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Round Peak Vineyard DGC reviews
6
1
Taken For A Bath
Reviewed:
Played on:Jul 2, 2022
Played the course:once
Pros:
-The back nine had some decent holes with a good mix of elevation. #14 and #15 were my favorite holes. #14 being a downhill drive in the open with a couple of trees to avoid straight ahead, recommending you to find more of a "back door" route to the basket. My favorite hole on the course! Basket is tucked into a wooded corner on the left side of the woodline. Tough, attackable par three. #15 has the best use of elevation. Up more than 25' down a wider and grassy fairway, yet still in the woods. Only 300' but plays much longer. It's a real pump to get up there. There are plenty of high limbs that'll prevent you from throwing a high spike up the hill, so it almost appears to be throwing up a canopy like fairway. Another great hole.
-Barrel baskets were obviously cool to see. It's authentic, and it's a sweet look. They catch differently, so maybe they are considerably gimmicky, but I mean the work put into to making these man made baskets has to count for something. The barrels were split into halves, placed through poles, and the bands are bicycle tires. That is super neat!
-Good beer options. I had a malt and drank it during my round. There are plenty of other options, especially for wine. There's also a slushie marker if you aren't looking to drink beer in the hot weather. It's like an apple orchard for grown ups!
-The view of the mountains between NC and VA. It's a pretty stroll through the vineyard!
-The guy in the shop was super cool and friendly. Gave me different beer options that he thought that I may like.
-Barrel baskets were obviously cool to see. It's authentic, and it's a sweet look. They catch differently, so maybe they are considerably gimmicky, but I mean the work put into to making these man made baskets has to count for something. The barrels were split into halves, placed through poles, and the bands are bicycle tires. That is super neat!
-Good beer options. I had a malt and drank it during my round. There are plenty of other options, especially for wine. There's also a slushie marker if you aren't looking to drink beer in the hot weather. It's like an apple orchard for grown ups!
-The view of the mountains between NC and VA. It's a pretty stroll through the vineyard!
-The guy in the shop was super cool and friendly. Gave me different beer options that he thought that I may like.
Cons:
-If Donkey Kong had his own course, there's no doubt that the baskets would be none other than the barrel baskets at Round Peak. However if he had his own course, I can tell you now it would be a whole lot sweeter than this! It'd be longer, it'd have more woods, tons of elevation, and probably plenty of vines to climb just for entertainment. They did who is maybe the coolest video game character of all time dirty with the changes that they made. Round Peak used to be 5000' feet and they turned the front nine into a kiddie pool. With this change for the worse, Round Peak was taken for a bath. A chemical bath.
-I know its a casual, more gimmicky like course. But why did they have to turn the front nine into a pitch and putt? On the back nine, you'll play a handful of pro par threes. Hole #13 is almost 500' and with the mando pointing left, it's a clear dogleg right that's just impossible to reach. #17 is a 436' hyzer right to left around a cluster of trees through a low ceiling. Either that, or a 436' spike hyzer over them. You are playing several putter tosses and then all of a sudden you see just a ridiculous 490' dogleg. So it's disjointed. Starters will hate several of the holes on the back nine. Pros will hate the squandered potential on the front nine. I know it's squandered because it use to be a longer course.
I would've had to do some extensive wine tasting and get all sorts of next level drunk to find this course to be fun overall. #14 and #15 are very good holes. You don't have to get drunk to see that. #18 was nice too, but it was boring overall. The disjointed mix could be considered variety, but the holes were mostly boring nonetheless. Drinking a beer during the round did not make it fun. As a matter of fact, the beer was a placebo. If I had another one during my round, it probably still would've been a placebo.
-The teepads are raised, edged by thick chunks of woods on the back side and the left and right side. Whenever I want to throw a big anhyzer, I start my run up from the right side of the pad (like many people do) and release on the top left corner. The wood is probably six inches thick. Good luck throwing hyzers with these pads. If you try to run up from the right side and end at the corner, you'll likely fall on the pad and possibly land on the wood. That would be painful. It'd be best to remove the wood from the edges. Some people just have long run ups.
-As cool as the baskets look, the depth of them is probably more than a foot and the circumference of the rims are smaller than other basket rims. Spit outs are a frequent occurrence due to the small circumference. I don't know if the very center of the barrels were carved out to create the rim or if they intended to make the rims smaller in diameter
-No sour goses, my favorite beers. Nonetheless, I enjoyed my malt.
-I know its a casual, more gimmicky like course. But why did they have to turn the front nine into a pitch and putt? On the back nine, you'll play a handful of pro par threes. Hole #13 is almost 500' and with the mando pointing left, it's a clear dogleg right that's just impossible to reach. #17 is a 436' hyzer right to left around a cluster of trees through a low ceiling. Either that, or a 436' spike hyzer over them. You are playing several putter tosses and then all of a sudden you see just a ridiculous 490' dogleg. So it's disjointed. Starters will hate several of the holes on the back nine. Pros will hate the squandered potential on the front nine. I know it's squandered because it use to be a longer course.
I would've had to do some extensive wine tasting and get all sorts of next level drunk to find this course to be fun overall. #14 and #15 are very good holes. You don't have to get drunk to see that. #18 was nice too, but it was boring overall. The disjointed mix could be considered variety, but the holes were mostly boring nonetheless. Drinking a beer during the round did not make it fun. As a matter of fact, the beer was a placebo. If I had another one during my round, it probably still would've been a placebo.
-The teepads are raised, edged by thick chunks of woods on the back side and the left and right side. Whenever I want to throw a big anhyzer, I start my run up from the right side of the pad (like many people do) and release on the top left corner. The wood is probably six inches thick. Good luck throwing hyzers with these pads. If you try to run up from the right side and end at the corner, you'll likely fall on the pad and possibly land on the wood. That would be painful. It'd be best to remove the wood from the edges. Some people just have long run ups.
-As cool as the baskets look, the depth of them is probably more than a foot and the circumference of the rims are smaller than other basket rims. Spit outs are a frequent occurrence due to the small circumference. I don't know if the very center of the barrels were carved out to create the rim or if they intended to make the rims smaller in diameter
-No sour goses, my favorite beers. Nonetheless, I enjoyed my malt.
Other Thoughts:
-I don't know why they made it shorter. Was it a land restriction issue? This course came out in 2017 and was redesigned in 2020. I would think a land issue would've been addressed in much less than a three year span. Nonetheless, I wished a would've gotten to play the original layout. This one is anticlimactic with only a few good holes.
-It's an interesting place to visit. The walk is enjoyable and the baskets are very cool. The design is just very flawed. The front nine is really terrible. The back nine is solid with a few really good holes. If the entire course was of similar challenge to the back nine, I would've probably given it a 3 because the back nine is all and all pretty good. Felt more like two nine holers. The front was like a tiki and the back was more legit.
-It's an interesting place to visit. The walk is enjoyable and the baskets are very cool. The design is just very flawed. The front nine is really terrible. The back nine is solid with a few really good holes. If the entire course was of similar challenge to the back nine, I would've probably given it a 3 because the back nine is all and all pretty good. Felt more like two nine holers. The front was like a tiki and the back was more legit.
