+ One of the very best courses in the "Park" category that I've played. Not a standalone disc golf-only destination course, not a championship-level monster. If this were ball golf, you'd call it a "muni course." It's a well-maintained park setting where you're throwing around and through trees


+ Poured tees, good signage, yellow (short) and red (long) baskets on every hole. The reds add 2000', but the lines are pretty open. It's the basket placements of the reds that create variety and challenge shaping your shots


+ The property isn't hilly, but the layout takes advantage of every bit of elevation change it can find. This usually means a gentle slope up or down with the exception of #4, where relatively speaking, you might feel like you're throwing off a cliff


+ The hole designs range from good to very good. Nothing "great!", but nothing bad. A few memorable basket placements: up on the rocks on #3, and the yellow on #17 sits by the base of towering old growth tree

~ Traffic and shared-use issues like you would expect at a park course: the layout gets lots of play, and some holes border walking paths (be especially aware on holes #10 - #12). The grounds are immaculate and the rough isn't thick, so the course handles player traffic well. But if you can play during low traffic times, these aren't problems.


~ Relatively easy to navigate, but there are a few spots you might get turned around. The tee for #8 is so far in the direction of an open field that it feels like it's off property (keep walking - you'll see it). The long par 4 has a pedestrian crossing past the crest of a hill, so it's blocked from view. It's indicated on the sign as being 350' away. Even if you don't have to worry about landing at 350', it';s worth taking extra time to walk forward before throwing: the basket is located in grove farther to the right than you might think when standing on the tee


~ Trees, but not "woods." An earlier reviewer accurately compared it to Thompson Park in NJ. Other comparisons from my experience are FDR in NY, Bellevue in DE, or Champoeg in OR.

The grass is always mowed and there's not a huge amount of weeds/brush

it's hilly, but not enough to really beat you up

There aren't any unusually long walks between holes

It's almost entirely in the shade, yet without being in the woods. It's a park, not woods.

Every hole has an interesting challenge to it and a way to get to the basket even if it seems impossible at first. Except for maybe #14 Red?

There are two baskets on every hole which keeps things interesting (although #12 Red basket was wiped out by a falling tree a few weeks ago)

Cement pads in great shape and decent size.

Very well manicured. At first I didn't like the changes to #8, but now that they're done fixing it up, it's definitely more fun.. They changed it from a 525-foot par 5 with a 3rd shot into a very narrow opening in a grove of trees ,to about a 615 foot hole, still finishing in the same grove but you definitely have more options.

There's usually someone to play with if you don't want to go it alone.

It's very easy to skip around holes and play them out of order if you're behind a larger group. For example, if #1 is occupied, it's usually not a problem to start on #3 which is also close to the parking lot. #6, #7, #9 and #11 tees are also pretty close to the parking lot. You're not very far from your car until you get to #13.

I'm very spoiled in that I live very nearby. This was the first course I went to when I started, and I didn't realize how good it was until I started traveling a bit.

I recently played in a tournament and was paired with two pros and there were several holes where they were debating which way to curve it and which is best and on several holes there wasn't a clear advantage. That's a pretty good design.

There's not much that other people haven't already brought up, the main one being that there are some walking paths that are dangerously close and you do need to watch out for people. This would include #1, #10, #11, #12, #13, #15.

The park bench on #12 for walkers is pretty much in the direct line of flight from #12 tee. If someone is sitting there you might as well walk over to the nearby #10 tee and play #12 from that.

The walking path on #13 is blind from the tee and is 360 feet away. If you can throw it that far, and you don't walk up and check first, well, just go check. Otherwise you're throwing blind towards a busy walkway Not a good idea.

Some people don't like the last 3 holes. The first 15 holes are excellent holes, all of which require you hit some sort of gap in the trees. The gaps aren't crazy narrow, but neither are they so wide that you can throw it anywhere. But 16-18 aren't quite as interesting, it's true. Still, they're way better than the worst holes on a lot of other course. #16 is OK, it's still is sort of a tunnel shot and you can go on either side of the row of trees #17 and #18 are wide open though without a lot going on other than the yellow basket is behind a tree. Unlike the previous 16 holes, you really can throw it wherever you want and still have a shot. I have to agree, 18 is the worst hole, a sort of bland uphill shot to the parking lot.

