-Actually quite a few. Very pleasant place.
-Good easy learning course 'for everyone'.
-Back half is gorgeous, in the fall especially.
-Very active use for leagues, practice and casuals.
-Easy Parking. Very quick nines or practice area.
-The only everyday northside place to play.
-Several on-line and flagged alternate layouts.

-Ummmm you betcha. Tons of issues!
-Signage is 'Bad to non-existent'.
-Therefore not a 'course' you can just go play.
-Dogs, walkers, bikes, trikes, yikes... it's crowded.
-The few teepads don't always face baskets
-The dirt teepads are unmarked, barely find-able.
-Old Mach 3 baskets. Chain Out City.
-Gotta say it: suffers from lack of a local club!!!

NOTE: i AM UPGRADING TO TWO STARS, as the course is currently lush and mowed and blooming. It's been pretty bad til this spring, so lets hope things are picking up. Santa Fe players are putting in LOTS of work on four courses these days. Ashbaugh Park Disc Golf 'Course'. Sigh. AKA 'A place with baskets'. AKA 'Ash-Balls'. What can I say. This is a very nice little mixed use city park that happens to have several decades of history as a DG course. So the dogs, walkers, etc are part of the deal. But that reality and the very pleasant 'Pros' listed above can't erase the 'Cons' that are just too much to ignore.

Here's what I hope is 'helpful' to enjoy Ashbaugh. First up, the entrance can be a little tricky. Use GPS and look for the brown City Park sign. It's just south of the large Indian School complex and just north of the awesome 'Pantry Restaurant'. Ashbaugh has a front and back half and you can easily park near a practice basket, or an open area to throw big air or in the nicer back area as well.

You can find a few layouts on UDisc. But the easiest way get to nav this confusing course is to come to a LEAGUE event. Wednesday dubs at 5pm meets in the back, all spring, summer and fall. Sunday Singles meets in the front, year-round, at 930am. (NOTE! Both leagues alternate at Arroyo Chamisa off Rodeo on the southside of town. All local leagues are posted about a day in advance on Facebook Group 'Santa Fe Disc Golf'.)

BTW: There is a VERY easy 'red flag 9' on the backside. Good for newbies, ams and upshots.

While Ash is the best practice course, no doubt the southside courses, IAIA, Arroyo and the still being finished Jaguar Ridge courses are more exciting.

So if you just can not enjoy throwing without signs, teepads and a dedicated course, skip Ashbaugh altogether. But it serves a lot of local functions and we have a ton of fun there.

Wide open park with a confusing layout


+ The original 9 hole layout features concrete tees and classic DGA signage. The signage indicates multiple baskets on most holes. But some signs and baskets are missing - so that's just a theory

+ I played the original layout as best as I could figure it out, and it features some surprising length for a 9 holer in a park

+ There is an evolving layout here: somebody (maybe the "Luke" of the "Luke's Course" layout on uDisc) has created an 18 hole layout using the 11 existing baskets, installing additional rubber teepads to create the new holes. There's even a "Pro Tees" layout on uDisc but there's no map or distances, so it's really hard to use that one if you're not familiar with the place, or haven't downloaded the map here on dgcoursereview

+ Open fields allow you to air it out

+ Plenty of parking available in several lots

+ Quick to play; good place to practice long, open shots

- The original DGA Mach III signage is in poor shape, and several signs are missing. The baskets are old and rusting

- Lots of walkers along the perimeter and people letting dogs run make for frequent pauses in play. I had a moment of dread when an unleashed doberman took off after my brand new disc - luckily he lost interest about halfway to running it down

- Tees without signs are hard to find and because of the multi-basket layout; it's hard to be sure to know which basket you're supposed to be throwing at. Even with the uDisc map I threw at the wrong basket more than once

~ I love to see a simple and old park course getting love and attention. Ashbaugh benefits from obvious efforts to create alternate layouts by installing additional rubber mat tees. Thanks Luke (and whoever helped you)

~ But for the first time visitor, this is a difficult course to navigate. Signs are missing, the new tees are for alternate layouts, shared baskets, uDisc not quite accurate - all make for a confusing experience

~ Alternatively, the best thing you can do is DOWNLOAD THE MAP on this site, and use it to play 9 or 18 on the Luke's Course layout, forgetting about the original 9 holer

~ With time and multiple visits, this place could grow on you. Playing with someone who has local knowledge could make this a fun way to experience an old and outgrown layout. But in the meantime, I recommend downloading the site map, using uDisc, a rangefinder and patience

***Anyone see my purple/green/clear tie dye Champion Destroyer??? Brand new disc I didn't label yet.....sigh.....should be in field around hole 1/2.

Fine little practice course. Nice park, well kept, green grass. Good alternative to all the sandy shrubby high desert courses.

Udisc map a MUST. Teeboxes missing all over the place. And uDisc map is a bit off, some of the holes are actually a lot longer and pretty challenging Pars if you play by what the app says.

