These inflated reviews from 2011 are probably based on it being the only course within a great distance in any direction. On that scale, I guess it rates a 4. But based on the somewhat-nearby Black Course in Moundsville, which I played earlier that day, this stinker barely even rates a nod, let alone a round.

My score of 2.0 ("Reasonable") is based solely on the fact that there is an actual course here (I think) and some of the holes (the ones I could find) are kind of cool. But this course is old, outdated and neglected. It's not good for casual players, nor travelers. You'll just end up frustrated.
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