Frank Wilson Park had a disc golf course installed in 2010. Coincidentally, that appears to also be the last year any attention was given to the Frank Wilson Park course.
- With some strong elevation on the first two holes, and a steep hill as a backdrop across the park road, I thought we might be in for a very challenging round. It turns out the only challenge was staying interested in the rest of the round.
- First 4 holes all do an excellent job of incorporating elevation. #4 is the biggest downhole layout, teeing off from the edge of the park road. Could be a fun, scenic hole when the leaves are on the trees. Not as much when the leaves are on the ground.
- Lots of birdie chances throughout this round. With a shorter layout, and generous fairways (by wooded hole standards), you can be aggressive without much penalty.
- #10, 11, 13, 16, & 18 all have nice throw across valleys, or slightly downhill layouts to them. They're more varied than most of the other holes.
- The Virginia Museum of Natural History serves as a nice backdrop on #14. It's easily the nicest thing around here. It probably would have been more a more enjoyable, and a more productive use of an hour's worth of time.
- Course is easy to navigate. That's a good thing.

I'll be delicate in how I say this: the course is very bland. There are a lot of simple, straightforward layouts. There's a lot of wasted use of elevation here.
- The park overall is in poor shape. Money isn't going towards its upkeep.
- Odd perception. For a small town (population was 13K in '23), it took a long time driving across town to get to the park. There are a ton of red lights. Throw in driving up and down hills, and dealing with small-town drivers, just getting to the park is an adventure.
- Tee signs follow the stick-man interpretive method. Circle for the tee. Circle for the basket. And dotted lines shall connect the two. With that level of attention to detail, it's a great thing these holes aren't longer.
- No benches or trash cans on the course itself. There are trash cans in the park, so they're not too much of a detour. Although, based on the trash I saw throughout the park, they unfortunately seem like a suggestion for some people here.
- Tees are inconsistent. Some of dirt, some are mats. The only consistent is how inconsistently bad they are.
- The walk down some of the slopes – especially walking downhill after #3's basket and the walk down #4's fairway can be a bit tricky when conditions aren't great.
- It just isn't a fun layout. It's a wasted opportunity for sure.

Poor Frank Wilson. Whoever he is/was, he deserved better than this park.
- The previous review for the course is from 2015. Even though it might be considered out of the way, that should be telling.
- After hole #4, the next enjoyable, or even somewhat decent hole is #10. Of the stretch from #5 to 9, #6 is the best of those, but it's a low bar to clear.
- The back nine only has 4 or 5 other decent holes to boot. Overall, in this course, there is not a single good hole. Maybe this is an unfair comparison, but there is not a single hole here that is better than the worst hole at Mayflower Hills an hour away. Not one truly challenging hole. Not one truly fun hole. If you want cheap thrills, people may say #4 simply because it's a downhill layout.
- This course isn't even close to being as good as Ferrum College or Farris Park, both about 30 minutes away from here.
- I'll give the course a slight benefit of the doubt that it becomes more scenic once the leaves are back on the trees. At least based on some of the pictures from the course, it gives a better impression.
- The course could use a good makeover for sure. Redesign some of the holes, improve tee signs and tee pads. That will go a long way to help this course.
- I won't be surprised if/when this course eventually dies. Just look at the fact this course only has 4 reviews in 14 years: none in the past 9.
- A very depressing layout for sure. The museum sticks out like a sore thumb in this part of town.
- I'd be surprised if I ever play here again, even considering the likelihood I'll be driving right by again to play Waid Championship's layout at some point.

This is a really beautiful course set throughout J. Frank Wilson Memorial Park. In reality, this course is possibly the best kept secret in local parks and rec., since as someone who lived in the area for years, I didn't even know this course existed until just recently.

For a course whose average hole seemed to be about 230ish feet, there really were a fair amount of interesting shots. Doglegs both right and left, and significantly up and downhill keep you interested rather than feeling like you are at a pitch-and-putt.