Reallyyyy gotta be careful for joggers/dogwalkers. They come through pretty regularly, and can pop out of nowhere right into your speedy hyzer path!!

please hit me up if you see my Destroyer out there!!! 8 1 7 - 3 0 1 - 6 6 5 8

-Grass
-Multiple shots/ alternate holes
-Low traffic in the winter
-Trees and line shaping shots

Also a wide open field for practice.

11 Baskets
Pedestrians

Fun park course in Santa Fe! Good alternative to sandy desert golf!

This course is great for learning how to throw a disc. This was the only course in SF at the time I started playing. I really learned throwing technique here. The back half of the course has some great shots that are challenging but also fun. Open field on the first half is great for practicing drives, most baskets have bushes around them so you need to shoot around obstacles.

Course layout is hard to find and signage is almost nonexistent. I haven't played there is years but I can't imagine they have done much maintenance seeing as how it's rated a 1.6. Arroyo on the left is a disc magnet and you can lose discs here; the brush is way overgrown.

I can;t help but like this course but it is hard to play. I usually use the first half (big field) to pick out a basket and practice on. The bottom half is more fun and challenging. Not the best course in SF but one to play none-the-less. Enjoy!

This isn't what I would typically call a course. It is a flat, 300'x500' rectangular park with 5 unmarked baskets set around the perimeter, 3 in the corners and 2 in the middle of the long sides. Several unmarked tee pads can be also found along the outside edge of the park. Some trees and bushes are also on the perimeter leaving the center of the field open. It is bordered by a neighborhood along one of the longs side. This means all shot only need to avoid either the left or right side of the fairway. I only found one marked tee pad but I think the idea is that you can play from any one of the tee pads (rubber mat or worn dirt) to any one of the 5 baskets. It looks like the design has many tee pads placed in the flight line of the previous hole.
I would not recommend any traveling player stop here even though it is located on the typical rout through town. It would be a good place to teach someone how to play or would make a fantastic practice facility.

The front section of the park has baskets and plays around the perimiter of a green lawn. It's managable. The baskets are in good shape. That's a pretty decent start for a course.

When you pass the center parking area, things start to go south in a hurry. I think Teepad # 5 has been disrupted by some kind of construction of a new walking trail leaving you with a 200 ft. throw with the basket standing about 3 feet from the fence. The signs that are left each have about 3-4 distances or basket placements but I doubt if baskets have been changed on this course in years. There are no teepads. It's impossible to follow. It's currently like playing in a scrubby vacant lot with six random baskets. Maybe if you're desperate, you could play a round of safari.

Someone needs to step up here in a big way and perform a major overhaul. It could maybe be turned into a adequate little 9 hole recreational course. Don't try to squeeze any more than 9 holes. In my rating system, a 1 means, I would not be returning to play it.

there are alot of fun shots that change up alot there are some far holes and short holes there are 9 holes but play 18 with diffrent teepads there are alot of diffrent pin locations

there are gophers the so get some flee replent cause u do not want to get thopse diseases that those things have there are ni teepads but if u get a course map from the links page then u can find your way around there are some bums out there

play st johns and arryo chamsio they are pretty close by each other

i have aced hole 8B witha pro boss on 6/10/10
for my 16th ace and i aced 7a super short on 7/17/10 with a champ coyote for my 18th ace

There's still baskets there. Where there is a basket I will go. I took a beginner with me. He got hooked. Lots of those cute little prairie dogs walking around in and out of their holes. Great place for a beginner.

Poorly maintained if at all. Sad. Hardly any way of telling where to go next. Somebody who lives there, please fix it up.

If you are just passing through, play "arroyo chamisos" Instead.

The original layout has a goodmix of right, left, long and short. A local explained to me how they sometimes might play alternate tees to play 18 or more holes. There is plenty of potential for a good neighborhood recreational level (Red) course. There are 12 Mach 3 baskets in the park!

The course appears to have had virtually no maintainance for years. There were no maps in the box, and the phone number at the box got me a "wrong number" response. The front 150 feet of the park where tee #1 used to be is now a fenced off construction zone. Hole #3 goes across the playing (practice soccer?) field so it cannot be played when the field is in use. There are only a very few old DGA tee signs for directions and substantial changes to the park's foliage make finding one's way around pretty hard.

This park needs a disc golfer who will make the effort to spruce it up - mark tees, make a map, etc. It would really only take a few hours a month. It could be turned into a nice course pretty easily, but the park department is obviously not doing it!
I'm back on Sept. 30 2010, and I can only find the four baskets on the front side. All the rest have been removed and there is some kind of trail building going on in the back part.
Checking in July, 2011: Baskets are back in for the back side. The map on this site is new to me and I HIGHLY recommend printing and using it. I don't believe it is true to the current layout, but it gives some badly needed clues! Also, there were disc golfers out playing, which I had never seen before. So things are definitely improving for Ashbaugh park.