Bristol Park is a flat multi use park with ball fields , and a very nice playground for the children . I don't know if parts of the park include the cornfields , but more on that later . The park is mowed and seems well kept regarding it's priorities . There was no one playing disc golf on this 9 hole course in the late Sunday morning that I was there , but lots of young children with their parents at the playground .There will be no problem parking in the spacious lot here . As you pull into the park , keep in mind that the first tee is to the right ( opposite of the cornfields ) . It should be visible as you leave your car . The tees are natural , the baskets are your basic but stable ones . The signage is old school with the hole # , distance and basic picture of the fairway ( faded , but good enough ) with some yellow tubing around the bottom for visibility for the players . . I saw no tee sign for #9 and the tee sign for 4 was laying on the ground . You will need a map for this course , but really for just navigating holes 6 and 7 . Taking you through counter clockwise shape of the course , 1-4 are flat and open drives , one a little close to the outfield ball fence , ranging 250-350' maybe . #5 is flat but more interesting ( 355' ) . You throw towards an overgrown brush of a mound with enough room on either side to choose which side to land on . Then you better look where your approach shot could go . Some grown corn beyond this mound has a small section mowed out of it and the basket is hidden against the corn and seems ,,,,Abandoned ! . No only is it sitting right against the corn but there are weeds growing up through the bottom of the basket . After finishing this hole , your map comes into play . Stay to the right of the wide path on the outermost end of the park and after a longer walk , you will arrive at #6's tee . The only elevation of the park , this is a downhill tighter short putter/short ace approach drive ( 158' , par 2 ? ) that moves ever so slightly right . The next tee ( 7 ) is on your extreme left a short walk from the 6 basket . You may want to walk up the fairway to see where the basket is . This is a pretty extreme right to left slightly uphill midrange drive that wraps around the foliage to the basket set almost against the brush and on a small hill/incline . After finishing , you walk back towards the open part of the course , throwing #8 , a flat 390' drive with a tall cornfield line on your immediate right and is completely open in front and on the left of you . I never found the sign for #9 , so I safaried it where I thought it should be , according to the map . The basket has the cornfield behind it , and a 3-4 foot high fence in front of guarding the front of the green . You can walk around either side of this fence , and I don't know whether this was by design , or as a deterrent for kids , but I thought it was as strange as the #5 basket placement . All in all , I think you will get some exercise playing this course .. This would be good for locals and after dinner challenges from the neighboring families , or for better players to work on their approach game or putting skills . Disc Risk : minimal on most of the holes but possible on 5 , maybe the blind shot 7 , and the cornfield on 8 . This course could be a 30-40 minute play for a solo player, even for a one time out of towner . My signature hole would be #7 , the blind shot uphill right to left hole .

#1 The course design is pretty boring . Mostly flat and open throws . Not much to get your attention . #2 The course equipment . Faded tee signs , one missing and 1 lying on the ground , basket covered in corn stalks and weeds , a couple of tilted baskets ( 8 is one of them ) , grass tee pads , of which you are never sure whether to throw to the right or the left of the sign . #3 the dreaded corn can come into play on a few of the holes , and that combined with some very thick rough can turn your 35 minute round into a Long Day ,,, or a missing driver . #4 I'm not sure if the weather comes into play here , but it seems like this course could hold water after a rain , and since it is out in the open , maybe some wind gusts ( pro OR con ) . The amenities start and end with the ball fields . Port O Lets , and water may be found there along with trash cans and a couple of benches , stands .

I think that the objective in mind was to make a simple local park course for the area without putting a lot of time , money or upkeep into it , and that objective seems met . I do not want to insinuate that this course is a dog that should be put down ( course pulled ) . I want to thank Waverly for promoting disc golf .My Recommendation : This is a good course for newbies , and families or the local schoolers or families wanting some fresh air and a little competition , or even some out of towners looking to stretch their legs or bag a quick course .Other than that , you might want to take a pass here .

It's there, and there are baskets.
Not busy during the week, especially daytime.
Wide open, good for practicing drives, etc.

No tee pads.
Minimal signage (though to be honest, it's pretty easy to see the basket.) Only really a factor on #5 and #7.
Basket placement on 5 and 7 are both cons. 5 less so.
Hole 6 and 7 are both cons - not really needed, adds nothing to the course but two sub-par holes (par2?! Really?!)

Tried this out on my way home from a doctor's appointment, figuring I'd do a little course bagging. It's bagged, but I doubt I'll play it again unless I've got time to kill in Waverly.

My biggest complaint is holes 6 and 7. They seem pointless. You could have run a fairway from around 5's basket up the path to around 6's tee pad and had a half-way decent hole. Renumber 8 as 7, 9 as 8, then run another hole back closer to the parking lot for #9. Maybe there was a reason they couldn't do that, I don't know, but that was in my mind as I walked back to my car from 9's basket.

SOMEONE put a fence up about 30 feet or so from 9's basket, by the way. My drive was about 30 feet short of the fence, but I can see some bigger arms getting upset about a perfect drive that should be parked, but bounced off the fence and rolled back 20 or 30 feet. Recommend moving the basket a bit closer to make it inside the fence.

