I played this course right after playing the Gold course, and I know this isn't the popular opinion, but I have to say- I really loved this course, even a little better than the Gold course. Maybe it was the relief of having some open holes to start off with, but it really played nicely.

This course showcases the beauty of the park more than the Gold course, but not as much as the Blue. You do however get a good mix of open fairways around the trees in the fields you drive in on, and the technical holes in the woods. It's the most balanced in that sense.

The gentle hills on the Red course make great, scenic fairways, but the elevation isn't drastic (as I think of the steep hill shots on the Blue Course).

I almost forgot! Concrete tees on every hole, not just on the main tee, but on the short tee (which is usually where the tee sign was). Now THAT's commitment.

The warm up area has two baskets for putting back and forth. I always like a good area to practice putting, but you don't see the two-baskets set-up very often. It just is another thing that emphasizes the little touches this park gives to the disc golfers, and I wanted to acknowledge that.

And, obviously, saving the most obvious for last, the biggest, most monumental, colossal elevated basket pyramid on hole 9. That sucker is huge. Other than that it's a wide open hole, but honestly it doesn't need any other obstacles. It takes discs of steel to have the courage to putt from the bottom of it. There are stone steps on two sides of the structure to climb it to get your discs out of the basket, and the levels are wide enough to try and lay-up on.

Also, this isn't much to do with play, but I just really liked the Red baskets. I've seen a lot of different color baskets, but I think this park was my first time playing on Red baskets, and definitely first time on Blue. It doesn't effect play, just the "fun factor," or aesthetics, if you're looking for those.

The cons are few, but stand out. A few of the holes, and this is true for each course, are built in a swampy area. Here it was mainly the basket on hole 7, you throw downhill into a blind creek/muddy area. It's a great layout, just the ground that's unpleasant.

Hole...16 I want to say... plays over a small valley onto a plateau. It's reachable on your drive, and pretty easy lay-up to the area if you don't reach it (but there are a lot of trees, and it kind of slopes away), but getting up there is tough. The sandy banks have really worn away, and each person that plays the hole wears them away a little more.

The only major cons here are navigation, and playing on the road. After hole 16 (the embankment hole), the sign pointing you to the next tee is wrong. I think it points you to a path, which you have to turn to get to the tee, but it was hard. I had to walk all the way back to 16's tee, find 17's basket nearby, and trace the fairway back up. It was, coincidentally, my least favorite hole, but maybe I was a little frustrated. Getting to hole 12 after 11 was difficult as well, because it is on the other side of the parking lot from the first 10. CrazyBuffaloGuy pulled over on his way out to direct me.

The park road comes into play on a few holes, which I'm ok with, but it does add a little more of a dangerous element of having your disc ran over, or hitting a car. Hole 11's basket is an island green from the practice area to a median next to the parking lot. If it's windy, you're going to end up on asphalt, possibly under a parked car or in the bed of a truck.

Overall though, the whole course has pretty inventive holes, and is quite inspired. I really enjoyed playing. If I came back to this park I would just play the Blue and the Red for the elevation, the Gold if I wanted to punish myself in the trees.

Lindsey Park has obviously prioritized disc golf as one of their park attractions. I don't know why, or the history behind it (probably has something to do with the local university), but I love it. Three high-caliber 18 hole courses, HUGE elevated basket, double-basket practice area, multiple concrete tees (on Blue and Red)- they really invested in disc golf and the golfers themselves. It's a great experience.

I was privileged to play a round a half with CrazyBuffaloGuy from this site. It was fun, he was fun, the course is fun. If you're in the Tyler area, you definitely need to play these courses.

-All tees had signage.
-Nicely sized concrete tees.
-Very nice baskets.
-Layouts of each hole was different for a nice variety.
-Very nice park.
-No danger of losing discs in water.
-The tower goal on #9 looks awesome.
-The signage from 15 through 17 was very helpful in locating tees.

