This was my first course outside of the US and I was excited to find something so beautiful and challenging. Seamus, the designer and caretaker of the course, was a joy to meet and talk with. A chef by training, he decided to move to Scotland and open up a Disc Golf Course. What a good idea! I think I will be speaking with him more when I get close to retirement.

Reboot Disc Golf actually has a second name, Bluebell Woods Disc Golf, on account of all of the Bluebell flowers that bloom in the spring. Seamus has a pro shop near hole 1 with hundreds of discs and other merchandise, some of it branded with his logo, a Bluebell. I bought a couple of discs and a hoody, which is of great quality.

The course is really well designed. The land is owned by a local adventure company, but the part where the course is was unused for 150 years before Seamus got there. It plays mainly through tall trees along a couple of dirt roads on the property, but opens up in the middle of the course to some open fields with some beautiful landscape.

The lines are pretty well carved out and easy to find, baskets are fairly new, and it takes some big throws to make it through some of the long ones.You will need all of your throws with a variety of discs to successfully score well. The first few holes begin in the trees for some big distances. Hole 1 starts off right along the road near the proshop and throws across the dirt road. Hole two comes back toward the hole 1 tee a little over 140 meters and then hole three throws along the hillside below there. Due to some construction going on (see below), it was difficult to find hole 5, but hole 6 then plays from the trees across a big field and ending through the back part of the land. Hole 7 is a fun ace run up a small hill to a basket that sits on a small knoll.

My favorite hole was 8, throwing from a small hill down through a small clearing to an open green. The grass, the trees, and the animals were all quite enamoring. I saw a pheasant running through some bushes and a giant hare decided to play the hole with me (not really, he just ran alongside of the fairway while I was walking through).

After throwing through some large trees for holes 9-11, hole 12 throws back across the large field. Then, back in the trees for most of the remainder of the course, except hole 15 which plays toward the adventure company's large pond, which had a pretty view and a bit of wind to contend with.

The design is quite interesting. Basket placements are always key on high-quality courses and Bluebell Woods did not disappoint. Nestled into small groves, placed on the side of hills, or on top of the aforementioned knoll, each hole had an uniqueness that made the round interesting and challenging. The variety of basket placements, lines, and fairways made for a fun play.

Tee signs were helpful at showing some lines, but due to the construction, Seamus had to redesign some holes. I played right in the middle of that redesign, so some of the signs were not accurate, but he said that would be cleared up soon and he was looking forward to finishing the new designs.

As mentioned above, the construction made the play difficult. There were some fallen trees in the areas of hole 5 and hole 13 that made playing those holes extremely difficult. I never did find the hole 5 tee. But as I understand it, the redesign has dealt with any issues.

Due to the tee signs being in flux, it was sometimes difficult to find the basket or tee position and that made things a little confusing. Also, some of the tees were not in the greatest shape (hole 11 was muddy and slick, for instance), so a bit of maintenance would clear a lot of that up. I should mention that because I played in the winter/spring, he may not have been out there working on it much before I got there.

Overall, my round was just a snapshot taken at a difficult time. Seamus told me he was hosting tournaments there in the spring/summer and that he would have it cleaned up by then. I did not play the green course layout, so this review is not applicable to that. For that reason, I don't want to penalize the course too much for my individual experience. Still, I also can't review a course I haven't played.

All that said, the design excellence was evident, the variety of throws needed made things interesting, the land was beautiful, and Seamus was a joy to meet and talk to. I had a really great time and that alone bumps this a half point. If I am ever to get back to the UK, you know I will be headed back up to Reboot/Bluebell Woods to play a round.

I think this is probably the only 4.5 rated course in the UK.

This course has it all. Elevation, distance, tight wooded lines, multiple layouts, beautiful scenery, decent facilities and toilets and a fantastic, enthusiastic local community.

I love it and plan to travel 4+ hours to play it at least 4 times this year.

There's some inconsistency in teepads, but most are good.
The cafe and toilets are somewhat seasonal (at the watersport centre) and can be expensive for what you get if it's open. Good though!

Play it! The full layout is pretty hard too, par probably playing to 960 rating which is far above average in the UK

Tight and open, challenging and fair, this course has tons going for it and definitely the best course I have played in the UK!
Lots of heavily wooded holes through mature woodland, a few open holes to allow you to bomb and all holes have top quality baskets. Added to that, the short tee position for a short 18, makes for a good warm up or second round if time or light limit you on the blue course to a single round. Great for kids!

Heavy leaf fall during autumn and through the winter can make finding discs difficult on some holes - even perfect shots in the middle of the fairway!

Awesome course, with tons of facilities on site to keep the whole family entertained.

Great Pro Shop now separate form the cafe/ wakeboarding centre
Great mix of holes, woodland, open, long a couple shorter.
Fun short course for families and aces
Really challenging long course.

Couple of the Tee pads are a little short (i like a pretty long run up!)
Cafe at wakeboarding centre is a little pricey.

Hopefully the installation of a High ropes course in the woods which is causing a redesign of a number of holes will provide seamus a great opportunity to improve this course further!

To preface, I'm only reviewing the Blue course, since I didn't touch the green course while I was there.

1) While there were not any definite lefty or righty holes, there was a good mix of fairway shapes.
2) Fairways in the woods were challenging, but still very fair and the lines were executable me, ~850 rated. Nothing felt like it wasn't birdie-able with a well-placed shot off the tee.
3) A good mix of open and wooded holes, with a nice mix of fairway widths within the woods.
4) Brings the water of the wakeboarding park into play, if only very slightly.

1) The course doesn't seem to use the elevation as well as it could, most holes play along with the hills in the park rather than up and down them.
2) A few holes seemed to be much shorter than they could have been for no discernable reasons. This goes off of con one slightly as well as a few baskets are placed right at the bottom of the hill where moving it just 30 feet back would bring the elevation into play and make the holes more challenging and fun.
3) While there are a good mix of hole shapes, they are for the most part very simple and, other than being a bit narrow, they don't take any exceptional skill to hit the line needed. I threw LHBH off every single tee with no troubles.
4) The fairways are a bit wild in places. IMO, this is not acceptable from a pay course, especially for £5/person.
5) Relatively minor, but no bins or benches.
6) Holes 5 and 18 share a tee pad and the green/blue courses share many pads, fairways, and a few baskets. While the course seems to be relatively empty at all times (the guy at the reception desk looked at us like crazy people when we asked if we could pay for the disc golf course) this would definitely cause issues and backups if the sport gets more popular in the area.

Overall, the layout is slightly above average and it quite fun but maybe a bit simplistic, I would imagine especially so for a 950+ rated player. The green course plays around and on top of the blue course and is a wee bit confusing at times but the pads and baskets for the two courses are well marked so just pay attention and you should be fine. Lastly, while I don't have issues with pay to play courses, I feel this one is over priced for what it is. If it was a couple pounds cheaper or better maintained, I would definitely bump up my rating to 3.5.

This is the only course I've had the pleasure of playing here in Scotland during my study abroad trip and despite my quite long list of cons I genuinely did enjoy the course and hope to play it again if I am back in Edinburgh in the future.

-diverse range of hole layouts
-elevation change
-technical wooded areas
-beautiful area
-proshop (more for the wakeboarding/adventure park)
-cafe
-warm enclosed hangout area if it rains mid round or to hang out in between rounds
-bus stop near by (very easy 45 minute bus ride from edinburgh)

-prone to rain
-course was semi under construction (nothing major but hole order seemed to have been changed around a good amount, was a little work to play in the proper order)

Overall a very fun course, very challenging and fun by all standards.