Disc Golf Course Review

Furman has a nice nine-hole course. What's more impressive is that they're able to fit in this course around all the other activities without much interference.
- This is an above average nine-holer. There's a good amount of length - average hole is 295 feet, with two longer than 400; a fair amount of challenge along with two good risk/reward layouts - #4 & 5. What really makes the course seem better is everything that surrounds it.
- The first portion of the course plays along a nice (ball) golf course. After veering off from the links, you cut through the woods to conclude your round along a wonderful looking lake. There's so much scenery here, and so much going on (separate running and bike paths (a two-way bike path with lanes at that)), that I felt out of place, and not active enough, by only playing disc golf. Should have brought my running gear too for this place. That said, the tower on the peninsula is a great sight.
- There's a decent flow to the course. Finding the first hole was a little tricky. It doesn't help that some tee signs are on trees 50 feet from the tee. That said, once you get past the initial hiccups, you get a series of open holes, your only 'wooded' hole (#5), turn back around and get the final four holes playing back towards the beginning. For the lack of variety, and land, available - the course seems to have optimized what could be expected.
- I enjoyed the closing three holes. #7 is a slight downhill, potential ace-run layout with the lake as a backdrop. #8 is an uphill layout that forces players to go around or over a tree. #9 is a solid, multi-shot par 4. This is probably the most thought out and executed hole on the course.

For as relatively decent as this course is, it's also got a strong shrugged shoulder feel to it. There's nothing great here - #9 is good, not great. There's nothing really bad either. It just feels like a lot of basic layouts that offer just enough variety to not drive someone crazy.
- That said, if you throw a straight tee shot on every single hole, you'll have an easy round of nine straight pars. You'll never be too far off line if you only throw dead straight.
- Course could become unplayable when other park activities are going on, mainly when cross country races are taking place. I can also see students/other park goers occupying the grass on nice days in the stretch of #6 - 9.
- Signage is inconsistent. Signs are always on trees. It's a matter of how close said tree is to the tee markers. Sometime it's close; sometimes not so close. Other times there is no sign.
- Natural tee pads. No benches (unless you go to a picnic shelter near #7 - 9). No trash cans or water fountains. None are big issues.

Furman has its flaws, but still comes out better than most nine holers. If it's guilty of anything, it's that it left me apathetic after playing. After one round, I felt like I had already played this course a dozen times.
- For some reason, the high floor, low ceiling feel of this course wasn't appealing. A round of disc golf with nine birdies and nine bogeys is going to be much more memorable than one with 18 straight pars. And that's what I felt about this course.
- There seemed to be some more room for potential expansion and or redesign. Doubt it would happen because there are clearly other aspects of the park that (rightfully so) get more attention than this course.
- Maybe if I played this course more, my opinion would change. I'm giving this course a 2.0 rating - above average in my book for a nine-holer. If I were to come back here, I'd probably want to enjoy other aspects of the campus/park before playing disc golf.

+Nice concrete tees
+Nice baskets in good shape. DGA with Red on them.
+Large Oak trees and more for obstacles and shade. The park is large and nicely maintained. Lots of other stuff to do here including pool, walking trails, playground, dog park, sand volleyball, basketball, baseball/softball.
+Decent variety in length. Some shorter ace runs and a few that were longer for park style courses.
+Shouldn't lose a disc here.
+Good for beginners and kids.

-Overall, it was pretty open, park style course. I like to hit trees and only brushed a branch near the end of one hole.
-The hole that aims right at the historic school building is awkward. It doesn't play well and throwing at a historic building seems wrong.
-No signage at all. Including any course map signage at the start. It's hard to find the first hole and then you can see a few baskets off many of the tees.
-Pretty flat.
-It was crazy windy when I played and that can happen often here.
-Throws over and near the paths often.

+This course is near the interstate and isn't a bad course. It's a pretty simple park style course in a smaller town. They put all forms of recreation into this park.
+Worth a stop if you are a course bagger or a traveler on 80. My kids enjoyed the playgrounds while I got a quick round in.

Thornbury is 10 holes of forested goodness and 8 holes of open golf. The beginning is two wide open holes of short-medium distance, gentle upslope.

The forest fairways from #3-10 range from decent width to tight and generally shorter, with a fair mix of challenges although ending left or going right could have been on the menu more often than it was. There are a lot of fallen tree trunks about, sans limbs. There are many straight holes but that is tempered by an amount of fairway trees and also elevation being in play like uphill #5. Downhill #7 with elevated basket was good fun too. I had to scramble from the brush more than once. The longer 363' right bending #9 with many fairway trees is the star of this portion.

