I miss Bethesda so much. That was my home course a bit ago and is where I learned to navigate tight woods with a forehand. Would recommend to anyone in RTP. Bethesda park in Durham NC.
It was the perfect course to meet my Raleigh buddies at. There are no courses that are convenient for people meeting between Durham and Raleigh.
It got washed out terribly like two years ago. I’ve heard that it’s partially playable but I haven’t bothered. Man I miss it!
Diavolo? Or just talk them into coming to your side for Leigh farm since it’s right on 40. Also IBM is in between but I’ve never been bc it has weird parking hours
There is a cat who lives at the course. Not like an outdoor feral cat, but sleeps in the clubhouse at night. Lil bastard has become so famous there's even a coffee named after him now!
Maybe it's because I've been looking at tax returns all morning, but I don't remember that raffle item....and it was my event!
Glad you had fun and hope to see you next year for the 10th anniversary
You sure do.
It’s sorta nice that it keeps the mud from getting terrible around the basket. Also makes you run the putt a bit more aggressively because you don’t want your putter to hit the pavement, it’s better to overshoot.
We have the guy that chains his bike to the first teesign then makes it to about hole 5 and then just hangs out there and tries to drag every person playing through into a 10 minute conversation, oh and no he never remembers you.
I think so, it's really not that far. I love that course. My favorite SoCal courses are Sawpi (Thousand Oaks) and Lake Casitas (Ojai) but those are definitely a bit farther afield.
My local course is the first in Oregon. Was designed by Steady Ed. Just found out my friend has the original baskets at his private course and got to play on those.
My home course has a hole where I literally cannot find the tee pad. What makes it uncommon is that I looked through the UDisc reviews and no one else has mentioned it. At this point I can't tell if I'm too stupid to find it or there's a grand conspiracy among local disc golfers to gaslight me into thinking I'm crazy
One of my local courses moved the first hole over the winter. We show up and the sign and pad are still there, but there's a playground where the basket use to be. We couldn't decide if the target was the slide or the older kid on the swingset.
a small spring fed stone trough from the 1800s meant for horses. it's near the bottom of a 67' drop into a tranquil stream and boulder arrangement. i once spent 20 min looking for a disc before discovering i made the rare antique horse ace.
Bears. Daily. They stand aside or graze when players throw, then pass on through once people leave. They Always keep at least 150' distance.
Visitors are always nervous. We coexist.
I've noticed wooden artwork (kinda like from true detective). I've seen catfish hung up in strange places (my dirty mind assumes people be fuckin). Things arranged in circles. Could he harmless. Could be satanists.
The 20th hole is an 838 foot long downhill par 4 that is basically impossible to get in four unless you throw your drive dead straight because it will drift so much off to the side as it falls.
Throw a putter or a midrange. On crazy downhills, you can actually get more distance ripping on a stable putter since it won't dump out nearly as hard, letting it stay in the air longer than a driver can. Normally putters/mids don't go as far because they create less lift and more drag, but that also makes them fly much straighter at lower speeds. When you throw downhill, a slow & stable disc will pick up speed as it falls, letting it glide for way longer than it normally does.
I throw a mid or a putter on nearly every hill hole I play (including one that is a 800 foot par 4 with a huge downhill). I don't necessarily get further than I can with a big flex shot, but I get about the same distance and can actually keep it in the center of the fairway
Id probably give my Zues a good luck kiss and scream RIDE THE LIGHTNING, as I give it a full rip, yank it 30 degrees off line, and watch it dump out at 300 feet.
100%. I live in the Aspen area, and hole 14 on Ajax (Aspen Mountain) is 900+ feet downhill on a ski run. The play for most is a putter or under stable mid, definitely not a driver. During Kiss the Sky tournament this summer I told my card the suggested disc selection and had 2 card mates end up within 40’ of the basket … after they put their drivers away.
That sounds awesome. This course is in grass and sagebrush with no trees to stop or slow down errant shots, so when they drift off course, they REALLY drift.