-Fire ants are everywhere. It is nature, so that can be expected, but there are lots here if you are allergic to that sort of thing.
-I saw some poison ivy, but that is to be expected in nature. Once again, be aware if you are allergic to such things.
-#13 tee was difficult to understand. I only found one of the tee boxes, and I am still not sure I understand the intended flow of the hole. I spent 15 minutes trying to figure where I was supposed to throw.
-It was difficult to figure out how to get to 15 without a map. Some additional signage would be helpful. If it was there, then I missed it.

-As I have stated in other reviews, I do not like to play tower goals like the one on #9. It looks great, just not my preference in a course.
-The stonework on the 17th tee was the highlight of the trip. Very cool idea and great work putting it together. I would consider it the signature hole of the course.
-Overall, this was about as difficult of a course as I could stand being a relatively newcomer to the sport. I shudder to thing what playing the gold course would have been like. I loved the quality of the materials used and how well everything was kept up.

3/29/21 Update:

Out of the 68 courses I have reviewed, this is where this course ranks along with similarly rated courses:
Rank-Course, Location
16-Woodruff Leisure Center DGC, Woodruff, SC
17-Shaver Recreation Center Original, Seneca, SC
18-Foothills DGC, Easley, SC
19-Langley Pond DGC, Burnettown, SC
20-Century Park DGC, Greer, SC
21-Pipeline DGC, Spartanburg, SC
22-Zube Park DGC, Hockley, TX
23-Duncan Lake - East, Duncan, OK
24-Lindsey Park - Red Course, Tyler, TX
25-Veteran's Park, Arlington, TX

Great course to work on a variety of shots. I had to use various shot selections and almost every disc in my bag on this course.

While the course is pretty wide open, there were quite a few holes where you had to show some finesse to get from your first shot to the basket. The woods that are in play in this course are well placed on the hole to force you to choose a line, not just throw your driver as hard as you can straight ahead.

There is a great map and warmup area near the parking lot with two practice baskets. The course is an easy walk away and well marked in general (see cons for the one exception). The signage on the course was also very good.

Great mix of distances and elevations on this course. Not a ton of elevation, but it is a fun challenge on the holes that utilize it. There are also a good mixture of distances including two teepads for different skill of players.

The only difficult to navigate hole location was after finishing 15. I had to look around for a while to find the teepad for 16. Next time I'll know to take a picture of the map at the beginning of the course to help.

While this is nit-picky, there were a couple of times I thought I had lost a disc in the leaves. All the leaves had just come off the trees and the outsides of the fairways were difficult to navigate. Not a huge issue, but high visibility discs are helpful in the winter months.

Hole number 9 is a ton of fun to putt on.

When you are in the woods, pay attention to where the next teepad is located on the signage since there are bike trails through the woods to get lost on.

After reading the previous two reviews I was expecting a mediocre little beginners course, and was pleasantly surprised by what I found to be a perfectly fine 18 holer.

Good variety of hole lengths, ranging from 198' to 465' from the short tees. Each hole offers a long tee, with some changing the distance and line only slightly, but others really stretching things out. For instance Hole 5 jumps from 226' to 673', and Hole 10 varies from 329' to 626'. All told, the long tees add nearly 800' to a 5344' course, so not too shabby.

Great concrete tee pads. Long, flat and with good texture. Nice descriptive tee signs as well. The teepad for hole 14 used all of the old "tombstone" type tee signs for form a retaining wall supporting the pad. Great way to keep those old signs on the course.

Baskets are a mix of a couple of different types, but all catch well.

Holes 1 - 3 start out fairly open, then Holes 4 - 7 start tucking baskets back into a thick treeline. Remaining holes vary between more open holes, often with out-of-bounds near the basket to some interesting holes back in the woods. Hole 18 is a nice finishing hole driving down a hill to the basket with out-of-bounds in close behind the basket.

There is modest elevation on the course which was utilized well to create quite a few modest uphill and downhill holes. Hole 9 is over flat ground but throws to a basket placed up on a large artificial pyramid structure. It gave an interesting twist to an otherwise plain hole.

