Nice little quiet park. Short course with variety of different tee shots. Nice drive worth a trip every so often. I also sometimes take my wife and kids that require a jogging stroller for the youngest. This is a course that is stroller friendly. A little off roading but definitely doable.

Find a map online before attempting this course. Hard to follow otherwise. No official tee box's. Tee's are grass with only 1 tee box on every hole. This is one course that you DO NOT want to stray off the fairway. Rough is VERY rough and unforgiving. My wife lost a disc. I got filled with holes from jaggers for my effort with no disc to show for it .

Course could use tee boxes. Other than that, not bad.

Pine Ridge Park is a quiet little park a few miles away from Blairsville and the highly trafficked route 119. I enjoyed this park setting, which was very well maintained and offered a nice variety of hole types despite being on a small piece of land.

The tee signs were in great shape and very helpful in giving the hole length, par, and an accurate description of the hole. Mach 3 baskets were also in great shape and easy to spot.

There is a decent variety here in terms of hole type, as the course offers a few open holes (1, 5, 8), holes with multiple line options amidst the trees (2, 3, 6, 7, 9), and one with a tight, specific line to hit (4). There aren't any major elevation changes here, but the elevation present is used effectively. I really enjoyed hole 3's downhill birdie-run with multiple flight paths and hole 6's uphill shot to a well-protected basked. Hole 8 also offers some nice downhill elevation.

The road O.B. made a few holes more dangerous in holes 2, 3, and 5. I also really enjoyed the use of the stream on hole 3.

Navigation is intuitive and walks are short to the next tee, as the course plays back and forth across the road and then loops back to the parking area.

Its short distance between tees and short holes make for a nice quick round.

-Not a whole lot of opportunities for score separation as there is a very limited variety in hole length - all holes are in the 240-390 foot range. Only one par 4 and it didn't feel like a true par 4.
-Some thick, thorny rough on a few holes. It is pretty easily avoidable, but hard to find your discs when you've landed in it.
-The tees are natural and sometimes it isn't clear where exactly to throw from.
-No amenities present and not a lot of room for parking. Come prepared knowing there are no water fountains or bathrooms.

Pine Ridge definitely shows some promise, and I really enjoyed the technical challenge on some of these holes. Holes 2, 3, and 9 offer some unique looks and challenges, but the rest of the course is too straight-forward for me to rate the course any higher than a 2. However, it's definitely worth stopping here for a quick round if in the area or on your way to IUP or Deer Lakes.

Pine Ridge DGC offers a pleasant amount of technicality relative to its being a short city park 9. OB factors in on several holes, tightening up 2's landing zone considerably and making for a scary downhill shot on 3. Elevation is well-utilized, with uphill shots on 2 and 6 and downhill shots on 3 and 8, in addition to 5's sloped terrain. Woods play a role throughout, whether it be by providing a border on shots or obstacles to direct around. Shot variety and line-shaping are decent, with 4's big RHBH anny, hyzers on 2 and 7, and some straight or straight-ish shots. I'd say Pine Ridge's technical challenge is a bit higher than the average short park course.

Navigation is very intuitive, and the course makes a nice efficient loop. This course would be great for a quick round when you're pressed for time. Tees are well signed.

Pine Ridge's brevity in both distance and hole count reign in its potential. A 9 hole course with seven sub-300' holes that isn't too densely wooded can only offer so much. I appreciate how Pine Ridge maximizes its surroundings, but that isn't necessarily saying much.

The tee boxes for the natural tees weren't themselves marked on my visit; this made it hard to determine where to stand at a few points.

There are some opportunities to find the rough and have to search for a disc here if you aren't careful and/or are a wild-armed beginner. The road is in play on a few spots (3, 5, 7), as is a power line on 5.

Bathrooms and water aren't readily available from the course.

Pine Ridge is a weird bird in some ways: the shots and landing zones are more technical than what you'd normally find at a park course like this, but the short distances and absence of pro tees lend themselves more towards beginners. It's hard to identify a target audience for this course. Not necessarily a pro or a con, just an observation.

Pine Ridge is well superior to Getty Heights, so if you're looking to add a 9 in to your trip to IUP, look here first.

- Course plays in a well-maintained park near Blairsville, PA. Evidence of maintenance on the 9 holes is shown with cut grass, cleared fairways, and nice signage. All in all, the course is rather pretty and scenic -- especially at that golden hour right before dusk when I played here.

- Players will observe different shots that favor both lefties and righties with hyzer and anhyzer shots, respectively. All players will experience some ace runs, particularly on #1, 3, 5, and 8 due to the openness and straightness of the holes' design. The best hole IMO is #6, with its well guarded grove of trees atop a hill; it's almost begging for a roller shot! Wooded holes are also present on holes #2 and 9, both requiring you to navigate a hyzer line while avoiding trees.

- The course appears to be heavily monitored by cameras, which hopefully means that it'll curb any vandalism.

- It's right off US-22 and a great stop whether you're coming to or from Pittsburgh. Dean's Diner isn't too far away and their pies are top notch!

- Good thing I brought a map, because navigation is slightly counter intuitive and I didn't see any information kiosk or maps provided. Tees are quite simply grass with a 12" wooden stake in the ground to denote the tee.

- One thing that bugged me was that the signs didn't face the direction of the basket; rather, they were turned 90 degrees. Perhaps this is nit-picking, but I found this to be strange.

- No parking by the first hole that I observed; I parked a few hundred yards down the road.

- The course simply lacks difficulty, and I'm not even very good. Despite having two wooded holes and some doglegs here and there, I didn't find myself being challenged and I felt like I had to put the brake on a lot of my drives for fear of either going past the pins or putting my disc along the omnipresent road.

- Finally, I was kind of let down when I saw on here that all 9 holes had water in play. It seemed too good to be true, but there wasn't any water in play except for a tiny tiny drainage ditch about 15" wide that played by hole 3.

- Perhaps some of the issues I addressed will be resolved once the course gets out of its infancy. There's clearly more land on site with which to add another 9 holes, so I'm hoping that frequent patronage from the dg community will compel the county to add more baskets and tees in the future.

- All in all, I had a good time. It's fits the mold of a typical recreational municipal course. With the beauty and TLC so far on the 9 holes, this is a prime candidate for a course to introduce to a beginner. As far as playing a championship caliber course, however, go north to Indiana or continue heading west to the Steel City.

- Geographically, this course fills in a nice gap between IUP's College Lodge and the rest of the courses in Pittsburgh. Best of all, it's right along US-22 so make a visit sometime!