-This course nestled right around the Appalachian Mountains. The terrain here is very hilly and the walkthrough of the course is pleasing. This is a real place of solace. Very quiet atmosphere at a campground.

-Great start to the course! I have some disagreement, but I loved the first hole. Steep uphill, maybe a bit over 25' above the tee pad. Hole is only 200' but is hard to reach. The tee shot has you throwing into a mouth of the woods making the route to the basket tight for the remaining 80' or so. #2 is a fun downhill ace run.

-I also enjoyed holes #7 and #9. #7 gives the greatest chance to air out a big drive since it is 468' feet across a nice valley. #9 is under 200' but plays longer and is pretty challenging overall. It's up a steep hill in the woods. A tamed version of #18 at Morningside. Not as high up so it's very reachable. The hill is still steep, so there's roller potential.

-Good ace potential. Good for practice. Many shorter tight holes with high demand for accuracy. Any ace here would be a good one while there is good potential.

-The tee signs are not accurate and the majority of them look the same. #8 is pretty sharply to the right but the diagram looks just like #7's. A straight line with a slight slant to the right. Mind you, #7 is dead straight from the pad. Not slightly to the right. Many other tee signs are the same. A few holes are to the left, and they are well, a slight slant to the left. Slightly accurate but still misleading!

-#10 and #11 are a couple of goofy flip up ace runs. There is one tree splitting the tight fairways into two crapshoots.
Reachable? Definitely! They are both under 200', but still annoying and not fun to play at all. While we are at it, the front nine is pretty solid, and the back nine flat out sucks.

-Great terrain that's limited to mild elevation change on most holes. As soon as I parked, I had a feeling there'd be a lot of elevation change on the disc golf course and that this course would be better than the 2.22 rating it has. The first hole has the most elevation change here. It's a tease. Don't come in expecting some high elevation changes even though this course just may have the capacity for it.

-Holes 3-8, 16-18 play through a grassy field and are close in proximity. While we are at it, I wouldn't play here in the morning again. My shoes got SOAKED and my car reeked on the way home even with my window down. If you play here, wait until the noon.

-The last three holes go from boring to terrible. #16 is a notch downhill on top of a hill. Filler. #17 and #18 suck. Those last two holes play on the bottom of the hill. You have to walk your way down just to walk back steep uphill to where you parked. After #15, you are walking a long way downhill just to play a meh hole followed by two bad boring like holes.

-The campground is currently closed. On a positive note, it's a nice place to camp!

-Overall, I found Kiwanis Persimmon Hollar to be pretty frustrating. The front nine was okay and the back nine wasn't fun at all aside from a couple of okay holes. It's beautiful and I thought it'd be pretty cool. I wasn't expecting much from the reviews I read, but I expected a little bit more than this.

-There are definitely worse courses than this one. But that doesn't mean this course is really worth it if you aren't a local or are planning to play it just to do it. I don't agree with one of the previous statements stating that you'll have fun for sure. You might have fun and that's great if you do. If you don't, then luckily Winged Deer isn't that far from here. Do not play here if you don't plan on playing Winged Deer.

-Tried to come up with a funny review title with a relatively serious review. Course is like the movie Vegas Vacation. The beginning is hilarious cause Chevy Chase is going out of his way singing "Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys very terribly while driving recklessly. Starts off great and fun and the rest of it is boring with a few funny lines. And the lack of the available use of elevation is the lack of humor from Cousin Eddie in the movie. He MADE the Christmas Vacation movie the gem it is! You hardly see any humor at all from him in Vegas Vacation. Just like you hardly see fun at Kiwanis.

Kiwanis is an amalgamation of a disc golf course if I've ever seen one. It's basically got aspects of three different courses, which, combined together get you 18 holes. Seems like there's plenty of room to improve.
- The course does have variety. Hole #1 is a tight upshot; #2 is wooded; #3 - 8 are wide open; #9 - 15 are heavily wooded; and #16 - 18 are back in the open. Whether that's a good thing or not, almost everyone is bound to enjoy part of the layout and dislike other parts.
- Course puts heavy emphasis on the mid-range game. 12 of the 18 holes are 212 feet or shorter. Even with one hole at 468 feet, the average length is 220 feet. If you can throw an accurate mid-range shot, you'll be seeing lots of birdie chances.
- Course is almost completely isolated from the rest of the park. The park was packed on the Saturday afternoon I played, due to the crowds at the water-park. Other than cars parking in the grass close to the basket for #7, the disc golf portion was empty except for myself and my playing partner.
- This is a good practice course. The open holes would be good for practicing drives or mid-range shots. You could also spruce things up with some safari golf.
- Course is mostly a beginner friendly course. I throw out the disclaimer simply because brand new players might get frustrated with some of the tight, wooded layouts on holes #9 - 15. There's a bit too much of a luck factor with bounces off trees that could turn off newbies.
- I'll highlight three of the more enjoyable holes on this course. On many a courses, they would be filler holes. Here they're highlights. #2 is a semi-wooded, downhill, 200 foot shot. Fun ace run hole. #9 is a tight, wooded, 163-foot uphill shot. It's a good hole to be aggressive on, aiming for the chains. #16 is probably the course's best hole, a semi-open, 260-foot holes with big trees on both sides of the fairway, eliminating most big sweeping shots from getting close to the basket.

