Pros:
-A park style course meandering thru open meadows and trees. Some gaps off the tees across open fairways to baskets placed in the woods. With some open tees and basket placements. Some sloping fairways, and one slightly elevated tee.
-Co-Host of the Down East Players Cup with Farmville DGC. Featuring Nathan Queen who on the previous weekend in 2021 won the DGPT Championship. The event seems to be very popular.
-Some holes have two baskets that catch well, a few baskets raised in height. Holes have at least two tee pads, and some have a third called "The All-Star Challenge". The course sometime in the past few years has been realigned to accommodate its current layout. Long and short tees are concrete.
-The "All-Star Challenge" is the most difficult tee when placed as a third tee box or an alternative basket, those tees are a mix of rubber, and one paver tee. The rest share the long tee box. Majority of tee's are shooting out of gaps, and most baskets have tree protection. Solid assortment of par 3's and 4's with a par 5. Distances range from 260 feet to 868 feet.
-Tee signs are recent from the past few years, showing hole number, distance, 1 or 2 baskets, and map. When theirs an "All-Star" tee its in bright orange with distance. But par is not listed. On some holes need to take a good look at the map to remember basket location.
-Very enjoyable walking experience from 1st tee to 18th basket and very scenic.
-Navigation is counter-clockwise and good for the most part but can be iffy in a few spots for a first-time visit.
-Beginners and Recreational should find the short tees very playable. Intermediate and Advanced I recommend the "All-Star Challenge".
Cons:
-Lacks course variety, you're playing strictly meadows golf. However, each hole has its own unique features. Hole 2 has an open fairway and basket placement, but it's boring after you shoot the gap off the tee and hole 3 is just a little better on a blind basket placement. The rest of the way buckle up.
-Access to hole 6 and 7. On hole 6 long tee you're teeing across a road and parking, on a busy day you're going to have to move it to the short tee. #7 All-Star tee the fairway is between a ball field and parking, you may have to move it all the way up to the short tee, and if really busy you may need to skip the hole.
-Ghost fairways. Take a good look at that hole map with the longer holes. Most baskets will be hidden, as you're walking down fairways there are large gaps between large bushy trees to make you think the possibility that's the direction of the fairway. Had to walk up fairway a few times on longer holes.
-It's a beautiful park and on a nice day people could be wandering across fairways. With the possibility of ballgames, I personally would not play here on the weekend.
-Lost disc potential can be high, there is heavy brush and trees in some rough areas.
-Like all other courses in the Greenville area flooding. After heavy rain you may want to wait a few or several days if planning a course bagging trip.
Other Thoughts:
I played the All-Star Challenge, and it was very challenging, but also very doable. My favorite holes were those shooting out of the gap to the fairway or lining myself for approaches to wooded basket placements. I found meadows type golf very scenic and enjoyable! I took a good look at the short tee pad placements and short baskets, and I think any type of player will find the course enjoyable and within reach of a good round.
With the "All-Star Challenge", the scenic walk thru the course, and a very satisfying round of golf my overall rating is anchored on a 5.0. West Meadowbrook is now 1 of 2 courses I give an overall disc rating of 4.0 without favoring it, the other course is Bayville in Virginia Beach. It's just my personal preferences weren't all met and having now played 5 of the 6 courses in the Greenville area, West Meadowbrook would likely be my home course if I lived there. But the unique feature's of each hole gives my overall rating a boost. The time to play also snapping tee sign pictures took 75 minutes.
Notable Holes: All from the All-Star Challenge
No. 4 Par 3 at 349 feet is a straight away hole to basket. From the tee a straight gap of 15-20 feet with heavy trees until open fairway at 55 feet. Need to stay center left, the basket is tucked into the right of the woods at 70 feet remaining distance. The course shifts into gear.
No. 10 Par 4 at 514 feet another straight away hole to basket. Throwing from an open tee to about the 230-foot mark are tree gaps in the fairway, some as small as 20 feet and heavy trees and brush both sides of fairway all along the way until about 70 feet from basket which sits in the open. I would hit two trees along my way to the basket.
No. 11 Par 4 at 558 feet is a tunnel tee shot about 20 feet until about 50 feet out into the open. The fairway meanders right at halfway point and then back left. At the halfway point is ghost fairway to the left, you're looking at the No. 12 fairway coming toward you. At 150 feet from basket back into the woods. You're going to see a new wooden fence, behind it is a mound of dirt about C1 in circumference. The basket sits on top about 7 feet up from fairway, protected by guardian trees, buried in dirt and a tough reach to negotiated. I found the best way to reach basket is a left to right around trees. At first thought it seem the fences may have had a garbage bin behind it, before seeing the elevated basket.
No. 17 Par 3 at 304 feet is an upslope fairway that downslopes a little more than halfway out. At the downslope the fairway doglegs right. At about 120 feet a clump of trees in the middle, you can reach the basket going left around them or going to the right. There is another collection of guardian trees just outside C1 making a difficult basket reach. The basket is on a downslope and just outside C1 a creek. A very difficult basket to reach and blind from the tee. As a lefty I went left and found two trees on my way to the basket.
Signature Hole:
No. 12 Par 5 at 868 feet the all-star tee was in the process of being built when I played it one month before the tournament. Natural when I played it, watching tournament coverage paver stones. The tee has elevation of about 12 feet and is straight away until about 270 feet turning into a dogleg right. Before the dogleg some protruding trees from the left into the fairway at about 150 feet out and narrow of about 70 feet all the way to the dogleg. Very bushy with trees and possible lost disc potential. Straight away for about 380 feet before another dogleg right hooking into the woods towards the basket. This portion of the fairway more open and can hug the wood line on the right to cut down distance. The last two hundred feet on the second dogleg narrows with several guardian trees in the fairway all the way to the basket, the basket is elevated on a knoll. Very scenic hole represents the course very well and intimidating from the tee.
Trouble Hole:
No. 8 Par 4 at 557 feet from the tee is a very narrow tunnel gap about 30 feet wide with several trees to navigate thru. The tunnel is 240 feet and meanders left as you exit to an open fairway. There can be trouble here with tree hits and racking up strokes. In the open fairway it narrows about 200 feet out from basket passing between trees and bushes, and again about 70 feet out. Basket sits within the woods with spacing. From the tee because of the long distance to get out of the tunnel and passing trees the most eye-opening look from the tee on the course. I don't mind saying I got lucky.