There is a huge parking lot for the DG courses, and a large overall map showing the layout of all three courses.

Compared to the other two courses this one is more open and offers less elevation. I don't see this as a serious con, but I suppose it depends on what you are looking for.

When I played several areas were wet and boggy, so the course was a little sloppy. But this is East Texas so I was expecting some moisture.

Some of the holes play right along the main park access road, so watching for incoming traffic is necessary before throwing.

Lindsey Park offers three 18-hole courses and was a great destination for me. I enjoyed playing the Red Course before moving on to the more challenging Blue and Gold.

Lindsey Park's Red Course offers a casual round that's great for beginners or those looking to offset the stresses of Lindsey Gold. Obstacles are present in the form of guarded pins, some elevation, OB, and the occasional tree, but these are limited: they're there just enough to introduce beginning players to a variety of obstacles without tempting frustration. The course's focus is clearly beginners, and I think it does a great job of offering new discers enough challenge to whet their appetite while easing them into the game. With two other courses on site available to those looking to step up in challenge, Lindsey Red can focus purely on beginners and casual players, and in that it succeeds. The occasional spectacle in the form of a downhill shot or the eye-grabbing pyramid-perched basket helps to ratchet up the fun.

Lindsey Red greatly benefits from having two other 18 hole courses on site. Between the three courses, there's something for everyone here, and a great variety of holes for someone passing through.

The tees are solid and the grooming seems to be wonderful. With little interaction with rough, there's little chance of losing your disc. Amenities such as parking, bathrooms, and the like are great.

Lindsey Red's cons mostly stem from its function as a beginner course, so it seems a bit misguided to rail on them. Still, they detract from the course when rating it comparatively to all the others out there.

The course is exceedingly open: there's little demand on shot shaping or control. Baskets usually lie in straight lines from the tee, and approaches are really only challenged by intermittent OB. In general, Lindsey Red doesn't give you much to think about. Again, this is a result of the course's function, but it certainly limits Lindsey Red's appeal to newbies and very casual outings. Otherwise, it just doesn't have very much to offer in itself to anyone outside of beginners.

For a newbie course, Lindsey Red brings the road into play as OB often enough that there could be some headaches for unwary drivers (vehicles, not discs) or wild-armed beginners.

Lindsey Red does its job as a beginner course rather well: its well-groomed and easy, but still offers introductory looks at some obstacle staples. Its appeal stops there for me, though: its too open and simple for much else. I appreciate devoting a portion of Lindsey Park's disc golf riches to showing newbies the game; I just can't rate the course higher for how simple and open it is.

To be honest, I found Lindsey Park to be a bit overrated when I visited: both the straight-forward and punishing Gold course and the simple Red one were disappoints for me, for opposite reasons. The Blue course is fun, solid, and varied, but I still came away thinking that Lindsey Park wasn't the destination site it appeared to be. Worth a visit if you're in the area for sure, but not a place I'd go out of my way again to get to.

Lindsey Park offers three disc golf courses that are conveniently located near each other. The Red course is by far the easiest of the three courses and is definitely the one to play if you want to have a very casual round by yourself or with friends. It is also a great course to warm-up on before hitting up the Gold course or playing through fast after the other two courses like we did. The park has the necessary amenities including a large parking area, bathrooms, and water fountains. The course also features very large concrete tee pads and new(er) tees signs. Multiple tees give some variety to the difficulty and length of shots.

There's not a ton of elevation in this part of the park, but the course utilizes the elevation it has well. The best use of elevation - and my favorite hole on the course - is the downhill bomb on 18. One of the longest holes on the course, it plays through a few patches of trees and has a very big elevation change. Holes 1-5, 7, and 13-17 also do a decent job of incorporating minor elevation changes.

There's a good mix of completely open and moderately wooded holes. I enjoyed how holes 4-7 played from the open into part of the woods to the right, this was my favorite stretch of the course. Hole 7 was a fun one where the pin is tucked into a tight position within the trees to the right.