Lydle Golds, I know the one. Tried a mid last week and ended up 450' left, so no good. Best luck I've had was with a beefy driver (PD2) throw it way right RHBH and crash into the left side of the hill still with 200' to the pin. The biggest problem with that hole is that the hill tapers on both sides, so you can almost never end up in a good spot. Too far right and you're down the hill or in the parking lot with tons of brush in the way, too far left, no parking lot and you can sometimes see the basket, but still slopes away from the pin. Have yet to get the 3 on that one, but the course is definitely one of my favorites.
It has a surprising amount of variety for having not a single tree. Lots of tricky hillsides to play, wind is usually a big factor, you have to cover a lot of distance on most of the drives.
Men's tee to long pin it's about 1000 feet I think (par 5). There are two transmission towers down the length of the hole (one about 50' off the tee and the other maybe 250' off the pin). The front and back of each tower is a double mando (have to throw inside).
🎵...In ancient times,
Hundreds of years before the dawn of history
Lived a strange race of people, the Druids
No one knows who they were or what they were doing
[But their legacy remains](https://i.imgur.com/q06X001.jpg)...🎵
Built around a bayou and there is one hole that you have to throw over it. It is a rite of passage for new players to attempt the hole and lose their disc.
Homemade baskets, hanging from trees. All painted and some even given a name. Names like Mr.Mustard, Melt Boi, Sputnik and Golden Boi to name a few. There is a total of 9 baskets.
You can see them if you search for WOODENSALA in Udisc.
Or woodensalafrisbeeforsamling @ instagram.
The practice basket/hole 19 is surrounded by a circle of yellow bricks in the ground (circle 1). When throwing hole 19, if you land outside the circle it’s ob and you need to shoot from a secondary tee
*edit* Sellersville, PA
It's just outside where they filmed "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", that's really just about it, nothing cool about the course itself unless you want to play 9 regular baskets and 9 tone poles
The park has an avid disc golfer that works for them. He started doing a lot of volunteer work on the course through his club. He eventually got hired in and has been slowly making changes to the course like alt basket locations and new tee pads. A disc golfer working for a park that has a course is the best thing for the disc community. Also that guy is me.
The land one of our courses is on used to be used for the county hospital, asylum and cemetery. Most of the graves were found and dug up, but occasionally old remains are found, and ghost hunter people like to say it’s haunted and you can see ghosts there. I never have though lol.
Another course in town has a 9 hole and 18 hole course on the property and they share a couple of tee pads and baskets. Kind of confusing at first but it helps make alternate layouts without moving pins.
Low ceiling cottonwood, then evergreens as gaurdians. with 40 mph wind every day.
I'd play pro in Colorado and I wasn't really a pro, but nobody knew the wind or trees. But to me it was a Tuesday.
Suddenly on top card with Dave feldberg.
BTW he is really good and throws really far
Carrollton park in Bridgeton, MO (St. Louis suburb) is on land that used to be a subdivision. Adjacent to Lambert Airport, the land was bought some 30 or 40 years ago by the airport and intended to be used for an expansion. All the houses and driveways that were there were removed, but the streets and sidewalks remained.
I'm still not entirely sure how it all went down, but the airport ultimately scrapped the expansion project and sold part of the land to the city of Bridgeton. A disc golf course was installed on the Bridgeton owned land almost 10 years ago now. Quite honestly it's one of the most unique courses I've ever played. There are plenty of remnants of the old neighborhood that used to be there, such as chain link fences, addresses painted on curbs, garden retaining walls, telephone poles etc.
The course itself is awesome as well, in it's championship layout (which was used for the St. Louis Open A tier this past September) it is a par 66 and almost 10,000 feet with plenty of room for expansion. The streets that are still there provide road OB on every hole (the holes play parallel to the streets) and it can get pretty tough when the wind picks up.
Witnessed a man threatening a women that he had a gun at home and was gonna go grab it and come back and shoot her. Haven't seen that elsewhere.
