There are three quality 18 hole courses at Lindsey Park, each with their own color-coded baskets. I loved that. And they were all DiscCatchers in good condition.

The gold course is the lengthiest, most difficult, technical, and wooded of the three. I met a local, crazybuffaloguy on this site, who let me play with him for his daily round.

Holes are long and challenging. Lindsey Gold will chew you up and spit you out. But overall, they are pretty fun. Hitting your lines on a tight, wooded course is one of the most rewarding things in disc golf.

Tee Signs are pretty accurate, pins can be in A or B position. Tees are concrete, and seem to hold up well.

The first several holes are great, and a good introduction to your round. The first one is fairly open, but then you get into the woods. They were probably my favorite holes.

I agree with previous review Qikly about the repetition of many of the holes. It makes the more unique ones seem that much better, but the long straight shot is prime here. I played with a Guy who comes out pretty much every day, and he threw pretty much the same shot on most of the holes. There are a lot of holes finishing right, making the RHFH, or long anhyzer shot your primary drive/approach.

Luck is going to heavily factor into your score. Crazybuffaloguy, with his curated lines and years of experience on this course, said his scores can fluctuate by around 15 strokes some days depending on the kicks he gets. That could make this a more exciting course, but I think it just makes it more frustrating, when you throw exactly how you want to, and get a crazy kick. That happened to both of us.

Navigation can be a little tricky. If I didn't have a partner who knew the place like the back of his hand, I would've made a few wrong turns.

Lindsey Gold is a great course, and this park is a destination place. Of the three, this was maybe my least favorite, but that is not to say it is the worst. Lindsey Gold is a great course, and does a service to Tyler, TX by being there. But with such a high rating, I was expecting so much more. There just wasn't anything about his course that made me go, "ok, wow. this is nice." And that's what I expect when I see a course over 4.0.

I am very grateful to crazybuffaloguy for playing this course, and the first 12 holes of the Red course with me as well. Made my day that much more fun!

Lindsey Park offers a tremendous amount of disc golf with three 18 hole courses on sight, each widely varying in difficulty. The Gold course is easily the toughest course in the park and is one of the toughest courses that I have played. The amenities are great with plenty of parking space, water fountains, and bathrooms. The course is greatly taken care of as well with very nice concrete tees, DISCatcher baskets, and plenty of directional signs, bridges, benches, and trash cans.
Other than bookending holes 1 and 18, the course is set entirely in the dense woods.

This is a very beautiful setting, playing through hundreds of enormously tall trees and a creek that winds through numerous holes. The creek made for some fun risk/reward play (holes 2, 3, 6, 12, and 13) and adds to the challenge of an already frustratingly hard round. There were multiple times where I was faced with the decision to either go for the basket from the other side of the creek and risk getting a tree kick into the water, or lay up and play it safe. I also enjoyed playing on the sandy, but hard ground. This allowed for a lot of generous skips.

Definitely one of the toughest courses I have played, Lindsey Gold presents very tight and specific lines hole after hole. There is a pretty good distribution of distances and considering the tight lines in the woods, adding another hundred feet feels like a huge difference on some holes. There are 7 holes <300 feet, 5 holes 300-400 feet, 5 holes 400-500 feet, and 1 hole >500 feet.

My favorite holes were the ones that offered more than one lane either off the tee or on the way to the basket. The holes that best represented this were 2-4, 7, 10, and 12. The front half was more enjoyable to me with the creek in play and having multiple lanes on more holes. Holes 1 and 18 give at least a little variety out of the woods, and the multiple pin positions that most holes have add variety to the course as well.

One of the things that impressed me most about the course was how minimal the chances were of losing a disc, despite how densely wooded it was. I don't know if the course designers have done a ton of maintenance thinning out the rough or if the woods are naturally set like that, but you shouldn't spend too much time searching for discs if you go off the fairway. For you score, however, you definitely want to stay on the fairway.

