The reviews have touched on the best parts of the course, but to reiterate...

-Three tee boxes (three!). And what impressed me most is that it wasn't just that the harder tees were farther away. Each tee box offered a very different look, each one progressively more challenging. I played the blues, but I stood on several other teeboxes to see what the lines looked like.
-Two Discatcher baskets per hole (a few exceptions). It must've cost a pretty penny to install those puppies, but what a treat.
- Elevation changes. There isn't a whole lot of courses with decent elevation change in the mid-Atlantic, at least in my opinion. This course, built on a hillside, certainly had me going up, across, and down the hill.
- Variety of hole shapes. There weren't any big bombers (except maybe 1 up the hill), but I was forced to throw some fun shapes off the tee pad and even on my approaches.
- Signage. There were some long walks between holes, but the signs were very helpful. There were arrows as well as these clever little wooden discs that corresponded with the tee pad colors (red, blue, green). In addition, every tee box had a colored stake in the ground that corresponded with the tee. It saved me a lot of confusion.
- Two 9 hole loops. It's always nice when a course loops back to the parking lot. On this hot day, it meant I was able to refill my water bottle at my car from the cooler.
- Well-guarded baskets. Not every single hole had a well-guarded basket, but no basket was out there with its pants down. Even hole 1, probably the most open hole, sits at the edge of a precipice. I laid up on a 20 foot putt to take a 4 because to miss the 20 footer would've meant taking a 5 or 6.
- Small things. Benches on most holes. Practice baskets. Plenty of picnic tables in the shade. Friendly signs by the parking lot.
-Peaceful. It was quiet. I saw 2 runners in the woods, and a couple of random cars in the parking lot with folks taking a lunch break or making a phone call. Granted, it was a weekday in the heat of summer, but most reviews agree with me.

- Natural teeboxes (some better than others). I read in other reviews that the club is going to put in some concrete pads. At 3 boxes per hole, that's going to be quite a project. The gravel isn't bad, but it's no replacement for concrete.
- Spray and pray/Poke and Hope. This was hands down my biggest beef with this course. I read in other reviews that the park restricts tree removal, but the fact remains that some of the fairways are essentially a sparsely to moderately wooded grove halfway between the teepad and the basket. The back 9 is much worse than the front 9 (thus the review title), which isn't surprising since it has more wooded holes. Sometimes on wooded holes, it's hard to see the fairway/line until you're in it or past it, but that wasn't the case here. I threw a single birdie on a wooded hole, and that was because my drive flew between a two-trunk tree. These kinds of fairways removes risk-reward, and makes you feel dirty for getting lucky and frustrated for seeing good releases ruined because your drive never had a chance. Given some proper fairway grooming, this course could comfortably be a 4.
- The course maps. While the signage was good, it also left plenty to be desired. Many of the hole maps have one basket, but there are 2 per hole... with multiple locations. Literally the only thing I used the teebox maps for was to find the blue teebox if I walked to the wrong color first and didn't want to open the map up on my phone. This meant I had to walk to lay eyes on baskets and try to discern lines, even for short holes.

I only played this course once, but since there are 17 reviews I felt it was worthwhile to throw in my two cents.

- Elevation change. I listed elevation change as a pro, and it definitely is. But it could've been more, so much more! Looking up or down a hole to a well-guarded basket and realizing that blind hope was the best disc in your bag was frustrating. There were several holes where I picked a disc that I knew could take a hit to a tree over one I thought could actually reach the hole if I hit a gap. In short, the elevation wasn't used to the best of its ability because of the lack of fairways.
- Hole 8. I could not figure out wtf was happening on the map with the random basket icon in the middle of the course. I didn't understand until I got to hole 8. The green tee plays THE OPPOSITE WAY. I wanted to play it, but wasn't able to. I could envision it, though, and I thought it was brilliant. I wonder if it obstructs/changes play during a tournament or on busy days.
- Disc loss. I didn't lose a disc, and I maybe spent 5 or 6 minutes total kicking through the rough. I could see how a random skip off of a random tree (you know by now how I felt about the fairways...) could send your disc careening down the hillside to Lord-knows-where. But, ultimately, I think risk of disc loss is ultimately pretty minimal.
- The Home Course mindset. When I review a course, I imagine how I'd feel if I lived close enough to walk to the course and play it, if it were my home course. Would I play a lot? What would happen to my game? I won't bore you with the details of my musing, but the bottom line is that I would be happy, not thrilled, to call this course my home course. My short game would improve, and I'd be in good shape from hauling up and down the hillside. My long game would go to the dogs, though.

I played West Winds earlier in the day, and it was a nice foil. But, man, it was a hell of a lot of walking up and down the hills. I live in DC, so this course was about an hour away. I don't think I'd make a special trip only to play this course, but I wouldn't need much of a push (tourney, good brewery nearby, along the way) to make the trip again.

This is a nice park, and the course is not nearby to, or overlapping any other park features, except a soccer field that runs adjacent to 1,2, and 9.

There are 2 loops, front and back nine that both end at the parking lot, which is always nice.

The local club has improved this course quite a bit over the last year or so, adding in framed teepads with crushed stone on almost all the holes. Signage and arrows make navigation easier than ever. They have also removed A LOT of brush and the fairways are really starting to come in as nice grassy alleys through the trees.

This is a very challenging course with lots of elevation change, sometimes drastic. Dispatchers in a single pin position on each hole are pretty new and catch well.

There are a variety of distances here, as well as a few open holes in an otherwise heavily wooded course.

This course is usually not very crowded, so pace of play is a rare issue.

This course is HEAVILY wooded. I'm a fan of playing in the woods, but on several holes the trees are just too numerous and tight, leaving no real line to the basket and making some holes feel just daunting. Poke and hope is not my preference, and here you have more than a few holes where you just throw at the trees and hope it sneaks through. There are a few green tee pads with clusters of trees within 20' that block your line.

As stated above, some holes are very uphill. This is t necessarily bad on its own, but combined with the thick trees makes for really nasty tee shots, and is quite fatiguing, even for a guy who hikes regularly.

A few of the holes on the back nine are pretty far apart, and the walk crosses over other hiking trails which I could see confusing someone unfamiliar with the course, but it's not so bad as to be unnavigable.

Grass height is hit or miss. When it's mowed it's perfectly fine, but a few of the holes get pretty tall after a week or two of no mowing. I've played there and had to look for my disc for a few minutes in the fairway because the grass is thigh high.

This course is a work in progress still. The progress made so far is impressive, but there are still some edits that I think can be made.

There are some really fun holes, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 17, 18, and blue tee 8 come to mind as being scenic, fair, and fun. But some of the holes are just not fun or fair to me, 14-16, 5 green, 11. With some tree removal to make them just a little less hope and prayer oriented though, most of those holes could be good as well. A couple hole shapes are strange as well, making for tough choices off the pad, and rendering a par every bit as good as a birdie, but on a couple birdie just isn't realistic.

Overall I like this course OK. It frustrates me to be playing well and hit a wall of trees that is borderline impenetrable and have my score suffer for it. On the fair holes success is measured by accuracy, and shot choices, which will test your mental game and course management.

If you go there to play, be prepared for a rollercoaster of emotions. You will feel great on some holes, and dejected on others. You will find yourself on tees and in lies without a feasible route to the basket, be prepared to take your medicine and pitch out or play it short. Bring good shoes, because it's a good hike, some of it is steep and offers a good workout.

I think the blue tees is the best layout, offering the cleanest lines, least amount of tree overcrowding, and best risk/reward gameplay. I look forward to seeing this course continue to improve.