I'll echo my issues from above. The course feels like it was randomly put together until there were a total of 18 holes at the park. Holes #1 - 8 all have one common flavor, #9 - 15 have another, and then #16 is on its own island due to the long walk to and fro. You go from a bunch of wide open holes that are too close to each other to a series of heavily wooded holes? It's just a weird flow.
- Holes #16 - 18 are such a frustration because of the long walk. It was really annoying because the walk is only for three holes. It's one of the better three hole stretches (by default), but it feels like you spend as much time walking as it takes to knock out the holes themselves.
- Holes #4 - 7 are bad because you go back-and-forth, back-and-forth across the same wide-open field. If there are other players on this stretch watch out, because even a slightly off-line shot will end up on one of the other fairways. To top it off, #8 starts back across the same field; however, at least this hole doglegs right around the edge of the trees, so there's a variable to this hole.
- Holes #10 - 15 are all very similar, especially the stretch of #12 - 15. Those four holes felt pretty much identical, so a little more variety and/or creativity would have been greatly appreciated.
- Not a lot of challenge to this course. Plus, there aren't any truly great holes here, just several good ones. Add it up and mid-level and above players will tear up this course.

Kiwanis is a decent short course. If nothing else, it's a change of pace to Harmon Hills and Warriors Path.
- The course just never seemed like it got out of second gear. The first three holes were decent, giving me somewhat reasonable hopes of this being a fun, short course (along the lines of Elon Eager Beaver in Charlotte). After hole #7, I was still waiting for another decent hole...and then it was another long stretch before I found another enjoyable/creative layout.
- This space of land would really be better suited for one solid 9-hole course. Knock out a couple of the open holes, and use the wooded area to create several better layouts and you could have a pretty good layout. Instead you get an 18-hole course that has too many simple, short layouts.
- There's not much to offer here. It was disappointing because I thought this would be a fun, cool-down course after my visit to Harmon Hills. What I got instead was the area's least interesting 18-hole layout. It says something that I thought Borden Park was a better all-around course than this one.

Short, plays fast, rewards accuracy over power, challenges your shot choices.

Odd transition from #6 to #7, no benches or trash cans but that's nit picking. The tee box at #5 is the only one that's not concrete. It's loose tree bark and is very uneven.

If you play this course you can leave the distance drivers at home. The longest hole is #7 at 260 feet. This is not necessarily a bad thing as the course rewards accuracy and control over brute power. As an example, hole #2 is listed optimistically at 210 feet. It's Par 2, dead straight, downhill with a reasonably wide fairway through the woods. If you can throw straight this is an easily aceable hole. Also if you happen to work close by the course plays quickly and you could get in nine holes during your lunch hour and still have time for a sandwich.

The info page claims this course is "moderately hilly". I guess that depends on your definition of moderately. If you are old enough to have ever used a dime to make a call from a pay phone the climb up to the basket at #4, and then from there up to the tee at #5 will have you huffing and puffing.

You're in for another steep climb if you decide to play 18 holes as the climb from #9 back up to the #1 tee is also pretty stiff. You can park near the first tee but then you have that uphill climb after you're finished playing a round. The course map is a little deceptive as there is another small parking lot right next to the #9 basket that isn't shown. You'll be glad you parked there after 18 holes.

The walk from #6 to the tee at #7 is a little strange. You come out of the woods, go across the parking lot, and past the campground, before you get to the next tee. I don't know if they could have continued the course through the woods around the campground or not, but whatever, once you get used to it, it's not all that bad.

Overall this is a fun little course that can be a nice break from the big bomb, wide open courses and even though the first six holes are mostly in the woods, the underbrush is light so there's little chance of losing a disc after an off-line throw.