This is a well-designed 9-hole course that maximizes use of available space. Grass fairways are defined by medium height, mostly evergreen trees. Course navigation is easy and intuitive.

Fairway widths are fair, but hitting your line and controlling where the disc lands is critical because the rough is unforgiving. Many of the fairways have a gentle bend or two that requires carefully shaped drives and approaches.

Good mix of straight drives, right- and left-turning holes, and a couple of >400' par fours for variety. The course is a quick but reasonably challenging spin. I look forward to playing here again.

New Prodigy baskets with a highly visible lime green band are easy to spot and catch well. Tees are clearly marked with a wooden post and board. Trash can near the kiosk.

Rough is quite thick up to the edge of the fairway. Landing even a few feet into the rough means scrambling to retrieve your disc and a good chance of having to pitch out. I did not have trouble finding errant throws in late fall but this could be a problem during the growing season.

The course is very flat. I noticed some standing water on the fairway despite no rain for at least 3 days previously, so drainage could be a problem at times.

Natural grass tees were in decent shape, but upgrading the tees would make this a better course.

Dense evergreens visually screen the outside world, but highway noise from Route 29 detracts from the feeling of communing with nature.

This is a fun, challenging little course. I enjoyed playing here and hope to stop by again next time I am in the area. If the teepads were improved and the rough cleared out near the fairways, I could see this course earning a 3.0 rating.

Several fairways require blind landings around a bend to score well. When I played daylight was waning so I played conservatively, keeping the disc in sight to avoid wasting time searching for discs. With more experience on this course I would expect to attack those holes more aggressively.

The wooden post at each tee lists hole number but not distance, so print out a course map or grab one from the kiosk.

Stopped by Moo Thru after the round. Hot fudge sundae with caramel whiskey ice cream. Yum!

- good lines cutting through a dense forest of medium height trees
- easy navigation with natural flow from each basket to next tee
- top level Prodigy T1 baskets; simple but effective tee markers (boards and numbered posts)
- across from Moo-Thru!

- natural tee pads
- rough fairways with some potential drainage issues
- no benches yet, no tee signs (but there were maps available; see PDF here), no bathrooms (another excuse to hit up Moo-Thru)

The course is located close to Highway 29 near Remington and Bealeton, and right next to Moo-Thru! It took minimal convincing for my wife and young kiddo to make this quick stop for disc golf and ice cream.

Course summary: there are fairways cut out of a densely wooded trees, in a flat parcel of land. (Trees are mostly bushy Christmas tree types, ever present along fairway edges but with very few trees in the fairways and providing little ceiling.) Usually I find fault in courses that are missing a ceiling, but the rough is rough enough, and fairways narrow enough, that over the top hyzers or overhands presented more risk than I wanted. On almost all holes, the best shots here are ones that conform to the designer's lines. It's a simple enough course, but I like those designed lines. Considering there are only nine holes, the shot variety is quite good. I liked the placement of mid-fairway slight doglegs on several holes, requiring a decent amount of strategy while deciding between forehand vs. backhand, turnover vs. straight-to-hyzer, etc. Overall these were gentle doglegs managed by line shaping as opposed to a hard fade from a utility disc or a hard turnover. There's absolutely no element of poke and pray golf, and the fairways are quite generous even though being tight enough to force lines with the punishing rough. Holes are relatively short, but hit that sweet spot such that you can't just throw a putter on every hole. It was far from a pitch-and-putt, and fairway drivers and even distance drivers were useful to help get the desired distances and flight lines.

Hole #1 starts with a ~300' straight up the gut shot and is a fitting introduction to the course. #2 and #3 were both examples of those mid-fairway slight doglegs. #2 would work well for either a RHFH or RHBH late turnover, but I liked that the dogleg was at least 200' from the tee, that it was a gentle dogleg, and that there was an additional 60-80' to the basket requiring a gentle fade. This was a nice example of benefiting from a more neutral disc and needing to play with the hyzer and hyzerflip angles to get the right line. The three par 4s were not particularly difficult due to distance, but even hole #3 (358') would be a very difficult two for most due to the line through the trees. Holes #6 and #8 seemed the shortest, being low-200s putter shot and a mid-200s slight right. I enjoyed both. Overall, this course provides a enough challenge to be fun, but is a very relaxed play.

The current SSE on DGCR is 28.4, with a par of 30 from three par 4s. That SSE seemed pretty generous to me, and I suspected some of the distances were off online. There were scorecards available near the parking lot, with the same map and par as currently on DGCR (uploaded Aug 2018), but with slightly shorter distances on most holes. The total course length is 2884' on the map I received, instead of 3024'. It's a relatively small difference, but likely contributes to the generous SSE.

Improvements: It's a new course, and that's apparent.
- The fairways are still quite rough with some small stumps scattered throughout fairways. There's a small amount of grass on the fairways, but they' had lots of dirt on my early November visit. There were many shallow but large fairway puddles due to recent rain. The course will be better as these fairways smooth up, and I can imagine how nice this course will be if it gets some nice grassy fairways.
- Another big improvement would be concrete or turf tee pads. One advantage of the current natural pads is that they could be moved back to add distance on some holes.
- A few benches around tee areas would be nice.

Rating: It's a little tough to rate a course this hot off the press. There's some room for improvement, but it has the bare necessities that I like to see in a course. The shots are pretty simple but far from boring, and I enjoyed the tight lines. I'm going with 2.5 "Decent/Typical," since I liked the hole design and found the overall simplicity a plus. I could see it getting better with better tees and with polishing of fairways, but the automatic limit on shot variation as a 9-holer will remain. Fun course, and I'll easily consider detouring to replay this and check for improvements next time I'm in the area. Plus, I really need to try that blackberry ice cream at Moo-Thru.