Combining 17 and 18 into one hole would make the finish a lot more exciting through. It would add strategy to both the tee shot and approach. 17 tee to 18 red basket is 650 feet, uphill. They can add a new hole near the pond behind 5 tee. That pond is 280 feet long and 30 feet wide, it's easy to walk around and there's plenty of room to put in a hole that puts the pond a little bit into play, although one reason this course is so popular is you probably aren't going to lose a disc. They wouldn't want to have the basket too close to the pond. but maybe the hole could throw across a corner of the pond.

This is really a fun place for disc golf. There's always a shot, you almost never search for discs even though there is quite a bit of trouble at times. Great for beginners, challenging enough for intermediate people and I would imagine even long-time experts would find the place relaxing and interesting. It's just a pleasant walk! They're very busy at times though, busy enough that they could consider putting in a second course. There's plenty of room to do so, around the exterior of the current course.

The course has one tee and 2 baskets on every hole, yellow and red. Reds are the long, tough baskets, and most of the time, if you fire away at the easier yellow basket, you can then pitch up or over or through to the red basket. Both courses offer fun and strategy.

This is the closest course to where I live and I've been watching scores and stats for a while and have determined if you have the ability to shoot even par to the yellow baskets, you'll shoot about +5 to the red baskets, based on the pars on the signs. The yellow course is 16 reasonable par 3s and 2 reasonable par 4s. The red course is much longer, but the par is only 5 higher, 61 instead of 56. But really the red course is about 10 shots harder. The red course features numerous 400+foot par 3s, some of which are uphill. The even par yellow player can shoot even par on the red, but it'll take a lot of good upshots and putts to do it. What I suggest instead is to just change your scoring app to make 5 of the red par 3s into par 4s instead. Then you have a reasonable chance to shoot even par. I'd recommend converting 2, 7, 11, 17 and 18 into short par 4s. If you have 300-foot max distance, you're not getting close to any of those par 3s in one. #2 says 325 to the red basket, but it's right up a hill, through trees. 7, 11, 17 and 18 are all uphill as well. And it's not that easy to get to any of them in 2 if you're a little out of position on your tee shot. Might as well just call them pleasant par 4s and enjoy your day. For the pros though, those are 5 really challenging and fun par 3s. 17 is 450 feet, uphill to the reds, but I saw pros reach it at the PDGA event on Saturday. I really ripped one and had a 130-foot upshot, up the hill. Nice birdie? Par? Doesn't matter, 3 was very satisfying. So 61 is a reasonable "pro par" and 66 is a good "amateur par"

In every division on Saturday, the difference between the red course scores and yellow scores was about 10 shots. The pros shot around -10 (46) on the yellows, -5 (56) on the reds. The MA3 crowd did about the same. Even par on the yellows (56) and +5 on the reds (66). By the way, that's about a 900 rating on both, when it's windy. On a calm summer day it'd be around 870.

Anyway, it's not a place that will beat you up, but even par on the reds on a windy day is a challenge for sure.

South Hills has good vibes right when you park (on State Drive) and tee #1 is right there. This course is well worth the visit if you can catch it at a time it's not absolutely busy.

This is a really excellent open course, with enough trees to be shaded against the sun but few low branches. There is only some tertiary forest otherwise, bush only plays a role on one tee off and at the end of several baskets in the beginning. It's on rolling hill PA terrain and elevation changes are typically moderate. Water plays almost no role here, woo-hoo! Length is noticeably greater than a typical area par 3, with 300-400' range distances especially after #7. Navigation is a breeze with the basket arrows. It was mowed well for late June, prime growth season.

The course makes full use of the park land given, which translates to it really zig-zags back and forth. Usually by a hole or two, the layout will landed you right back where you were back minutes previously. Sometimes multiple times so in the same spot. After #10, it's a run of several straight holes going south, then back north to end near the parking lot.