While completely random (at least for an out-of-towner; maybe there is more to it than I know) and seemingly very gimmicky, I actually enjoyed hole 9's enormous pyramid. I liked the challenge of trying to the land on the pyramid from the tee. Plus, it turns a completely open hole into something a little more interesting. Still, my brother and I were laughing at the complete randomness of the pyramid when we first drove into the park.

-A few holes play over/near park roads and the parking lot to a point when it can be unsafe if the parking lot was full - the holes that are most affected by this are 12-15.
-Not a huge variety of distances. While some holes were over 400 feet, about 2/3 of the holes are under 350 feet even from the long tees. The short tees are generally much shorter than that.
-After hole 7, there is a large stretch of holes that are basically completely open and seem repetitive. In general, this is not a challenging or punishing course.
-The navigation is iffy for the last six or so holes. It can get confusing as it plays close to a few of the Blue course's holes. Just look for the red or blue stripe on the tee sign. I'd recommend bringing a map.

From reading previous reviews, it sounds like this course has improved from its other design, which is encouraging to hear. To me, with a few too many lightly wooded holes on the course, I can't rate it above a 2.0. Still, the course is a quick play and worth hitting if you are in the area. The best part is that there are two other quality courses on site. If you only have time to play two, I'd highly recommend playing the Gold and Blue courses first. I encourage you to stop at Lindsey Park if you are passing through Tyler on your way to the Eastern Texas monster courses.

This course is referred to as the Cedar course locally, and it not the easy punk course it used to be. This has a new layout and from the long tees it plays well over 7000 ft. but still considerably shorter from the short tees. It has a nice variety of reachable holes and some that a 3 is a great score on. There is an amazing, huge 3-tier pyramid on hole 9 that you will not soon forget. There are plenty of open holes, but some that you will have to also have to avoid trouble on. Great use of elevation and OB with the park road running past 5 of the holes. Great short and long concrete tee pads on every hole except 16 and 17 (the 2 new holes-also the only 2 that don't have the nice stone tee signs) and multiple pin locations on 15 & 16. Again, plenty of benches and trash cans.

Not many, some updated signage with distances on a few holes but it's a great course. It gets a little hard to follow on the back 9 but there's lot's of locals that will help you out. In my opinion this is no longer the easiest course in the park, especially from the long tees. Not quite the same shot shape variety as the other 2 courses in the park, but makes up for it with distance.

Cedar is cart friendly except maybe 16 & 17 in the back, but there's plenty of space to leave it and pick it back up. You will come back past the parking lot on hole 12 so you do have a chance to reload if you need to. This is the most open of the 3 courses, so you will need extra water in the summer because it is miserable hot. If the wind is blowing, you had better pay attention to your disc selection and your release angle.

- Multiple concrete tee pads for each hole
- Good use of elevation
- Good variation from hole to hole
- Shorter holes, but a very good balance between being too easy and annoyingly difficult

- Some of the signage on the back 9 was a little messed up. We never found hole 14.
- Won't challenge advanced players

- Although this is the easiest of the three Lindsey courses, it is still very fun to play, especially if you are an intermediate player who likes to make an occasional ace run, and the longer tees are still challenging enough.

This course is fun to alternate throwing from the red and blue tee boxes. The 2 super long holes from the blue tee box are a great challenge. The course flows really well too. you end pretty close to where you start.

I do not like the old baskets. Many of my putts hit dead center and just come straight out. Maybe I am just spoiled on the newer Innova baskets.

Good use of terrain, relatively difficult, concrete tee boxes. Some shots are tight through woods while others are over roads. Trees block a good amount of holes, making it more difficult.

Semi-difficult to navigate, bring a map.. Wear tall socks, fire ants are killer. A lot of it is wide open, so a driver that can go through headwind is needed

Of the three Lindsey Park courses, this is the one I would call the warm up course. This in no way means I am degrading it. This course has lots to offer. There is some good use of gradual elevation on a few of these holes. Many of these pin locations are either sunk into some woods or have OB very close to them. This makes the course rather difficult for being what could be called the easier of the three Lindsey courses. The slightly wooded holes are the holes I enjoyed the best. The "tombstone" tee markers do have the footage next to the short tees. The long and short tee pads are concrete for both. The trashcans and bathrooms are easily accessible to this course.

