Basketball coaches and scouts always use the term length to describe their athletes who are tall with amazing wing spans. The term for Farragut's newest 18, Cutthroat, has length, as in not just length, but mind numbingly lengthy. Cutthroat is described as a championship level course with it's almost 11,000'. This course is much different than Farragut's other four courses which are all played in mostly wooded surroundings. This is prairie golf with some scattered trees designed with the Pro player in mind. If you don't have a 350' to 400' arm, you want to avoid this course. And that's what the locals are doing, in droves.

Beside it's length, Cutthroat has nice large concrete tee pads although they even had to be extended in some places. The maps are currently Xerox copies of the terrain with the tee and basket added on. There is one bench where the pads for # 5 and # 17 intersect. I have no doubt that signs and benches will added soon.

There is some elevation to play with. # 17 is the most wide open downhill at 460' while others all seem to have a smallish gap to hit. With only four holes playing under 400', the course is wearing. Add the wind that was blowing consistently and you can have a tough day at the office.

Signature hole? Because I'm really not fond of long, long prairie holes, I think I'll go with # 13. Although it's a hole that me and my weeny arm normally hate, it being 470' blind, twisting uphill, on Cutthroat it seemed fair.

I believe that some of these CONS will be corrected and probably very soon.

Only one bench on the course.

Current signs are photocopied aerial photos with the pad and basket added.

These CONS might be a little more difficult to fix.

Much of the course is prairie grass with only the fairways mowed.

Primarily because of it's length and openness, most of the disc golfing world will pass on Cutthroat.

Open prairie can be windy.

Final 400' of the 1023' Hole 5 is wide open and coma inducing.

The target group for this course is so small, I don't know how anyone can justify spending this much money and energy on building a course for maybe 2% of all disc golfers. It was explained to me the Pro players feel they lose much of their advantage playing on "regular sized courses " because their distance advantage is negated and therefore ends up lowering their ratings

While the parking lot for the other four Farragut courses was filled with cars on a lovely August day, there was just one other group playing Cutthroat the entire time I was here. I'm fairly certain that will be the norm here. Except for the occasional tournament, I don't envision this course ever receiving a lot of play. Eventually I expect to see some Am type tees add to encourage more players to play here.