Macoutah Scheve Park is a recreational 18-hole course that snakes around various park amenities. This course is pretty beginner friendly, and attempts to provide variety by having 2 tee pads for each basket, making for the 18-hole course with 9 baskets.

Location of Scheve Park makes this course relatively easy to access from I-64 or Il-177. Holes 1/10 are right at the park entrance to the left, so you don't have to wander too far to find the course start unless you don't spot them like me. This is the last course along I-64 for a while when driving away from St. Louis, but it's not too far from the Belleville and Swansea courses if you want to make a day of golf. Van Man Discs is also in that area for you disc golf purchase needs. For gas and food, there are a few options in Mascoutah, along with near I-64.

Park amenities are robust at Scheve. While playing your round of disc golf, you'll pass by multiple ball fields, a skatepark, a community pool, several reservable shelters, a playground, horseshoe pits (complete with bleachers!), a dog park, and a historic house/farm.

Course Equipment is in great shape at Scheve. The course includes 16 concrete tees, with 6 and 15 using a walking path as a tee area. The baskets are orange DGAs and still look brand new. The signs are simple, but include hole numbers, pars, distances, and sponsors.

Course Design at Scheve attempts to maximize the space between different park uses. The course uses a fairly wide variety of distances, ranging from less than 200 feet to over 500 depending on the hole. Most of the holes incorporate straight shots, but use trees and other buildings/structures as obstacles to throw around (or over).

Course Design here is pretty straight forward, and may leave more advanced players wanting more. While a few holes have some bends in the fairways and opportunities for shot shaping, most of the shots are straight and easy to get a birdie look on if you've been playing for a little bit. A lot of the holes have tees that don't really make for different shots from another either. Holes 1 and 10, 7 and 16, and 9 and 18 are all especially similar to each other. It's nice that the parks department put money in to this course for 2 concrete tees though - I just think that more variety in the shot shapes would elevate this course in quality, or even just finding the best tee placement for the course to be a great 9 hole instead.

Safety came to mind a few times when I played this course. Hole 5 has the skatepark between the tee and basket, and while I'm sure the idea is that you throw around it, a stray shot could easily find its way in that direction. Holes 6 and 15 also come close to the historic house/farm area, with 15 requiring you to throw over and through buildings. If people are parked or hanging around this area, you could easily hit them or not realize they are there. The barn roof is also very loud if your drive hits it from 15, not that I would know that from experience.

Navigation can be confusing at Scheve if you don't have UDisc. There is no map on site, and some of the tees are hard to find. Parts of the course don't really follow a logical flow, which may add time to your round. I found 13 by accident after throwing from hole 12's tee to 13's basket. Holes 6 and 15 might also be hard to find from 5/14's basket as well, along with 8/17 to 9/18. An on-site map or next tee direction signs would help with this issue, or switching hole numbers around. UDisc has some alternate hole orders available, so check those out if you play this course, as they may provide a better flow and enjoyable round.

Course Difficulty at Scheve may leave you wondering what level of player this course was designed for. A lot of the course is pretty easy, which will provide the opportunity for intermediate and advanced players to get an impressive looking score. I'm an intermediate player, and scored a 46 on my first go here. That being said, the length of the longer holes, along with some of the shots that require playing close to other park uses, may be harder for newer players to work with. An open 500 foot hole that's a par 4 is going to be easier for an experience player to birdie, but may be daunting to a new player that doesn't have much distance to their drive.

Overall, Mascoutah Scheve Park is a pretty straightforward 18-hole course that can be played in a fairly short period of time. If you're driving along I-64 and looking for a good course to play, I'd suggest other courses in the metro east area before this one. If you're a course bagger, then this one is pretty easy to get to and can be combined with other nearby courses.

Check out Van Man Discs in Swansea if you have time and need new discs. They're very helpful, have a good selection, and will even let you test discs out before purchasing.

The Mascoutah Scheve Park DGC is a flat and fairly open park course that offers a sample of disc golf without being interesting.

The bright orange baskets are easy to spot. The teepads are as flat as the course and in good condition.

