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Virginia Beach, VA

Virginia Wesleyan College

2.135(based on 8 reviews)
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Startedw165
Experience: 39.7 years 343 played 11 reviews
1.50 star(s)

now more difficult than ever to get on 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 29, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

The VWC campus is very pleasant.
Climbing tower apparatus has been moved and no longer conflicts with disc golf.
Nine numbered baskets and seven numbered tee signs - but not all are currently playable due to construction.

Cons:

Private property with manned entry gate to restrict access. Even if access is gained, threat of being forced to leave before completing a full round is a con to me.
A fence has been installed around most / all of the campus boundary. No more than 5' tall, it is climbable for many. But getting on campus is no longer as simple as parking in the church lot and wandering towards the middle of campus.

Hole 1 - its return is not a positive (see newly posted photo). Immediate jail. The trees directly in front of the tee now bridge overhead to building behind tee. All possible shots over the woods are thereby cut off. Only shot is blind anhyzer directly over the only pedestrian path through this part of campus. Buildings and windows within fairway.
Holes 1 -3 very near buildings and #3 fairway not maintained. Basket 5 largely overgrown and nearly swallowed by encroaching woods. # 6 is a year plus away from similar fate. Tee sign 9 being absorbed into the woods as mowers gradually concede more to woods.
RHBH bias.
Footing is uneven on tees 3-9, but soft, not with roots or rocks. More like mower tracks from wet season.
None of the tee areas have any trace of a worn area near them. Not sure that anybody really played here even before the recent construction project.

Temporary Con: major construction going on at VWC. Effects: #3 now fenced off to immediate right of tee, makes this short hole very tight. No way to get to point of #4 tee per photos from 2010 without extremely long walk around entire construction area. 4th fairway tighter. Fairway for #7 now less than 15 yards wide the entire length of hole. Dirt piles line the right side of fairway past basket. These make for extra challenge if you look on the bright side. But, hole 9 is not playable, a strong con. Its tee area, fairway and basket are within the construction fence.

Other Thoughts:

Review photos and comments on this site in advance to have an idea of where you are going. Construction breaks up the course flow: plus no tee sign at 4 & 8 and others not as easy to see anymore. Though perhaps moot now, from 8, find hole 9 to the right of Birdsong Field, the sign is barely visible as the woods swallows it up. However, the entire hole is behind 6' construction fencing.
What will happen after the construction is completed (2019?) ? Will there be a way to go from basket 3 to tee 4 ? Will number 9 be playable again?

I attend my Nephew's baseball games several times a season. When looking over his most recent schedule, I noticed he had a game at Virginia Wesleyan College! Going to his game got me on campus without jumping a fence !
Current construction impacts course negatively - makes #9 unplayable and creates the dead end after #3. Clearly it was better before, but combined with upkeep issues this course merits only a passable rating at this time.
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