Despite my preference of playing wooded courses, Munden Point is my home course at the time of this rewrite I've played exactly 528 rounds. The scenic views, wind play, pristine conditions, and long to long is top notch for me. I've learned to play the wind on the course and spend most of my winter/spring rounds on Munden Point, I always play 8-9 regardless how strong the wind is blowing. During the summer when the wind is calm, I may go a few weeks not playing the course, will miss the peace and quiet, scenery, and make a visit. Always enjoy playing with those who love the course just as much as I do or showing the course off to those vacationing in the area. The 20-mile drive home is my favorite, there are plenty of mom and pops to pick up a snack. My personnel con is 17 and 18 that limp in at the finishing line compared to the rest of the course long to long.
My overall rating is anchored on a 5.0 based on my top scenic course, solid play long to long, and several unique holes. The time to play short to short normally takes about 55 mins, long to long 80 mins.
Featured Holes:
-#2 long to long Par 3 at 315 feet has the tee surrounded on three sides by flower bushes over your head, and those three weeks in April with flowers blooming, scenic! You feel like you're teeing from a chute. From the tee an open down slope with two guardian cedar trees for the short basket and blocking a direct line to long basket. Past the cedars is an open area, the long basket is located 20 feet in heavy woods, with overhang extending in front of basket. The wind can swirl around the basket area, where the fairway levels out. From the tee it appears you're driving into a 45-degree angle, because the line hooks right to the long basket. Big arms like to plenko into the 60-foot-tall trees surrounding long basket. Reach C1 basket high right or left with all the trees and brush it's possible to 2-putt. Best place to be off tee, is between short and long basket putting under the brush passing the cedar guardians on the right.
-#3 Short to long Par 3 at 269 feet is the longest out of the 4 combinations. From the open tee slight up slope, and a dogleg right, the wind is the weakest here on the course. There are three circular bushes that protect both baskets from the tee. There about 40-feet in diameter and about 9 to 10-feet in height. There are a handful of pine trees growing within each bush making going up and over difficult. A fourth circular bush is behind the long basket, with one of the other 10-feet in front of the basket, both bushes within C1, difficult to reach C1, and basket not seen from the tee. A total of two bushes straight at basket middle line or using a right line a third bush, first bush is only 130-feet in front of you. Or go left center fairway as a dogleg right only having to deal with the front bush and rear bush, still having to avoid fairway guardian trees on the dogleg, a mound protecting short basket. The dogleg is about 160 feet out protected by canopy, run through the dogleg is skinny tree jail with a creek waiting for you. The hole is the hardest under 300-feet, and a lost disc potential in the bushes with possible snakes in warmer months. Beautiful in the month of April for a few weeks with flowers blooming.
#4 Par 3 long to long at 318-feet a straight away to basket with three Hugh Oak trees as fairway protection all along the left center. The first Oak is about 160-feet out, all three trees have canopy stretching more than halfway across the fairway and lowering to about 15-feet off the ground. There is a lone pine tree right center about 230-feet out, you won't notice it because of other obstacles in front of you. The tee box is difficult to get off of there is a fifth circular bush extending just in front of the right center of the tee pad, and a pine tree just off of the right corner tee pad at 10-feet, you feel boxed in on the tee, very difficult for LHBH, and RHFH. For more fun there are two pine trees providing a gap at about 130-feet out, and 30-feet wide. Off the tee must keep a mid-level flight. Another line for LHBH, and RHFH around the left of the oaks using a park road that crowns toward the fairway with a ditch, a disc can skip off the road or ditch back onto fairway keeping it low under the oak canopy, and risky with road OB. The basket sits in the open.
#5 Par 3 long to long at 365-feet is a unique style park hole like no other I've played at other courses. From tee to basket can be played straight, but the tee is angled in the direction of a side parking area 200-feet out with a wooden guard rail. You're playing a dogleg right around the outreach of an oak tree canopy. You can go straight at the basket, but there is a thick branch from the oak about 100-feet out, and only 7-feet off the ground, you'll be throwing at a down angle, and the thick grass will catch your disc losing distance. The basket sits deep into the canopy of another oak with lowering branches, the canopy starts at about 90-feet from basket. There is a useless Mando to avoid a horseshoe pit just off right fairway, and I've never seen anybody use it. Scenic hole and a fun play.