Many of the green complexes are signifcantly sloped which adds a bit of difficulty to the putt and approach from which the course definitely benefits. Watch out for rollaways!

For a course that doesn't at first glance appear to get a ton of foot traffic, the DISCatchers were in great shape, the hole lines were cleanly cut and maintained, and navigation was a breeze with ample navigational signs. Finding the first tee is easy, look for the big sign at the first parking lot that will direct you to a course map with scorecards available. Facilities on site include covered picnic areas and restroom facilities. I also appreciated the wooden steps that were cut into a few of the steeper walks to help with footing.

Some of the throws down the hills and into the lower valleys of the course, 4 being a great example, are very picturesque.

Not a ton of distance variety here. I really wanted to rip a driver but never got the chance.

Course terrain is very rocky which is sometimes difficult on footing, and is not easy on the discs either.

Hole 4 is dangerous. The teeing area is on the park road in the middle of a turn. That is setting up for someone to be hit by a car.

Hole 17 is a bit close to the basketball area and I have heard that has caused some interference in the past.

Teepads are a bit inconsistent. Some are well packed dirt and cinders bordered by logs and with a wooden plank in place to mark the front of the pad. Others are uneven dirt without a marker present. Hole 4 is mentioned above.

The hole par here is often very very generous. In reality, most every hole should play as a par 3, but this is supposed to be a beginner-friendly course so take that into consideration.

It's a pitch'n putt with fun elevation. It plays around a skate park and basketball court, up and down hills and a few valley shots which makes it thoroughly enjoyable. Great course for albinos, you never stray too far from the canopy of mature trees, a surprisingly verdant course for being in a city park. The baskets are solid, the tees are natural but in good shape mostly, and the designer(s) did an admirable job switching the holes up. For such a short course, it's impressive that the holes didn't suffer much from monotony, largely due to the elevation. A few baskets are located on quick greens to sprinkle some challenge on an otherwise easy course. Even a creek comes into play, kind of, on a couple of holes.

• The assigned pars are extremely forgiving. Everything on this course should have been a par 3 and maybe a handful of par 2s if you're into that sort of thing.

• Natural tees but few holes require much of a run-up so they're not likely to get rutted out quickly.

• Lots of green underbrush and occasional briers so be wary of tossing green discs around on certain holes.

• The tee signs aren't terribly graphic. When in doubt, just throw straight.

• Couldn't really play 16 because one of the basketball playing homeys parked his whip directly behind the basket. Lots of potential to hit cars if you over shoot the basket any when the court is full.

This isn't a road trip course by any means but it made a nice, fun warm-up for us on the way to Sontag. A really good course to work your putter game but I actually broke out a driver here and there to hit certain angles. Just a cool little park to kill time with a quick round.

* Good use of elevation.
* Many "ace run" holes.
* Layout is logical with baskets and tees close together.
* Parks and Recreation Department does a good job of maintaining the course.

* Course is short, designer maximized space but still no long holes.
* Course is relatively easy, no real rough, can almost always recover from bad drives to get par.

Fun short course, not much challenge though. Some holes are marked as par 4's but should be 3's. Overall good course, definitely worth playing.

• Its a nice short 18 hole course located in downtown Martinsville.
• Was a fun course to play while me and my dad were down for vacation.
• A lot of chances for ace runs.

• Unfortunately the course is located/wrapped around a skateboarding park, which was loaded with kids. So it was quite difficult to concentrate when needed.
• It seems the creator of the course had limited space and had to compact the course to get the full 18 in.
• Would have been nicer if the course was slightly longer.
• A few of the holes play over a road that leads into park and other holes played back towards the basketball court/parked cars. Was tons of people there so it made those shots dangerous.

•All in all it was a fun course to play and next year when we are down we will probably play it again.
• Its short enough to get in multiple rounds in one day/a few hours