There are a couple of holes that do mimic each other and that can seem a little repetitive. There are 2 holes the have the basket close to the road and they are back to back. There is also a hole that you throw over the roads. I am not a fan of over use of roads to make a course difficult. Navigation is a bit tricky, so take the map.

The Fun Factor was decent for me. I enjoyed half the holes on this course and found the other half just OK. This is a good course using this part of the park. Lindsey Park is without a doubt a great place for Disc Golf. Thanks Tyler, TX.

Good challenge, Good variation of left and right turns. A few tunnel holes, and they're a beast. This course has a lot of long, open shots, but then the pin is tucked 30 feet back in the woods. Get used to throwing a good drive, then an approach into the trees, then putting. This is a great course, has trash cans, benches, and good signage. Concrete teeboxes are nice, and there isn't much traffic on the course from non golfers

Not many honestly. This is a solid course, not too hard, not too easy. long walks between a couple holes, but not awful.

if you're new to DG head over to the roc or the front 9 at UT Tyler, if you want a challenge try this course. Drains well after a rain. Easiest of the three in the park.

Nice mix of open and wooded holes with some elevation changes. Hole 11 sits on a type of peninsula created by 2 ob roads. There are porta potties right there and better restrooms elsewhere in the park. Tees are concrete and there were 2 or more for every hole.

Not a lot of holes that just stand out in your mind as wonderful. Solid but not spectacular. Needs signs to point you to the 1st tee. There was a sign there but it had nothing on it. We went the wrong direction at 1st and were on the blue course which runs very close to the red at some points, they actually just about overlap. there was an old sign for #1 which we finally figured out was not in use anymore but it confused the situation for awhile.

Good course. I would certainly play there again. Having another 18 hole course on site is great also. They are getting another 18 holes there even as I write this. Most of the pins were in and they were getting busy with the tees. Soon there will be a full 54 holes there.

This park is a nice and challenging course. It has a nice variety of long open shots and a few short shots. The is a lot of elevation changes and some holes play almost in the woods. The tee pads are concrete and are in great shape, and the baskets are in decent condition. The course is kept clean and there are plenty of trash cans and benches to sit on. The layout of this course is nice the way it is set up and is very fun to play.

The navigation of the course can be a little complex at first, but from help of some locals, we was able to navigate the course.

If your looking for a good challenge, this is the one to play. This is a must play if your in the Tyler area.

Cool stone tee signs and good baskets. The elevation is used well for the little there is. Short course that is easier of the 2 in the park. There are lots of birdies here. There are 2 pads on all the holes which are cool as well. Sandy soil so I bet that it is good to play after a rain. Pretty clean and well taken care of too. I think that alot of the shots are the same although others have said different, but we all threw alot of the same shots on most of the holes.(At least from the red tees.) Cool having 36 in the same park.

The signage could be better, maybe a course map as well. We walked around alot trying to find where we were going. Some of the holes are in the open field when there seems to be alot of potential in the woods.

After hole 7 walk up the hill for 8. Cant wait to see the gold course go in. Lots of great potential for a city park.

Almost no holes the same. Some very interesting basket locations especially 16 and I think 9. Several memorable shots even though most were easy. Most of the course seemed more secluded than the blue course, until you get to some of the open holes on the back 9. Most of the front 9 is pretty secluded and I think 15-17 also. Used elevation and woods as effectively as possible, considering this is a city park not a state park. Even though it was busy, it didn't feel like it and I only had to wait about 5 minutes total.

Some of the basket locations on the back 9 are right next to the park road. and 1 of them is an "island hole", in that it is in the median between the entrance and the exits of the red's parking lot. Not to mention 18's basket which is RIGHT next to the curb!! In my opinion when a basket sits next to a paved road, it adds an element of cheesiness as if you ran out of room when designing the course.

