It's a fun course if you have a big arm, or like wide open range. The grass is well maintained and that's kind of a big deal, there is a lot of grass to mow out there. All of the holes work well with their features. The layout is pretty open, but the course plays into the woods often, giving a feel of diversity in a course that looks more like a ball golf course than a disc golf course.

BRING A COURSE MAP. A lot of the fairly chintzy and often inaccurate tee signs have blown over or disappeared entirely, so finding your way can be a challenge. Directions to the next tee can also be a bit obscure.
A lot of the dirt tee pads flood easily and force you to play out in the grass. But if it hasn't rained this might not be an issue.
Overall there was a lot land available for this course for it to feel as lacking as it does. It's just kind of a poor use of space.

This course is a bit confusing but is pretty fun, it's just such a long ball course that its tough to come into with a cold arm. If you have the time, I played a warm up round at Brighton park (only an exit or so west on 20). It's a great little short-shot 9 hole course to warm up with.

-Well maintained park with plenty of other things to do (bike trails, soccer fields, driving range, there's even a designated area for flying RC airplanes!)
-Excellent variety: elevation changes, a little water, plenty of O.B., tight technical holes and wide open long bombers, hole lengths ranging from 150 ft. - 1,000+ ft. with 3 holes over 600 ft.!
-Fairly well marked - it might take a minute to find the tee but not much longer

-Too long
-Too few trash cans
-Too few benches for such a long course
-Tee signs aren't very accurate depictions of the actual holes

This is the longest, most exhausting course I've played. Even some of the longer holes can be very technical. This course will wear you out physically and mentally. It may very well crush your spirit, too.
It's best to wait several days after a good rain or wear your rubber boots. Water tends to make the central part (Holes #5, #6, #9, #12 & #13) VERY swampy and you WILL get wet and/or muddy.
Please, please, please don't think I'm saying that Buddy Butts DGC is a bad course, it's not. What it is, in my opinion, is hardcore...
By yourself, with no traffic on the course and playing at a leisurely pace, you can expect 18 holes to take about 2-3 hrs.
Remember:
-Bring PLENTY of fluids, as much as you can carry (it gets HOT and it's very humid all the time)
-Don't start a round too late, you'll never finish before dark
-Larger groups should let smaller ones play through as soon as possible
-Put your eyes on the basket BEFORE you throw, tee signs are misleading

PARKING
-enter the park, take a right when road ends (there is a sign that reads "DISC GOLF" with an arrow)
-take the 1st right after the soccer fields
-go all the way to where the road turns back almost 180° and park by the tee for hole #1

* Well-maintained course.
* Good balance of all types of shots: Right, left, tightly wooded-into-open, open-into-tightly wooded, s-curves, a few water hazards.
* Plenty of opportunities to air out a disc with a nice balance of finesse shots as well.
* Great road trip destination. 5 minutes off of I-20 (as are 2 other JUDGES COURSES - Moccasin Bend in Morton and Center City, just down the road in Pearl).
* No cross-traffic with other park users when I played. You can basically have this area of the park to yourself.
* LOADS of cool vibe and character! Very unique setting for a disc golf course. Butts Park is the location of a former Army Corps of Engineers site from back in the 1930's that had a scale model of the Mississippi River Basin that they would actually flood to simulate scenarios for flood management of the river. There are lots of old pipes and other things laying around in the woods throughout the course which add to the vibe, but be sure not to miss the killer area west of hole 3's fairway for sure.

I took my 13-yr-old with me when I played, and there were multiple occasions where we both said things like, "Whoah! What's THAT?!!

* Navigation is a beast on Jackson's newest course. Print the map from the judges site: http://www.jacksondiscgolf.org/courses.html
* Flow issues. Many of the fairways almost overlap in the open area in the middle. There's a lot of backtracking across previously played areas.
* New course = temporary signage from last tournament (Thank you for those!), natural tee pads, few garbage cans, no on-site maps and such.
* Sketchy walkway between 14 and 15. After teeing off at hole 2, be sure to watch your step, but especially watch it crossing from 14's basket to 15's tee. I was struck by how cool the surroundings were with the old drainage system, but in November with leaves covering everything, it's kind of a treacherous walk. Be careful.

The baskets are mostly in great shape. (I saw one or two that looked older and were missing a couple of chains). There are natural teepads and temporary signs. Message the local club at the above link or on their facebook page and find someone that will take you out there if you're unfamiliar.

https://www.facebook.com/grou...ksonDiscGolf/

Print the scorecard and map for sure.

