While driving back home from the Ohio Senior Olympics in June, my wife and I heard a radio advertisement for a disc golf course. I said, "Did you hear that?" We turned it up, and discovered that the Jackson Lake campground was advertising their many activities, including disc golf, camping, swimming, fishing, game room, etc. It was a first for me, to hear about a new course, on the radio!

Finally able to check it out this weekend, it turns out that they've installed a pretty nice little nine hole course geared to the casual player they're likely to attract to the park. With Freedom baskets (a decent basket, but with only a single ring of chains), natural turf tee areas with an embedded toe board and a basic hole number sign, all holes range between 150 and 230 feet in distance. They incorporate the space beside the smaller pond, across a little dip, around a small grove of trees, then peak with a short #5 where you can choose from a couple of tighter lines, to #6, a true disc golf hole with a guarded basket just inside the woods, situated on a rollaway green, and a tightly wooded #7, before coming back out to the open for the last two.

The course flow is logical, but they do provide you with a basic map (I've added an aerial one here on DGCR), a generic scorecard, and an intro to disc golf flyer from the PDGA.

Even a Recreational Level competitive player won't find much challenge here, and should expect to shoot scores between 19 and 23 for each quick loop of nine holes. Which means that the $5-6 per person park fee won't be too attractive to most higher level players, unless they're already coming here for the rest of the attractions.

If you've played a number of more competitive courses, you'll likely look at the woods as you leave, and say to yourself, "now there's much better looking terrain here for a course than what they used". But they geared the course toward casual players, families, and kids, after all.

Not necessarily a permanent issue, but the course is new, yet we had to send someone ahead to hold up the 4th basket, which was lying on the ground.

I'm glad I came to check it out. Once. If this looks like your cup of tea, or you'd like to spend a summer day out of town, swimming, grilling, and getting in a little family disc golf, it might be worth one visit, too.