#10 Par 3 long to long at 411-feet with a huge oak left center of tee just 10-feet out and will push you to the right towards a picnic pavilion 70-feet out and on a raised mound, to clear pavilion under canopy about 12-feet high to clear the pavilion about 80-feet, to clear the two oak tree canopies about 130-feet. Looking down the fairway from tee the basket in the open, but difficult to see because of a wall of thick pine trees with short gaps at about 210-feet out. A Mando sign will arrow you left towards the open fairway for RHBH and LHFH, the opening is protected by the two oak trees, hit the fairway gap your home free to basket. You'll also notice all along the left swamp, thick grass and trees. Before you get there to the pines up by the short tees is a bench and garbage can in play 140-feet out and in play, I've hit them both several times. Headwind can cause havoc to keep disc low and is a determining factor on how to play the hole. Since I don't like the Mando on the hole, there are times I'll aim to the right of it to play thru the pines, or a favorable wind with an under stable disc to hit the fairway. Thru the pines you may hit a tree and have a difficult approach.
#11 Par 3 long to long at 294 feet straight away to an open basket with several oaks and pine trees blocking you to get there, and narrow lines. This is a hole where headwind, and cross winds will determine how you get to the basket. From the tee there are two trees left at 15-feet, and two trees right 25-feet together a gap of about 6-feet. Straight ahead about 80-feet is an oak tree, past it several trees on both sides past it until 250-feet down with the short basket a few feet in front. The long basket is in the open behind it at 45-feet. All along the left is the swamp with 8-15-foot-tall grass in the summer about 25-feet off fairway. Best line is to the left of center oak flirting with the swamp and paying attention to the wind using RHFH or LHBH hoping to fade back towards basket missing all the trees. I've lost two discs in the tall grass.
#12 Par 3 long to long at 399-feet open in front of you except for an oak tree left center about 80-feet out with an overhanging branch extending out about 12-feet above the ground, pushing you out to the right. Down fairway left center you'll see a row of trees and brush at about 315-feet. To the left of the centerline of the trees/brush is a tunnel about 15-feet wide on the left another row of trees keeping you from the river. Just 20-feet into the tunnel you'll see the short basket, and 65-feet into the tunnel is the long basket not seen. Around long basket all within C1 are trees and brush with thorns, only a 30-foot opening if you skip the tunnel and come in from the open fairway, the open side to the right of the tree/brush line from tee. If there is any kind of wind coming off the river left to right, you're likely going to get pushed to the open. LHBH/RHFH best line is the tunnel, RHBH/LHFH the open fairway. To reach from the open you'll need at least 440-feet to clear trees/brush, reaching the basket on a right to left reaching the unseen 30-foot opening into C1.
No. 16 Par 3 long to long at 284 feet straight from tee to basket. You're teeing from a shaded area from pines and oaks. At right center 70-feet down is a towering oak tree with a thick base, and limbs over the fairway. To the left at about 130-feet down is the start of thick brush and trees that protrude into the fairway bulging out left center, at the bulge is a thick pine tree branch over the fairway about 15-feet up. The left rough line bulges back in about 170-feet out creating some fairway not seen from tee, the tree/brush line reappears on the left side just outside in C2 providing guardian protection on left side of basket all the way into C1, this can be a two-putt. In front of the basket in C1 are overhanging branches making a 40-foot putt difficult to make. Just past the basket on the left, and behind at 15-feet is a swamp that can have murky water or mud. Right center fairway outside C1 are two bushy trees that are guardians for the short basket but are in play from the tee. The fairway is the lowest portion of the course and collects a lot of moisture making thick matted grass whether in the summer a one hop or winter a few hops. From the tee your straight lining to the basket avoiding the oak on the right, and tree/brush on the left aiming right center to slide into C1 on a down angle not wanting to go past the basket. This is the only hole on the course where the river cannot be seen from any portion but makes up for it by being very scenic from tee to basket.
