Where to start? Upon arrival, the owner was very friendly and welcoming to the course. I appreciate that he is organized and thorough in the manner in which the course is run including tee times and player waivers. That adds an element of professionalism to the experience. As the owner cordially greeted us, he gave us a rundown of the course. This included offering the most accurate course maps I have ever seen which included useful information such as distances to corners and landing zones. I appreciate his approach to lost discs, which can be recorded to ensure disc owners have their plastic returned. The course itself has a great deal of detail to make the round smooth for players. For example, the center tree on hole #1 likely snags many tee shots which can cause the disc to remain in the tree. At that location you will conveniently find a golf ball retriever with an extension pole to help get discs down. The course itself has a great layout with a mix of open and wooded holes. It is championship style with a number of bomber shots. However, there are also a number of holes within reach for aces or deuces. This creates a nice balance of shots. Believe me; this balance will test your ability to throw all types of shots at one point or another. One nice touch was in an area in which there was a short walk between holes. To eliminate a boring walk, the owner put in a short hole (9W) which is not really part of the course. It gives players the opportunity to have a little fun in the middle of a challenging round. The course was difficult but fair. As I told one of my group members, "this is a disc golfer's dream retirement gig."

Not many to mention. While the cedar chip tees were very good for natural pads, I could see them getting slick if conditions were not ideal. Even so, these were the nicest natural tees I have ever seen. The only other negative is the need to have a spotter on several holes. While this is not a huge problem, it does take some extra time and walking to help watch everyone in your group.

Overall, this course is incredible. It ranks with some of the elite courses. Eric is the nicest owner of a private course that I have ever met. As others have said, he even had a cooler with ice cold beverages available for us after the round. The attention to detail of the course is second to none. Even though I live 4 hours away, my group and I will be making our way back to Coyote Trace.

Great Signage, Great flow, all tees clearly marked challenging but still very fun. Everything you can think has been thought of.
Love the cedar chip tee boxes, beautifully laid out holes. Eric will bend over backward to make sure you have a great time. He saw me looking for my disc on 5 and came out and helped and gave a tip for the approach shot. I dont know how he keeps it all maintained.

Only con I can think of is I didnt have time to play another round.

Make sure to leave yourself time to enjoy this beautiful course.

Make sure to donate, and keep this great course open. I loved it the ghost ace run hole on 9w was a blast just missed it to the right it leads you right to the next tee. I love this course. Wildlife all around you, we saw turtles, deer wild turkey and of course squirrels.

I will definitely come back and play again!!!

Beautiful setting with a wide variety shot shapes over quite dynamic elevation. Many of the holes are wooded and with some length, but are fair.

It rewards distance, but you don't need to be a 500' crusher to do well here. The wooded holes are not "too" tight as well, so it isn't just rolling the dice off the tee.

Eric is super friendly and walked us through the nuances of the course map before we began.

Not crowded at all, it's in a fairly rural area but isn't too far from the highway.

Picked a few ticks off of me - but hey, not much to do about that.

The course is not two loops of nine. So if you want to get back to the parking area to refill water or something, better do it after hole 4. You're committed once hole 5 starts.

Concrete tee pads would be nice on muddy days, but they weren't necessary when I went.

Go play it. This place rocks. And don't skimp on donating to fund the course maintenance.

Having heard the Buzz(z) about Coyote Trace, and coming up on my course #200, I decided to make this stop one to share a Sunday with friends, and could not have been more happy that I did. Eric Parr humbly states that he hasn't been playing disc golf all that long, has never designed a course before, and admits that this baby is often actually too challenging for his game. But he had a fantastic canvas of Kentucky land on which to build a course, he got help from, and actually listened to, some folks who really understand the uniqueness of disc flight, and combined that with his history of ball golf to paint a masterpiece.

Intentionally laying out holes with multiple stages of flight, he and his friends have built a true par-65 disc golf course that will challenge Advanced players, while staying enjoyable for all levels from Recreational through Open. Though it only opened last July, this course feels 'weathered in' as if it's been here for a few years already. The paths are well worn in, and easy to follow (he talks you through the layout, is willing to guide, and provides a map, to go along with the excellent signage, next tee arrows, flagged path markers, and logical flow).

The fairways are all fair, and you can see the multiple options of flight lines it will take to score well...but can you execute the shots? What struck me most, though, was the beauty of the terrain, and the amount of work already put in to this course. There are an almost unbelievable quantity of the needed amenities here, from huge, log-boxed, level, mulched tee boxes, split log benches and stools, many, many bridges and steps to cross the creek beds, disc retrieving poles near pond(s) and steep-banked creek beds, red stakes to easily spot the OB hazards where needed, 18 fantastic DisCatcher baskets (plus one for practice, and a sport for the ace run extra hole 9W) and even a couple of places where logs have been placed to 'fence in' an overly punitive roll away putt.