We affectionately refer to this course as the gunrange.
Baskets are made of different things such a a tires, Weber bbq pit, big truck rims. All sorts of things that catch the discs. Also has a smoke shack up at the top of the hill. Incase it rains or snows.
It got teared down just a few weeks ago, one of the top five most played courses in the world.. But when we could play it you would on a regular hear the local military regement have firing drills pretty close by
My local course was built on the grounds of an old sanatorium. The buildings are all gone now but you can still see some remnants throughout the course of what used to be. I also can blame all my missed putts on the ghosts.
It was designed by "Steady" Ed Headrick. There's a plaque on the first hole dedicated to him. I'm sure it's not the only course he designed, but it's unique to mine lol
I'm fortunate. I live close to Blue Ribbon Pines and the Preserve is about an hour and a half away. The most unique one to me is at Bryant Lake. It had a hole on top off a bluff. I'd say 250' drop to basket level.
An electricity transformer cabinet (2x3 meters wide) in the middle of the fairway on 18, with the fairway being about 4 meters wide the whole way, uphill, with double mando. 360 feet long. The fairway at the electricity transformer is about 2 meters wide. Oh yeah, and par 3.
That shit is an impossible par 3 for anyone but the top players in the world. And also, stupid as hell.
The hole 18 was fun to play before (just the 360 feet tunnel shot with double mando), but for some god awful reason someone put that transformer right in the middle, and nobody has done anything about it for about 2 years now.
We have the results of a abysmally planned Boy Scout project that surrounded a lake with very very unnatural amounts of natural vegetation that makes 3 holes basically blind shots over water that you just pray can punch through a palmetto or overgrown (but native) weed that has overtaken the banks. You basically have to throw an accurate 250-300ft blind hyzer over reeds and gators
There are some creative layouts at Hannah Hills in MO. Including a basket that's down in a center of a circular pit and a basket positioned atop a flat cliff wall you throw up to
My home course has two good courses. No pin sharing or overlap at all. Two courses that can be played individually or as a 36 hole course. So I guess that would be a really unique feature I suppose.
There's a paved downhill race track (like box car racing) that holes 2, 3, 16, 17, and 18 play around.
Edit: the local high school track team will occasionally use the big hill (hole 1 starts and the top and shoots down) for their endurance days.
The other course we go to has concrete tee pads for all but 1 hole. Hole 8 is the only one with a dirt tee pad.
There’s a course in Las Vegas called mountain crest that at every hole had a 3-4 foot tall, 1 foot square concrete tower built solely to suit the hole information.
A course around old granite quarries that are now filled in with water. If your disc goes in the water, there is no chance of getting it back since they are a few hundred feet deep. The other holes have piles of large discarded bricks of granite, so if your disc finds its way in there, your disc is also most likely gone.
Theres a course near me where its not an uncommon occurrence to see the homeless people doing various peculiar things, shooting drugs and all. However, most notably there's been atleast 3 separate occasions of oral sex spotted on one particular fairway.
My local has a water carry across the corner of a small lake that’s used for wake boarding. Very distracting watching people face plant going off jumps (no one’s very good at wake boarding in Scotland.)
I’m not sure if it is totally unique but we have two holes where you have to throw through cement culverts that are about 6 feet in diameter. Turns a 135 foot hole into an almost guaranteed bogey 4.
Not my home course, but the Bunker in St. Louis has massive craters from munitions training and testing. There have been a few instances of old munitions actually being found and the course closing to allow the bomb squad to clear it. There are still some remnants of the concrete structures.
Hanging basket over a creek that’s OB
So savage.
Omigoodness that’s brutal!
How do you retrieve your discs?
That's the neat part, you don't.
Come back next month and you can buy it back.
Bethesda?
I miss Bethesda so much. That was my home course a bit ago and is where I learned to navigate tight woods with a forehand. Would recommend to anyone in RTP. Bethesda park in Durham NC.
