Muscadine Meadows DGC is a quaint little nine hole course weaving its way throughout the Endless Summer Winery's beautiful vineyard. A quick hello with the staff in the tasting room (which dubs as a gift shop, including a modest selection of DGA discs) is all you'll need to get on the course.

Once on the course finding hole one is easy. You'll be greeted by a rules poster, course guidelines, and importantly a donation box. The suggested, but not required, donation is only $2 and that's a bargain for any private course in my view.

Tees, fairways, and baskets are easy to find and follow. Tee markers, which look like golf balls, yet about the size of small volleyballs, are half buried in the ground and indicate each tee. The markers are painted the same color as the flags on the corresponding baskets for the hole being played. This helps with navigation because many baskets are visible from the tees and throughout the course. The unusually wide and roomy natural tee pads are flat and in great shape.

Varied hole lengths from a short 122' shot up to a longer 602' shot offer a generous mix of hole lengths. It mixes in three par 4's and even a so called par 5.

The course has some of the neatest homemade baskets I've seen. They are recycled channel makers/buoys crowned with the baskets. They're a really cool feature for sure. As mentioned, the flags on top not only identify which hole the basket belongs to but they also help you judge the wind on the course

Overall this is a fairly boring course. Although there are mapped fairways that indicate some left or right turning shots, the fact of the matter is that the vineyard doesn't provide any viable obstacles so you can pretty much throw towards the baskets anyway you like. I imagine everyone is gonna be throwing big hyzers ignoring the suggested fairways. To be fair, the right hand dogleg lake shot on hole 3 added some variety and risk to this bland course. Unfortunately, it was overshadowed by a pretty bad disc golf hole, hole eight's 122' shot. I get the idea of adding an ace run but where's the reward or fun in a 122' ace?

While the homemade baskets are a pretty cool feature, they are very fussy. Expect a few cut through's and spit outs.

It goes without saying to try to dig a little deeper for the donation box. Thanks to the winery for installing and opening the course to the disc golf community!

I recommend picking up some wine while you're there. I am a beer man myself but picked up a bottle anyway. I got the WeBeJammin white based on an employee's recommendation. It's pretty tasty and I'm actually enjoying a glass while writing this review.

While I don't think this is necessarily a destination course, coupled with the winery I think it's worth a stop for a tasting and a bonus round of golf while you're there. A limited beer selection is available at the tasting room as well.