I'm glad there's a course in Waverly - it's now the second closest course to my house (third once Black Bear is completed). I just wish it was worth the drive.

Waverly, Ohio (just a half hour south of the hilly and wooded courses in Chillicothe) has its own nine hole disc golf course in Bristol Park. It features ten new-ish 18 chain baskets and some older looking, basic (hole number and distance) tee signs, with all the posts wrapped with bright yellow corrugated piping for visibility. They used the spaces around the baseball outfields and two short holes between the woods and the cornfields at the back of the park where a little elevation could come into play. They've said there might be some more holes installed in the future.

Almost all the holes are open for easy beginner play, but there is some non-beginner distance to make them par threes (for the most part) for even Recreational players. Holes 6 & 7 were extreme shorties (ace runs, in fact), but at least asked for some control to stay out of the thick stuff. Dragged my buddy out there, and was pre-apologetic about it, until he threw a pretty little ace on 6 (you want to float a putter in - he's expert with his Comet midrange - so it doesn't float down the slope beyond).

There's plenty of parking right beside the practice basket, and the course loops back there at the finish. Obviously, this park focuses around the eight ball fields and the kids' playground, but it's nice to have a disc golf course in town.

So far, they've chosen to use the flat, open terrain for seven of the holes, which means no forced line shaping or real challenge, except for ranging the distances needed for your tee shots. If there are games on the fields, you should obviously consider anything passing an outfield fence as OB. It seemed odd that they mow the fields, but leave a few square yards of high stuff around the tee signs. And letting the weedy clump obscuring the fifth basket grow right up into it, is ...odd. The tees are unmarked grass, so you're supposed to throw from somewhere near the signs, I suppose. And there's an unusual fence on the approach to the 9th basket, which fortunately has a gateway. I guess this might actually be a positive, as it becomes a feature you do have to work around, and which could be used to define an 'island green'.

The real frustration for me was being teased with the potential they have at the back of the park to do something really interesting. As you play hole 5 (the odd one with the weed island green), you walk right past a really nice, small shelter overlooking the woods-fringed bowl of land they should be using for the disc golf course. My suggestion would be to immediately pull three or four of the bland holes out front (maybe keep 4, 5 & 8?) and get busy putting in some elevation and woods holes back there, and certainly having a feature 'top of the world' shot right beside that shelter. It wouldn't even add any materials cost: keep it nine holes, but make half of them much more interesting.

Like I always say, it's great that somebody put in the effort and expense to build a course. And there will be folks who'll enjoy it as it stands (I added some pictures and a course map for first timers: enjoy!). But, I'd say out of towners like me who are dedicated to the pursuit of course bagging would really appreciate it even more if that teaser land were used!

This course could be useful for a new player exploring his range of distance. There are several holes well beyond the distance range of the typical beginner... certainly beyond my own. It may be that usage by the nearby retirement community and adjacent neighborhood were envisioned, and if so the course would be suitably undemanding.

However... it appears that neither the old folks nor anyone else are using the course much. This is probably because it is very boring, and in some cases ill-conceived. This is mostly due to the resources at hand, namely a flat, empty fringe of grass that skirts a group of ball-fields. The holes have, mostly, an appropriate range of distance, but are without meaningful obstacles of any kind. Aesthetic appeal is also lacking.

More specific are these faults:
Hole 5: The basket is currently among a clump of head-high weeds. While some sort of a challenge is refreshing, putting through grass is likely not the sort of obstacle most would prefer.
Basket 5 to Tee 6: There is no indication of where to go, and 6&7 will be missed by anyone walking the course for the first time. These holes are tucked along the farm path that circles the crop-fields. Go straight (E) and around a right turn after 5 instead of left to #8.
Holes 6&7: 6 is a 158' par 2, according to the sign. While I don't much care about par arguments, the fact remains that the basket could have been easily planted farther down the hill and a sensible hole made of it. As it is, the basket is perched on an overgrown edge of the farm path, and any errant throw to its right will, in summertime, land in a very difficult weedpatch/ravine/sinkholeinwhichlieswhatlooksexactlylikeahumanskullfromadistancebutisactuallysomesortoffiberglassroundthing. If the course was played regularly and these weeds trampled/cut, the hole would be merely silly. As it is, there's no point in even playing it. You'll be furious if you throw into the scrub, and bored if you "par". Hole 7 is similarly a joke. Described as 221' (I think) on the sign, the straight line distance to the hole is probably 100' less. In summer the line is obstructed only by some weeds, but an overhand toss by even the most elementary player will reach the basket.

Other "cons" that I don't personally care about are the lack of tee pads or decent signage, and the large red man in the small orange shorts that watches you as you play past his back yard on holes 1-4. Fancy pads and signs here would be a pearls before swine situation, so I'm not complaining.

I have read somewhere that 9 more holes may be coming eventually. If so, the course will get longer, but not better. A big empty field is available, but nothing very interesting can probably be made of it. Certainly it could become "better" as a practice field, according to a "more is better" philosophy. The role of practice field is after all a noble one, and this course could be thought of as genuinely useful if only it weren't so secluded and thus neglected.