Disc Golf Course Review

- nice mix of open and wooded holes
- extreme elevation change with huge challenge
- good mix of distances with some longer holes
- decent quality baskets catch well
- well maintained property was freshly mowed with tees flagged and marked with paint
- holes 6-8 make fantastic use of elevation
- high level of technical challenge
- gracious host is very helpful in finding the course
- makes some of the best possible use out of the land possible
- ropes tied between trees with hand holds to help on steep slopes

- no tee signs
- natural/grass tees that need to be recently marked
- no real navigation aids
- baskets are technically temporary/portable
- dead leaves in woods can be a bit unforgiving
- some OB to watch out for near property lines

The Witch's Foot is an unassuming course you'd never know existed from the road. It is right near Columbia, MO and a fun stop if you're in town to play Harmony Bends. The course is well maintained, but admittedly Vince mowed it and marked the tees right before I played - much appreciated, but may vary during the year.

This course is "only" 10 holes, but they are 10 good ones. Holes 5 and 10 are the only ones that really stand out as being wide open, with most being fairly wooded and at least semi-technical. Holes 6-9 are the highlight of this course, with very tight lines through the forest. The first two play downhill and the next two play back uphill and it is an intense workout. The basket for hole 7 is mounted in a small creek which is cool too.

The equipment here is just ok; the baskets are high quality but tee signs would be a big improvement. More permanent markers for the tees would really help navigation. There appears to be more wooded land to expand the course which would be really cool. There are some extreme hills and gullies here perfect for disc golf.

At first I had a bit of trouble finding the place, but you can see the big open field shaped like a witch's foot on GPS and the opening to that field from the road has a mailbox but no true drive. You can pull in here and park in the grass. After that, navigation was mostly straightforward, playing around the perimter of the field until you end up near where you stated.

Overall, this course isn't perfect and may be a bit rough around the edges, but it's great fun and really high quality for a private course. Vince was very gracious about letting me play alone whenever I wanted and was very unconcerned with me making a donation for playing, though I made sure to do so.

There are no real water hazards on this course; the one creek is very minimal. Watch out for hole 7 in particular where overthrows, particularly fading left, can end up OB in fenced off property. Bring your hiking shoes for this one and expect a workout.

If you're in the area I highly recommend checking this course out (with advance permission). Not many people have played it and it's a fantastic course if you like hills and woods, and you'll almost certainly have the whole course to yourself.

This course is the most well known course in Louisville. At least it seems to be from non locals. Maybe that's from seeing tournament coverage of it years ago. I can see why it's a classic though. Very fun course with a pretty even mix of open and wooded. I'd call this one moderately hilly, not very, but the hills are everywhere. They're just not extreme.

Blue Prodigy baskets on every hole. These are all a little older side it seems, but still catch well enough. Maybe these just fade faster than Discatchers. Either way, these still stand out nicely in the woods. I don't recall if there were alternate pin positions or not. I don't think there were though.

Concrete tees on every hole. These are all in good shape and get the job done. Level, grippy and ample in size. One tee pad per hole.

Good design here. The course loops back to the parking lot after hole 11 so you're able to stop at the vehicle. The course starts off with a blast. Tight wooded lines with thick rough off the fairway and so up and downhill holes. Hole 3 was probably my favorite on the course. Over the creek shot up the hill. If you fail too make it across and up it's a brutal par save. Holes 5-11 take you open into the open before getting back into the woods again for the last seven. Good split.

The tee signs appear to be newer. These are great. Hole #, par and distance to go along with a detailed hole map showing any OB, bridges and a next tee arrow. Very sharp looking and effective signs.

The rough is pretty nasty off the fairway in spots. Not so much sharp, just impenetrable. It's hard to even pitch out in certain spots. I'd imagine losing a disc in the warm season is pretty easy to do with an errant shot.

The course gets lots of traffic, therefore there's lots of erosion out here. They're combatting it with wooden walls around some greens and tees but the fairways are slick and you never know what your disc will do. Flare skip like a rocket or stop on a dime after hitting a root.

Hole 18 is an odd one. I wasn't really a fan, even though I got a 5 on it. Kind of a weird way to end your round. It's almost a horseshoe shaped shot uphill.

This was a fun course despite the cons listed. I was expecting more based on things I'd heard and seen about it. This is another one of those championship level courses. Ten years ago. Now it's just kind of your run of the mill top course in any big metro area. That said it's still worth playing if you're anywhere nearby.

Spencer Christian Church is home to a 9 hole disc golf course that plays essentially counter clockwise around the northeast side of the property. There's a few trees utilized in a couple spots and rolling hills on the whole course.

There's tee boxes on every hole. Basic but serviceable framed in wood pads filled with gravel. One tee per hole.

The tee signs are also very basic but better than nothing. Small metal signs attached to a metal fence post with decals of the hole #, par and distance. These at the very least help you locate where the tee pad is, especially when the next one is uphill.

The distances are all pretty similar, with the exception of hole 5, a par 4, which is 420'. The rest are around 300' give or take.

