-College has a lot of similarities to some of the other college courses I've played such as WCU, Haywood, and Isothermal. It's primarily short but does have a few longer holes that are pretty enjoyable. #17 is a great hole to test out new distance drivers. #8's long pad offers a fun and challenging shot facing a pond. You are looking straight down at it from the top of a hill. The basket to the right side on a crest. A few of the short holes are good too.

-Course is short but utilizes a pretty good amount of elevation on some holes. The holes with elevation can fool you, especially the shorter ones. Like the previously mentioned #8. I think the signature hole is probably #10. You tee off on a hill in a wooded area and throw out of the woods and back into the woods. The basket is all the way down, nearly 30 feet below the pad if not 30. The green is guarded by wood that'll potentially prevent you from going long into the creek. #17 is a wide open bomb that plays up a hill. 525' long and probably plays 570'.

-Cleverness on a couple holes. Interesting rock wall triple mando on hole five. You have to throw below and between the two outer posts supporting the wall. I really can't remember, but the perimeter is probably about 42' I would guess. The distance between the two posts is probably about nine feet and the height of both posts is probably no more than twelve feet. Another interesting ace run was #9. Very neat tee shot through an opening, rather so a window. The fairway sweeps to the left downhill in the open. The circumference of the window is wide enough but if you have a bad release, you'll probably miss it and be stuck in the rough.

-There's a course kiosk by hole 1. Great indication on where the course starts at. It's by one of the larger parking lots. The parking lot its beside does not require permit parking.

-Very shreddable. Every hole is birdieable. A couple of them (#11 in particular) are very difficult to reach, but are still obtainable. My greatest piece of advice on how to shoot well here would be to walk a few of the fairways and try to analyze some of the rough areas. If you really stay clear of the rough areas, you'll be spared of some serious trouble. If you have a bad hole, there are many recoverable holes here. Advanced and pro players will play safe on a few holes just to obtain the possibility of shooting a hot score.

-Another pro would be the fact that the pond on #8 appears to drain pretty quickly. It's been raining lately and it was dry when I played. I played during a slight drizzle.

-The start of this course is very boring and aggravating. The first hole is a filler in the woods. The second hole is a boring anhyzer. Hole three is a very irritating split fairway hole. It's 203' and you have the option of throwing a wide hyzer sweeping right to left or a wide skip shot left to right. It's reachable, yes. But you'll probably be annoyed on this hole. #4 is the first hole on the course that isn't bad. It isn't very fun either, but it's better than the first few. There are plenty of fillers that you will continue to see. After the first hole you'll be looking down a large hill and #2's tee pad. That hill reminded me of #3 at Pipeline (very fun hole!). You aren't throwing down that hill, instead you are throwing the opposite way away from that hill. Bummer!

-It gets ROUGH. Making this course a potential tease. Possibly allowing a higher scoring variance than needed for a course that is only 4100-4200 feet long. Pros could get beat by intermediate or even rec players due to it being short, thorny, and messy. Not an accurate place to showcase skill. It's good for rough to be punishing but its hard to navigate your disc in some parts of it. You could lose more than one stroke attempting to pitch out on holes such as #16. There is some lost disc potential on some holes here too.

-Couldn't find the long tee for #8. Based on the tee diagram on the short pad, it's on top of a hill directly facing the pond. #11's tee sign is missing. This is probably the toughest hole on the course. 340' and wooded near a creek. You'll have to walk up the fairway to see the basket. You won't see every basket from the pad, but you'll be able to tell where the baskets are located from the diagram.

-The parking lot beside the course was closed, so I had to park in a different parking area. Not an effect on my rating here, just an observation is all. Be very wary of where you park if that parking lot is closed when you play. Many of the parking lots on this campus require a permit. Park there and you'll more than likely get a ticket.

-I wouldn't say this course is bad, but it isn't very fun for the most part. You might disagree with me on this review and that's good. The game wouldn't be as appealing without a variety of interests. This review is mostly from my perspective. I'm not fond of it, but it does have some nice holes and it's good upshot practice. I think the fairways are all fair, and I think this course is very shreddable for players that get to know it.

-My favorite hole is #10. Love the significant elevation drop and the overall look of the hole. Very cool hole with a good amount of challenge for its 220' length.

-My least favorite hole is #16. The fairway is wide enough, but the lines are still weird. The woods to the left are rougher than the South Carolinian potholes that you can't avoid in the rural areas.

The first 8 holes and some of the back 9 are enjoyable. Nothing really to write home about but they require some different throw types.

There is a decent variety of hole lengths. The first 8 holes are pretty short while there a few on the back 9 that are 300+ and one that is 400+ that require a fair amount of practice/skill to do well.

Honestly, there are some holes that I would completely skip and do if I am in a hurry. hole 9 is right next to drain basin and is really difficult to not throw in the basin without playing really really safe. The basin is usually filled with mud and thorns so it is really unpleasant to get your disc out.

Holes 11-13 just are not really fun to play because of the layout.

I think the school should really rework a couple holes.

The first few holes are great.

Signs are not accurate. Some tees missing signs. A little hard to navigate.

Not maintained. REALLY thick brush. (lost two disc on this course in one day)

The course did not offer anything to me that would make me want to take the risk of losing another disc. With Van-du-mar so close I will just go there.

Everyone should play it once to form their own opinion. I did not like when I misplaced a shot, spending 10 minutes in brush to find it.

