The Bummer Creek DGC sits on 22 acres of central Oregon farmland with the small Bummer Creek running through it. It's mostly pasture land without much elevation. Owner Eddy retired and decided to build himself a disc golf course. His wife Mary doesn't quite understand his obsession but that's OK, my wife doesn't quite understand what the hell I'm doing here in Alsea, Oregon chasing courses. For targets Eddy cut three distinct shapes out of wood and painted them red, white and blue. So hole # 1 is red circle, hole 2 in white triangle and hole 3 is a blue square (actually rectangles) and follows this red-white-blue pattern throughout the course.

Hole # 1 starts between the barn and home. The tee boxes are each marked by four markers in the grass. Some are a little difficult to locate in the taller grass. There is a donation box at the start with a $5 contribution asked for. Another box contains laminated course maps. Please return them upon course completion. You, however, will not be given a certificate of course completion. If you want one, you could probably print off your own online. I don't think they're needed all that much but I did like seeing the distances.

The course plays at a basic recreational level with hole lengths ranging from 225' up to about 450'. Many are open and most are fairly straightforward with nothing too tricky and not many places to get into much trouble. The neighbor's fence does come into play on a couple of holes. The hole across Bummer Creek only requires a short (maybe 75') carry. The front 9 ends just in front of the House and then # 18 finishes back at the house.

The targets are OK but they don't compare to baskets.

I found the footing in the fields to be kind of uncomfortable as you're walking over all these grassy clumps.

Bummer Creek is probably not on anyone's required visitors list. I drove here from the next nearest course, Alpine's Ninth Hole which is listed as being only 12 miles away. Maybe a crow could fly here in 12 miles but my Google maps took me on a 20 mile foray through some slow National Park roads.

No signage.

Natural tees could possibly get muddy with weather but actually the entire course with it's hayfield grass would be pretty wet during Oregon's wet months.

Eddy, all by himself, has put together a nice little course here. It's been a lot hard work and just mowing it all must consume a lot of time. Unfortunately, courses without baskets don't win any popularity contests and Bummer Creek falls into that category. With baskets it would be a fairly average course but sans baskets, it falls to slightly below average at 2.0.