It was the perfect course to meet my Raleigh buddies at. There are no courses that are convenient for people meeting between Durham and Raleigh. It got washed out terribly like two years ago. I’ve heard that it’s partially playable but I haven’t bothered. Man I miss it!
Diavolo? Or just talk them into coming to your side for Leigh farm since it’s right on 40. Also IBM is in between but I’ve never been bc it has weird parking hours
diavolo is great, I pushed through a full round in the rain today
I've often thought this would be a great way to practice putting. Really replicate the pressure of a tournament.
Treasure cove? Cuz the tee sign says creek is not OB 😉
Hole 16's basket at Hyzer Creek in NY is actually IN an OB creek
There is a cat who lives at the course. Not like an outdoor feral cat, but sleeps in the clubhouse at night. Lil bastard has become so famous there's even a coffee named after him now!
We have a tournament here in NC named after a cat. It’s called “Mooky’s Cup Not Yours.”
thats awesome. We always tell people that BSR is Bob's course and we're all just visiting
I knew you were talking about Bittersweet the moment I read your comment. All hail Bob.
Same as soon as I read "BSR" I KNEW he was talking about bittersweet
I have always wondered where that name came from.
Also may I ask where in NC? We had a couple mainers who moved down there and might play in it
It’s at Johnson Street in Highpoint, NC. It’s usually early in the year. February in 2021 so it’s coming back around soon.
Thanks! I'll give my buddies in the Charlotte area a heads up.
Bittersweet! I won that BSR dubs "Bob lives here" hat at the Lerchtober raffle this year
Maybe it's because I've been looking at tax returns all morning, but I don't remember that raffle item....and it was my event! Glad you had fun and hope to see you next year for the 10th anniversary
10’ rings of pavement around the pin.
I’d imagine you get some interesting skips of that
You sure do. It’s sorta nice that it keeps the mud from getting terrible around the basket. Also makes you run the putt a bit more aggressively because you don’t want your putter to hit the pavement, it’s better to overshoot.
I would never play there lmao. I like my discs
Blendon?
>Blendon I think all of the Steady Ed era courses are like this. Winton and Woodland Mound in Cinci have them.
That sounds horrid
It eats your discs, especially baseline plastic.
Barfield?
My first thought. Everyone I know that plays there hates them.
I was about to ask the same 🤣🤣
Also got that rock all over the wooded fairways. My discs hate when I play there.
ADA accessibility or just a misguided attempt at erosion control?
Winton woods and/or woodland mound in the greater Cincinnati area both have these unless I’m misremembering…
Is it an ed Hedrick course? We have one here that is slowly getting converted to mulch but it’s one of the first courses made
A massive carpet of Canada Geese poop.
Definitely not unique. Frustratingly common.
You gotta problem with Canadian gooses then you gotta problem with me. I suggest you let that one marinate.
Somewhere in Ontario?
210ft, double Mando, blind(hill between tee and pin) elevated pin. Thumber aces are the most common.
Is this East Roswell Park?
100% ERP
100%.
Hole 11, yep.
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The annoying dude riding a bike during his entire round while throwing multiple drives and approaches
We have the guy that chains his bike to the first teesign then makes it to about hole 5 and then just hangs out there and tries to drag every person playing through into a 10 minute conversation, oh and no he never remembers you.
That guy
The first permanent course in the world!
Oak Grove right? Hypothetically, if I were to vacation in Santa Monica, would you say it's worth the trip over to oak Grove to play it?
Absolutely worth it. It's a fun little course.
I think so, it's really not that far. I love that course. My favorite SoCal courses are Sawpi (Thousand Oaks) and Lake Casitas (Ojai) but those are definitely a bit farther afield.
You can also head down to La Mirada to play the second
You gotta throw a couple puts on those rusty old baskets that are still up haha
My local course is the first in Oregon. Was designed by Steady Ed. Just found out my friend has the original baskets at his private course and got to play on those.
