-Multi use park in the middle of town. It appears to be a sports complex due to the number of ball fields and the ample parking available. There's a swimming pool closer to the entrance, even though the gates were closed. The park is set on a flat terrain, so there is less of a chance of getting worn out.

-Two sets of pads, the whites are suitable for all skill levels and have more ace opportunities. The blues are longer, but are still very fair and forgiving even for players with limited distance or less experience and still gives some opportunities to make birdies. Holes from the blue pads range from 240-600+ while the whites are 190'-480'.

-It's pretty open, a few holes have tight lines but even the more wooded holes are on grassy lands with plenty of space to throw comfortably without it being risky. Another reason why the blue pads are more forgiving. They are challenging, but they don't have any barriers. Such as having to be able to throw 300' or have a wide selection of discs to be able to score under par on. You could save par after a poor tee shot even from the longs, even though it be a little tougher. The lines Clanton have to offer are not all straightforward, but as long as you don't end up OB, it's easier to escape trouble here.

-I liked #5. Especially from the blue tee since its a par four that has you throwing over a creek and over a wide rill for the upshot.
So essentially two creeks. It's very open with one mando tree pointing left in the middle of the field. Fun bomber hole with basic accuracy requirements that are fair for everyone and fun enough. #2's blue pad utilizes the available elevation well. It's on top of a nice hill. Wish I saw more elevation here.

-#17's buried basket was cool. #6's elevated basket was a nice look. The rest of them were normal height, which is an excellent balance. Two baskets were different heights, making one putt easier and one more challenging.

-There's some water here and there and the creeks tend to rise pretty fast. I played after a rainfall, so it gets quite wet.

-Lots of repetition. Many holes are very plain. You know, flat and partly wooded without much character. Many are close to ball fields and play along a walking trail. To make matters worse, the start of this course is the better of it. The first two holes play on the side of the hill while the rest of it is pretty similar to today's hits country. Plain, overrated, and far too similar. You know? Going skinny dipping with girls in teeny shorts? Bud light cans and used fire crackers all over the lawn? Waving glowsticks outside at the party while getting down to Gucci Gang? And "Pappy's belt made a wise and Godly man outta me and Imma raise my sons right with the sexy lady that twerked on me at the bar!"

The variety is extremely limited. I played the blues. Many of the holes are 300'-350', flat, and have little to no distinctiveness.

-This style of disc golf to me is dated. It's incredibly weird that I'm comparing it to today's country music when you could probably convince many people that the first ever disc golf course was Clanton. But it's very plain and uneventful to me with a lot of generic similarities. I was extremely shocked to find out that it was designed in 2017. Disc golf is becoming more and more unique and has grown exponentially. This course looks like a test run for a brand new sport that was invented in the 70's. This kind of course is out of its prime. Almost like those baseball card packs with a piece of gum inside. I would understand if this course was designed back at the roots of disc golf, but it wasn't. Wish the land out back close to where the first two holes are was available. I think a better and more relevant course could be made out of that.

-I'm tempted to fool people into thinking that this was the first ever disc golf course. I know if someone told me that, I would've believed them firsthand.

For a relatively humble city park setting Clanton DGC is a bit more technical than first evident. Some of the holes here have significant distance, and trees come regularly into play both off the tee and on the approach in a variety of ways. Shots are often flexible, with the tree-dotted landscape adaptable to both forehand and backhand as per your preference, but there a few mandatory windows and lanes to thread, too. I'd consider this course a bit of a step up from the usual sleepy city park course in what it demands, while still leaving plenty of novice-friendly shots. Although a few par 4s are listed, they play more like long 3s for intermediate level players. There are lots of birdie possibilities out here, too.

The course seems self-contained with minimal conflict with other park goers. Other than a few minor water hazards, the threat of disc loss is minimal.

Despite the aforementioned technical leanings, this is still a relatively humble city park course. There are some nearly or completely wide open shots, and little design novelty or adapting the land to fit the course's presence. Nothing wrong with that; it just caps the course's ceiling.

The layout is relatively sprawling and not always intuitive. The first few holes start in their own area, and the course's front third covers a lot of ground in an effort to work its way into the woods. I usually find myself wishing that smaller park courses not try to cram a full 18 holes into limited space; in this case I feel as though the course could have been laid out in a more condensed area to minimize awkward and lengthy transitions without losing much, especially given the openness of the starting and ending holes.

The tees are not always easy to find, nor are the pins they play to. It isn't egregious, but it can be awkward.

Although not very threatening, there are some rather nasty water hazards on a few holes that may deter novice players.

Clanton DGC made a nice casual round for my wife and I while we were visiting the area for other reasons. I wouldn't go out of your way to play it, but it makes for a solid casual round if you're otherwise in the area.

