Anyone have any insight into the walkability of Blue Ridge Shadows in Front Royal? I’m planning on bringing my push cart and just want to know if that’s a horrible idea.
How is the food at Blue Mountain? Looks solid.
Plan right now looks like:
Veritas/Blue Mountain on Sunday
Maya for dinner Monday
Pippen Hill / Mas dinner Tuesday
And probably a few of those breakfast/lunch places you mentioned in between.
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Have always enjoyed the food at BM, though it is a bit pricy for a brewery its top notch. Doubt they are doing it because of covid, but they had a killer brunch on weekends in the past.
If you like Pizza, cant stress DR. Hos enough the day your out at pippen.
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Good to hear and not too worried about $$ (that sounded less douchey in my head).
Have some gluten/dietary restrictions unfortunately so that might make Dr. Ho’s a tough sell from the looks of it.
Not douchey at all. hope yall have a great time. If you have any other questions happy to help!
Also, if your into the bourbon scene, ragged branch distillery (7 minutes from pippen) has great cocktails/bourbon, and is releasing this weekend a new bourbon finished in Veritas wine barrels
That’s definitely on the radar if we don’t have too much fun at Pippen
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I’d be in for that and could offer access to kingsmill in Williamsburg. Any other details needed for this?
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If it rains you always have the breweries / ciders. From Williamsburg but my family has a house at the top of the mountain.
Are you playing at the top of the mountain or bottom of the mountain?
The wintergreen app is usually pretty accurate for the top of the mountain. Gets super foggy up there and is pretty fun/ gimmicky in those conditions. If it is top of the mountain no drivers off of the tee THAT SHIT IS TIGHT.
I’ve played there a few times and it’s legit.
Had a humble pie last night when I was watching game 5. Delicious! @JohnP do you prefer Crozet Pizza or Dr. Ho’s if you have the choice?
Playing Stoney Creek @ the bottom - have played the Knob once, years ago, and that may be all I need out of that course…
It’s been drizzling all morning over in Schuyler if the weather is the same over there it’s not too bad for golf by any means.
Dr. Ho’s without doubt. Crozet pizza is fine, but its doesnt do it for me
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Got a hair wet, got 18 in up at old white. Birdied 18 to shoot 79, praise both the golf gods and birth gods for letting me get the round in under playable conditions and my wife not going into labor. good way to end the 2020 campaign.
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@Smidler yall end up getting any golf in down at the lake? Water’s edge still pristine?
I’m in the RVA. Play as much as humanly possible on both sides of the James.
We didn’t play Water’s Edge this trip. Water’s Edge only makes sense from my buddies lake house if we take the boat (10 min. boat trip vs. 1hr+ car ride). It was cold and raining Saturday morning so we bagged the boat and Water’s Edge in favor of Westlake.
This is about to get long, so here is the TL;DR - Poplar Grove, fun, play it if you haven’t, Waterfront, skippable, but not terrible at $65, Westlake, surprisingly good conditions, very fun and gettable.
Here was the rundown for the weekend:
Thursday (early afternoon, on the way to the lake) - Poplar Grove (Amherst, VA) $96
Great recommendation by @country35. This is a solid layout, just off of 29 in Amherst. The final Sam Snead design (he died while it was under construction), it makes great use of the rolling terrain. This course was clearly designed to sell large, well spaced housing lots at the peak of the housing bubble. I imagine that they likely came very close to going belly up when the bubble burst, and you can tell that they are still trying to get it where they want it to be. There were some conditioning issues, but that is to be expected everywhere after the weather of this past summer.
A couple of notes:
Only one bad hole, the 3rd. There is nothing wrong with this par 5 that blowing it up and starting all over couldn’t fix. It was unanimous among the group that everyone thought it was bad.
Some very good risk/reward holes. Downhill drives that could put you in chipping range if you ripped it in a speed slot, but at the risk of running off a side slope if you missed the slot. One par 5 had a great shallow DL right, with an aiming gap in the trees on the corner. I don’t know that I have ever had 8i in on my second on a par 5. (Made f#*%ing par)
The proshop mentioned that the greens were rolling about a 10, implying that they were quick. They were not. I think it took me 7 holes to get a first putt to the hole.
Once the remaining facilities are built (restaurant is under construction), this place will be the tits.
Friday (midday, plenty of recovery time after a night of drinking) - Waterfront CC $65
This was a private club, and my pro called for tee times. They did not seem at all put out to have us there, not stuffy in the least. Place was not busy. Design is okay. There are some interesting holes. The biggest issue is that there are several holes that do not play at all like you expect from the tee. No one in our group had played here before, so some poor decisions were made.
I think I counted 6-7 different types of grass on the course. Schizophrenic agronomy for sure.
Once we figured out that it was designed for old man golf (keep it short and straight, stay below the hole), it was much easier. Some of the greens were impossible from above the hole, even without being fast.
Saturday (way too early, after a second night of drinking) - Westlake GC $46
The highlight for most of the group. Very short, very gettable course. Conditions were fantastic for the price (better than the other two). Was the only place that actually took any significant of COVID precautions.
I may be biased on this one, because I played my ball against a better ball of two of my friends and beat them 6&4. They will be hearing about that for years.
All in all great weekend.
No boat trip to a course this year, but I can share this beaut from last year.
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Yeah that makes sense on waters edge. LOL’ing at what that drive would have looked like. Glad you had fun and a good trip!
Thinking about hitting up the Gold Course at the Golden Horseshoe this Sunday if anyone is interested. $59 tee times starting at 3 and looking wide open with good weather.
Play quick. Sunset in Williamsburg is 6:24 with last light at 6:50.
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That’s the plan, give it the ole college try