I can understand rating the blue higher. It is harder and longer. Besides that, I didn't think one really stood out over the other in my opinion. I guess with 54 holes in a city park, you will have to put in some holes "cram style" next to the road.

This is your typical disc golf course in a public park. Mainly straight holes with a few doglegs. A nicely moderately wooded course that makes it tricky but not too difficult. Like the use of trees to obscure some of the baskets. Each hole is rather unique and you don't feel like you are throwing the same teeshot over and over. Teepads are in great shape and the signs are decent. There are also the neat looking rock teesigns as well,nicely done. Multiple pins mix up the challenge.

Again, naviagtion and signage usage! Difficult to know where to throw or where to go. Mix of basket types. Can be rather busy on this course so you could always go over to the other courses and play if too bad. Some trash laying around despite the trash cans.

Nothing just jumps out at me about this course rather it is just solid all around. Popular course for a reason, well designed, keeps the interest and well liked. Holes 16 and 17 add a little bit more of a challenge. The course plays on a sandy type of soil that doesn't get too muddy that is able to be played shortly after a rain.

The easier of the two courses,still a fun course with slight elevation,Runs smoother then the longer blue course.

Some pretty easy par holes for your average disc golfer

Together these two courses are hard not to play back-to-back the locals must have alot of time on there hands.

This was a very fun and very challenging course. There are concrete tee pads on all holes and they provide the opportunity to choose between a short or a long, which I love. The long tees seemed to add quite a bit more length and challenge on the holes. Speaking from memory, it seemed that there were more open holes on the Red course than the Blue and that overall the holes were just slightly shorter. There were a lot of really fun shots on this course...through trees, over trees, long downhills, uphills, hyzer, anhyzer. You name the shot, there was an opportunity that allowed for it. The baskets are good and the course was in great shape. I really enjoyed playing here and will look forward to the next time I'm in Tyler to play again. The Red course was much easier to navigate than the Blue and since more people were playing the Red course it was easier to ask for directions if I did need help.

There aren't really an negatives that I can think of. There are more open holes on this course than on the Blue course, so that made part of the course a little more boring.

Overall, I think that I enjoyed the Blue course a little more, simply because it seemed a little more challenging. I played Blue first, then Red. Next time I'll reverse it and see if that has any effect on my opinion of the courses. I also played in heavy Texas heat, so these courses could have been even more enjoyable than they already were.

Lots of fun, memorable holes - several that play along a tree line with the basket tucked back into the woods/rough. Some of the greens for these typs of holes are faily open, others VERY tight.

Elevation in play on many holes - used very creatively on some. A few hill-side greens to keep you on your toes when putting. Several holes have alternate baskets...but you'll have to get a local to show you these.

Several true par 4 holes...always a great thing!

Nice concrete tee pads on all and cool stone hole markers on most.

Course flow...plan on getting a little lost your first time through, unless you can find a local to show you around. The 2 courses in this park cross over and play next to each other in a few spots, so you have to really pay attention to what hole you're playing. Could use some better signage.

Each tee box has both blue and red text spray-painted on it...which makes the course flow even more confusing.

A few holes with unreasonably tough fairways or blind baskets that require you to walk almost the entire length of the hole to find. Some of these holes are actually really fun after you've played them once or twice, but are just frustrating the first time through.

Some holes have an OB creek in play, which can't be seen from the tee or even the middle of the fairway in come cases. If you think you see a depression in the ground ahead of you, go check it for water before throwing. Some of the creeks look small and shallow, but are actually fairly deep and pretty nasty.

Finally....sticker burrs ALL OVER the ground! Be careful when trying to kneel for a low-ceiling putt

If the course had better signage (showing an overview of the hole, and the direction to the next) and some maps available, this course would be among my favorites. From a design standpoint, 90% of the course is great, but there are a few very boring holes and some that need to be opened up / cleared out a bit. This is my favorite of the 2 courses at Lindsey park...nice mix of lines/lengths.