The Asbury UMC course provides a clean, fairly open layout while posing a bit of challenge thanks to the length and shot-shaping on a couple holes.

This layout differs from the other choices on the nine-holes-or-fewer menu in the Huntsville area. First, it feels a bit more professional, thanks to the Lavone Wolfe design. Each hole features nice signage and concrete tees. There are no bad holes, and instead, the Asbury UMC course features good use of the available land.

The best hole on the course is Hole #5. The 480-foot, par-4 design forces a choice immediately, because although the first half of the hole is a wide-open field, the wall of evergreens just beyond prompts accuracy in order to align with the available gaps. In addition, several trees past the evergreens provide obstacles to the basket that sit on a small hill. Placement over distance is key here.

Another good hole is Hole #8, which requires some shot management: too far left, you're going into some rough stuff; too far right, and the sticky pines are going to smack down your disc.

Navigation is fairly easy as spotting the next tee is usually simple and intuitive.

On both of my early-morning visits here, there was no one else on the course. And the course is far enough away from the main church that even playing on Sunday mornings shouldn't be an issue.

The course design is definitely on the simple side. Very little elevation and not many trees. Some players might be bored after a couple rounds here.

While the distance is a good challenge and a chance to work on driving distance, a few tweaks might have made the course more appealing to less-experienced disc golfers. Adding a closer basket or varied placement on most of the holes could have done the trick.

There is some unnecessary backtracking from the Hole #6 basket to the Hole #7 teepad.

With the hole distance averaging close to 350 feet per hole, there isn't likely to be much score variance in this open offering. I've played the Asbury UMC course twice and shot 1-down and 2-down (take that, wellsbranch) with matching scores on every hole – a birdie on Hole #2 and pars everywhere else – except for hitting a C2 birdie putt on Hole #3 during my second play.

This course checks enough boxes to merit a rating higher than 2.0, however.

Plenty of room here for 9 holes and the designer used the space well. Mostly open mowed grass land with baskets either placed near enough the tree lines to make it interesting or around the few isolated trees that exist, making the best of what would be a pretty boring, open course otherwise. Holes 4-6 playing on the adjacent property were my favorite as they played in and around a few more trees.

Navigation was fairly easy, tees and tee posts easy to find, baskets all visible. (I took the liberty to make a rough map and uploaded it to DGCR.)

A decent rec/intro course with normal hole lengths for this skill level (in that 200'-300'range). Lots of recovery room for errant shots or room to bail if you don't want to flirt with the tree lines.

Baskets, oh these awful In-Step baskets- you just can't expect to routinely make long putts on them. In a perfect disc golf world these baskets would be moved to nearby Greenbrier and their Machs moved here.

Tees- at least the tee areas were easy to find- 2 long 4x4's in parallel. Yet many of theme had black landscape material between them, some held down by big rocks in the middle of the area, so I just played from beside them. With the tee posts here, natural tees would be just fine- forget carpet or other removable material.

Tee signs are just paper and not all were fully present. Writing the hole number and distance on the post and pointing the way to the basket would be more than sufficient here.

Hole 8- I first accidentally played to 3's basket since you can't see 8 basket, nor would one ever think 8 would be where it is when standing on the tee. The hole shape is la bit abnormal, and not great for a RHBH like me since it requires such a sharp, short cut. But a big anny, a forehand, a lefty, or a roller can possibly get you there for a 2.

I showed up with low expectations, but left with a positive feeling. I would not want to play here more than a few times, as it really is suited for the casual player or a novice. Also good for a quick practice round.

Of the entry level 9-holers in Madison area of Huntsville this one is on the same level as Dublin, and both are way better than Greenbrier). Asbury is flatter and is more private/isolated and has longer holes. Dublin is shorter, has elevation and more obstacles but is in a popular city park.

I rated it 1.5 and with some different baskets, and a slight upgrade in the tee signs, it would approach a 2.0 (reasonable).

(2.268 Rating) (REVISED - replayed January 2023) A recent tweaked design and amenities facelift.
- UPGRADES - New DISCatcher baskets, new signage, new concrete tees, new course map and a lengthened layout. Most of this occurred in February 2021 (tees later in the spring), and thus the 2 old reviews got archived.
- UPGRADED CHALLENGE - The old layout was an MA4 level layout requiring little power and little technical prowess. The re-design has added a ton of length. Holes now average over 300-feet long. I finished 4 over on my first re-attempt, although I did play with a couple random discs from the trunk of my car as I forgot my bag. With my full bag, I've thrown 1 down twice and over 1 once as an MA2 level player. This course now personally feels like an upper MA3 level course or a lower MA2 level course. Unfortunately, there is still not a lot of technical requirements, like that of the old course.
- UPGRADED HOLE VARIETY - Mostly park style shots with a spattering of trees. There is a little elevation now on (5) and (6), but sadly still no water in play. I really liked the new par 4s on the layout and the atrocious old hole (8) no longer exists. It would have been cool if the slopes and trees northeast of fairway (9) were incorporated into the layout. Overall I'd say that the hole variety is around average now among the 500 plus courses I've played.
- NAVIGATION - Typical well built Lavone signage. There's a wonderful course map next to tee (1), and first timers would be wise to take a quick photo of it. Next tee signs can typically be seen after finishing a basket and the tee signs are large and prominent. No artistic description of the hole line, but it's really not necessary on this style of course as baskets can be seen from every tee, except (6) long tee.
- QUICK PLAY - Still a somewhat quick play despite the greatly increased length. It takes me less than 30 minutes on the new layout. It has easy flow, and also respectable navigation as noted above.
- BEGINNER FRIENDLY - Less beginner friendly than the original because of the increased length, but the thing that newer players will appreciate here is that the odds of losing a disc, or even spending time searching for one, is low. Beginners will have a great opportunity to try and develop some power here.

Slightly below average beauty and amenities.
- NATURAL BEAUTY - I upped my score for beauty a hair. Very little elevation, no water views and no nice backdrop views from the layout. The course plays through several open fields that have buildings in view basically the entire time. There are a few backyards that can be seen and that can come into play on hole (3). I scored the course a 2.25 out of 5.0 for beauty.
- AMENITIES - Thank the lord the decrepit InStep baskets were removed in favor of DISCatchers. Tees have been upgraded to concrete, but only measure 4 by 8. There are a couple multiple basket placements and hole (6) has two tees. No tee seating, practice basket or finishing shelter.

I scored the original design a 1.25. It lacked a lot of things, from challenge to signage to baskets to variety. All of these aspects have been upgraded, some significantly. This course is way better now than nearby Dublin. Still however, for those coming to Huntsville to play courses, this should not be on the list to play unless quantity is more important than quality. Near-by Indian Creek is still a far superior disc golf example over this one. With all the upgrades, I personally think this is the best 9-hole course in Huntsville, and thus still better than recent 9-hole newcomers like Journey Church and Ken Johnston. Overall a 2.25 tweener course in my books and about 85 percentile among my played 9 holers.