Longest Courses in the Country

[rnance7]

Isn't Winthrop Gold over 10,000 ft long? With yellow ropes EVERYWHERE

 

[Danger]

Brian Head is nearly 10,000 feet. Lots of downhill.

 

[pineappletrees]

If Blue Valley Park in Kansas City doesn't make the list, I will be very surprised. It's a free to play, public, permanent, 18 hole course that stretches over 1,100ft in length. If you were to include the elevation and length to travel to each hole, it would rival any course in the country. It is a good 3 hour course that will kick your ass, hands down.

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=1023&mode=ci


Although it is currently being re-arranged to produce a shorter layout for this year's Kansas City Wide Open to make it a little more playable to the AMs.

 

[grodney]

18 hole course that stretches over 1,100ft in length.

Over 61 feet per hole?! Message Board Distance!

 

[scarpfish]

If Blue Valley Park in Kansas City doesn't make the list, I will be very surprised. It's a free to play, public, permanent, 18 hole course that stretches over 1,100ft in length. If you were to include the elevation and length to travel to each hole, it would rival any course in the country. It is a good 3 hour course that will kick your ass, hands down.

Especially when you're playing it in 90+ degree heat and sweltering humidity. :gross:

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/scorebook.php?vall=1&vcrse=1023&mid=3145&fd=&sd=

I'd say there's about a football field length walk between each hole, and that's with the pins set long.

 

[pineappletrees]

Over 61 feet per hole?! Message Board Distance!

Doh! It's still early.

 

[shakatak]

I just stumbled across a course that is listed at 16,065-17,130 for 18 holes: Sequoyah State Park. I know, I know, it's on an old ball golf course but that's still ridiculously long. It doesn't look like much fun to me. There's nothing like a 1095' hole followed up by a 1470' hole. At least you get a break and the next hole is a mere 945' long.

 

[Cgkdisc]

I was recently told there's a new course going on a ball golf course somewhere in Oklahoma that's going to come in over 17,000 feet as a par 73.

 

[shakatak]

I was recently told there's a new course going on a ball golf course somewhere in Oklahoma that's going to come in over 17,000 feet as a par 73.

That one I just posted is in Oklahoma and says it was established in 2012, maybe that's the one you heard about?

 

[tom12003]

Sequoyah State Park -- short tees about 16,000, long tees 17,000+
http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=5795&mode=ci

 

[Cgkdisc]

Must be it then. I saw you're from Iowa so didn't connect the state.

 

[BionicRib]

Not sure if it was thrown out there or not yet (too lazy to read the thread), but Edgebrook in Chicago I believe has an alternate setting that pushs 16000ft. The holes basically play the exact length of the ball golf course.

 

[shakatak]

Must be it then. I saw you're from Iowa so didn't connect the state.

Yeah, I guess I didn't specify that I stumbled across it not in person but while checking out courses in the Tulsa area on DGCR.
Is there a longer course, old ball golf course or not, longer than that Sequoyah State Park that I (and tom12003 3 posts later) posted?

 

[KGroff25]

Milo Mciver Beaver State Fling Layout
36 Holes 17,143 ft
Par 120 with an average hole length of 476 ft
Score card and info found here: http://beaverstatefling.com/Course Map

So that is technically 13 feet longer, very hilly, and far more trees/brush off the fairways.


However,the longest course in the Porltand area by average hole length is:
Blue Lake Park
18 holes 10296 ft
Par 69 with an average hole length of 572 ft

The two are 17 miles from each other as the crow flies and will be featured in Pro Worlds 2014.

 

[shakatak]

Milo Mciver Beaver State Fling Layout
36 Holes 17,143 ft
Par 120 with an average hole length of 476 ft
Score card and info found here: http://beaverstatefling.com/Course Map

So that is technically 13 feet longer, very hilly, and far more trees/brush off the fairways.

I should have specified 18 holer or said average distance per hole. The one I posted is only 18 holes for an average of 951.666' per hole.

 

[mashnut]

Milo Mciver Beaver State Fling Layout
36 Holes 17,143 ft
Par 120 with an average hole length of 476 ft
Score card and info found here: http://beaverstatefling.com/Course Map

So that is technically 13 feet longer, very hilly, and far more trees/brush off the fairways.

13 feet longer for twice as many holes, so it's basically two 18 hole courses each half the length of the other course mentioned above.

 

[KGroff25]

Correct, that's why I posted the average hole length as well.

But seriously, who is going to go out there and not play both sides. So if your talking average hole length those other courses have it beat. If your talking walking distance/workout you get from playing then they're in the same territory.

 

[KGroff25]

Maybe we could make a top ten list of the longest courses in the country. I know Winthrop Gold and Fly Boy are up there...I'm not too familiar with courses outside NC, so help me out It would be nice if you could sort them on this site by length.

The OP didn't say anything about average hole length, but I do think that is another interesting discussion.

 

[justactnormal]

Milo Mciver Beaver State Fling Layout
36 Holes 17,143 ft
Par 120 with an average hole length of 476 ft
Score card and info found here: http://beaverstatefling.com/Course Map

So that is technically 13 feet longer, very hilly, and far more trees/brush off the fairways.

That ain't right. If it's 36 holes, or 2 18 hole courses, put into one layout then it cannot be compared apples to apples with an 18 hole course. A converted ball golf course kinda isn't fair either, IMO, b/c it was designed with a completely different purpose in mind. For sure it's a legit course.... but it's not completely fair to make a direct comparison.

I'm very lucky to live and work not too far from Blue Valley and it's an absolute monster that was designed to be that way from the get go. Even the "short course" is a killer b/c the walks between the shortened holes are doubled. I thought Kansas City was flat until I moved here, too. Boy was I wrong. Temp tops 100 in the summer all the time. It's so tough but I love it. Gotta be one of the best purpose built disc golf venues in the country.

I don't know the length of Mont du Lac outside Duluth, but that's a killer as well. Some of the walks between holes up and down that mountain are for serious. Again, it's not purpose built though. It's a ski area with a course added on as an afterthought. The reward of more than one shot from the top of a ski run to a basket at the bottom is worth it, though. Instead of thinking about hole length, which is just from pad to pole, I think it's better to think about the whole course experience. It's hard to put a metric on the entire experience from parking lot out to all the way back in. The experience is more than just how far you have to throw, but in my limited experience Blue Valley and Mont Du Lac have put the biggest beat downs on my body, no doubt.

That's the metric that matters, I guess. What's the biggest beat down a course has ever given to you?

 

[KGroff25]

Very valid point. I guess it depends on if you're looking for style of the course or just overall length. Are you looking for a course that has a bunch of really super long holes, or the flat out distance you're going to under take when playing a course. If you're going purely on average hole length/style then we'd have to consider super 9s as well.

I know I'm far more beat after playing Milo than I am after playing Blue Lake, even though Blue Lake has a longer average hole length because 17,143 ft + 36 walkouts > 10,296 ft + 18 walkouts.

The other thing you have to consider is do you count all the holes of a complex like Horning's Hideout or High Bridge Hills, or just look at the individual courses. I would say break up the individual courses.

With that logic though you have to decide where you draw the line on what is one big course and what are individual courses on a complex. Milo is played as a 36 hole course, but the 2 18 hole sides of the course play back to the parking lot. It makes it easier to run and schedule a tournament that way. Where as Horning's really is 3 entirely different courses with different skill levels on different parts of the property. So they would never be considered as one course.

I can't say I have the answer to this because I didn't start the thread, so I'm curious to hear what others think.