Pros:
It's a great property in the woods. Multiple tees and multiple baskets on a few holes. We knew we'd miss the hot lunch, so they gave us box lunches, very nice of them. Lunch included: two turkey sandwiches, an apple, banana, chips, granola bar and a capri-sun! We were the only people on the course, it was quiet and peaceful...besides occasional outbursts due to errant throws. The 3.5 hour drive was mostly curvy, tree-lined back roads. Of course, it's fall so leaves were banging.
Cons:
Maintenance doesn't exist and that essentially killed the experience for us. The course doesn't look like the pictures at all. We struggled to find tees and baskets often. Everything is overgrown with ferns and other underbrush. Don't get me wrong, I love looking at ferns and stuff, but underneath the ferns were rocks and holes between the rocks, which made walking a pain in the butt. I don't mind rocks, but like being able to see them instead of stumbling around. One hole was a literal swamp for 75% of the fairway, hole 9 if I remember correctly. Hole 16, the signature hole at FV, shined a little but that light was dimmed by the maintenance issue. Yes, there was a single next tee sign for each hole, but the trails to some holes just didn't exist so you're left to bushwhack of ankle breakers again and again. As with many courses that have multiple tees, the short tees didn't offer that much different of a look to be worth it. some holes had multiple "fairways" but one option would typically be next to impossible
Other Thoughts:
It's a Houck designed course, yippee, but you need to maintain it. Houck should make people sign a contract saying they will maintain the course for x number of years, so people don't associate the Houck name with a bad experience. I don't mind paying to play, but at $25 I'd like to see maintenance, benches at each hole, maybe a trash can somewhere, great directional signs...