Great shot variety for a 9-hole: OB, hazard, hanging basket, this course has a little bit of everything. You can tell this course was designed to teach students. The first 4 holes are shorter with tricky gaps, then they lengthen out and open up so you can learn to read the wind. The tee signs are great, and there is only one long-ish walk from basket 4 to tee 5. You can play it twice in an hour and get a really nice 18 in. Great, brand-new baskets.

Only open on weekends, OB can be punishing on 9, teepads are sufficient for the length of the holes, but some players might find them short.

This has become one of my favorite courses in the area.

-- Good use of land with trees and water incorporated well.
-- Quality blue Innova baskets.
-- Tee signs have recently been added. They have all of the information: Par, distance, hazard/OB description and a map. Distances listed, however, seem to be off and are different from the ones listed on this site.
-- While on the shorter side overall, there is good distance variation, from a couple just longer than 150 feet to a couple in the low 300s.
-- Shorter holes have more trees and require you to hit a line; longer holes have fewer trees and are generally more forgiving on accuracy.
-- Water fountain (at the restroom building at hole 5). Restrooms appears to only be open during school or school events.
-- Navigation is excellent. Most baskets have a marker in the bottom pointing you toward the next tee. Only 4-5 and 6-7 will the next tee not be obvious. And there is a sign directing you from 4 to 5.
-- I'm not a fan of gimmicks, but the hanging basket on 6 was fun.

-- On school grounds, so availability is limited. In addition to regular school hours being a no-go, you'd have to skip hole 5 anytime the football field is being used (football or track).
-- Tees are not great. The first four holes and No. 9 have paver stones, mostly surrounded by 4x4s. The issue is they are too short for a reasonable run-up. Hole 5 has a rubber mat on existing concrete while 6 uses part of the running lane for the long and triple jumps. No. 8 has nothing marked. It's possible it should be the long/triple jump lane, but it's not marked. No. 7 uses the discus concrete, so it's the only one with sufficient size.

-- The target audience is likely students at the school, but the course doesn't always play like it. The first four holes are all short (200 feet or less), but there is water danger on three of those holes. Then hole 5 throws RHBH hyzer around a building over the track/field that is a hazard. In four rounds, I only cleared the hazard once. Then you finish with hole 9, 315 feet straight ahead with an OB fence right and water left.
-- Slightly favors RHBH, but holes 2, 3, 6 and 7 can be attacked from either direction.
-- Players with big arms are likely to get frustrated here, but this course sets up well for my old-man noodle arm (250 is a good drive). I had a BLAST.
-- The course name isn't just a name. The school mascot is the Hawks, and we saw a couple of them during our rounds.

This is a really fun short course. For the tiny land it had it is laid out really well. It uses the natural features as good as possible. It is short enough armatures can play it but not so easy that experienced players will like it as well. Flows really good. Nice baskets and signs. Good use of trees water and fence and natural area.

Can't go during school hours.

Who ever did this course did a great job. It is a fun school course. Way better than most school courses.

Introductory course uses obstacles well on mostly approachable holes.
+ good pitch & putt course for introducing kids to the sport
+ very approachable holes are mainly short & wooded or open & long
+ water obstacles, perimeter OB and fenced fairway hazard offer risk vs. reward options
+ drains well after rains with only standing water in spots

School activities restrict access.
- not playable during school hours or when fences are locked
- tees made of paver stones are loose
- only a few holes really warrant use of a driver
- fenced fairway on hole 5 overlapping athletic fields may be inaccessible at times

INFO
This course on the campus of De Zavala Middle School loops around a small, L-shaped wetlands pond. Beginning holes are short, wooded shots while the rest are longer, open throws across grassy, athletic fields with one exception: hole 5 which incorporates a fenced football field and surrounding track as a lengthy fairway hazard to be cleared. Tee boxes are a mix of paver stones (on holes near the pond), existing concrete areas for track and field events and a rubber mat.

EVAL
This campus course offers youth a good introduction to disc golf with mostly approachable holes that nicely nestle around a small pond in a designated wetlands area on school grounds. The layout warms up with short, wooded holes before lengthening out with more open throws and interesting obstacles like a fenced in hazard area on an athletic field which doubles as the fairway on hole 5. A hanging basket provides a bit of whimsy on hole 6. A sneaky fairway narrowly lines the campus perimeter near the pond on hole 9. My favorite hole is the longest one on the course, hole 8, with its mature tree at the bend of the fairway that acts as a challenging obstacle to curve around and land beyond on the green by the pond.

While this course was primarily designed for play by youth, it also provides a fun, short round for families in the community and even works well as a tricky pitch & putt for experienced disc golfers. My only quibble with the layout is hole 5's fairway that overlaps the football and athletic fields. It presents a daunting hazard, and I believe that hole would work just as well if played alongside the outside of the fence as a safer alternative. I applaud the instructors at the school who are using this course plus additional holes set up for tournament play to get youth excited about disc golf. I wish them well in their efforts and are thankful that they've made this little gem available for the community to play outside of school hours.

NOTE
The course is closed during school hours. Additional temporary holes are added for special events and tournaments. Course designer Will Long, an instructor at the school, credits fellow instructor James Payne, the Educational Disc Golf Experience (EDGE), Jay & Des Reading, and Irving ISD for making this course possible.

LAYOUT
The first four holes are short throws beneath scattered trees by the pond which creates risky OB near the baskets on three of the greens. Around the corner of the school, hole 5 tees off within the fenced football and track field, demanding a long throw to safely clear the chain link fence bordered fairway. Short hole six lies along the school's high fenced perimeter near a large drainage ditch and plays toward a treed green with a hanging basket. Across the small field, hole seven throws out from a track and field cage towards a basket beneath a leaning tree. Lengthy hole eight curves around a large tree closer to the pond, and final hole nine throws down a narrow fairway bordered by the pond to the left and OB fence to the right to return towards the start of the course.