Signature Hole:
No. 8 "The Postcard Hole" Par 4 long to long at 635 feet from tee to basket is still the most scenic hole I've played. The fairway from the tee downslopes until about the 300-foot mark then levels out. The fairway is open, but there are several trees left and right to bracket you into the middle. As you look down fairway at the 350-foot mark is the beginning of a peninsula fairway where the North landing River wraps around the fairway on three sides, at the start of the peninsula about 200-feet in width, when you reach the long basket narrows to about 80-feet with a circular end where you'll find the long basket in the open and center, there is a beautiful rock wall used as a breaker closes to the long basket at 25-feet. From the tee LHBH and RHFH are preferred, all along the left are tall pines with brush behind the pines into fenced private property. On the left at about 200-feet out are a trio of bulging pines left center, to the right a few more pines with a gap of about 60-feet. But, to the right off tee at about 50-feet bulging into the fairway are smaller trees with overhangs forcing you to challenge the bulging trees on the left down fairway to get some distance off tee. At about 400-feet down left center is a tall tree with spreading canopy into the center of the fairway, you do not want to get blocked by the tree off the tee you want to be right center. As you walk down the fairway you'll notice a line of pines, and a beautiful rock breaker on both sides of fairway, and you can see about 2 miles across the river and marshes to the tree line on other side of fairway, and perhaps boats passing by, just beautiful and you can sit on a bench to the right of long basket. Whether you're playing 2nd or 3rd shot eventually you're going to have to get around two trees on the right side about 100-feet from the basket, on the other side of those trees is a portion of the river, on the left side about same distance just past short basket is a lone tree that can come into play on a wayward 2nd shot. On left center just outside C1 is another lone tree that can interfere with an approach. It's possible you're playing a right to left into C1 wanting to hit the brakes. You're playing the hole into the west where the wind can be blowing from, could be ferocious, and 10 mph higher than 16 other holes on the course. I've played in wind as high as 40-50 mph on the hole and gusty and have lost more discs on the hole into the river on approaches to the open basket. Adding to the scenery on a windy day is water spraying over C1.
Trouble Hole:
No. 9 Par 3 long to long at 420 feet, and at this par and length still the most difficult to get off the tee. No. 9 shares the same peninsula fairway as No. 8. Standing on the tee looking down fairway it's like finding the key to unlock the correct gap to use, and you feel perplexed. Looking straight down over an inlet of water at about 80-feet is a narrow gap of about 12-feet where a line of pine trees/brush on the left run all the way to the basket, to the left of the pines/brush is the river. On the right side some scrub trees with the fairway opening up as long as you move your disc to the right past the gap, I've never taken this route, but I've gone up and over which doesn't result in much distance and lost a few discs into the river hitting a pine on the left. To the left over the river with a carry of about 390-feet thru a wall of pines you'll find the edge of C1, but there are scrubs just off the tee and you'll need to get it up and over. To the right middle 50 feet before you are two trees past the water with canopy and a gap of about 12-feet, low canopy forces a disc to the fairway with in 100-feet past the gap, a hot skip can put you into the river crossing #8 fairway. You might think about going around to the right of the two trees, but there's a single tree just off the tee pad to the right, and risky to going around its right with the river looming. Past these obstacles the fairway is open with about 350-feet remaining to the basket with a dogleg left, and the trees/brush all the way down the left side bordering the river. The dogleg is about 250-feet past the gap with a larger tree protruding out at the dogleg with extending branches, and canopy from that point all the way to the basket. The dogleg is a sharp left trying to keep it under the canopy. Too early to the dogleg your disc can hit a branch or pine and deflect into the river or get struck down to the fairway. Basket is just past the canopy in the open. Difficult scenic hole, just three pars with more doubles, and about a dozen disc into the river.