Pros:
Course Essentials:
Baskets: Home-made metal baskets (painted black) with a single set of 8 chains.
Tee Pads: Small tee area frame with landscape timbers and filled with sand.
Signs: Home-made tee sign on each hole that shows hole number, distance, and suggested par.
Course Design & Layout:
Par: 27
Fairways: 3 Open, 6 Semi-Technical.
Fairway Variety: 2 Left to Right, 7 Straight
Elevation: Minimal
Elevation Variety: 4 Up/3Dn/1Flat/1Down and Back Up
Length: 2065ft Total (229Avg)
OB: Hole1 (Parking Lot Behind Basket), Hole3 (Baseball Field Right/Fence Left), Holes 5&6 (Road Left), Hole7 (Fence Left). Hole 9 (Fence).
The American Legion Park in Glasgow offers a short, simple 9-hole disc golf course in a very small park with plenty of ace runs. The course layout was decent and easy to navigate, with signs where needed to point you in the right direction. Minimal elevations are present throughout the course and create a good mix of up/down hill holes, but nothing drastic or difficult to navigate. The home-made baskets were in decent shape, but the baskets do not have enough chains to catch very well with only a single set of 8 chains which leaves big gaps all around. I had several putts blow right through the chains and out the other side. The cage on the baskets also have big gaps both at the bottom and around the edges, so you will be picking your disc up off the ground rather than out of the basket on most holes. The tee pads were small, but adequate considering the short nature of the course.
Course Breakdown:
Hole1-165ft slightly uphill with only a few trees to clear. Good ace run but risk of going OB with a parking lot close behind and to the right of the basket.
Hole2-195ft slightly downhill with a defined left to right fairway.
Hole3-375ft, basket straight ahead but fairway goes down and back up. Ball fields right and fence left play OB. With the elevation on this hole and right to left sloping fairway, it would be easy to hyzer out and lose a disc over the fence.
Hole4-250ft, slightly downhill with trees on either side of a moderately wide gentle left to right fairway.
Hole5-140ft, slightly uphill with few trees, definite ace run.
Hole6-210ft, slightly downhill with several trees, road OB on the left, and an army tank perched directly in front of the basket.
Hole7-260ft, straightforward, slightly downhill hole. The fence on the left is OB and has actually been doubled in height to try to prevent discs from flying the fence, you miss and go over the fence, your disc ends up in a bank parking lot with plenty of cars.
Hole8-210ft uphill but straightforward with only a few trees.
Hole9-260ft slightly uphill with several trees to clear, watch out for the pavilion just to the right of the basket!
Cons:
-Basket design: Very open with big gaps, the baskets do not hold shots very well.
-Tee Pads: The sand is probably okay when its dry, but the day I played it was very wet and clumpy. The framed tee pads were adequate, but the sand was a little slick and messy.
-Safety Concerns: The park is very small and everything is packed tightly together. The parking lot near 1 is right behind the basket and to the left. It would be very easy to over-throw the basket into the parking lot and hit nearby people/vehicles. Tee pad for Hole5 is RIGHT BEHIND 4's basket, plus you can't see it from 4's tee, could easily throw into group ahead if not careful. Small building (concession stand maybe) very near basket for Hole8. Pavilion very near basket for Hole9.
Other Thoughts:
The course is conveniently located less than 4miles off of the Cumberland parkway, and around 10miles off of I-65. If you are in the area or driving through and have some time, it's a decent place to play a very quick 9-holes, but I would not recommend going out of your way to play this course.