This course feels a little bit like a handful of guys were tasked with design and they just did some holes separately and threw them together into a course later. It pretty much ranges from Ace Race style easiness to surprisingly challenging Blue level par 3's. The course oscillates between pretty wooded to open with the latter being better executed. Despite the shortness of many of the holes, many require a gap or line a bit risky for a BH and prompted me to hit the "Easy Button" with an OH or a standstill flick.

The woods are pretty nice, the grass is well mowed and you probably have the course to yourself most of the time, making it a nice course to play alone and get some practice in. It's also an easy course to get to, not far at all off hwy 9. Tee signs are available but 1st time visitors are behooved to bring a map. Navigation isn't terribly difficult once you get started 'cept for a couple of places.

Design-wise there's a smorgasbord of shots to execute with distance not being a prerequisite save for a couple of later holes. Not a tremendous amount of elevation change but what is available is nifty. The open holes on the back 9 are the shining gems of the course, especially along the ball field. They require good distance and good line-shaping to create really well-done par 3's and they don't come in dangerous proximity of the ball fields which is a pleasant surprise. You also encounter some interesting features like the apparently deserted climbing wall/tower thing on hole 5 to the concrete dam on hole 9.

What hurts this course more than anything is the rough. Poisonous plants, briers, and all sorts of thick schule abound around greens and similar places for your disc to end up, potentially making every 2-3 holes an Easter egg hunt. The course has a very natural feel in parts, especially near the river/creek which I'd normally consider a positive but running into the very large black snake whilst hunting for discs in the brush can be less than ideal.

Navigation can be a quagmire. Hole 1's tee is a bit hidden in the woods without much of an obvious trail to it. There are loads of parking available which makes it even less obvious where to start. The tee signs are adequate but are prone to exaggerating the angles of the fairway, where the basket is exactly and especially distances. The tees are also borderline rubbish IMO, consisting of 3 railroad ties around a usually rutted out area of mulch. Slip on uneven ground, trip over the railroad tie in front of the tee and go hunt for your errant throw in the brush is a chain of events a little too likely to occur for my liking.

Hole 3's tee is wildly misleading in terms of basket placement. I tried to be cute by hyzering over the parking lot and wasn't rewarded with the easy birdie I anticipated. You also see hole 18's basket whilst playing hole 7, making it very easy to approach the wrong one. Hole 11 could be fairly fun but it's a guessing game where exactly the basket is and it could use some limb lopping to encourage more aggressive throws. Hole 18 is a strange one, asking you to throw a blind shot over some shrubs to a basket below the tee's level. It's not a real big deal except if you've already spent enough time hunting for your drives it feels a little insulting. Hole 17 seems out of place with it being a par 3 over 400' on a course that is mostly suitable for lesser skilled players.

Baskets are decent but the chains are a little light compared to Innova Discatchers.

The back 9 is more enjoyable than the front, especially hole 13 onwards. 13 and 14 are probably the best holes on the course IMO. With some landscaping maintenance to take the nasty out of the rough and some better tees this would be a really good course to initiate folks into disc golf, probably the best course for it in the area. It's a solidly fun course to work on your mid and putter game and you only need a spartan bag of must-have drivers to go with them (see what I did there?).

For road-trippers, this is a good course to warm-up before tackling the Va-Du-Mars and Pipelines of the area but maybe worth skipping if time is precious or you prefer courses with a bit more professional polish.

This course is, if nothing else, a bit quirky. Despite a number of flaws, there is enough fun to be had to make it worth playing.

Most of the holes are short and carved through woods. Some are very short. But they almost all have interesting lines and twists to navigate. There is a bit of elevation and some tricky pin placements as well. It makes it the kind of course you walk off swearing you should have scored about 8 strokes better. Every time.

These are balanced by a handful of holes in the 350+ range---not epicly long holes, but a chance to air the disc out a bit.

Mostly sited in some pretty woods, quiet and pretty much secluded from other activities, except perhaps the occasional trail walker or jogger.

I almost rated this course a 2.5. It could be a 2.5. But....

The rough is extremely rough in places, often a tangle of briars. And easy to get into, with a bad kick on one of the tightly-wooded fairways, or in many places, with dense rough very close to the basket.

The tees are wood chips, half-framed by railroad ties. Many holes are short enough to permit a standing or 1-step drive, so it's less an issue than it might be, but they're still not very good.

The signs are basic, and in some cases wildly inaccurate. The navigation is a little tricky in places, including finding the first hole. In one case the only basket you can see from the tee, or even halfway down the fairway, is the basket for another hole.

It's not a course for top players, but I'm sure it's not meant to be. For others, it's fairly short, interesting, and fun. Not necessarily a course you'd drive a long way to play, or include in a tour of the best of the area. But if you're in or near Spartanburg, and time permits, it's definitely worth playing.

Just 5 minutes from the house. Set in the woods but not a lot of trees in your flight paths.

Tee boxes are horrific. I can easily see some sprained ankles.

Has a lot of potential. Just needs a few tweaks and some TLC.

Lots of potential here, and ace runs every couple holes. Will post more later with hole details.

USE A SPOTTER, especially on 18 but anywhere there's a chance of some deep thorns or blind throws.

I think a 2-Reasonable rating fits, nothing really unreasonable except perhaps the fairway on 1. There are some fun shots and good basket placements, but lots of work needed.