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Glenville, WV

Glenville State College DGC

2.75(based on 5 reviews)
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BigAl724
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Experience: 11.8 years 179 played 144 reviews
0.50 star(s)

Has potential but in a bad current state 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 14, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

The course at Glenville State College is set off on its own on rec center and college property. There is a pool and playground nearby. This is a shorter course that offers a good mix of wooded and open holes as you travel in and out of the woods. Hole 9 is a fun finishing hole in being a downhill bomb. It felt good to open up after playing the tight, shorter holes in the woods. With the short holes and small space that it occupies, it offers a very quick round if you're in the area.

The rec center area is set off on its own away from the town and is in a peaceful, secluded setting. The course itself is away from other park activities and offers nice views.

It has the potential to offer a fun round as it is in a cool, typical WV backwoods setting that is made for disc golf with its thick woods and steep elevation changes.

Cons:

However, the course is basically unplayable in its current state. The woods holes are unplayable with very high and thick rough all around and through the fairways. In mid-September, it was hard to walk through the woods let alone play the course. I would imagine this gets better in the late fall/early spring, but the rough is still probably pretty bad even when it's most thinned out. The fact that the course is only two years old and already in this bad of shape shows that it's just not a high priority to whoever is in charge of taking care of it.

The tees are natural and signs are scarce, so it can be confusing for where you are supposed to throw from. The layout is a little confusing and navigation doesn't always flow naturally as you have to backtrack a few times. I'd bring a map.

Outside of the town of Glenville, it's pretty out of the way from anything else. You have to make an effort to play here and it's not worth that effort in its current state.

This course has potential, but a lot of work needs to be done to make it playable. Because of the rural setting that it's in and the fact that it's on college property, most of the people who would stumble across the course would be new to the sport. Considering this, the course definitely needs improvement in maintenance and navigation.

Other Thoughts:

I hate to punish a course too much with only one real bad experience. However, since many of the holes weren't even walkable at the time I went, it needs to be judged as I played it and not by the potential that I see. If the course was even just in decent shape, I would bump my rating up a few levels. With it getting such little traffic, I doubt that many drastic changes will be made.

To find the course, drive on Sycamore Run past the playground and shortly after you will see a gravel road going up a hill on the right. The course starts at the edge of the woods at the bottom of the hill. Not worth going out of your way at all to play here in its current state. It could possibly offer a decent round in the late fall/early spring when the rough is died down in the woods.
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