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Eastville, VA

Indiantown Park - Innova

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Experience: 7.9 years 258 played 41 reviews
3.00 star(s)

2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 7, 2021 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

Grassy lawns under wooded fairways are often said to make for the most aesthetically pleasing disc golf holes. This small, out-of-the-way rural course manages to show off that style on nearly all of its holes, making for a course whose beauty and uniqueness is out of proportion with its remote location and small stature.
+ Beautiful, cathedral-like hallways through coastal woodlands. A very well-maintained and attractive course for such a small, rural public park.
+ Good mix of fairway shapes - straight, left-turning, right-turning, and flex shots will all be required. Low ceilings frequently add to the challenge. The purest lines are frequently very technical, but fair.
+ Holes 9 and 10 are wide open and much longer, adding welcome variety and an injection of driver crushes off the tee.
+ Very good brick teepads and yellow-banded Discatcher baskets. Signage indicates the hole number and distance. Navigation is generally straightforward. Benches are available on most if not all holes. A practice basket can be found on the way to hole 1's tee, near the soccer field.
+ The main course is a full 18 holes, but an additional 18 holes are hidden in the woods to each side, offering a 36-hole experience for those with more time and interest.
+ The only public course serving the entire Eastern Shore of Virginia, an overlooked and underserved region.

Cons:

- There is a fine line between holes being 'technical' and 'demanding', versus being 'unreasonable', 'unfair', and 'luck-based'. Looking at each hole individually, the holes here largely manage to stay on the better side of that line. But taking a step back, there are too many holes that do toe that line. Taken all together I feel that this course has a few too many odd fairways, and reduces the fun factor in the end.
- Hole 11 is one hole that does tip over the edge into being too poke-and-hope and luck-based for my tastes.
- RHBH specialists may struggle with the technical demands of some of the right-turning holes here. The low ceilings here do not give much air space for the discs to move far enough right. Stable discs thrown by RHFH and LHBH players can be kept low and skipped into position, but RHBH turnovers don't have the room to accomplish the same.
- Small par issues - hole 8 is marked as a par 3, but because of its abrupt early 90-degree dogleg plays much more like an easy par 4. This is balanced by hole 9, which is marked as a par 5, but plays more like a demanding and well-designed par 4.
- As beautiful as the fairways are, the rough is very thick. Though most of these holes are very short, it is easy to end up in spots with no angle for a par save.
- Majority of holes are very short, around 200 ft., and playing various shots at that distance begins to feel repetitive. Would've been nice to combine some of these fairways into a few longer par 3s or 4s.
- No elevation to work with, other than one basket placed on an insignificantly small mound. That, plus the consistently short distances, means that many of these holes have a similar 'look', and few feel notably distinctive from the rest.
- The 'older' 18 holes are still available to play, quietly branching off holes 5 and 12 for those in-the-know. But they lack any signage, and use natural tees. Are they part of the long-term vision for this course, or not? I could not discern that.

Other Thoughts:

Despite its nice aesthetic appeal, this course is not a destination that can solely justify the long, dull drive from the north, or the expensive toll fee over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel from the south.
But if you happen to already find yourself on the Eastern Shore of Virginia for other reasons, this is the lone disc golf course in the region, and fortunately it's an above-average, interesting, and unique little track that's well worth the time to explore.
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