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Barto, PA

Butter Valley Golf Port DGC

3.215(based on 7 reviews)
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Experience: 7.9 years 20 played 18 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Not your average disc golf on a ball golf course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jun 14, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

Picturesque scenery, every hole feels like it frames up in a way that looks and feels epic.

Excellent facilities (clubhouse, bathrooms, cart rentals)

Beautifully maintained, every fairway was cut to the perfect length not a blade of grass out of place.

Reasonably Priced ($7 to play $5 for the cart at the time I played)

Excellent shot variety, plenty of elevation, never felt "samey".

Despite being on a golf course there was very little interaction with the ball golfers which was nice.

While holes were generally of the longer variety it never felt like a wide open shot, it retained a very disc golf feel to it and was very technical. (great use of low ceilings)

Cons:

Course isn't properly beat in yet. (some of the rough is gnarly but staying on the fairway avoids this issue) and the ground is very much a bog in a lot of areas, waterproofs and pants are a must unless you don't mind getting muddy/scuffed up.

Layout isn't very well marked and even with a map it's a little confusing to navigate on your first time out.

Course layout exacerbates the wind conditions significantly.

Tee pads although were of adequate length/width were not level in any way shape or form often times you were walking down hill to throw an uphill shot which to be fair is just a pet peeve of mine but nonetheless was very annoying.

Other Thoughts:

If you were looking at Butter Valley and thinking it would be your chance to throw 500ft+ bombs down a rolling golf fairway then you might be (un)pleasantly surprised when you see how technical and not wide open this course really is. This course without a doubt is built to be difficult and feels very much like a disc golf course that happens to reside on the same property as a golf course rather than disc golf on ball golf. The course is very balanced in general mixing short and long holes together in a way that breaks up your rhythm and I would say 90% of the time the fairway is fair. The course is still reasonably new and really just needs to be beat in as the rough in some spots is definitely a little thick. The course layout is reasonably long but the distance of the course is even longer and I would venture to say it probably wouldn't be worth playing it without the cart because of the longer gaps in some of the holes.That being said it is amazing how much easier a course is on the body when having the carts and the novelty is worth it for sure.As far as gripes go I think that proper signage and a better map/diirectional markers would be very helpful because even the desk attendant told us there might be a couple spots where we feel lost and we did spend a good amount of time driving around trying to find holes we totally missed. The lack of tee signs really hinders the playability on the longer holes because you feel like you just throw into the abyss and then suddenly a basket appears, with the cart we mitigated this by driving the fairways on most holes to get an idea then go back to tee off but some holes (the monster par 5) we didn't get that luxury.

Overall the layout is great, the course facilities are nice but it's the little things that hold this course back from a better score, I definitely see myself making a few trips to this course a year and knowing the layout more I think it will probably play even better that it did for me before.
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