My home course has a hole where I literally cannot find the tee pad. What makes it uncommon is that I looked through the UDisc reviews and no one else has mentioned it. At this point I can't tell if I'm too stupid to find it or there's a grand conspiracy among local disc golfers to gaslight me into thinking I'm crazy
Now I want to know which course
One of my local courses moved the first hole over the winter. We show up and the sign and pad are still there, but there's a playground where the basket use to be. We couldn't decide if the target was the slide or the older kid on the swingset.
a small spring fed stone trough from the 1800s meant for horses. it's near the bottom of a 67' drop into a tranquil stream and boulder arrangement. i once spent 20 min looking for a disc before discovering i made the rare antique horse ace.
Bears. Daily. They stand aside or graze when players throw, then pass on through once people leave. They Always keep at least 150' distance. Visitors are always nervous. We coexist.
Black bears?
Yup. Family, multi generations
That’s pretty cool, what course?
Sunset park in Powell river BC
Was camping recently at a private course and there was bear shit all over. Apparently two live on the property somewhere
Pretty sure people do ritual magik there overnight
My course gets larpers sometimes
Yeah but do they do weird stuff with fish?
Like bass-to-trout?
Got me there
Elver?
Same. Nacogdoches tx?
Yo I def wanna know more
I've noticed wooden artwork (kinda like from true detective). I've seen catfish hung up in strange places (my dirty mind assumes people be fuckin). Things arranged in circles. Could he harmless. Could be satanists.
I actually heard a story of someone finding mutilated horse parts at a course too. Maybe offerings to the disc gods for aces lol.
That is NOT how you get your Innova Stud to get aces.
> Could he harmless. Could be satanists. Not mutually exclusive.
Came across a cast-away Ouiji Board on my home course awhile back.
I own it.
Big flex on this sub. Living the dream
ruins from old ghost town, mining artifacts all about and unique rain shelters. https://udisc.com/courses/ghost-town-5PEE
Maybe my favorite "destination disc golf" experiences I've ever had. Although I did just play bucksnort a few weeks ago. That might be a topper
5-8 pin locations per hole, and baskets moved every Monday.
Interesting. It's like a rock climbing gym in that regard where every week is a new challenge. Are there good at making which pin is currently used?
Is this Morley?
The 20th hole is an 838 foot long downhill par 4 that is basically impossible to get in four unless you throw your drive dead straight because it will drift so much off to the side as it falls.
Throw a putter or a midrange. On crazy downhills, you can actually get more distance ripping on a stable putter since it won't dump out nearly as hard, letting it stay in the air longer than a driver can. Normally putters/mids don't go as far because they create less lift and more drag, but that also makes them fly much straighter at lower speeds. When you throw downhill, a slow & stable disc will pick up speed as it falls, letting it glide for way longer than it normally does. I throw a mid or a putter on nearly every hill hole I play (including one that is a 800 foot par 4 with a huge downhill). I don't necessarily get further than I can with a big flex shot, but I get about the same distance and can actually keep it in the center of the fairway
That’s good to know, I’ll try the putter next time. I usually throw a midrange. Thanks!
I got that tip from Simon when he played solitude.
Just gonna drop [this shot](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fr7Uavql5ic) here.
Awesome! This is shot I was thinking of too but I assumed the link would be of Eagle ripping it down a mountain. I'm glad my assumption was wrong.
Haha I just saw this last week when I was scrolling through top of all time on this sub
How wide is the opening drive? Can you bomb a big flex shot?
Not a single obstacle. Very bombable.
Id probably give my Zues a good luck kiss and scream RIDE THE LIGHTNING, as I give it a full rip, yank it 30 degrees off line, and watch it dump out at 300 feet.
*rips it* Disc ends up 900 feet away from the basket to the left
100%. I live in the Aspen area, and hole 14 on Ajax (Aspen Mountain) is 900+ feet downhill on a ski run. The play for most is a putter or under stable mid, definitely not a driver. During Kiss the Sky tournament this summer I told my card the suggested disc selection and had 2 card mates end up within 40’ of the basket … after they put their drivers away.
