See below for the course flow in "other thoughts," so that people won't tromp around so much looking for holes, like I had to do.
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The holes themselves are mostly interesting and cool in and of themselves. 17 and 18 are stinkers mowed into the grass. Not sure what could have been done about this, but they are a sore thumb as it stands today.

Some challenging tree gaps from #7 thru #16.

Quite a pretty area for a walk.

Steps, where needed, are in place in the steep areas, almost cart-friendly (I got mine through fine). Thank you to whoever did this work.

It's disc golf! And the terrain is good.

The flow is unfriendly for your first time, to the point that you might not find all the holes.

The tight tree gaps are more of a 'con' for me, but that's because I'm not very good. #7 thru #16 (except for #9) can be very frustrating.

For #9, you will probably throw a hyzer over a road with a blind hill. It would be very easy to brick a vehicle here through no fault of anyone. Please consider using a spotter for this tee shot.

Walking from #5-#6, and then back from #9-#10 is on a narrow road and is not necessarily safe.

Chains are getting a bit old and rusty, though the baskets seem to catch fine still.

Okay, the flow. As of 3 February 2020.


#1 is up past the kiosk. You tee off by throwing over the service road and straight uphill to a blind basket.

#2 is a short walk to the left and you throw toward the park entrance.

#3 is across the park road and the tee will be to your left soon.

#4 is back across the park road on the huge 'island' made by the access/parking road. You're just uphill from the parking lot, teeing from in front of the access road down the long island.

#5 is also on the 'island' and you tee from the road in the parking lot. There is a small wooden sign with a '5' and a mark on the road.

#6 is a hike, down the main road for a few hundred yards and then turn right and walk to the end of a parking lot. Wooden sign and tee area is marked. You tee through a tree gap into a more open area.

#7 is uphill left from #6. It's near the pad for #9. It's a par 4, stay right, on the high ground.

#8 is close to #7s basket, down into the thicker woods to the right. Tee pad was visible from #7 basket.

#9 walk back up the hill, it's near #7s tee but throwing the other way.

#10 is back in the parking lot. Throws down into the woods from the parking area and is easy to find.

#11-#16 through the tight woods should be navigable without directions.

#17 is NOT THE FIRST TEE PAD YOU SEE. Walk well past that to the road and go left. Throw up to a mowed island.

#18 is close by and obvious.


I really recommend printing these directions out or finding somebody who has played it before. The PDGA map is not correct, at all. Appears to have been majorly redesigned. If you try to follow that map, as I did, you will get very confused.

It feels bad only giving this 2.5 stars, as the holes themselves are mostly worthy of a 3+. But the navigation and the finishing duds hurt this course.


btw if anybody can figure out how the heck you're supposed to get close on #16 through the wall of trees, let us know.

Sioux Passage features 2 courses in this large park , this being the technical shorter of the 2 . This course does not have quite as tall grass as the Original , except for #s 17 and 18 . Briscoe Woods has nice but kind of short cement tees , baskets are in good condition , and plenty of parking available either at the tennis courts or up next to the #10 tee . This is a more technical course with more than half the course in the woods . The course will test your nerve . Not as much elevation on this course as the other , but the course designers did as much with it as they could which is okay . The basket placements were good enough . My favorite hole would have been 17 if there was some type of fairway to the green , so I counted it as #10 , where you start your drive out of the bushed on your right and left , downhill to the guarded green .

Truthfully , I gave this course a 2.5 instead of a 2 only because the park has 2 courses within walking distance of one another . My list of problems with this course starts with #1. Kiosk at the course does NOT update you nor show you the layout of this course . If you are an out of town disc golf enthusiast like me , you need this if the course flow is not obvious . I never could find baskets or tees for 6-9 so I gave up on them . The tee signs are basically a long piece of wood with a paper with a number sealed in plastic . I found out that this course was redesigned over again . There is NO course flow here . If you didn't print a map off and are not a local , you are going on a safari to find many of these holes . Especially going from 16 to 17 . You pop out of the woods and you will encounter a tee pad without a number on your left . Steps lead from the tee pad down to the ground where in front of you very high grass and vegetation exists . DO NOT THROW FROM THIS TEE PAD . A small sign about 200' + in front of the pad states it is a growth project . Why someone didn't just write in chalk to not tee there and point to the real tee pad , I don't know . Up a little farther past this tee pad is the tee pad for 17 . Your drive will go to a makeshilft island which is just grass mowed lower about 20' around the pin . It was hard to see where this island was because the grass was so high , even in the fairway , I had to wander out in the high grass to make sure it existed . There is a drop zone off to your left if you miss the island . You walk up the hill after finishing 17 to 18's tee pad . where you throw slightly downhill ( more of a fairway ) to the final basket . I figured out where #1's tee pad was from there , was not sure that was it because the wind had blown the flapping tee sign closed . #1 tee pad is next to the road upwards from where you tee off for #10 . It is a straight shot uphill , where unless you walk up the fairway , as with all of the blind baskets on this course , you will not know that it is almost straight in front of you about 300' . #2 goes down towards the entrance to the park , where you will cross the street to find #3 . After throwing up the left side of the street ( only hole on this side ) , you come back over to #4 , which is visible from #1 and #10's tees . a straight shot . Then I wasn't sure where #5's tee pad was so I had to safari to the basket down the hill . NEXT TEE signs would work wonders for this course , or even colored tape on the rungs of the bottom of the basket pointing you toward the tee ( Most of the courses in the St Louis area lack this ) . Did I mention that the navigation was terrible on this course . I gave up after looking and not finding #6's tee . Bugs are terrible in this park . Bring spray . The only bathroom I saw on the course was a large one to the left and down the road from the #5 basket .

Being a decent drive northwest of St Louis and away from I-70 , you have to have a product worth the effort to come here . You already boast 2 courses in one park , and can link White Birch, Dunegant and Hudson in with it since it there are on the way or are close to it .. If you want your park to be a feature in this area , you have to take care of it and bring it up a couple of standards . Some real signage , mowing and general trimming would take care of most of it . I am glad I came to see what Sioux Passage Park was all about , but left a bit unfulfilled . My recommendation : If you have lots of time to play a lot of the courses in St Louis and want to travel the extra 5 miles from Dunegant , go ahead and give it a try , but don't build up great expectations .