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There is a new course north of Reading, PA called the Long Trout Winery.
The course is set on the property behind the house of Tom and Kim Leibensperger, and the first tee launches from the patio of their house. The course was designed by Skeeter Hoffman, (French Creek) and it plays similar to the South Mountain course in Bethlehem, PA. There are some steep hills, a few rocks, but certainly very narrow fairways. The fairways on the tightest holes are only six or seven feet wide, and as with all new courses, there's a lot of little stuff if you get off the fairway. With a perfect throw, however, you can reach the basket of all the holes, as most are in the 200-300 foot range and the longest is about 350 feet. The first five holes wind their way up through the woods, and hole six plays directly downhill. Holes seven and eight are anhyzers / lefty hyzers that play in an open field, and hole nine throws through a tight gauntlet and then over the koi pond behind the house!
The back nine plays similarly, with the holes tick-tacking their way up the hill until holes 15 and 16 play severely downhill and back to the open. Hole#17 is an instant classic - it's only 200 feet long, but you must throw through a mando of two large trees spaced only about ten feet apart, about halfway to the polehole. The aforementioned polehole hangs from the barn. The local rule is that any shot that does not pass through the mando incurs a penalty stroke, although with the barn wall right behind the basket as a backstop, there's no reason not to go for the ace run. Hole#18 ends with a polehole position perched precariously above the pond, and any ace run that misses will certainly result in "fish food."
Thanks to a lot of hard work, the course has nice gravel teepads, tee signs, and 19 poleholes, with the last playing as a practice basket on the other side of the pond, to be used for putting and for the "porch shot." From the porch of the house, it's a ~200 foot downhill shot over the pond. Though not pictured below, imagine a basket located in the green grass on the other side of the pond just behind and to the left of the two small evergreen trees. It's awesome!
http://www.longtroutwinery.com/images/lake.jpg
Course owner Tom Leibensperger is an awesomely friendly guy, with a love of the Beatles, science fiction, 60s collectibles, music, disc golf, his family, beer, and of course, wine. Whether you're a lover of fruit wines, sweet berry wines, specialties (try the chocolate wine!) or a simple but deliciously dry Cabernet, you won't want to leave without some.
The website for the winery is the following:
http://www.longtroutwinery.com/
and the PDGA Course Directory entry is here:
http://www.pdga.com/course/courses_by_city.php?id=2341
�For Duty and Humanity!�
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There is a new course north of Reading, PA called the Long Trout Winery.
The course is set on the property behind the house of Tom and Kim Leibensperger, and the first tee launches from the patio of their house. The course was designed by Skeeter Hoffman, (French Creek) and it plays similar to the South Mountain course in Bethlehem, PA. There are some steep hills, a few rocks, but certainly very narrow fairways. The fairways on the tightest holes are only six or seven feet wide, and as with all new courses, there's a lot of little stuff if you get off the fairway. With a perfect throw, however, you can reach the basket of all the holes, as most are in the 200-300 foot range and the longest is about 350 feet. The first five holes wind their way up through the woods, and hole six plays directly downhill. Holes seven and eight are anhyzers / lefty hyzers that play in an open field, and hole nine throws through a tight gauntlet and then over the koi pond behind the house!
The back nine plays similarly, with the holes tick-tacking their way up the hill until holes 15 and 16 play severely downhill and back to the open. Hole#17 is an instant classic - it's only 200 feet long, but you must throw through a mando of two large trees spaced only about ten feet apart, about halfway to the polehole. The aforementioned polehole hangs from the barn. The local rule is that any shot that does not pass through the mando incurs a penalty stroke, although with the barn wall right behind the basket as a backstop, there's no reason not to go for the ace run. Hole#18 ends with a polehole position perched precariously above the pond, and any ace run that misses will certainly result in "fish food."
Thanks to a lot of hard work, the course has nice gravel teepads, tee signs, and 19 poleholes, with the last playing as a practice basket on the other side of the pond, to be used for putting and for the "porch shot." From the porch of the house, it's a ~200 foot downhill shot over the pond. Though not pictured below, imagine a basket located in the green grass on the other side of the pond just behind and to the left of the two small evergreen trees. It's awesome!
http://www.longtroutwinery.com/images/lake.jpg
Course owner Tom Leibensperger is an awesomely friendly guy, with a love of the Beatles, science fiction, 60s collectibles, music, disc golf, his family, beer, and of course, wine. Whether you're a lover of fruit wines, sweet berry wines, specialties (try the chocolate wine!) or a simple but deliciously dry Cabernet, you won't want to leave without some.
The website for the winery is the following:
http://www.longtroutwinery.com/
and the PDGA Course Directory entry is here:
http://www.pdga.com/course/courses_by_city.php?id=2341
�For Duty and Humanity!�
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