I have been palying Disc Golf for about 3 years now and just want to get a sampling of how many Dopers also play. Luckily, MN has some of the best courses out there. If you have never tried, I would highly suggest it. It’s fun, challenging, good exercise, and best of all… FREE!!! Just buy a couple discs and you’re set. Anyone else addicted like I am?
I really wish I could play more. I’m going to take a guy from church soon, when we can coordinate it. I like that it’s sort of underground, it’s cheap, and you can have a conversation during it.
La Mirada Regional Park in CA has a great course. Hole 13 was on a disc in a “great holes of the world” series I saw. Righthanders have to hang the shot out almost over a lake. Many a disc has sailed too far right and been lost in the water.
Minnesota has 2 of the top ten courses in the US. North Valley and Kaposia. Seriously, if anyone is looking for a new hobby that’s in nature and is great exercise, this is a great thing to try.
Disc-golfer here. Don’t get to play very often though. Just when I am back home in NC. I searched for courses here in VA, but couldnt find any near me, so I dont get to home the meager skills. First time I asked a friend here if he knew of any courses, I ended up having to explain that it was an actual game, and that courses do in fact exist.
RotorHead, I found this on the web. Good luck and good shooting…
Virginia
The Grange, Spotsylvania, VA – Mike Trapasso and Co. have carved a little slice of heaven on his private farm in rural Virginia, and this disc golf course has to be seen to be believed. The course winds through a beautiful mix of open holes over serious elevation changes and extremely tight wooded holes, some of which sport fairways only five or six feet wide. The course is extremely well manicured, with landscaped tees, mulched paths, wooden cutouts along the fairway, and ropes denoting out-of-bounds areas. Most holes feature both pro and amateur tees, with rows of five-seat benches at each tee to rest your bones. The course doesn’t play all that long, but is very challenging because of the tight fairways. Hole 9 plays to a basket inside a corral, and both holes 17 and 18 shoot over ponds. Even sporting a clubhouse, this country club known as the Grange is one fantastic disc golf experience, and if you get the chance, you should definitely check it out.
Newport News Park, Newport News, VA – What a lovely course! This course is extremely well-manicured, with a 4-pronged post to hang your golf bag at both the advanced and regular tees on every hole. All tees are marked with tee signs, and most even sport benches. The course is very well groomed, I didn’t spot a piece of trash anywhere. The first three holes play mostly in the open, while the remainder of the front nine play in a very tight section of woods that plays over little streams with wooden bridges. The back nine play in a more open section of the park. From the regular white tees, the course plays very short, with only three holes longer than 260 feet. Most advanced and pro players will want to play from the red advanced tees, which don’t play that much longer but are much more difficult to shoot, especially on the oh-so-tight front nine. There are also blue recreational tees and yellow “super-pro” tees marked with stakes, but many of these are difficult to find. I last played the course in May of 2003 and was pleased with a 52 from the advanced tees. Restrooms available.
Ace Run Ranch, Suffolk, VA – This a really nice private course. The signature hole 1 plays over 600 feet to a polehole with a man-made moat surrounding it! The rest of the course alternates between open holes with subtle elevation changes and tight wooded shots. The wooded holes are very pretty but require an accurate touch, and the wind will certainly challenge you on the open holes. If you’re traveling through the Hampton/Norfolk/Virginia Beach area, be sure to stop by and play a round at this great private course.__
Bayville Park, Virginia Beach, VA – This course is set in a very pretty section of woods. From the amateur tees, Bayville plays fairly short, but the pro tees, which vary from ~30-50 feet longer depending on the hole, stretch this course out nicely. All amateur tees feature cement tee pads, as well as a majority of the pro tees do. The course is well marked, with nearly EVERY hole featuring a tee sign, bench and a trash can. A nice mix of straight holes, doglegs to the left, and doglegs to the right. Being short and in the woods, I found Bayville to be another great course that favors accuracy over power. Restrooms available.
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Disc golfer for about 6 months. I don’t play it enough to develop great skills, but I am a par thrower at this point which is good enough for me. I need to spend more time working on the forehand style of throw because I have troubles with it. I figure if I can get par with the traditional but shorter throwing style, I could lop a few strokes off.
But, it’s a great sport because it is free, relatively unpopulated, takes place with great scenery, and I can take my dog along for companionship.
You can play unlimited rounds for free. There are no greens fees. And you don’t have to buy a disc. You can play with a frisbee if you like.
Used to get into it hot and heavy, but haven’t played in a while.
There’s 2 cake courses in the Triangle area, and one really tough one. It’s called Cedar Hills, or as we call it, Cedar Hells. You have to throw over ponds, through pine trees over 185 yds, and a gaping pit you’ll lose your disk in if you bank left at all.
Been playing for about 2 years now. Fortunately there are loads of interesting courses in the MD/ NOVA area. Even one just built last year, about 5 mins from my house! Despite the fact that I’m inconsistent as hell, I am addicted. Every weekend we go play. Rotorhead, if you’re in the DC area there’s a plethora of courses worth your time: Burke Lake, The Grange, Bluemont in VA, College Park, Seneca State Park and Rockburn in MD are all great. Good to hear there’s other Discer-Dopers out there!
There used to be a disc golf course at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, about twelve years ago. At that time it was fairly popular and they were saying it was a fast growing sport. The disc golfers came, they looked like they were having a lot of fun, and one day you just didn’t see them anymore. The university took down the goals.
Ye Gods, Cedar Hills. I lost my favorite disc ever (my first Wolf) to the pond of doom (it’s sorta greenish with all sorts of warnings about going into it) after I bounced it off a tree. I also cracked my first disc (lovely blue Shark) on one of the holes on that course. I curse its name.
Although I have fond memories of my friends diving into the lake behind the nuclear power plant searching for discs.
My “home course” was the one near NC State. Easy, but still a lot of fun, and great for learning on.
Played the pickup version around campus at Bowdoin College. Also played some on the “official” course down the road. Great sport. Any sport which allows you to carry a six pack along while playing, and have it not affect your playing is A-Ok with me.
Live in Kansas City, played in the KC wide open and finished in the prizes (advanced am division) a couple of years ago. So I’m not great, but no slouch either (insert caddyshack reference here).
I use disc golf with my kids groups to teach social skills, impulse control, and, well, because it’s fun.
New Mexico disc golfers have a really cool tradition. Nomad tournaments. A golfer will scope out a virgin location, design a course (never play it till tournament day), and everyone shows up with baskets, a tournament is held (usually two rounds of “california singles” where you get a mulligan on each hole) the winner is highly honored and revered as an elder within the tribe.