-The biggest downfall of the course was how specific most of the holes were. Because the course is so tight, the holes generally played along one specific lane. If you didn't hit the line, you had to pitch out from the rough back on the fairway and throw until you did hit the line. For about half of the holes, there wasn't much to it other than that. While I definitely enjoyed the type of holes presented at the course, it would have been nicer to play more holes with multiple lanes, especially off the tee.
-For numerous holes, many shots off the tee felt very similar. There were a bunch of times I stood on the tee looking at either a super tight straight fairway or a slightly wider straight fairway. Depending on the tightness of fairway and length of the hole, I generally either threw my understable mid or understable driver. This stretch is most common in the middle holes and felt almost painfully repetitive.
-The tee signs show both pin positions, but would be a little more helpful if they were more detailed. For instance, it would be nice if it pointed out that 18 has a deep ravine right before the pin rather than just showing a brown spot. My fault for not checking out the hole before I threw, but I lost a disc down there because I did not see the ravine from where I threw. Not a big deal at all, but the tee signs could be a little better.

Lindsey Park truly offers something for everyone providing three courses with vastly different levels of difficulty. I recommend also playing the Blue course as it offers a tremendous variety of wooded and open holes and even has some holes with major elevation changes. The Gold course is definitely one of the hardest courses I've played, so come play if you want to test your accuracy.

Lindsey Gold offers a truly advanced-level challenge in a gorgeous wooded setting that is well-groomed: while the rough is thick enough to punish errant shots, losing a disc is rarely a fear. Carved out of the woods, the course challenges you to hit very unforgiving windows and lanes; there's rarely any room for error. If you're looking to test your control and accuracy, you've come to the right place.

The best holes on Lindsey Gold provide memorable challenges in tight quarters, such as the intimidatingly long and tree-studded anhyzer of hole 4 and the tight shot over a creek bed with multiple obstacles on the approach of hole 2. The relatively more open holes 1 and 18 provide a different feel and some elevation. Variation is largely in short supply, but when it does appear it's very effective.

Few city parks offer more disc golf than Lindsey does: three 18s of widely ranging difficulties, terrains, and looks give you a lot to do on your visit. Together, the three courses offer something for every golfer, from the absolute beginner to the top-level pro.

Concrete tees are great. Multiple pin positions. Amenities are on site and parking is abundant. For as many holes as there are in such a prominent park, there's virtually no conflict between disc golfers and other park goers, which is very welcome. I didn't have to contend with a single pedestrian on my Friday afternoon visit. Can't go wrong with a shaded environment in the Texas heat.

Lindsey Gold is one of the least varied courses I've ever played. First, the environment itself never steps down from tightly wooded, outside of the bookending holes. This in itself isn't a problem, but it places a pressure on the design to create variation that it unfortunately doesn't achieve. Many of the holes play straight and tight, including an incredibly self-similar stretch from holes 9 to 13 or so in which you're throwing the same disc on largely the same line. There are exceptions to this that are effective and welcome, but by the end of my round the course had become very repetitious.

Partly this is due to Lindsey Gold's lack of a mental game. The predominant tightness regularly gives you one look and line off the tee, with few and often only minor exceptions. The result is that there's little to think about and rarely any risk versus reward to weigh: you see your shot, you attempt it, and you either hit it or you don't. There aren't many places where you can push for birdie or lay up, or take multiple, equally feasible routes to the basket, or recover from an unfortunate kick off a tree or a badly executed drive. Many of these holes have only one possible play through, and the extreme tightness of the windows and lines can punish even great shots: anything less than the ideal will often send you scrambling. It's not a question of being hard so much as it's a question of maintaining interest by providing a rich, multivalent experience. I feel like a greater change of pace and possibility is required here to make the course truly special, though the potential is certainly there.

Lindsey Gold entertains a relatively high luck factor. Approaching many of the tree-guarded pins threatens to pass from challenging into poke and pray, especially on the occasional blind shot. I can appreciate the push for a challenging course, and that everyone has a different interpretation of where challenge ends and random begins. For me, Lindsey Gold crosses this line at too many points.

For as highly rated as it is, I had hoped for more variety and a more interesting mental game at Lindsey Gold. It does tightly wooded very, very well, but doesn't have much else to offer. It's like a bar band that only knows a handful of tunes: after you catch on to the repetition, it's all you hear. With some tweaking to create more diverse lines the course could be really special. As it stands, I wouldn't recommend Lindsey Gold in itself to anyone unless they were looking to gauge the capabilities of their control game. That said, with all else on offer in the park, disc golfing and otherwise, it's hard to discourage someone from making a visit.