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Danville, VA

Arsenal @ Southern Hills

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eric_vdberg
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Experience: 40.9 years 1574 played 40 reviews
3.00 star(s)

New course in Danville 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:May 1, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

A variety of distances.
Lots of elevation changes.
Solid Dynamic Veteran baskets.
Friendly staff.

Cons:

Navigation was not always intuitive, a course map on the back of the scorecard would have helped. Basket spokes wrapped in orange and black tape pointing to the next tees would also be a welcome addition.

The main difference between the black and orange tees was distance, with only a couple of the tees providing a different angle at the basket. 8 of the orange tees were less than 100' shorter than the black.

Many of the cart paths and bridges need maintenance.

Hole #9 is one of the worst hole designs I have seen. If you can throw 450' or more, then it is probably not an issue. For the rest of us, there is a pond with small landing areas around it, ringed by rough with a creek past it on the way to the basket. Since the black tee is elevated, a throw of 450'+ should easily clear both the pond and the creek and set up for a straight forward throw to the pin for a 3. This hole has no good options for those who throw 250' or less. As a minimum a short tee should be provided towards the front edge of the pond so that people would not need to throw into the rough to preserve their disc.

Other Thoughts:

I played 17 holes from the black (long) tees, but on hole 9, I elected to throw from the shorter orange tee, as I did not want to throw a disc into the pond, never to be seen again, or throw a floater disc into the pond and take a long time trying to retrieve it, or throw into the rough, try to find it and then throw out of it, possibly into the pond. From the shorter tee I was confident I could easily clear the pond, but fully expected to land in the creek past the pond. My wife decided to skip the hole entirely.

If you like to ride in a golf cart and wide open spaces that allow you to throw full distance shots, often more than once per hole, then you should enjoy this course.
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