There are elements of your typical school course here: short, easy, filler holes; some interesting layouts due to playing around the school property; and several decent layouts.
- Holes #1 & 2 are bad. The quintessential throwing out and back simply to get to 9 holes. The basket for #2 is close to #3 so there's a reason to this madness.
- The course really starts at hole #3. It's 292 feet across an open field. The basket plays in front of a fence, with Lovills Creek 30 feet past that. #4 then is only 104 feet. The basket plays in front of a fence, so be aggressive, making a run for the basket. If you go long and hit the fence, you've still got a near gimmie birdie putt.
- #5 is the most scenic hole. Teeing off alongside the creek, the basket is protected by several tall, mature trees. This is the best hole on the course and the only one that doesn't have a 'school course' vibe.
- #6, 8, & 9 all have school structures serving as the obstacles. #6, at 318 feet, is the easiest of these three. Wide open to the left, you're throwing around an equipment shed to the basket. Your only obstacles are if you cut it close to the building, or if you go to the right.
- #9 is a fun, unique layout. You tee off underneath a wooden stage, throw around the fenced-in tennis courts, have a small structure to throw over, all to get to the short, dogleg right basket. At only 243 feet, a high sweeping shot takes care of all your obstacles.
- #8 may be the course's signature hole. It plays around the perimeter of the baseball field's outfield fence. Teeing off in the corner of the left field foul line, you're around the entire outfield, to the basket behind right field. Along the way on this 597 foot par 4, you've got a series of mature evergreens beyond the outfield fence, to the left of the approach and basket, and the scoreboard to the basket's right to contend with. It's also a taller fence to scale. So if the gates to the field are locked, have fun climbing and jumping over.
- With the exception of #9, most tees/tee signs are close to the previous hole's basket, making this a relatively easy navigation for first time players. The hardest part, if you're not using an online map/directions, is finding the first tee.

Natural tee pads. An overall simple layout. Some construction/install work was going on by holes #1 & 2 when I played, leaving the tee sign for #1 on the ground away from where it should be.
- As stated above, it's hard for a course to recover from the notion that holes #1 & 2 are filler holes. 144 feet out on #1; 177 feet back in on #2. There's plenty of space in the area to the right of holes #5 & 6 to make another nice layout. Find a spot to throw in another filler 144 elsewhere and you can have a better layout without any effort.
- Course isn't difficult. It's an option for students to play while on campus. That doesn't mean a little more challenge or appeal should be overlooked.
- The fence and creek that run behind #3 and to the right of #5 could cause problems for discs that sail off line.
- Not many obstacles throughout the course. #1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 have no obstacles between you and the basket. You've got to throw an exceptionally bad shot on #1, 2, or 6 to not be having some form of a birdie putt. #4, despite being the shortest hole, actually presents a slight challenge if you go more than 15 feet left of the basket as the fence ends up blocking your line.

This is a nice, simple layout. After two bad holes, it seemed the course got progressively better over the next several holes.
- There is absolutely no elevation factor to this course. It really is in the flats down by the creek.
- I wonder if the course would be better if it were installed across the creek at Veterans Memorial Park.
- Any course is better than no course, especially when you only have one other nine hole layout in town. Westwood Park is considerably better than this layout. After that, you're 15-20 minutes to Armfield, the closest public 18-hole course.
- This is a quick play. It took me less than 20 minutes to play all nine holes, and that included time to snap some pictures.
- This course has all the look and feel of Mount Airy. It's a nice small, mountain town. You're only a couple minutes from downtown and some nice restaurants. If you're in town, it's worth bagging. Otherwise, unless you're like me, there's no reason to make a long detour to play.

This is the town that Andy Griffith was from . You likely drove down the parkway named after him in order to get here . The school at Mt. Airy High looks nice . Their athletic facilities in the back also rate high . The 9 hole disc golf course , unfortunately , does not . First when you go down the long driveway to the athletic facilities , turn right and take it to the very end . You will see a basket next to a metal picnic table . That is not a practice basket . It is basket #2 . The grounds here are well kept . They were mowing when I was playing . There is some type of water reservoir running alongside the school grounds and course , with a cement bike and walking trail on the other side. The baskets are Machs , typical of school courses . The tee pads are natural . The signage is basic, and mark where you tee off , but most of the signs here were either on the ground or laying against a fence . I guess it was done so maintenance wouldn't have to cut around them . The course is set around a consolidated area between the athletic fields and the reservoir . The first tee is close to the building . There is a kiosk , but nothing on it . .The course is very flat and open . This must have been put in to help introduce disc golf to the students and give the gym teacher another option to move the students outdoors . The course kind of criss-crosses the first few holes , then goes way out to an end of the fields , then comes way back with a 595' hole that wraps around the baseball field at the end . Then it returns to where you park . The course is a fast play . I can play it in about 25 minutes . Opie and 3 friends , maybe an hour .

#1 Safety : Yikes .5 feet from the #2 basket is the only picnic table where you can sit here . It is so open air and windy here and most of the players are going to be kids . Add the 2 together and you have a hit fest . Also , the last couple of holes wrap around athletic fields and tucked away in right hand corners . You might hit a maintenance man or a kid coming from that corner , especially during ball practice .
#2 Navigation . since there is no online map and nothing in the kiosk , and the signs are all down , you are never certain where the tee box is . The course must be unpopular , because there isn't a single dirt spot for a tee area on any of the 9 holes . I walked to the wrong sign twice while here .
#3 Disc Risk :The first hole has a basket up next to a fence . A little wind and you are already walking around it to look for your disc . I lost a driver when the wind picked up on I think #5 . Once it goes over the 5 or 6' high fence and into heavy rough leading to the water , it's a goner . Also , the fields were locked when I was here , along with the bathrooms . If your drive carries over a ball field fence and maintenance won't open it up for for , forget it . I almost lost another disc in the tall Christmas looking treeline on the finish to #8 . For an open looking course , you may not want to air out your arm here .
#4 Course Character . This course will be a bland as it gets . Just an elongated flat area with water beyond a fence and the sports facilities .
#5 amenities . None . Bathrooms locked . a metal picnic table , just in case you want to rest after your #1 145' putter throw and #2 179' putter throw .
#6 equipment : Signs down , natural tee pads with no starting point , Baskets up next to fences . no next tee signs .

If the idea behind the course was to indoctrinate the school kids to the game of disc golf and to have them outside and enjoying the air , then mission accomplished .I am all for promoting the game . I guess the course remains open to old hacks like me . Maybe they just didn't have any excess area that the school system owns in order to put a 9 hole course in . Maybe they put it in that area to keep an eye on the baskets . For whatever reason , there is just too much risk and too little reward to play here .
My Recommendation : unless you live on this N. South St. , or go to school here and want to hack around with your buddies , or a hard core Course Collector , you might want to take in the museum here instead . DISMISSED !!