Plays on a ball golf course, the staff is very friendly and there's shirts and small amount of discs for sale in pro shop. Also a bar, and food in there if you need beverages or to eat. The course itself is nine holes that have two tee pads and two baskets on each to make 18. You can also play whatever layouts you like with this set up giving you more options. The main layout is green to green and yellow to yellow for a full 18. The green to green is fun and the sand traps and golf greens are ob as well as staked lines adding to the challenge here. The ob is very well defined and hard to avoid for an entire round. The green to green is manageable however you want to be under par or close to it when starting yellow to yellow. A lot of those pins are bombers and in tough positions with ob in most the lines. Good use of elevation change and different lines hole 4 is a fun top of the world type throw. The baskets catch well and the tee pads give you enough run up room and are smooth. Practice baskets behind hole 1 our great to get in little warmup

Navigation can be super tricky with the multiple pins and pads. They give you a map but it's still tough. 2 of the yellow holes tee off from a white line on the road. Being as this does share holes with ball golfers, and the yellow and green share fairways you can have a very long wait. There's poison oak if you get off the fairway, and I happen to get it on me :/ the wind can be a factor here and one errant shot, or even good shot can land you ob. There's no real tee signs

Overall this is a tough course with many different ways of playing. A very nice local named Patrick showed us around and threw with us. 10 dollars to play for non Cali residents which is fair for being on a golf course. Not the best golf course I've played on but not the worst btw the greens are pretty small on most holes just avoid pulling off the fairway and you'll be able to still score okay

As you drive into the Lake Chabot Golf Course the road cuts right through this huge expanse of golf course. I looked and looked trying to spot a basket, any basket but saw nothing. After checking in and paying my $8 (for all day and a wonderful professional map and scorecard) I then found out that the disc golf is played only on the executive nine hole course and not on the the main course I had driven through. I hooked up with Shawn, a local guy who plays here fairly often and knows the history of the course.

As he explained it, this is a disc golf course designed by disc golfers for disc golfers which explains most of what is great about Lake Chabot. There are two pads for each of the 9 holes- one grey and one yellow. There are also two baskets are each hole one green and one yellow. The green baskets are numbered 1-9 while the yellows are numbered 10-18. This gives you multiple options to play, you can play Grey to Green baskets or Yellow to Yellow baskets which are harder and longer or you could mix and match and play Yellow to Green or Grey tees to the Yellows.

The course has some wonderful elevation and there were few golfers out on this day. The longer Yellows are usually 50' longer and often increase the difficulty and risk involved. # 7 is 450' from the Yellows and just 300' from the Grey To Greens. This is disc golf on a golf course that is certainly worth the money. Sand traps and the golf greens increase the challenge.

Course might be lacking the challenge for intermediate players and up.

The whole set up with the Yellows and Greens might be confusing for first time players here. I know, I would have been a little perplexed without my local guide.

There is some nasty rough, which while unavoidable, can cause you some serious grief.

$8 to play all day.

This is a new course which, as it becomes more well known, will develop a nice following. It's a lovely piece of manicured golf land, the price is fair and the golf is fun and challenging. probably with the cost involved, this will not be one of those everyday type courses but rather a once a week or special occasion course. Either way, it's a great throw and has renewed my belief that golf courses can also feature some great disc golf, too.

The most fun I've ever had on a course which is primarily open and offers few shot-shaping opportunities.

A course which is primarily open and offers few shot-shaping opportunities.

Course plays along the fairways of a short 9-hole ball golf course, part of a larger ball golf complex. There are two tees and two baskets per hole, so you have some options. The scorecard included a map, which made navigation fairly easy. A variety of elevation changes - a few ups, a few (major) downs, a few extended valleys, and a few flattish.

So, what is "fun" about "a course which is primarily open and offers few shot-shaping opportunities"? In addition to the elevation changes, the primary challenge comes from the location of the baskets ... or, a better way to say it, the speed of the greens combined with nearby out-of-bounds.

Most of the short baskets are located to the side of the ball golf greens Most of the long baskets are located behind the ball golf greens. The NEARBY ball golf greens, sand traps, and a few other locations are out-of-bounds. Also, many of the baskets are either located on a slope, or have a slope near them. So, the challenge comes from needing to throw a certain distance, with only a small delta, while possibly dealing with elevation change and or a fast green.

Number-6 is a good example. While flat, the long basket is about 320' away. The o.b. green in front of it covers the 230'-290' range, and a downslope jungle starts a mere 10' behind the basket at the 330', so your throw has to be in the 290'-330' window, and fairly straight, too (sandtrap to the left, brush to the right). The short basket on this hole is also challenging - not as far (~270'), but has the o.b. green to its right, and the sandtrap to its left, both about the edge of the putting circle away, so you need to land in a ~60' circle from ~270' away.

And that is just an example - each basket will have the green nearby, other o.b., and possibly a slope, along with elevation change, to deal with.

I enjoyed the challenge of needing to decide when to go for it, i.e. driving over the green to the long basket, or trying to park the short basket, or to layup. My first round I went o.b. (on the ball golf green) twice, as my disc just didn't quite make it out the back, which caused me to evaluate before each drive, and some approaches.

- clean, beautiful and "civilized" setting
- new baskets and good quality teepads
- hilly and requires different types of shots
- tricky putts that could trigger rolling
- easy navigation
- lots of room to air out some big drives
- thoughtfully designed

- You play the same 9 holes twice but throw at different pins the second time through. Some holes didn't change much on the second pass.

Suffers from the typical problems of playing disc golf on a ball golf course:

- most holes follow the format of: bomb a big drive off the teepad into a big open field. Then approach a lightly guarded basket perched on a hillside at the edge of the fairway. No tunnel shots. Limited number of shots through wooded terrain.
- lots of random OB sprinkled around to attempt to make holes more interesting. I guess that's cool? I'd prefer actual obstacles and hazards

Lovely course. Nice baskets, nice earth teepads. Great if you want to air out your big arm. More limited options for those who throw under 275'.

I don't feel like many holes hit that sweet spot where anyone between beginner and advanced would find some fun challenges. The beginner configurations were often plain and easy. Simply throw to a basket ~300ft away across a big open field with a little OB. The advanced configurations tended to be super long and involve long tricky approach shots and death putts. Not the best for an experienced but less advanced player like myself. Good quality but uneven

In summary, this course isn't at the top of my list but it will be added to my regular course rotation. It's worth playing at least a few times.