I am going to be visiting Nashville for 3 days next weekend and was wondering what courses you guys recommend? I have heard Cedar Hills and Two Rivers are nice. Are these the best? Any advice on the nicest courses there I should only have time to stop at 2 courses so I want them to be the best.
JoeThacker
Aug 05 2005, 03:27 PM
Cedar Hills is, in my opinion, the best in Nashville. Two Rivers and Seven Oaks are also great courses.
davidsauls
Aug 05 2005, 05:01 PM
All the Nashville Courses are good---but Cedar Hills is the once you don't want to miss.
Pizza God
Aug 06 2005, 06:03 AM
Cedar Hill is a must, just don't back into your parking place. :o:D
Short drive from there to Two Rivers, then not that far to 7-Oaks. But actually, every course in the area is worth playing.
I agree with everyone else - you must play Cedar Hill. Two Rivers is not very good imo. It is pretty much wide open with some elevation change - the course goes up and down a series of small hills and valleys. The other course that was mentioned - Seven Oakes, is probably the most popular course in Nashville. It goes in and out of the woods and there is a good variety of shots required. The course is well maintaned and a lot of fun to play.
So, I would recommend Cedar Hill and Seven Oakes.
davidsauls
Aug 07 2005, 05:51 PM
Sadly, the coolest course in Nashville lives on only in legend.....Stonehenge.
The difference between Two Rivers and Seven Oaks is a matter of taste. Two Rivers is on some pretty big hills, with very large trees and grassy throughout---but virtually no rough or OB. Not a bad place if you like to air it out. Seven Oaks is completely different---mostly tight wooded holes, some thick rough, more challenging. Depends on what our traveler is looking for and how much he has left when Cedar Hill is finished with him.
Some Great Courses here in Nashville............
Cedar Hill and Seven Oakes are IMO a step above the rest.
Cedar Hill is my no 1 favorite Course and is definitely the toughest Course in Tennessee from the Long Positions. And 7 Oakes is my no. 2 Fav out of the 40 Courses I have played.
I could play Cedar Hill everyday without getting tired off it.
It will really wear you down and challenge your Disc golf skills to the Max......
Also in nearby Hendersonville there is Sanders Ferry which is a **** fun course to play. Its worth the trip. Not nearly as difficult as Cedar Hill or Seven Oakes. But as enjoyable !!!
Two Rivers IMO is alright. Kind of long and boring. I do like to practice my Driving on the back nine. But thats about it.
Cedars of Lebanon up the road about 15 miles east of Nashville is
a very stellar wooded Course.
But all in all if you had time to play only two Cedar Hill and 7 Oakes are a must !!
Pizza God
Aug 09 2005, 04:49 PM
Cedar Hill is in my top 5 best all around courses (I have played 153 as of Sunday)
seewhere
Aug 10 2005, 11:37 AM
what happened to Stonehenge? played that course at AM worlds and that was one FUN course.
How far are these courses from Spring Hill? I am totally not familiar with Nashville at all but where I will be staying is called Spring Hill. Anyone have an address to these courses so I could create a map? Thanks for all the great info. Maybe I could get 3 courses in!
Pizza God
Aug 10 2005, 02:02 PM
i never got to play stonehenge, the couple that owned the land divorced and the course is no more. :(
John D. the artist, mentioned Stonehenge to me...
Anybody got any pic's of it... the hole w/ the theater seat's overlooking the chasm or whatever it was sound's like a memorable one. That's the kind of thing you'ld only find on a private course I'd imagine.
davidsauls
Aug 10 2005, 05:12 PM
Looks like Spring Hill is about 30 miles south of Nashville. Seven Oaks, Two Rivers, and Cedar Hill are about 10 miles apart along Briley Parkway (as best I recall), and will be easy to get to from Spring Hill. Sanders Ferry, mentioned by someone else, is perhaps another 10 miles or so beyond Cedar Hill; if time permits, check it out as well. It's on a lake, with water on a couple of holes, and a couple of holes on some high hills with a view of the water.
Disclaimer: distances based on memory from Am Worlds 2001, and a couple of stops passing through Nashville on the way to other locales. Trust your map over my ramblings.
Pizza God
Aug 10 2005, 06:43 PM
There is a lot of construction in that area.
As far as maps, check the PDGA Course Directory for directions and map links.