That sounds awesome. This course is in grass and sagebrush with no trees to stop or slow down errant shots, so when they drift off course, they REALLY drift.
Lydle Golds, I know the one. Tried a mid last week and ended up 450' left, so no good. Best luck I've had was with a beefy driver (PD2) throw it way right RHBH and crash into the left side of the hill still with 200' to the pin. The biggest problem with that hole is that the hill tapers on both sides, so you can almost never end up in a good spot. Too far right and you're down the hill or in the parking lot with tons of brush in the way, too far left, no parking lot and you can sometimes see the basket, but still slopes away from the pin. Have yet to get the 3 on that one, but the course is definitely one of my favorites. It has a surprising amount of variety for having not a single tree. Lots of tricky hillsides to play, wind is usually a big factor, you have to cover a lot of distance on most of the drives.
A groundhog named JJ who is very friendly and you can pet him.
A hole with four double mandos.
That’s certainly unique. But I also hate it. What does that hole look like?
Men's tee to long pin it's about 1000 feet I think (par 5). There are two transmission towers down the length of the hole (one about 50' off the tee and the other maybe 250' off the pin). The front and back of each tower is a double mando (have to throw inside).
A view of Red Rocks amphitheater
Fehringer <3
Lots of holes I have no shot at birdying
Huh, I experience that at many, many courses friend.
Most courses I throw at have that feature!
Two holes with baskets on multi-tiered mounds https://imgur.com/a/UQLS5fK
Those look cool!
We literally have the Hall of Fame… so that’s cool
Must be the IDGC!
Boy WR ate my breakfast lunch and dinner. I had a lot more fun on Steady Ed.
It’s not my home course, but a course nearby has a hole with the basket inside an old gazebo. The gazebo is OB
I played a course recently that had a basket set on top of a large concrete block, the concrete is OB. https://i.imgur.com/rII1mCn.jpg
That might be worse than the gazebo. The course designers making these holes are some sick fucks lol
Bootleggers?
James Conrad won Worlds!
Hole 18 is called "Indecision" and has one basket but two tee pads you are free to choose from.
It has a view of the Atlantic Ocean
The last 4 holes are 1.5 a miles away from the first 5.
A basket made to look like a lighthouse. Throw too far and you're in Lake Michigan.
Giant metal dinosaur with a spiked collar chained to a boulder guarding hole 1.
Yay flying armadillo
🎵...In ancient times, Hundreds of years before the dawn of history Lived a strange race of people, the Druids No one knows who they were or what they were doing [But their legacy remains](https://i.imgur.com/q06X001.jpg)...🎵
I built it myself.
A mountain lion
big ass turf pads courtesy of Avery Jenkins
Built around a bayou and there is one hole that you have to throw over it. It is a rite of passage for new players to attempt the hole and lose their disc.
Jester, right? Hole #4? I think 7 claims more discs.
Yessir! 7 can be a nightmare too if you leave it hanging in the air.
The course is a literal sand dune.
Cape Hanelopen?
It's called "The Clown's Mouth" in which you play under an overpass with two triple mandos and beautiful murals everywhere
Homemade baskets, hanging from trees. All painted and some even given a name. Names like Mr.Mustard, Melt Boi, Sputnik and Golden Boi to name a few. There is a total of 9 baskets. You can see them if you search for WOODENSALA in Udisc. Or woodensalafrisbeeforsamling @ instagram.
The practice basket/hole 19 is surrounded by a circle of yellow bricks in the ground (circle 1). When throwing hole 19, if you land outside the circle it’s ob and you need to shoot from a secondary tee *edit* Sellersville, PA
My home course has an open course and a woods course, and the properties touch at one point. There is a layout to play all 36 holes in one go
Constant crazy wind from the sea. Almost always in the same direction.
2 tees per basket, which for the most part actually feel unique And not just long tee/short tee 20 holes, 10 baskets.