Old, single chained Prodigy baskets on every hole. These must be the first models that they ever came out with. I've seen these before but it's been awhile. Regardless, these caught well enough. One basket and pin position per hole.

Limited hours due to there being a school at the church as well. All day on weekends and after 4:00 during the school year on weekdays.

Hole 8's tee is awful. It's tucked into the woods and isn't aiming towards the basket. It's also slanted pretty severely downhill. Just a crappy hole overall because of this. I'm assuming the woods weren't as filled in when this was installed. I'd hope so at least.

The distances are very long for children. I'd assume that's who this is designed for. If so, it's going to be very frustrating for them. Even if the course was flat the distances are too long for beginners.

Lots of semi long walks between holes. Nothing crazy but I'm not sure why they didn't just keep it more towards the latter holes section if they wanted to keep the trees in play.

Average to slightly above church course. Play it if you must, but there's not much else real close so you'd have to be nearby for whatever reason.

Iroquois Park is home to an 18 hole course that's split pretty evenly between open and wooded. It starts and ends in the open but the middle get's you into the woods gradually. It's a nice transition actually, introducing more and more trees until you're full on in the woods. That's when the hills start to show up too.

Good design here. I liked the mix and thought they did a great job fitting the 18 holes in here without anything feeling like filler. Easy transitions between holes and well marked. The course gets a lot of traffic so there's well worn paths from hole to hole.

The baskets are all Prodigy's. Both T1's and T3's. There's numerous different colored ones. Blue, red, green and yellow. And other combinations of these colors. There's multiple pin locations on most holes and many of them even have two baskets permanently set up. This makes for great replay value.

Concrete tee pads on every hole. Many of the holes have two tees but not all of them. The pads themselves are all poured nice and level, nicely sized and have good traction. No complaints with these whatsoever.

There's a pond and some little creeks that come into play. These are on the front open section but these add some much needed challenge to what would otherwise be some pretty bland holes. The water makes you think and, honestly, gets in your head a little, which is a good thing.

Free to play and besides the park road there's no other interference with other park users.

It's hard to tell what holes have two baskets or just a single one on the hole. Also what position it's in IF there's only one on that hole. I'd be nice if there was some way of alerting players what's what. We just played to whichever one we could see from the tee or seen first after throwing.

Lots of erosion here. Very hard packed, rooted ground with lots of tripping hazards.

The pond and streams were a cool hazard and livened up the front nine for sure. You don't want end up in there though. The water smelled rancid and can't be very clean. Finding a disc in the pond is also probably a lost cause.

The park road can come into play but it would take a pretty good tree kick or shank of a shot to find it. Tons of walkers out here though so be cautious when throwing.

Really nice course. I'd play this one again in a heartbeat. Not a destination course by any means but well worth a trip out of your way to play. It sounds like the course gets pretty packed so you may want to avoid peak hours if you're on limited time but you can tell why it's so popular once you play it.

Lapping memorial DGC is a tightly wooded course with moderate elevation changes throughout. There's a creek that runs through the course and can come into play in multiple locations as well. It wasn't deep at all in mid April after a lot of rain recently, so I'd assume it's a pretty minimal chance for lost discs in it. It does make for some awkward lies and lots of rollaway potential from the banks going into it.

The flow of the course is pretty easy to follow with lots of next tee arrows pointing you in the right direction. There's only two open holes on the entire course so you'll end up following some pretty well worn trails through the woods. There's also next tee arrows on each tee sign in addition to the others near the baskets.

The baskets are green Prodigy's. These catch alright. Anyone who's played on these knows they don't like putts to either side. But they're still better than lots of other options out there. One basket but dual pin placements per hole.

The tees are those slotted concrete deals that are very popular around this area. I like these things. Plenty big enough and all are mounted level. There's two tees on almost every hole. The blue locations are geared toward intermediate players while the golds offer a pro level challenge. I liked the fact that there was a much different look to the hole from blues versus golds. Not just placed a little further back.

The design is very well done here. Great mix of different shot shapes required to score well. There's up, down, left, right, straight, you name it you'll find it here. The back nine starts near the parking lot which is always a bonus.

Very nice tee signs that are located at each tee. Quality detailed hole map showing each tee and pin placement, any ditches or trails crossing the fairway and next tee arrows. The yellow signs are the golds and the blues are for the blue tees. In addition to that there's the hole #, pars and distances to both pin placements and the elevation change to each pin. Nicely done with these.

The course is free to play and open year round. Practice basket located by hole 1 too.

The walking trail meanders all over throughout the course. Be sure to pay attention when playing here. The leaf cover was thin when I played but in the warmer months it'll be hard to see walkers.

There's a couple longer walks between holes that weren't that obvious, even with the next tee signs. The ones we had pause with were 8 to 9, 9 to 10 and 16 to 17. Not a huge issue but worth noting. It'd still be handy to have a map available.

The baskets are green. I never understood why this color would even be an option for a disc golf basket. Kind of tricky to spot them in the woods so you may have to walk up the fairway to spot them before throwing.