Consistently two baskets per hole, yellows short, reds long. Reds don't only just add distance but often make the hole a more interesting trajectory.

The star is obviously #13, it's starts off several hundred feet towards a tree on a ridge blocking the middle, crosses the asphalt walking path, then one long downard run totalling 615-770 feet.

But my favorite was #1, another downward with the (yellow) basket on top of a mound. I hit the chains on my layup but ended up overshooting by 20' on the backside.

This is a perfect in-betweener for the typical community course and the monster length courses, typical at State Parks, or if you just don't want to deal with water, heavy woods, bushes or disc loss at the moment.

If you don't like crowded courses, avoid it on the weekends or other high times. I played here years ago but needed another playthru to write it up. Since then, I drove out here five more times, usually on weekdays, but only got my second round in now. There always seemed to be a crowd here, so many groupson the field that I opted to go to alternative courses. Lucky for me, I found new places to review rather than go home disappointed.

Have some energy, due to the design, you're walking red's distance no matter what, 7000+ hilly feet, which is greater than a typical community park.

As others said, there is no real wow factor on any single hole. The terrain simply doesn't lend itself to it. Just 18 holes of very solid and consistent feeling Disc Golf without gimmicks, although the last third / back six can start feeling too similar in spots.

Yellows will feel bent towards RHBHers while Reds become more agnostic with an even distribution of left/right baskets.

On #13, the park path bisects this hole in half at about the 350' point and is completely hidden at the tee. You're shooting completely blind. I wonder if pedestrians been dinged by discs here?

I didn't see any water fountains or bathroom amenities. On the Parks map, they are quite a ways away, much closer to the main parking lots.

The same course designers also made the nearby Jackson Recreational Park course, a water park in comparison, or the more wooded Lenni Lenape course.

Funs shots

It can get really crowded on nice days

This is a fun course with a bunch of different shots

Great pads. Great signage. Course was easy to follow, even without a map. Well maintained. Very nice variety of medium length ( 250 - 300 foot holes ) and longer ( 500 - 600 foot ) holes. Nice mix of open and wooded holes. Elevation changes made for a fun round. No risk of loosing plastic.

None from my perspective.

I love park courses and this one is the nicest one that I have played, up to this point. Whenever I am in the Lebanon area, I will play this course.

Great tees, Red and Yellow course tee options
Course maintenance, beautiful tree coverage
Signage to next tee
Facility scorecards
Good mix of shots

Course could be seen as easy or repetitive by highly skilled players

I love this course. The park is beautifully maintained, and it's a great spot to work on throws or learn some new techniques. The tree coverage is wonderful on a hot day! I love bringing friends to play here as it's a fun course that makes great use of the park landscape while allowing newer players to have a great time.

The park's walking path comes close to some of the holes, so it's important to be aware of where the others using the park are walking. Those who are quite talented at disc golf would probably get bored here, as it doesn't have many very hard or very technical shots. Sometimes the gnats are annoying.

Overall, I come here as often as a can, and bring others here as well. Keep up the great work South Hills maintenance crew, you're efforts are noticed and appreciated.

I really like manicured park courses. Most of what we have in the mid-Atlantic are wooded courses and some open courses. This is a nice tweener. There is a lot of open space, but it's punctuated with lots of tall, mature trees. This creates some nice golf lines on many holes that require some skill, as opposed to getting to throw with the same freedom as a big open shot would allow. There aren't too many places to lose plastic here. This style course is further accented by wind as an obstacle. The few times I played were all quite windy. The majority of the holes make great use of elevation. This is also a course where you will throw a bunch of your discs, as all varieties of distances are covered from the tee and on approach shots. I like courses that make use of all the key discs in my bag.

There isn't too much I don't like here. I don't mind being critical, and this is close to 2 hours away from me, so I don't have any particular bias here. Very well done.

This course reminds me of Thompson Park in central/north Jersey. For that open-ish, manicured park style course, these are the only 2 options that I'm currently aware of within a few hours of Philly.