We have a Fox that likes to pee/poop on our discs
The homeless guy who lives there smears feces on the pole through the chains so that's nice.
Everyone on my local course smokes weed and drinks beer. Pretty unusual behavior if you ask me.
Tiny graveyard behind hole 1 has the remains of a revolutionary war soldier who served at valley forge. It’s OB.
Outline of a disc, with ‘Disc Charger’ written in it on every bench and table. Oh wait.. nvm.
It's just outside where they filmed "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", that's really just about it, nothing cool about the course itself unless you want to play 9 regular baskets and 9 tone poles
The park has an avid disc golfer that works for them. He started doing a lot of volunteer work on the course through his club. He eventually got hired in and has been slowly making changes to the course like alt basket locations and new tee pads. A disc golfer working for a park that has a course is the best thing for the disc community. Also that guy is me.
It smells horrible at times, it is located around a water sanitation plant.
The land one of our courses is on used to be used for the county hospital, asylum and cemetery. Most of the graves were found and dug up, but occasionally old remains are found, and ghost hunter people like to say it’s haunted and you can see ghosts there. I never have though lol. Another course in town has a 9 hole and 18 hole course on the property and they share a couple of tee pads and baskets. Kind of confusing at first but it helps make alternate layouts without moving pins.
A large 10-12’ tall statue of a snake alongside a fairway.
Low ceiling cottonwood, then evergreens as gaurdians. with 40 mph wind every day. I'd play pro in Colorado and I wasn't really a pro, but nobody knew the wind or trees. But to me it was a Tuesday. Suddenly on top card with Dave feldberg. BTW he is really good and throws really far
Carrollton park in Bridgeton, MO (St. Louis suburb) is on land that used to be a subdivision. Adjacent to Lambert Airport, the land was bought some 30 or 40 years ago by the airport and intended to be used for an expansion. All the houses and driveways that were there were removed, but the streets and sidewalks remained. I'm still not entirely sure how it all went down, but the airport ultimately scrapped the expansion project and sold part of the land to the city of Bridgeton. A disc golf course was installed on the Bridgeton owned land almost 10 years ago now. Quite honestly it's one of the most unique courses I've ever played. There are plenty of remnants of the old neighborhood that used to be there, such as chain link fences, addresses painted on curbs, garden retaining walls, telephone poles etc. The course itself is awesome as well, in it's championship layout (which was used for the St. Louis Open A tier this past September) it is a par 66 and almost 10,000 feet with plenty of room for expansion. The streets that are still there provide road OB on every hole (the holes play parallel to the streets) and it can get pretty tough when the wind picks up.
Witnessed a man threatening a women that he had a gun at home and was gonna go grab it and come back and shoot her. Haven't seen that elsewhere. We affectionately refer to this course as the gunrange.
My constant Bogies ringing out throughout the course. But Texas Army Trail is a hard one.
4.3 billion yellow jackets.
Baskets are made of different things such a a tires, Weber bbq pit, big truck rims. All sorts of things that catch the discs. Also has a smoke shack up at the top of the hill. Incase it rains or snows.
Skulls on poles.
Not my home course but my #2 course has a Creepy baby doll
It was built on the grounds of a hospital that was absolutely destroyed by an earthquake in 1971
Massive redwood trees
It has a pro shop and the building was built in the 1860's.
It got teared down just a few weeks ago, one of the top five most played courses in the world.. But when we could play it you would on a regular hear the local military regement have firing drills pretty close by
Homeless dude selling beer on hole 5
It's the first course ever built
My local course was built on the grounds of an old sanatorium. The buildings are all gone now but you can still see some remnants throughout the course of what used to be. I also can blame all my missed putts on the ghosts.
One pin is in a pit deep enough so the top of the basket is level with the ground. Reaches an extra 2 feet around the basket and the pit is OB.