This was my favorite course in the Louisville area. By quite a bit, but I love wooded courses and that's precisely what this one is. If you're into open bomber courses this one won't be for you. If I could only play one course over here though, this is what I'd play. Well worth a stop if you find yourself in the area or even a slight detour off the expressway. Great woods course.

Easy navigation with udisc, Tees and baskets were easy to find. No natural hazards or issues with terrain, this is a very accessible course.

This course plays thru tons of shared spaces, parking lots, sidewalks. Tons of risk of user conflict.

This course is unplayable during school hours, this includes the extra curricular times as well, too many parked cars and pedestrians moving thru throwing lanes until mid evening or on the weekends. Be careful if you go play this course.

This course offers a good variety of shots and challenges, a couple of holes where water comes into play, some open field drives, its a good mix for the property available

Parking Lots and driveway do come into play on a few holes, it was pretty wet when we played, beware in the spring there will likely be standing water. No wooded holes.

A nice course for the property, many varieties of shots and really quite high quality experience for a "church course"

Well laid out course, user conflict is at a minimum, the main users of this park are disc golfers. This course has a bit of everything, open shots, wooded shots, water holes, elevation change.

Not too many negatives from our time there, restrooms only at the front of the property, no drinking water available.

This was a nice course to hit with some friends who live in the area, while we visited, if I lived in the area this would be a regular stop for me!

+ Tees are flat, long and sturdy concrete.
+/- Baskets are numbered but on the old side.
+ Colorful and effective tee signs attached to bag stands at every link (except the first one).
+ The venue is spacious and pretty, but...

- ...It is too open and flat for my taste.
- No lost disc box, but maybe that's not much of an issue at this course.
-/+ The guiding signage is hit or miss. There are some places where nav signs are direly needed.

As I was passing through Arkansas in late 2023, I regretted that I didn't have more time to play more courses. I had to stick to courses close to the Interstates, and Lower DeGrey was in the right place at the right time. But while Lower DeGrey Lake isn't so bad of a choice, I don't think I'm wrong to suspect that there are better courses out there.

For starters, I must say that Lower DeGrey has a nice feel to it. Everything is spread out. There is a river as a permanent backdrop that you can admire. There are plenty of pines and sunny fields. Disc golfers can come here to relax and unwind. Link7 illustrates that idea perfectly. From the tee you face a peppering of trees, which slightly block your view of the Caddo River. Once you finally reach the basket and stand on the shore, the other side of the river displays more lush greenery. The setting is an important factor for a disc golf course. This one has no problems with setting.

The actual disc golfing, however, is a different story. It is on the short side with below average challenges. Most of the fairways are shorter than 300 feet, and the tree cover is mostly that park-style configuration, which is to say that there are definitely trees in the way, but there is usually so much space between them, that it doesn't feel like it. Sometimes, there are no trees at all. Links 5, 6, 9 and 10 are the clearest examples, and 10 is by far the most boring. Power players who can consistently air out their throws may enjoy this place more than I did. Credit where it's due: link9 might be completely wide open, but it features a literal protected basket with wooden structures surrouding it on three sides. That was cool to see.

I prefer wooded disc golf, and some of the links here did resonate with me. The final four or five were nice challenges of woods management. My personal favorite was link15 because of its choice of fairway tunnel to reach the basket. It couldn't make up for the dull nature of the majority of the others, though. This course is flat with just a few exceptions. I honestly don't mind a little bit of ankle risk in my disc golf, yet this course has virtually none. On the plus side, that means this course is very cart and kid friendly.

It could be tough to find your way. Nav signage (as of late October 2023) is spotty and especially needed after links 4 and 10. And since I'm talking about the course's infrastructure, tees 8, 9 & 14 were damaged, and basket17 needs a quick fix.

All in all, Lower DeGrey is neither awful nor wonderful. It gets a slight recommendation for its nice setting and consistent presentation, which frames a competent if bland circuit of 18. I can't promise you'll be blown away by this one, but I also can't imagine anybody walking away unhappy.

-It's a disc golf course...
-The baskets are adequate.
-Enough variety to make it entertaining
-The first few holes play through a unique landscape weird mounds and pot holes.

First and foremost, I rated this a 1.5 bc they made the most irreconcilable blunder one can make, they didn't use the water...
90% of discgolf courses don't have any sort of water and would kill to have a stream or river or lake to add excitement and scenery. This plot has a nice little creek that runs along most of the course but doesn't once come into play. I'm not saying you need a shot over the creek or even a hole that plays next to it the whole time, but the fact that not a single basket placement brings the creek into play even once is insane to me.

Rubber pads: not a pro bc they're rubber, not a con bc at least there's something.

The course isn't a loop, instead it's a linear path requiring you to walk back to the start when finished.

The trash... my Gods. I thought these cute little country towns were supposed to clean and respectable but this place is worse than down town. It seems like there's a few locals that use this as a garbage dump to save 20 bucks months.