Coming out of the open into a different field, #11 is a steep uphill. #12 is a steep 441ft downhill with a treeline gap upfront, I surprised myself and threw a 375ft for the first time in my life and felt like a bit less than a total noodlearm for once in my life, maybe a momentary upgrade to pencil arm. #15 returns as a gentler uphill with the same treeline gap 2/3s of the way through, the basket ending uphill right towards it. Pretty good.

#16 looks like some obstacle course direct from the Army's basic training, the last forested hole, with plenty of tree trunks littering the fairway on this uphill and an additional guardian tree up top and is easily visually the star hole.

The last two wide open holes end at the beginning field.

Tees are adequate length, I think wooden framed and covered in astroturf.

Most of the course was fun to play and I'd be glad to have it as a hometown course. The park itself looks pleasant enough as well.

There is little getting away that six of the wide open holes, four of them being the bookends on the open field, are nearly identical, other than exact length and slight elevation. It was disappointing they didn't take the opportunity to make a treeline shot, or into/out of the woods holes out of these instead.

The signs look rather dilapidated already, laminated paper of the lines superimposed on google maps satellite imagery. Hopefully they're just temps.

IIRC, one tee already looks a big saggy. I wonder how they will hold up, tbh.

Thornbury Park DG is filling a niche in SE PA between a roughly 45 minute ride gap between Anson B. Nixon Park to the west and Haverford Reserve to the East, with a cluster of Niners and smaller about (Mount Bradford Preserve is excellent, others not so much).

uDisc currently has this course off the map and it needs to be typed in, calling this invitational only but that is incorrect and quite open and ready to go according to review there. It will also have you park on the utilitarian lot on Glen Mills Rd by the tennis courts, however the Main parking lot on Thornton Rd is almost as close to #1 if you park on the northern side. Alternatively, you can park 800ft east of the utilitarian lot, also on Glen Mills Rd, and start on #14 with almost no walking. It all loops.

The rating of 3.5 is a bit higher than I'd normally give, a 3.25 sounds about right. But I will give it the benefit of the doubt as the first review.

A course in Auburn (Nearest course is 15 minutes away)

New Dynamic Veteran baskets

Decent tee signs

Good use of the small hill that the course plays around/on/over

Natural tees. There are markers for the sides of the tee boxes.

If the course would be crowded (which I haven't seen before) there would be definite danger from throwers on other holes. If you throw directly at the basket on hole 8, you'll be throwing over the tee pad for hole 5, which is hidden behind the hill. (There might be an unofficial mando on hole 8, I don't know)

Several holes play across the walking path that goes through the course

Most of the holes don't have much in the way to force a shot shape. There are quite a few young trees though, which will force lines much more in the future.

This short 9-hole course has been long awaited by disc golfers in the Auburn/Russellville area. Before this course was installed, the closest courses were in Bowling Green or Franklin, both a good drive for dgers in the area. Finally we have a course close enough to just swing by for a short round or even play over lunch break.

The average hole length at this course is about 260'. I've birdied every hole using only my Classic Aviar. It is a great course for a quick one or two-disc round.

The disc golf course in Auburn Park seems to be doing a decent job at what it was designed for. I have yet to see more than three groups on the course at one time. Care must be exercised when playing with other groups on the course because of how close some of the tee pads are to the preceding baskets.

The old school design in this park is fun and challenging! Most of the signage is still there, and the concrete tee pads are spacious. There's even a water shot on hole 1 with plenty of room to the left for the beginner to bail out, and a couple of long RHBH anhyser bombs.

The nine-hole loop starts and finishes near the parking lot. Walks between holes are intuitive. You really don't need a map or next tee signs here.

Plenty of variation in hole distance here. Hole 5 is a fun stand still ace run from the tee.

New basket on hole 4! That steel shines in the sun!

The park has seen better days. Erosion has taken a toll on hole 1. Several of the ditches haven't been cleaned out in years. It's almost as if this park has been forgotten about by the city.

Hole 4 has changed since the addition of a parking lot and is not reflected on any maps.

A makeover would do this course justice with new signage and baskets. It's a worthy beginner 9!

Not much to talk about here. There's baskets, signage, and concrete tees. The town is nice, and park seems well maintained. There is some artificial OB created by the walking path to increase the challenge.

Wide open, boring, and void of trees. It'll be brutal during the summer. A few baskets play close to a walking path.

There's a university nearby. At least the students have a course in a dedicated park to practice if they wanted.

There are 3 and a half baskets. Ample parking behind the school if you start on hole 5.

You need a map to bag this course. No tees except sidewalks. I did find one random tee that is no longer in use. No signage at all. No parking if you start at hole 1.

Hole 3's basket is barely hanging on as the tray has fallen off. Hole 4 's basket was nowhere to be found.