The distances are a bit long for a park course. The signs suggest a par of 36, which is definitely on the generous side for all but novice players. A par of 29 or 30 seems about right for experienced players, with Holes #2 and #5 (and maybe Hole #6) qualifying as par-4s.

Obstacles are few, as long as you survey for park-goers. A couple holes are close to other park attractions. There are trees on the first few holes, but Holes #5, 6, 7 and 9 are nearly devoid of timber.

Apparently, Hole #9 was changed since its original design to allow for a return to the starting point. Excellent decision.

The course is going to be challenging for casual players since most of the holes are over 300 feet, and Hole #2 tops the 500-foot mark. The course tries to offer some variety with two different tees, but this space could have been better utilized by just choosing the best position for each teepad.

There's a long walk between Hole #4 and #5, which includes crossing the park road. This situation is made worse by having Hole #4 direct away from Hole #5. Course navigation might have been better by flipping Holes #3 and #4.

Hole #5 goes over (or around) a skate park area.

I couldn't find the teepad for Hole #6, so I just threw from the narrow path before a creek that is actually called Hog River. And Hole #9 runs parallel to the main road.

Traveling east from St. Louis, the Mascoutah Scheve Park DGC is the last course that is "just off of" a very rural section of Interstate 64 for about the next hour. Plus, if you decide to venture far off of I-64, there are much better disc golf options in this part of the state.

The city derived its name from the Mascoutens, a tribe of Indians originally located in Michigan.

This course is like plain oatmeal - it fills you up but is rather bland and you will probably want to order something else next time. Unless you live in this area of southern Illinois, even the ardent disc golfers won't visit more than once.

Flat course, no big challenge, but well maintained. Good baskets. A couple long holes, a couple short. There is some traffic in the park, but not too much.

Could be a bit more challenging ... but still a fun 9 holes.

Open, Easy, fun

broken layout, heavy kid traffic at times

Nice course for an afternoon of play, though I'm not opposed to walking a large distance, if it would not have been for the map at tee 1, finding 5 -9 might have not happened. still very fun.

- Nice to have another course in the area.
- Situated in a nice, clean park with lots of mature trees over much of the course. The park also has two train displays, a diner car and a caboose, which add a nice atmosphere to the play. Holes 1 and 2 play around those.
- New baskets
- Good signage with distance listed and short description of holes. Signs are easy to find except tee 5.
- Holes 1-4 are well situated and intuitive and once we found hole 5, the other holes were easy to find as well.

- Odd layout of a few holes creates a lot of walking, which could be remedied by a few adjustments.
- Hole 5 is a long walk from hole 4 and there's nothing to direct a player to hole 5. Hint: If you park next to hole 1, turn around facing north and you'll see hole 5, hole 4 is clear across a field a hundred yards away.
- Hole 8 basket is a long ways from both hole 9 and the parking lot.
- Hole 9 tee is at the parking lot and plays away from the car, which causes a player to have to walk back to the parking lot.

- Recommend moving tee 5 right next to basket 4, and place basket 5 near basket 3. This will eliminate the long walk to tee 5.
- Recommend making tee 6 directly across Park road and change basket 5 to basket 6. This would make a shorter hole where 5 is currently located.
- Then re-number 6-8 as 7-9.
- Remove the current hole 9 or move it close to the area of hole 8 and make this a 10 hole course.
- With all the space in the fields near the historical buildings, a few more holes could easily be added.
- My friend and I agreed we would tee off for hole 5 from near basket 4. It makes for a really long hole and crosses a road, but it sure would make the course layout more smooth.

- The course plays like two separate courses. Holes 1-4 and 9 are under trees in the main area of the park, while 5 goes near a maintenance shed and holes 6-8 play in an open field around some nice historical buildings.

Nice to have another course in Southern Illinois.
A few long holes to open your arm up on.
Nice, clean park.
Some holes play around historic buildings in park.

Will be difficult to play when other events are going on in the park.
Pedestrian Traffic.
The park floods badly when it rains.
Some long walks between holes.