(2.147 Rating) A light to moderately wooded layout that will entertain a wide swath of skill levels.
- SKILL LEVEL FRIENDLY - I thought I was going to get a super easy cake walk of a course after playing the first 3 holes, but then the obstacles and length challenges stepped it up a bit. The balance between fairness and difficulty is at the ideal make-up for the widest swath of skill levels. I think most local players from Novice through lower Advaned, will be able to enjoy this one.
- CHAINS - Originally listed as DISCatchers before my play, but there were unfortunately no yellow bands peaking thru the woods here. However, they are MachVs which I think are a nice cheaper alternative.
- UNIQUENESS - A nice mix of open bombers through heavily wooded technical holes. A good mix of distances, 200 feet to 550 feet. A couple holes have nice right breaking turns to them and there are a bunch of blind shots that need game planning. Water is in fringe play for skilled players and there were two listed par 4s on my appearance. As for missing items, no doglegs and little elevation.
- GROW THE SPORT - The sport has made another foothold in a location that didn't have any courses within 30 minutes. This is the perfect sized course to help to continue to grow the sport.
- NATURAL BEAUTY - The first 3 holes were nothing to write home about. However once I got to hole (8) the beauty of this layout is really nice. Like many city park courses, there's a great tree and plant species diversity. Creek elements and maintained gentle rolling meadows are also present. In totality I scored the course a 2.625 out of 5.

The course needs more development
- NAVIGATION - It was really bad on my appearance. Hopefully it will continue to improve through the rest of 2018. The layout has already had a substantial revision since first opening and the course map that is on this site was useless after hole (6) on my play. I probably spent 20 to 30 minutes walking around aimlessly. I went and corrected the holes distances after playing but it will need a new map. Like many new courses, I wouldn't be surprised if there will be more layout tweaking. So be cognizant of the added adventure possibilities. No tee signs or posted course map on my play. Holes are marked by white painted 4x4s. Someone was kind enough to sharpie number them. Baskets are well labeled.
- TIME PLAY - Navigation needs to be resolved, see above. Right now a solo first timer will need almost 90 minutes to complete a round here.
- MULTI USE HAZARDS - Not too horrible but walking paths and low use park roads come into play on several holes. I had to pause my game several times for walkers.
- TEES - One of the issues with a newer course is generally the tees. They were just natural flat grass or in some cases, dirt. They were playable during my appearance but they will continue to degrade over time.
- CHARACTER - In addition to the poor tees and navigation, the course doesn't really have any amenities other than existing general park amenities. No practice basket, multi tees or alternate basket placements. Tee shading is only at about half of the holes. I saw only one bench on the layout, hole (11), but I think it was a captured existing park bench. There's a shelter with picnic tables in the park and I'm sure there are restrooms, although I did not see where.
- HOLE 14 - Not sure what happened for the design on this one. A well defined lane thru some hardwoods about halfway to the basket. Then the line has to poke through a wall of trees on the right side and travel a good 120 feet and miss another dozen or so trees. Making a deuce here is all luck.
- ELEVATION - Really not much for the designer to work with in this multi-use park. Hole (4) I think was down 10 feet and I think it was the most noticeable elevation change on the layout. Hole (13) which is the longer of the two par 4s, has some subtle slope to it as well and it has the potential to affect approach plays. There's also a creek bed in play and its slopes could affect some fringe fairway recovery shots.

What a great start for a new course in an area that didn't have one. I think there's enough here for a Birmingham area player to come check it out at least once after the navigation gets resolved. The game play at Clanton is better than its two nearest courses, Veterans and Montevallo, but it lags behind on amenities. Also a good freeway stop course for those traveling through, but again it needs to have the navigation resolved first before I'd recommend that a non bagger stop by.
- CHALLENGING - About average compared to 290 courses I've played as of this review. I have found in my travels that the average difficulty for a course will have 900 rated players averaging 2 down over 18 holes. For Clanton DGC, I think that a 900 rated player will average 2 or 3 down on average, if it's a par 56. There's a bit of length on a few holes, but it's not overwhelming. There some nice shot shaping holes, but there are open holes as well.

This course was very fun. I enjoyed all of the challenges and different obstacles it had. It had a couple of par 4s and 5s, with distances shots in fields, and shaped shots through woods. The first half of the course was open shots, the second half was moderately wooded. One of my new favorite courses.

Not well labeled. I assume this was because the course is new, but I still don't know if I started on hole one, if I played the course in order, or If I played the correct tee to the correct basket. It is also in the middle of a park, so there are sometimes cars parked in fairways, or next to baskets, or children playing in fairways or baskets. There is no course map yet, so you just have to start playing when you find a hole, and search for a basket afterwards. Some tees were also close to the basket of the last hole. When I played this course, there were not other groups playing. But if it is busy then this will be a problem. If you are waiting behind a group to play a hole, you will have to wait for them to finish the one hole, then drive and walk away from the tee before you can safely drive.

Many cons, but the course design and shape was very fun. I enjoyed playing it, and I will be coming back several times, maybe I will even make it my main course.