Most of the holes have gut-check greens and pin positions, like an elevated basket on a slope, or a basket position near the joining of two creeks. And the variety...superb! I remember thinking to myself by about the eighth hole, that he'd covered every type of shot, and we weren't even half done. But what struck us almost every step of the way, was the beauty here, from open hillsides down to an angled, cedar-bordered fairway, through the little, rocky 'waterfall' spillways in the creek beds, and back up through (mostly) forgiving woods to picturesque, ridge-running lanes. Numerous times, you'll take a brief gasp at the beautiful shot you get a chance to throw, over a wide ravine, hoping for the placement shot that will set you up for the next part of the fairway.

I could easily make this my longest review to date, but in an effort to be brief, I'll just point out that this is only my third 5.0 rated course in 182 reviews. I give 5's not for perfection, but for courses that could not realistically be scored lower that 4.5, and have gone above and beyond. They're adding tees here to have a fun, shorter layout, and some tees will obviously create an even more brutal Gold layout. There are 2 and sometimes 3 basket positions per hole. If I had to sum this up, and at the risk of sacrilege, I really felt this course is a beautiful blend of Lincoln Ridge and Idlewild. And if that doesn't get you planning a road trip, I'm not sure what will!

I don't want to sound trite, but my main complaint is that this course isn't in my town! I know some folks would never give a top rating to a course with mulched tees, but you need to play this. They're really, really good. Hmm, cons? Maybe hole 8 needs a few rocks in the first muddy drainage crossing like they've got spanning the second, and it might use a better transition to step down and cross the creek...in the spring. I mean, c'mon! There's very little I wouldn't do the same way he's got it set up. I even thought before coming, that he could easily renumber the layout to get the turnaround visit back up by the start done on the ninth hole, but coming back up on the fourth hole gives Eric a chance to check on you and make sure you're not lost. Perhaps some folks don't want to play a private course, donate a few bucks, and sign off on a waiver, but then, don't play here. I'll be coming back, and probably drop him a few more bucks the next time.

Make sure you call ahead and book a 'tee time' with Eric. Don't monopolize his time (with which he's very generous), but this course, believe it or not, deserves even more buzz. We kept saying as we played, I don't recall ever playing through a course, and saying out loud, "Hey, this is beautiful! I'm loving this course!", and the score keeper asking, "What did you take there?" ...and, still smiling, answer, "six." I know, one of many future trips down here, I'm going to smile, and get that one down to a four!

great course and long very technical will be a great course for a future a tier or even bring in the pros on there national tour be interesting to see them throw this course on the rating I give it a 5.

will love to see pdga tournaments here in the future.

-The best of both worlds! This course has a great mix of short and long holes.
-The course will make you hit you're lines and you will also need to make a lot of placement shots.
-The course is private so you won't have any random people walking on the course.
-This course works great with CV and SL.

-They need some better tee pads and I know Eric and Kyle are working on that.
-I like to see some trash cans and benches.

-I plan on running one event here before the end of the year and I hope to see a ton of people there!

Let me preface this by noting that I have played several top notch courses including: Flip City, Idlewild, Mt. Airy, Lincoln Ridge, and Holler in the Hills. This course is not just on the level of those courses.... it exceeds them. From other golfers, I had heard that this was new gem for dg in the state.... but they had no way of explaining just how great the piece of land is. I had heard, "it's a short idlewild", "it's a long veterans park", or "it's like the good parts of CV mixed with the woods of Iroquis". None of these really held true. Coyote Trace is its own beast. We made a tee time the night before and met the owner, Eric, the morning of the round. Eric explained shortly how he got into dg and started building his dream (I will let you get that information on your own). His ball golf background quickly shows in the course... and that he really knows how force you to throw a placement shot. Among other things, he had a course map waiting for us, some bug spray (which was much needed), and told us that he had beverages for after our round. He then led us to hole 1. Without going into details of every hole (which you can read in the previous reviews) I must say that hole 1 is a tone setter for this course. It quickly shows you that in order to score well on this course, you have to hit technical lines and get the distance to boot. Just one more hole to talk about quickly.... Hole 5 makes the 1000 footer at Idlewild look funny. It is a 880ish footer that let's you throw about 400 feet before having you throw another 400+ feet downhill and over cedars. Just an amazing hole and very picturesque. The whole course is filled with holes that would be a signature hole on any other course in Kentucky. The wooded holes are tight and technical. The Openish holes make you hit lines to set you up for your approach. This is no ordinary course. The course offers several elevated baskets. These are well done so that if you miss the putt, you are probably going to have an even harder comeback putt. The risk/reward is probably better than most courses that I have played and I was constantly forced to throw shots that I was not necessarily comfortable with. I cannot believe that this course has only been open for a month, it looks like it is already broken in. I would be amazed if this course did not find its way into the top 10 courses on dgcr at some point. I am also amazed that it doesn't have more 5 star reviews... these guys must be playing much better courses than me.

