(1.792 Rating) A twelve hole park style course with modest rolling elevation.
- FEELS LIKE A COURSE - Volunteer Ridge DGC won't be winning any awards, but it has the one required component right. It feels like a disc golf course. There are 12 holes now, although sadly just one tee now. There are numbered posts and the layout flows together well enough. Holes are mostly on the short side, but there is a mix of tree density and fairway twists. The gameplay should appeal to MA4s and MA3s the most. A little too meh for this MA2 level player, but my adrenaline spiked a couple times on some almost aces. I got a lot of almost aces, just like many other players.
- QUICK PLAY - The main reason I threw here was because I thought it would be fast to play on a morning bagger run that was on a time crunch. It went quick like I hoped. I logged 22 minutes and sped off to the next course.

Volunteer work is at a standstill.
- LACK OF HELP - I found it interesting to have a course name with the word "volunteer" in it, that appeared to be lacking help. Perhaps I caught a bad time, but holes (4), (5), and (6) had fairways being swallowed up by overgrowth. (4) plays blindly over a bluff and the best gap has been reduced to literally a window due to new trees and branches growing into the line. (5) was an overgrown path. Heavy overgrowth was within 15 feet of the basket on three sides. (6) had no discernable line due to new tree and shrub growth. A few other wooded holes had branches in the fairways. The course as a whole felt a bit rundown. Thankfully I played in the winter, so my throws on the poorly maintained holes didn't get hung up as quickly. Also note, the baskets are aging, one tee post was missing on (3) and the tee sign on (12) was gone. It seemed like the town had forgotten about the course.
- AMENITIES - Some of this is already noted in the con above, but to expunge further, only the basics are here. The baskets are old spit-out Prodigys with the hard to see fading pastel blue-green puke color. The tees are natural and without a defined tee line. Signage is just numbered 4x4 posts. I did appreciate the couple benches. No other extras.
- HOLE VARIETY - It's short. The longest hole is 275-feet, but plays like 325 as it's uphill. After that, the rest are 225-feet or shorter. 3 holes are sub-150. I threw a lot of putters. The course does have a good mixture of woods and open. A couple turn right and a couple turn left. Some slight ups and some slight downs.
- NATURAL BEAUTY - The park setting is compact a bit, but nice. There's a mini creek dicing threw the layout, there are some chucks of wooded areas. On the flipside, no recent maintenance to help holes pop. Although I've scored this aspect slightly below average, the nice setting is actually a leading reason for why I scored the course a low 2.0, instead of a 1.5.

After finishing my round here, I wondered if I had witnessed the beginning of a slow death for this course. The tee areas had no throwing scars and the fairways were losing discernible lines and gaps. No reason for anyone but baggers and locals to attempt to throw here. Overall, a tweener 1.75 course to me. If a volunteer effort were to ever return, This becomes a solid 2.0 course on my ledger. If the lack of needed maintenance continues another year, it will drop below the 1.75 level and perhaps even further. Somewhat similar courses I've played include Mountain View in South Carolina, NAS Whiting in western Florida, Steele Creek in Mobile and Telulah Park near Appleton Wisconsin.

12 nice Prodigy baskets. Decent variety of open holes and tight wooded holes. Length was varied.

Once I got past 1 and 3, navigation was fine. The tee signs are small but effective.

Grassy holes were freshly mowed.

Not sure about the name. Not much of a ridge, mostly flat with some slight incline at times.

Tees are natural, just a sign post. I only saw one set of tees, though maybe there were 2 at some point? Post 10 was either missing or knocked down. Some of the tee posts were missing the hole # and distance info.

Wooded holes are tight to begin with, but were overgrown in late June, thankfully they weren't too long.

Not much about this course stands out. Nice baskets to throw at in an ok area. Good place for locals to come after mastering the beginner course is nearby in Gleason or for a quick practice round, but after mastering this one there are the standard type challenge courses close by in Martin and McKenzie.

Note- Plenty of parking now along the street and in the park. Hole 1 plays parallel to the park driveway up to the big tree. Hole 2 plays back to the basket that looks like it could also be for #1. #3 basket is not the one you see (that is 5) but 3 is longer and plays along the main road. The course maps are not accurate as either hole 1 has been moved or the park driveway has possibly been moved as it now sits between #1 and #10.

Note- Plenty of parking now along the street and in the park. Hole 1 plays parallel to the park driveway up to the big tree. Hole 2 plays back to the basket that looks like it could also be for #1. #3 basket is not the one you see (that is 5) but 3 is longer and plays along the main road. The course maps are not completely accurate as the park driveway has possibly been moved as it now sits between #1 and #10.

Great short holes with a mix of lines, technical and open holes. Good signage and really well maintained.
Offers something for all skill levels. Kudos to the design team and the local grounds crew!!

No tee pads yet but still playable thanks to the "magic carpets" lol

the course flows really well and holes are beginner friendly.
nice length for a shorter course.

still really new needs time to wear in.but in time with the addition of a few more holes and baskets it will be a fun stop on NWTDG trail