Went to the Kiltlifter (TD'ed by Mike Solt) at South Hills. Cause of schedule I couldn't get out to the course to see it beforehand. The pictures on here don't give it justice.

This is a beautiful course. After playing a warm up round I can see why one of my friends speaks so highly of it.

Two baskets for every hole. You have some technical shots you needs to weave through tree's with some tight lines and you have open holes that let you just bomb it out. Course has some nice elevation changes and couple of really nice peninsula greens.

Nice tee signs at every hole, concrete pads and a direction arrow to the next tee box at the bottom of every basket made navigation a breeze.

Course is in a park, but the park is huge. Only a couple times did we come across walkers or bikers but they stayed on the path. Park looks to also have a golf driving range, multiple baseball fields, soccer/football field, tennis courts, exercise area and a nice playground. But these are all far enough away for the most part so they shouldn't really be an issue for the DG course.

No dogs permitted in the park, not an issue for me but just be aware if you like to play a casual round with your pup.

Most tee boxes have benches but not all of them is the only thing I can think of.

If one of my friends suggested to play South HIlls on a weekend for our regular weekend round I would be all for it. Really fun course to play at. The few locals I ran into at the Kiltlifter where really friendly.

Well worth the drive from the Lehigh Valley to play.

Manicured park setting.
Tee signs on every hole including concrete tee boxes as well as a long and short pin locations on every hole.
Fun layout, easy walk, next tee arrows pointing you to the next tee make navigating the course simple.
Big majestic trees throughout the property also enhance the park's beauty.
You can use a myriad of shots to try and tame the design. There are a good mix of lefty vs righty holes ensureing that you will not get bored. Nice use of the slight elevation changes are also prevalent throughout causing fast greens scenarios and wayward upshots to roll away causing tricky comebackers.

The back nine routing gets a little bunched up on the back side. Many baskets can be seen at any one point. I think if the disc golf course could spread out a little bit it would be even better. There is also a walking path that runs through the course so extra attention to others using the park should be taken into consideration while playing. A couple of the (red) longer basket locations seemed to be added just to use the available space or make the hole longer not better the design.

I enjoyed playing both layouts however i think mixing up the layout playing some long and some short is the best of both worlds. I really enjoyed the course and look forward to getting back to play there soon. Sweet new course in central Pa.

Large concrete tee pads greeted me well. I'm not a fair weather player by any means but teeing off on a nice level tee pad is pretty nice. I'm sure some of my competitors find the rough and tumble dirt tees are what makes the gritty side better but I like a tee box I can flex in without mud and tree roots. Signage was nice and clear. I really like the sponsored signs and baskets. It's very cool that the community gets behind an activity. Arrow signs on every basket pointing me in the right direction and that's awesome because the last thing I want to is navigate like Magellan instead of throwing another hole. Dual baskets!!! Ummm, HECK YEAH!!! The park as well as the course is beautiful. As a previous reviewer stated, it's impeccable. Layout is perfect. Start and stop right where it needs to be. I appreciated the fact that there were obstacles but nothing that seemed overly impassable. For instance, Basket 17 plants the shot either left or right off the tee. There is elevation changes but not much.

I didn't notice anything that separated this course from others, aside from not having flaws. That's actually a good thing but, nothing signature about the course. Only one small spot where water is in play. As grateful as my wallet and my scorecard are, some water hazards always add a nice mental aspect I sort of missed.

An earlier reviewer stated playing either the gold or red baskets was not to their liking? I find that playing some red and some gold during a single round is a nice way to mix it up. This course is truly top notch. I thought it was awesome and extremely fun. If someone comes here and doesn't have a fun time, they should definitely check their ego!

Brand new 18 hole course in a beautifully maintained and picturesque park. Two Innova Disc Catcher baskets per hole- a yellow (short position) and a red (long position). Oversized concrete tee pads. Nice directional arrows underneath each basket make navigation simple. Quality signage at each hole and a scorecard box at hole 1. Well conceived layout; hole 3 in particular is excellent, with the short basket perched on a rock ledge and the longer one tucked 100 feet further back around a bend. Good use of elevation here. Varied distances and very fair.

