+ I might bore you with too much praise about how well the course designer adapted an old ball golf course, so I'll just provide highlights: While there are some big open holes, the layout doesn't simply follow the old golf layout, playing up and down old fairways. I could see the outlines of old tees and bunkers here and there, but I always felt like I was playing on a DISC GOLF course

+ Design incorporates existing paved paths for OB. These are the old paths for motorized golf carts from when this property was used for ball golf, and the clever design helps narrow the lines you can play on fairways, approaches and greens. I found myself challenged to think in terms of specific landing areas rather than just distance and general direction of throws


+ Lots of old growth trees for beauty, creating lots of low ceiling shots for challenge


Holes that Made the Trip Worthwhile:
+ After four very good but mostly open starting holes, #5 is 221' tunnel, cut entirely out of thick woods dividing the old fairways. It was at this point that I realized I had stumbled onto a pretty great course

+ Hole #8 is a763' par 5 with a deviously narrowing landing area off the tee. The second half of the hole is a slight dogleg right, and the closer you get to the best landing zone, the tighter the sides come in on you. But what makes this hole great is that you can also play it conservatively for par with a series of accurate mids

+ Hole #12 has water all along the left. It's well off to the side, but it's so big and visible - and the fairway slopes down toward it. The hole is a long par 4 from both tees and a nose-up throw will fade toward water

+ Hole #17 is loooong par 5 (890' / 1031') with OB woods all the way along the left. The basket comes into view after a slight left turn. Once you make the turn, the basket is still ~600' / ~750' away, up on a slight hill, protected by woods on both sides. Although the fairway is wide, the best set-up for the approach is to play as close to the OB woods along the left as you can. It's a great par 5 that isn't just about length: has to be played with a strategy for placing each shot

~ If you don't like marked OB, you won't be comfortable the first time around this course. While the OB is clearly indicated on the tee signs, it's often ground level paved paths - so it can be hard to see because of the rolling terrain. I'm sure that multiple plays would make you very familiar with every line, but the first-time visitor might get frustrated walking forward to find the disc skipped OB. Admittedly this kind of OB is more "artificial" than natural elements like ponds, streams, woodlines on other courses. But it's use here keeps this from being a wide open bomber course where anything goes

~ The disc golf course is across the main road from the Brantwood Park proper, so it feels very much like a dedicated disc golf area, and it probably doesn't get the walking traffic that paved paths would normally get. We did have a couple of skateboarders though.


~ The course is a relatively new addition to the Northeast corner of Maryland, and you can easily combine it with rounds at the nearby Delaware courses like Lums Pond and Iron Hill


COURSE AMENITIES:
Two sets of excellent turf tees and tee signs, DISCatcher baskets, lots of directional signage


RECOMMENDED COMBINATIONS:
In addition to the nearby Delaware courses, Brantwood pairs up really well with Calvert Regional Park: a shorter, more heavily-wooded course that also requires careful shot placement. And if you play Calvert, leave time to travel 20 minutes into PA to play the new Broken Chains course. A trifecta of really good courses

Great variety of holes makes this course interesting. Front 9 is challenging and the back 9 is wide open and long. Very helpful people on the course and next holes were fairly easy to locate. Has three lengths of tee pads which is nice in a course.

The course is fairly new, so they only have tee pads for the long, but the blue and white short pads are soon to be there. Having a walking path through the whole course can be dangerous for pedestrians, so you kind of have to have good disc control.

There are unnoticeable water hazards on the course except for the visible pond you have to shoot over on hole 15, so watch out. Definitely room to test out your distance driver on the back 9, so be prepared. Great course overall and I can't wait to go back in the summer and see the progress of the course.

Free to play
Parking
Bathroom
New Baskets
Long Fairways
Great for beginners to test out drivers
Ice-Cream shop & Liquor store next door

Tee pads are coming soon!

This review will change along with the course.

Every time I play here it gets more and more fun. The guys that put the course together have been great and seem like they are focused on making this place a top spot on the East Coast. There is so much space here to bomb shots but it also offers some chances for VERY technical turnovers and park jobs. Once the pads are put in along with OB/fairways/circles clearly marked, Brantwood will immediately be a top 2 course in DE (IMO) with much room to grow.

I see Brantwood turning into an A-Tier stop