There are very few cons to speak of. The first being that the cedar chip pads are not compacted yet. This is not something that I would knock a review down for because they will compact in the future. There is possible plans it seems for a different surface. Secondly, the bugs are serious here... I have 50+ bites on me. Not a big deal... something that I expect when I play a course during the dry months. Finally, I regret that this course is not in Lexington. I would play it constantly.

This is a great addition to Kentucky disc golf. I see there being several huge tournaments here in the future... and possibly featuring some big names. My only fear is that this course becomes too popular for the owners to handle. I am not sure that they understand how awesome this course really is.

Great Course that will challeng all levels of disc golfers. Even the most seasoned players will find they will need to pull out all the shot shaping skills they have. The course has varied terrain with open shots and tunnel shots as well as long holes and short holes. Alot of thought went in to the layout and design and it shows.

Some of the rough is really rough but that will change as more people have played and knock some of it down

You need to make a tee time but the hospitality was awesome and you should go out of your way to make it out to this course

This private, championship caliber course opened the first week of July 2014 and is a must play!

This well designed wooded course takes advantage of the ample elevation changes. There are discatcher baskets which is a big plus making it much easier to locate the baskets at a distance. There are detailed tee signs on every hole that not only list the distance, par and multiple basket locations for each hole hole, they also list the distance to landing zones and easily identifiable objects so you can better gauge the distances. The large tee pads are wood chips framed in with cedar logs. There are also two ponds in play on holes 11 and 18.

This challenging course has it all; uphill, down hill, challenging putting greens, a wide variety of distances ranging from 250 to 850, pro par 4's and 5's, risk and reward, fair fairways, it forces you to hit your line to score, and it is the kind of challenge I've only encountered on a hand full of the 200+ courses I've played which is a big plus for me!

Eric has put a ton of work into the course and it shows. He has built bridges for stream crossing, rustic log fences which help outline fairways, and I know he's not done yet.

There are so many unique and incredible holes out there it's tough to say only one is the signature hole, so here's a few of my favorites.

Hole 4: This excellent par 4 is 450 ft uphill that starts out in a narrow fairway with the goal of the first shot to keep your disc in the middle of the fairway. The second shot is an uphill, slight turnover shot out of the woods, past a clearing to the basket protected in a grove of trees on the other side.

Hole 5: This is the most open hole on the course and it's a crusher, 885ft long! There's one clump of trees about 400 ft out in the middle of the field that you need to be mindful of so you don't land in or behind them and there's some taller grass on the right. As you approach the basket the land slops downhill and you have to navigate the gap to approach the basket that's guarded by pine trees. Once you get to the basket, watch out for the drop off right behind it!

Hole 8: This par 5 is a challenging wooded hole that takes you from landing zone to landing zone to get to the basket which lies just on the other side of an OB stream.

Hole 13: This is another incredible par 5 and definitely one of the coolest holes I've ever played. The first drive is to a landing zone 320-360 ft up the fairway. Hyzer off too soon and you'll be off the fairway with a difficult lie. As you approach the basket you come out of the woods to a basket perched on top of a small hill that drops off hard to the right and long of the basket. This hole really forces you to decide how risky you want to play it and will quickly punish you for poorly executed shots.

Hole 17: This one has a big uphill turnover drive then a hyzer approach on your second shot to a basket guarded by some big trees and sandwiched between two small sinkholes (the kind you can easily retrieve a disc from).

***Update March 2015***
More amenities pop up ever time I play here. There are now benches on a number of the holes, more fences, and bamboo poles with hooks on holes 7, 11 and 18 to help you retrieve discs from the water.

Coyote Trace is a championship caliber course that's very hilly, very wooded, and will challenge ever single person that plays it including 1000+ rated pro's. It can wear you out physically and mentally if you come unprepared for it. I personally love and seek out courses like this, but if this doesn't sound like the kind of course you're looking to experience then I suggest you play else where.

Considering how new this course is, there is little bad to say about it. Like all new courses the rough is a bit rough but that will change as it gets more play.
***UPDATE NOV 2014***
The rough is looking better every time I play here and with winter upon us, that will help out even more.

The large tees are wood chips that have been compacted and framed with cedar logs. I don't have any problem with the tees here, but some will complain that they aren't concrete. Concrete tees are preferable, but IMO as long as the tee area doesn't get rutted out, become slippery or somehow become a detractor I'm ok with it. Keep in mind this is the kind of course where shooting a 70+ is not out of the question, so at that rate 3 out of every 4 shots will not be from the tee.

This is a destination course that I would highly recommend going out of your way to play!

Currently this private course is asking for donations. A ton of work has gone into this course already and Eric has no plans to stop anytime soon so please be generous in your donation.

Please call to schedule a tee time before you play.