Not the best neighborhood to be walking around from what I could see.

This course needs to be relisted as a practice area. It may not be long before it's RIP'd.

West Sixth Farm is a great place to get away from it all. Considered agritourism (this phrase baffles me having grown up in the woods, but I guess city people get excited about it), the property includes goat fields, walking paths, mountain biking paths, and a dg course that finishes at the brewery.

The dg course is the perfect Am Masters course with hitting lines a requirement for most holes and a majority of holes under 300'. If you are a bomber, there are still a couple of holes to air it out. All the usual amenities of a good course are here including concrete tee pads, descriptive tee signs, next tee signs, and benches to take a break on several holes.

The land here is outstanding with plenty of elevation changes, creeks, mature trees, and some risky lies near the basket you can't see from the tee. There are old, stacked stones (walls or stacked where there used to be a fence?) that were utilized well near the greens.

It appears there is plenty of room to expand the course and add long tees or long basket locations. Most walks between holes had ample room left in the design for future expansion.

There is a taco truck after hole 18. Come hungry. I'm not a vibe guy, but I'm sure many will consider the vibes here to be a pro.

The pre-formed concrete tees are the ones with grating that grabs the grips on your shoes. I really have to be careful to not get hurt on these.

Several holes featured a tightening fairway to the green to the point that felt repetitive.

Kind of bummed it didn't have two loops of 9 holes starting and ending at the brewery to give you that ball golf clubhouse feel.

This was my 800th course played, and I wanted it to be somewhere special. The isolated feel of the woods was fantastic! I imagine this course will only get better over time. The highlight of my round was a tomahawked upshot from the woods after an errant drive on hole 6 that went in the basket for a deuce.

Keeping this short and simple, plenty of other big reviews.

Stunning experience, stunning property and just great golf even when you play poorly.
Old Glory lay out was the most fun and gives you a great run of the course with out punishing you like some of the diamond and gold holes will.

Being there in the fall and loving Maple tree's really leveled up my overall experience of the property.

If you want to shoot good on this course and really test yourself, you either need to have deep pockets or a disc sponsor. You're going to loose discs when you start pushing for score.
As someone who has a lot of discs, I don't really have any discs I am just willing to throw away for the joy of "trying that line" or "going for it."

Holes you really really want to let the course challenge push you to your limits, but to loose some of your best discs to do this? No thanks.
To make clear, this wasn't really an issue on any of the old glory layout, just the diamond and gold layouts where you're going to see this struggle.

We were there on BBQ weekend with the guy set up out front, great bbq. Ate there both days.
Pro shop was great. The guy the first day was a ton of fun and joked with us. The guy the second day was.. kind of a non talker, but still did a good job.

I don't have anything bad to say about the course as a whole except that it's punishing if you want to try and play your best and not constantly throw safety shots.

This course had me using a lot of my bag which I found to really make the experience the most enjoyable. The course is a mix of all sorts of shot shapes and lines, a little bit of elevation and even a forced layup on the water hole if you don't have a gazillion feet of distance to cover it. I actually found this layup shot to be quite fun and not forced.
Everything I could want from a course is here. Maple Hill is near by, but we all enjoyed MM63 far more as it let us play golf, have fun and enjoy the course. If I lived in the area, I would play this course quite often. The little shop at the front is great with a guest book as well. The people who own/run the property are fantastic.

MVP baskets catch well, I enjoyed them no complaints.

Overall beauty of the course is fantastic. The course needs to be beat in a bit more still, but that wont take long with the traffic it gets.

Benches or chairs everywhere is fantastic. Tee pads just feel like you need or want to sit down and enjoy a beverage and watch others golf until you're ready to start going again.

The turf pads are excellent. Bias, I am a fan of turf pads over cement. We played second day in rainy conditions and no slips, cause turf.

Course signs are not great. If you know the course this wont be something you think about, but they are not accurate on relations of tee pads to baskets sometimes and we got confused on a few holes the first time around. That's really my biggest complaint for anyone visiting. So, there might be a chance you're throwing at the wrong basket on a hole or 2 if you're not really paying attention to whats going on.

Not sure why they used athletic turf when Simon was involved in this getting MVP baskets in, but they didn't use the MVP launch pad turf tee pads??
There is nothing wrong with the tee pads out there, but I found this to be odd. Maybe Simon didn't even know they have them?

18's green is a really cool finish, but as a hole compared to the rest of the course, the shot is not very exciting. But the finish on the rock is great. Long 18 is... oh my. But short 18 is just a simple throw out into the field, and then huck it up over the rock at the tree next to the basket. After playing tree henge which is just such a basic hole that you feel so good about playing, 18 is a bit of a let down on the "golf" sort of play, but a great finish when you get up on the green.