The views are beautiful! It is a long course, but not just long as in throw drivers each shot until you are at the basket, you have to have placement shots. For a person with a short arm, this makes the playing field a little more even with the long arms.

The hole design themselves are top of the line.. I love hole four. Hole five through ten are some of the best water holes I have ever had the privilege of losing discs on. Hole ten is a signature hole, and one of my favorites any where.

Overall, it is very challenging which makes for a great play.

The course itself is a little confusing to navigate without a map of the course. Losing discs can suck, but I think that adds to the fun personally.

I've played few courses with better holes. I've played few courses that are as well marked and kept. I don't think I've ever played a course with the combination of both.

The course has cool, distinctive tee signs (with bag hooks) that are easy to locate; they make directional signs largely uneccesarry. However, there are clear directional signs where needed. The course has great flow and is easy to navigate. It starts and ends (in the standard layout) with a few, easier, open shots, but quickly moves to a series of technical, wooded shots and longer shots with water hazards and tight OB. The course designers calculated difficult but playable distances and angles. It's really excellent.

Most holes have multiple tees and/or pin placements. The tees are good size, level, and concrete. Trash cans, a few benches, water, and restrooms are available. The course surrounds a lake in a state park and is incredibly clean and well trimmed.

The only significant negative is that two shots (#3 and #4) cross a paved road. Any other issues are minor: there is a relatively long walk leading to 5 and the tee signs are not descriptive. You may have to take a stroll down the fairway to know exactly where the pin is on a few wooded shots.

In the standard layout, the course has only one really long shot. But the alterate layout and some provisional holes provide plenty of distance for advanced players. I'll definitley play this course when I'm back in the area; it's worth a trip.

This course has it all. You really have to reach into the bag and use every throw you know. You have tight wooded holes, water holes, elevation changes, blind shots, and beautiful scenery. This course really has an unbelievable mix, and now there is a gold formation that will blow your mind.

Some of the teepads need updating. Some of them are too short and not wide enough for the longer holes. That's the only con I can think of.

This is a must-play course. If you want to have a look at the course go to youtube and type in Trace Open and there is a video of some of the Gold Course being played.

This is well-designed 18 hole course that is extremely well kept and is quite challenging. This course has excellent variety of hole styles and hole lengths requiring every shot in your bag. I liked how the course is almost like 3 mini courses in regards to style- it starts with parks style for a few holes, then you play around the lake for a few, then some wooded holes coupled with steep elevation, and it finishes like it started. Every hole is unique and every tee shot must be carefully planned and executed. It seems every hole is a memorable one, but the signature #5 levee hole is one you will love to hate, lakes on both sides, the levee slopes down from left to right, and 520' from the long tees.

The layout and scenery are fabulous. I love how this course is spread out, each hole gets its own space, and the land is set aside purely for disc golf. Views of the lake are seen from most holes. The fairways were lush and green (played in spring after a lot of rain). The course has 2 sets of tees that are clearly marked. The baskets are in good shape. The tee signs and bag hangers are very nice and unique just giving one example of the care and detail Mississippi puts into their State Park disc golf courses.

There is ample parking. Restrooms near hole #1. The park workers are very nice, they will gladly give you tons of helpful information, and the ranger actually led us in his truck to #1's tee.

The biggest con (and this is very minor) are the couple of longer than normal walks from basket to next tee. But because this course covers such a large area of land this is necessary. I suppose they could add extra holes in between, but a little extra walking is really no biggie when you factor just how nice of a course this is. (The longest walk is from #4 to #5, and will give you plenty of time to mentally prepare yourself for the levee hole!)

Another very minor con (and I am digging here) is that you don't come near your car until 18, but in order to obtain that isolated in nature feel by the course being spread out this is a necessity.

Mississippi State Parks do charge $3 a day/car to enter the park, but this is well worth it.

I thoroughly enjoyed every second I was on this course. It is one of the best courses I have every played and is one of my all-time favorites. I highly recommend this course to any serious player looking for a challenging good time. (Be prepared to lose a disc or two in the lake.)

Old Warrior Run is the name of the course, Trace State Park is the name of the park, although many locals referred to the course as Trace, but they are one and the same. And it appears the original layout is called Old Warrior Run, and an optional layout is Trace Gold.

*Note- This review is for the standard layout, I have not played the Gold.

This park also features several other park amenities, a big lake, camping, cabins, etc. I strongly endorse the Mississippi State Parks Disc Golf courses. The courses are fun and very well kept and the people are nice. They are perfect for taking a disc golf vacation with your friends or family.

This is one of my faviroite courses. The park does a great job of keeping the fairways nice and clean. Concrete pads and bag holders on every tee. The water is avoidable from the AM pads.

The am pads are natrual. All I can think of.