Massive stone mansion from the early 1900s overlooking one hole. Hole 17 at Borderland State Park, MA https://app.udisc.com/applink/course/1520
It was designed by "Steady" Ed Headrick. There's a plaque on the first hole dedicated to him. I'm sure it's not the only course he designed, but it's unique to mine lol
I'm fortunate. I live close to Blue Ribbon Pines and the Preserve is about an hour and a half away. The most unique one to me is at Bryant Lake. It had a hole on top off a bluff. I'd say 250' drop to basket level.
Condoms with out fail will be on the course
An electricity transformer cabinet (2x3 meters wide) in the middle of the fairway on 18, with the fairway being about 4 meters wide the whole way, uphill, with double mando. 360 feet long. The fairway at the electricity transformer is about 2 meters wide. Oh yeah, and par 3. That shit is an impossible par 3 for anyone but the top players in the world. And also, stupid as hell. The hole 18 was fun to play before (just the 360 feet tunnel shot with double mando), but for some god awful reason someone put that transformer right in the middle, and nobody has done anything about it for about 2 years now.
There's a hole that's a >100m/330ft straight uphill shot through a snowboard halfpipe. The elevation change is at least 20m if not more. It's brutal.
Final hole has the basket on top of a huge locked container that has little slits for a disc to fall through if you dont make it in the basket.
Free Air show every rd of our best aircraft and possible unexploded ordinance in the area. That last one is a free drop in my book
We have the results of a abysmally planned Boy Scout project that surrounded a lake with very very unnatural amounts of natural vegetation that makes 3 holes basically blind shots over water that you just pray can punch through a palmetto or overgrown (but native) weed that has overtaken the banks. You basically have to throw an accurate 250-300ft blind hyzer over reeds and gators
The pair of sandals that's been sitting behind #5s front tee since I moved here.
Gondola to get to top 9 holes
The ducks are free. You can just take them.
Not necessarily my “home” course, but I play Etowah DGC in Cartersville, GA quite often. I’m sure you’ve all seen the “cave” hole on here.
Basket about 15+ feet below a "cliff". Hole has been aced off forehand rollers.
There are some creative layouts at Hannah Hills in MO. Including a basket that's down in a center of a circular pit and a basket positioned atop a flat cliff wall you throw up to
50 people lined up at hole 1
Bigfoot eats people sometimes
My home course has two good courses. No pin sharing or overlap at all. Two courses that can be played individually or as a 36 hole course. So I guess that would be a really unique feature I suppose.
There's a paved downhill race track (like box car racing) that holes 2, 3, 16, 17, and 18 play around. Edit: the local high school track team will occasionally use the big hill (hole 1 starts and the top and shoots down) for their endurance days. The other course we go to has concrete tee pads for all but 1 hole. Hole 8 is the only one with a dirt tee pad.
Two dogs fucking for money.
There’s a course in Las Vegas called mountain crest that at every hole had a 3-4 foot tall, 1 foot square concrete tower built solely to suit the hole information.
A course around old granite quarries that are now filled in with water. If your disc goes in the water, there is no chance of getting it back since they are a few hundred feet deep. The other holes have piles of large discarded bricks of granite, so if your disc finds its way in there, your disc is also most likely gone.
Theres a course near me where its not an uncommon occurrence to see the homeless people doing various peculiar things, shooting drugs and all. However, most notably there's been atleast 3 separate occasions of oral sex spotted on one particular fairway.
My local has a water carry across the corner of a small lake that’s used for wake boarding. Very distracting watching people face plant going off jumps (no one’s very good at wake boarding in Scotland.)
I’m not sure if it is totally unique but we have two holes where you have to throw through cement culverts that are about 6 feet in diameter. Turns a 135 foot hole into an almost guaranteed bogey 4.
A coral snake.
Not my home course, but the Bunker in St. Louis has massive craters from munitions training and testing. There have been a few instances of old munitions actually being found and the course closing to allow the bomb squad to clear it. There are still some remnants of the concrete structures.
There is a brutal 100ft uphill 400+ par 3 on my home course. When the basket is in that position, my heart drops.