In terms of flow, the course loops back to the parking area when you hole out on 9 and 18. This is always a great bonus, but I feel like the course flow might be hindered by it. Flow is generally good on 1-8 and 14-18, but to make it come back out after 9, the course kind of goes back over areas where you've already been on 9-13. You have to cross right by many other baskets and tee boxes to get to the next tee box.

Good signs and (possibly design tweaks) are strongly needed to make navigation better. There actually seems to be a lot of thought in the order of the holes. So, they probably just need really good signs, including multiple directional signs on a few holes (which there were in temp form). For example, after the crushing 1000 ft+ hole 3, there's a shorter ace-run that shoots into the one nearby cluster of trees to give you a welcome shade break in the hot Mississippi summer.

Hole 3, by the way, abuts the now virtually forgotten Mississippi River Basin Model which, at 200 acres is the largest concrete, hydrolic model in the world. It's unmaintained and is quickly disappearing into the woods. Urban decay bloggers are big on this one as something to check out. There's literally nothing else like in on the planet. If your round gets destroyed by torrential rains, count it as a sign, and go check out the world's largest in-miniature river system flowing behind that fence.

http://jacksonobscura.wordpre...-basin-model/

http://worldofdecay.blogspot....-jackson.html

There are many very memorable holes on this one. Hole 8 is a beautiful left-to-right curving hole through woods with routes on either side of an island of brush. All the wooded holes on that side are great. Using the road's height to give as much variation in elevation as you can get in this delta landscape. Hole 11 is a great 611-ft right-to-left dogleg that finishes with the basket on the left hand side. You don't find many wooded holes with that kind of length in the state and that one's a beauty.

14 was a monster hyzer shot into the opening in the woods north of what's marked on the current course map. (3 was also different; slightly more west, around the corner of the fence). Honestly, I've never played another hole like 15. It drives out from an opening just outside of the woods, slightly uphill and right to a small window cut into a tightly wooded area that turns left and then right again. It's a beautiful hole, ending with a target whose top is made from some old, industrial gear.

Holes 16 and 17 look like something from the DHARMA initiative with remnants of the Corps of Engineers work back in the 40's strewn about. (You'll be looking for "the hatch" from Lost.) 16 is a beast and offers epic play along DHARMA creek. 18 ends on the creek... beautiful.

I was kind of mixed as to the merits of the course after hole 9, but the final holes definitely make up for it. Holes 14-18, 7-8 and 10-11 are really fun shape-your-shots disc golf with very respectable length on many. The open holes give you plenty of opportunity to work on your distance.

Good job on this one, JUDGES. This is a really fun, interesting course unlike any other you'll play in the state. The JUDGES are super active on facebook, and it would be very easy to get a local to show you around the first time. I'm impressed at the level of interest they've stirred up in the Jackson area in a relatively short period of time. When I moved away from Jackson about 8 years ago we'd just gotten our first "real" course. Now, they're everywhere.

- challenging course with a variety shots and hole types (long to short, open and wooded)
- baskets are in good shape and most are numbered
- generally a low number of pedestrians and others to share the park with; in other words, you play disc golf unimpeded
- fields are cut very regularly by the city
- restroom facilities

- only a few benches
- natural tees
- it can get really wet and marshy, especially after a long rainy season (like Spring 2013)

To find the course within the park, go past the ball golf driving range and take a right when the road T's. Then go past all the soccer fields. When you see hole #3 tee on your left and basket #2 on your right, take a right on that road, and it will lead you to hole #1.

This course serves the Clinton area as well as western Jackson. It is a very long course mainly b/c of hole 3 (1030 ft), hole 5 (708 ft), and hole 11 (616 ft). There is a fair amount of OB with the roads winding through the course.

Bring a stool for this long course; you won't see a bench until hole 16.

An umbrella is not a bad idea either on sunny days since there is no shade on the open holes.

-The baskets are in good condition, although not sure what type they are.
-Great flow to the course. Loops back to the start.
-The grass never gets too out of control, as the park is maintained by the city of Jackson.
-Good variety of shots required, and is a very challenging course.

-No concrete tee pads.

My title may not be 100% inaccurate, but it's a very long course. One hole is over 1000 feet. Overall, this is one of the worst Judges courses in my opinion, but that is comparing against some very strong courses, so overall it's still a very good course.

Buddy Butts park is huge. It has a Driving Range (ball golf), soccer fields, RC car course, walking/biking trails, and probably lot's more.