This course is in a great state park and should get more attention than it does.
I hear the gold setup is amazing but I haven't got around to play it yet.

This course makes one large loop and had a great mix of open holes, wooded holes, water carries, up hill, down hill. It really does have it all. The course has some long holes and some shorter holes. The highlight of the round is a hole that is played inbetween the levies of 2 lakes. You have water on both sides of you on a 500ft+ hole. The landing area is fairly wide, but any wild shot will find the water. This is fallowed by 4 more holes around the lake with all of them requiring short carries over water. Every hole has a tee sign with the yardage marked and there are a few benches scattered throughout the course. This is a lovely park and is very well taken care of. The course is not excedingly hard but beginners are going to have issues with all of the water and some of the long holes. All of the wooded holes have well defined fairways. Overall this is just are super course that everyone would enjoy.

Like every busy park several of the holes might have people around them. This is especially true around the lake with people fishing. There are also a couple of holes that have you throwing across the park road and one basket that is very close to the boat dock parking and parked cars can come into play. there is also a long walk inbetween 4 and 5. Just becareful with vehicals on the road and people around the lake!!

The tee signs are unique but serve there purpose. This is a really great course that is a must play if you are in the area. It really will provide you with a great all around disc golf experience. Lots of different hole types for new players to learn on and enough of a challenge for better players to enjoy as well.

I highly recommend this course!!!!

The piece of property that is set aside for Disc Golf here is amazing. They have room to create a course of immense and varying challenges and the designer sufficiently accomplished this. Tee Pads were in excellent shape, Bag posts and benches were excellent. The course was extremely well groomed.Again I keep coming back to the views but they are amazing.

There is a long walk from hole 4 to hole 5. It is not hard to find as you simply follow the path. However, we played on a morning immediately following a heavy rain the previous night. It was a long soggy, muddy tromp.

This curse was really about 3 kinds of courses blended into one. This is what made it fabulous. The first 4 holes and the the last 3 holes are "city-park" type of holes. These are long holes with large mature trees in the fairway. Then there were the water holes (5-10) which were amazingly beautiful and challenging. The remainder of the course was in the woods going up and down a hill, requiring exceptional accuracy and execution. Combine all 3 and this is a course that most seasoned disc golfers would love.

Hole 5 is a difficult hole over a levee. While I think it was intended to be the signature hole, I like hole 10 the best. It requires a downhill throw over an inlet of the lake. The carry is roughly about 275 and the pin backs up against the forest. An absolutely fantastic disc golf hole.

If you are ever in the Tupelo area, I highly recommend stopping in at Trace State Park and playing this phenomenal course. You will not be disappointed.

Best kept disc golf secret in North Mississippi!
The course is maintained by Trace State Park and kept in excellent condition!!

None, but you will have to pay $3 to get in the park unless you have a pass.

You won't want to miss playing this course if your ever in Tupelo.

Good concrete tee pads and freshly built benches on a few holes. Pro shop with great selection. The park ranger cares about disc golf and it shows on the course (the grass is cut weekly and fairways are cleaned). The design contains decent elevation, water, OB roads, technical shots, open shots, both short and long, as well as variety on shot selection.

The water holes 5, 6, 7, 10 have short tees for newer players, but they are not concrete (look for the metal bag holders that have distances written on them).

Camping is available, as well as bathrooms and a pavilion at the start of the course.

The course can be semi difficult to get to from the highway and it is a good 10-15 minutes from Pontotoc or Tupelo.

The course is in a MS state park, so entry into the park is $3 per car, which is incorporated into the entry fee for tournaments. (most MS residents just buy yearly passes for $42). Typical MS state park with lots of ticks and other critters. Sometimes has people fishing from the banks of the fairways around holes 6, 7, and 8, that don't understand that these discs might hurt them. The course also does not loop back to the start at the half way point.

This is a beautiful course in a scenic park. It is one of my favorite courses, with the potential for a championship layout for tournaments. Every hole challenges a differently part of your game, but with enough distance and accuracy, scores in the 40's can be shot.

Hole 5 is the signature hole that is remembered by everybody who plays this course. Every time I meet somebody at an away tournament that has played this course, not only do they love the course, but they always mention this hole. The hole is 520 ft. with a 50 ft. levy for a fairway. Water all the way down the right side, then the levy starts for 20 ft and slowly slopes for 30 more ft. to water on the left side. The water on the left stops at about the 400 ft. mark to give the cannon arms a good landing zone. If that is not enough, then there is almost ALWAYS wind blowing on this course, particularly the usual left-right crosswind on this hole. The short tee is a 280 ft. shot that starts at the base of the slope on the left of the fairway.

Go to www.tupelodiscgolf.com to post if you are in the area and looking for somebody to join you when playing this course. Most locals prefer the easier courses in town, but there are a few, including me, who would be happy to join you for a round if available.