Pros:
Concrete tee pads for one of the three sets of tees.
Good tee signs that show you where you are headed.
Really good variety of holes, mostly open, but several wooded, flat, elevation changes, primarily short, but a couple of 400 footers.
The Mach 2 baskets were fine.
Restrooms and plenty of other activities in this busy park.
Cons:
There are some safety issues with this course that break into three categories:
Course - #5 and #7 baskets have overlapping Circle 2s. #6 and #8 tees are within Circle 2s. #2 basket is practically in #3 fairway.
Vehicle - #4 (Int) fairway crosses over a busy parking lot, #18 (Int) fairway crosses over another parking lot and the park drive leading to it.
Park Users - #2, 3 and 15 play close to picnic shelters. #4,5 and 7 play across on open play field, that is probably busy at most times and next to the restrooms building.
Other Thoughts:
I'm glad I noticed in the Course Info that to minimize the interactions with other park users, this course is best played early morning or late afternoon. I showed up early morning, on a Saturday ... and they were having a road race, that finished in the park. Luckily, it didn't slow me down any, including #9, that throws across a park road that the race finished on.
There are some pretty fun holes here, including:
#1 - a small creek runs most of the length of the fairway, with scattered trees, a neat semi-open hole to start on.
#4,5 and 7 - allow you to let it fly across the open field, if it is clear of others.
#10 and 11 - play up and over a hill in the middle of the park, 10 is longer and mostly straight, 11 finishes to the left.
#15 - probably the signature hole, just about 200' across a deep ravine, with a steep embankment back and right of the basket, leading down to Swift Creek (which is more like a river).
#16 - longer and more open, back across a less steep part of the ravine to a guarded basket position.
White Bank Park is a well used and beautiful park, especially on the back nine where you have views of Swift Creek from #15 and 16 tee. The holes cover most of the park and just about every type of hole you could want, except anything longer than 400'. The mix of left and right holes felt about right, and the front nine was definitely more wooded than the back 9.
I've heard about Pharaoh's Tomb (not sure where that name came from) for a few years, it seems to be the place to play, south of Richmond. It is currently rated at 3.26 and I feel that is about right. I'm going on the low side of that, because of the safety and potential limited number of holes available at any given time. I was a little disappointed with the amount of those issues, but the course has been around for 13 years, so everyone must be playing safe, hopefully that will continue.