(you can also put in the zip code you will be at and find the closest courses)
davidsauls
Aug 11 2005, 08:50 AM
Wish I did have pictures. If I'd have known the course would vanish before I got to visit again, I'd have taken a bunch.
Not to get off subject---Neowind asked about courses he should play, and we're talking about the one he can't---Stonehenge was a very well designed wooded course on some gorgeous land. A wide creek, crystal-clear, flowed in the bottom of a canyon, perhaps 50' deep, with extremely steep slopes. On the hole you mentioned, the tee hung out in the air and you threw from one side, over the treetops, onto a fairway climbing steeply up the facing slope, through a tight gap which, if you missed, you'd land in the bottom and spend the next few strokes throwing straight up, through dense woods, on a hill you literally had to climb by hands-and-knees....which is how I played the hole. The course also had the first hanging basket I'd seen, which was memorable as well. And one hole teed off from the owner's back patio or driveway (everyone's dream), across his back yard and into the woods.
If we'd have known the course was in peril, we'd have filed a class action on behalf of disc golfers in the divorce proceedings.
Well I am back and I did get to visit Cedar Hills. I have to say it was a very challenging course. With it being right in the middle of summer all the vegetation was grown out and punished you hard if you through the disc high. Mostly pines also so if you did throw high it would kill it right there or catch the disc and keep it. But very fun course. I had one of my best shots of my life on hole 17. I think it was on position C. Long shot flat then dropping off a hill with total ft around 420 maybe? I through a Pro Beast and it just barely missed the basket by about 12 inches and hit the ground and circled the basket and stopped where I could just drop it in.
I think I may found Two Rivers also. Is it in a campground? I seen a big sign that said Two Rivers but had a bunch of campers at it. Is this the Disc golf course?
davidsauls
Aug 18 2005, 08:43 AM
Two Rivers borders on Briley Parkway, in the corner of one of the exits....the significant landmark is a large public pool, which as best I recall is the only other feature in the park.
When turning off the Briley Parkway there will be a large public pool, and a playground area behind that. This is where the disc golf course is. I think if you drive further down the road there is a camping area, but I'm not sure.
So its not accross the road from the big Waterpark with the Wave pool?
davidsauls
Aug 19 2005, 05:26 PM
I think it's the same side, same park as the wave pool---I can't recall if it's the same parking lot.
If you go to the course directory and click "map tee", you'll get a pretty good map that may help you.
Yes, it is on the same side as the water pool. You will go in the same entrance you would to get to the pool, only you will take a left after you enter (instead of taking a right towards the pool). You can park by the playground area. The first tee is close to the entrance to the park (maybe 40 feet from the road).
Well I got to play Two Rivers this weekend. Wow what a hard course to navigate. I loved some of the holes after I figured out what basket to throw to, but that took allot. Also there were baskets missing from at least 2 holes.
But I enjoyed the round and had a good score there. My next stop will be either Henry Horton Park or Seven Oaks. What do you guys recommend.
spartan
Sep 07 2005, 02:01 PM
Seven Oaks, Cedar Hills.
davidsauls
Sep 07 2005, 02:58 PM
Don't know Henry Horton but Seven Oaks is a fine course---and COMPLETELY different from Two Rivers.
Pizza God
Sep 07 2005, 05:12 PM
Play some of the other courses before Henry Horton, it is an old course and not that chalanging. It has been years (over 15) sence I played there. If I remember correctly, it is a dome basket made just before the Mach I.
The course is in a little area just up from the lodge. No roome for expantion from what I remember.
Hey. I have a few pictures here that show off my home course, sanders ferry. i like it a lot. it's a quite simple but fun and scenic course. you should really check it out.
sanders ferry:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v735/DisclaimerZero/hole7basket.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v735/DisclaimerZero/hole16basket.jpg
We live in Murray, KY but take trips to surrounding cities to play frequently. I have played both Two Rivers and Cedar Hill.
Two Rivers is not well marked and that's the main problem I have with it. It's just hard to find where to go. It's also not very interesting visually.
Cedar Hill is very challenging, both physically and from a disc golf standpoint as well. When I went there this summer I only made it through 12 holes. It is densely wooded and quite hilly In 100 degree weather it will really take it out of you.
Another player was leaving when I did and he had also quit early. He said he had never managed to finish the course.
One good thing, there were a lot of people playing so any time I had a question as to where the next tee was there was someone around I could ask.