This course ripped me a new one. I was totally unprepared for what I was about to experience.

First of all, it was very easy to find at only a couple miles off of I81 or the PA Turnpike. Lots of food, gas, shopping choices nearby.

The course plays through a small park also used by walkers. The gounds are very pretty. The course and surrounding wooded area are well maintained. There are several holes with benches and trash cans.

The calm before the storm. Two nice practice baskets await you to the left of the parking lot to get in some pitching & putting before your round. All of the chains on the course are in good condition.

Each tee has a nice sign with the hole distance and layout. The next tee signs make it very easy to navigate the course, even without the map.

First of all, I think that this is a very challenging, VERY wooded course. Four holes play both in and out of the woods and the rest are totally wooded. There are fairways, but they're tight... actually, very tight on several holes. You would have to be VERY accurate with your drives to make it a long way down the fairways regularly. I'm fairly accurate off the tee, but not accurate enough for White Tail. The trees got me on virtually every hole. I list this as a positive because it's the nature of this course.

They make good use of elevation changes and the natural lay of the ground. You have to have all different types of shots in your bag to score well. I had to use a greater variety of shots, that I don't regularly use, on this course than on any that I've played before exept for The Woodshed in Paw Paw, WV. You will end up off of the fairway, so be prepared to handle those situations with every trick in your bag.

The length alone wouldn't be at all overwhelming. But combined with the terrain and trees, it plays much longer than the scorecard suggests.

No "facilities." And the course plays very close to the PA turnpike on a couple of holes so it can be quite loud.

Unfotunately, there are only 9 holes.

This is no beginner course. I can't imagine it being much fun at all if you're not pretty well seasoned.

The tees, as mentioned before, are made of big gravel. This does create footing challenges when driving.

The density of the trees, and the length of some of the shots that you're expected to be able to make through those trees, seems a little unreasonable to have all holes set at par 3. This may be due to my ability level but I found that it discouraged me.

I was amused by this. First of all, the course is maintained by The Girl Scouts (great job by the way). And the baskets all have sponsor information on the chastity belts. The irony here? At least one hole is sponsored by a liquor store, one by a tattoo/piercing parlor, and another by a restaraunt whos' main attraction is apparently their selection of booze. ;-) I'm not busting on these sponsors at all. I really appreciate that they probably donated the chains to the course. I just found the contrast between sponsors both ironic and amusing.

I really hope that my review doesn't come off as too negative. The course is very nice. It's just that I, personally, was frustrated by the course. I would go back in a heartbeat, though, to try my best to do better. It was a great challenge that I would love to take on again.

If the tees were fixed, either by adding concrete or rubber tees, or even by using smaller/crushed gravel, it would help greatly. And if they could incorporate 9 more holes, that would be fantastic.

I can see this course easily moving into the 4-4.5 range with just some little improvements here and there.

If you've played some of the other Harrisburg to Chambersburg 9 hole courses like Messiah, Willow Mill or Wilson College, this course will be a distinct contrast with them. They're all relatively open, short and, honestly, pretty easy. White Tail will definitely give you a totally different feel. And it could go the other way. Me? I left White Tail and went straight to Messiah and boy did I feel alot better after I got done there.

If you're on I81 or the PA Turnpike near Carlisle, PA you should most definitely put this course on your short list. This is one of the few 9 hole courses that I've played that I believe is worthy of travelling a considerable distance just to play.

Excellent up keep on paths and fairways. Great Tee and directional signage. Two practice baskets with mild elevation options. Elevation changes on the course.

Long crowded fairways. Large sized gravel in tee boxes.

Warming up on this course has options, with two practice baskets and a little bit of elevation to the putts, you can get a great warm up before starting you round. This course is very well kept and has had alot of work done to make paths and bridges and stairs. The tees were a bit of a let down, with the large sized gravel I found it hard to get a good footing. The tee signs were very nice and had all the info on them.The first hole along with a couple others have mandos which are marked by the gazelles in the trees. The course has a nice mix of shot types and made you play smart on a couple holes in order to make the dog legs. I thought the course was a good distance but that the fairways were too crowded to have a fair shot on every hole. Alot of the holes felt like I got extremely lucky to have made it as far as I did. The course has some hills which adds some fun to the holes and the walk. Navigation was super easy with well laid out paths and next T signs under the baskets. Each basket had it's hole sponsor info on it which I thought was kinda cool, one even had directions to the bar it was promoting. The course was nice and shady and well groomed. I don't think you would have a hard time finding miss placed discs and there is even a found disc box so your disc might get back to you.

This is a great 9 hole course. I would like to see them thin out the fairways a bit so your shots seem more skillful than lucky, and add an am set of tees. This is a long course and I wouldn't say very easy for a beginner.