What's your type?

[wolito]

What is your favorite type of course? Some prefer wide open flat courses, while others enjoy the steep hills or heavily wooded. Personally I enjoy courses that are heavily wooded, with tight fairways and average hole length of about 275 feet. Throw in a few hills and I will be more than happy. Trees must create challenging shots that force you to throw with skill and precision and possibly a little luck to reach par or less. Generally I don't prefer water hazards on the course unless they are a must and add substance to a hole, rather than just something to be worried about losing a disc. I suppose how you play and the skill at which you play will factor into what types of courses you enjoy. Share your thoughts.

[osbogosley]

I prefer courses that give you a tee shot from the tee. A few holes at Circle C in Austin are an example of what I am saying. If the tee has many small trees in front of it, a safe drive is so important that an upshot through the small openings is much safer than a hard throw. Holes that restrict anything other than one safe throw don't keep my interest for long. Most of the holes on my course offer many options and with changing winds you need the option of taking a different path. After I retired from pro tour. play I would only play when the wind was up. Playing a good windy course is what I enjoy the most.

[solomon.trenton]

i like a mix of all: woods, open, hills, flat, water whatever but like fine wine too much of a good thing is a bad thing

[DavidSauls]

Don't have a favorite type or style of course.

I've played 104 and have a "top-5" that are far-and-away better than #6 and below, favorites-wise. Odd thing is that among my favorite 5 are some huge hills and even cliffs, as well as an absolutely flat course. They range from a 4700' birdie course to a 10,000', par-70 monster. A few have tons of OB on most of the holes; one has no OB at all.

To me, there are a variety of places and styles that can hold a great course, with good design and resources.

[chainmonkey]

I do not like courses with a lot of OB. I tend to like lightly wooded courses especially when it is hot. Enough trees to keep you shaded but not so much as to keep a breeze away. I do not care for wide open courses. I like watching a disc steer its way through the trees like it has eyes.

[Disc Dog]

It would have to have about an even split between wooded (technical) and mostly open (maybe a really big tree or two to work around) long to really long. I detest any course where it is a tight fairway on every hole and I am not a big fan of water hazards (although I did enjoy the pond at Spiker-Arboretum). I do really seem to like elevation change. Especially it you consider 2 of my favorite courses are Campgaw and Downriver.

In a nutshell it is variety and spruce that up with multiple tees and/or baskets.

[Omega SuperSloth]

i like long dog legs , tight bushy holes, bigs hills and a real pretty face ....... mountain face a real pretty mountain face, man i should probally start over that didnt sound right :]

[DannyM]

My preferance is shorter <about 275-300 ft> holes that are technical, wooded, but has true fairways. Also really like elevation changes...especially downhills so that you can watch the disc the whole way. However, I'm like David Sauls, in that some of my all-time favorites are some flat, open courses. I started playing on a technical course, and I guess because of that it's still my favorite type.

[solomon.trenton]

Originally Posted by chainmonkey

I do not like courses with a lot of OB. I tend to like lightly wooded courses especially when it is hot. Enough trees to keep you shaded but not so much as to keep a breeze away. I do not care for wide open courses. I like watching a disc steer its way through the trees like it has eyes.

awefully picky now arent we?

[Guurn]

Any sort of course is fine as long as it is fun and challenging. When I think of a good course I ask myself after, "self, did you have fun, did it challenge you, were the holes unfair". If I answer yes, yes, and no then it is a good course. If I had to pick my favorite terrain I would say larger rolling hills the go in and out of woods, both thick and thin. Oh yeah, a stream and lake are always nice.