This course has no glaring deficiencies. There are some holes that play somewhat near each other which requires common sense and an occasional "head's up". One minor layout issue I saw was that hole 10's basket is relatively close to the hole 2 tee, and more than once people were distracted by incoming shots. One must be mindful of pedestrians traveling a walking path that goes through the course.

The beauty of this park, the plush grass and the obvious effort that went into the course make this a wonderful playing experience. South Hills has wooded holes, open holes and holes with mature trees spread around the fairway. It seems like every time I come to PA, another quality course has been built, and South Hills is no exception.

This course is not as challenging for the pro player as a Nockamixon, Jordan Creek, Camp Sankanac or Quaker's Challenge- even in the long positions. But that is not a knock, nor does it suggest it isn't challenging for most disc golfers, because it is. One will not regret their playing experience here. The level of care and attention to detail warrant an extra half-disc added to the rating. Great job to all that built South Hills!

Considering this is in a pretty wide open park... they utilized the trees and lay of the land remarkably well. The course meanders through one side of this beautiful park. I can't even imagine the amount of gasoline that is used to keep this park in such beautiful grassy loveliness.
Baskets are easy to see and I love the idea of having only one tee but having 2 baskets. It makes it easy to play with people who have different abilities and all start off the same tee box... but play to different baskets. The course was hopping for a Wednesday late afternoon. Nice mix of right and left swinging holes... I played Red so they were a bit tougher placements and made for good challenges... the yellow baskets seemed pretty straight out and basic but that is the idea right. Nice concrete tee pads and nice signage that was really clear. They jammed a beautiful course into a small space.
The Par for this course seems generous which was much appreciated. I think they took into account the holes that are prone to tree smacking and gave you some grace.
The course stays nice and dry it seems and the park is very well maintained and clean.

Because it is such a tight space... it is possible to play to the wrong basket the first time through this course. I was playing 15 and shooting at the red 11 basket till i looked left and saw the red 15. There was one tough wall of trees whole which I personally dislike but this one was actually not bad at all... you pop out of it pretty quickly and then the baskets are right there. It seemed like someone has flagged the 2 trees that are ideal to shoot between... it was like goal posts.
Be careful of the nuts all over the ground this time of year... brush them away from your shot so you don't turn an ankle. It was like giant had spilled his marbles out there. Not a con as much as a be aware.

I really liked this course. I love the look of these big tree groves with beautifully manicured lawns. You would have to work hard to loose a disc here.
NOTE: whoever can edit the directions to the course... please do. The address on STATE DRIVE is correct and plug that into your GPS.... small sign at the driveway which leads you right to the 1st tee pad. The written directions below that take you over to another parking lot on the far side of the park on N. Lincoln. While you could get over to the course by walking across the park... this is not where you should direct people trying to find the park... I went to both the N. Lincoln parking lot and the main entrance in the neighborhoods before I saw someone and asked where the course was... they directed me out onto STATE DRIVE... and I found it.

Brand new course as of 2013 and one of the most enjoyable courses I've played to date (of the 8 courses I've played to this point).

Great mix of wooded and open baskets.

Very nice concrete tees.

No water to deal with.

There really weren't any. I visited right before they finished the second set of tees so there was some rough areas under construction but that's certainly nothing to complain about.

The course can be challenging but I had an excellent time playing the course. I look forward to going back now that everything is completed and seeing the finished product. I recommend you do too.

The first time playing this course I was really impressed. The people who keep up the course do a wonderful job. I like the alternate baskets instead of alternate tees pads. The elevation differences on a few holes is nice to play on. A nice balance of open shots and wooded/tree shots.

No mandos. After more times of playing the course, water would be nice. Unless it rains and lays in front of the basket on hole #3 no reason to hope for water. The park that the course is on is hard to imagine that any type of water would be added in.

Playing this course has helped me fine tune my game more than the courses I have played in the area. I am forced to work on accuracy and distance all in one round.