36 holes in two 18 hole loops from the parking lot
Best tee markers I've ever seen with awesome hand crafted maps and pin position indicators
Course is extremely well manicured
Long concrete tee pads
Multiple tee pads on several holes
3 pin positions on almost every hole
The huge scorecard/layout board/lost disc kiosk
Benches at (almost) every tee box
Water fountains and bathrooms abound
Bag trees at the tees
Tons of easy to find Next Tee signs
Two practice baskets, 1 open and 1 surrounded by large trees

The wait times on busier days can be excruciating
Some of the tee boxes aren't finished yet

Tyler Park is about as good as Disc Golf gets. The West course is already a strong 4.5 on it's own merits, but with the East course right there it bumps this destination course up to a 5. They are constantly switching around the pin positions, so the sheer variety of holes you get to play keeps it from ever getting boring. Whether the basket is in the ace run A's or the behemoth C's, every tee shot is going to make you work. The tee pads on this side of the course are marked 19-36. For the purposes of this review, and to hopefully avoid any confusion, those numbers are how I will refer to 1-18 West.

Elevation is the name of the game on this 18. Although there are a couple of flat holes, almost every hole takes advantage of some type of elevation change, some are pretty steep, some are long and steady. Wear good shoes here, you'll be hiking up and down hillsides all day. It's one of my favorite courses to play alone on a weekday when there aren't a lot of people around and there's a possibility of being almost alone on the course, super extra peaceful and the way the course flows through the park makes it a delightful nature walk. By the same token, one of my favorite places to play with a group of friends. It's just a great course year round.


Some course highlights:

Holes 20 and 23 are downhill wooded gems. Tight throwing lanes down to more open green areas. The short positions are straight in front of you with the longer pins making you also work your disc a little to one side or the other from where the shorts are (room for a bit of fade on the longer pins).

25 is the first hole of the 7 brand new holes on the West course. The short tee throws from up high next to the parking lot allowing you to really see what's going on with this hole. From the lower tee (behind the bathrooms) you're throwing on a tight line out of the box that opens up a little as you go along. There's a hill to the right and swamp if you go way left. The short pin is hidden behind a huge boulder making a straight on approach nearly impossible. B pin is behind the huge domelike mound that is directly behind the basket. C is on top of the second domey mound.

The climb up to 26 is a beast! Pin A is a short straight throw up a little hill that always plays longer than it looks. B and C are around a corner with the B pin placed precariously on a steep, long, semi-open hillside.

27 is a downhill bomb with a swamp waiting to eat any discs that go long.

29 is a bit of a walk across the parking lot.

Hole 31 presents you with a steep uphill throw that snakes left at the top of the hill before turning right and straightening back out for a long steady climb through the woods.

33 has a wide fairway for a hole in the woods. Makes the short pin a fun ace run and the long (at 711') an absolute beast that plays gradually uphill the whole way.

Now that your arm is completely spent, 35 and 36 are the big open field bombs you've been waiting all day for!
36 has a ton of OB waiting for you all along it's left side and further up there are woods to the right. As with the more open field throws on the East course, this fairway gets very skinny where the longer throwers are trying to place their drives, and where most of us are looking at putting our second throw. Pin B is up the hill to the left along the thin patch of grass that is bordered by the tall grass OB on the left and tree grabbing pines on the right. C is an island green in the turn-around of the parking lot.



Final Thoughts: Play Tyler! Make sure you download the map or find a local to play with your first time or three. Bring your A game and Tyler will test you. If you don't have an A game, Tyler is still a great place to come play anyway! It is truly one of the best courses (or technically two) in the country.

- Beautiful setting and surrounding areas
- Great holes that are just challenging enough to keep you coming back over and over.
- Always running into friendly players.
- Group that runs the course is beyond out of this world!
- Great lost and found setup. Well maintained.

I got nothing

Love seeing this course grow and unfold. If there is a course you have to play in your lifetime make it TYLER STATE PARK!!

Excellent compliment to Tyler East. The hardwood canopy continues as does the difficulty. Well thought out design and construction, using landscape to its maximum. If Tyler East didn't leave you panting... West will. This course will push every disc golfer to be better. Your going to have to know how to throw different shots to score well. Beautiful views looking down the fairway (or back). Bathrooms, drinking water, safe.

7 holes still have temporary tee pads... but suffice nicely. 6 of the new holes are a bit "fluffy"... my advice is to stay in the fairway. When the B & C pin sleeves go in, this course is going to be amazing. Just like the night: "Tyler is dark and full of terrors."

Great club and even greater Grounds Keeping Crew. You can tell this course has a lot of Love.

Tremendous addition to the Tyler State Park disc golf experience. Eleven of the holes remain from Tyler's original 27. The newest holes are all worthy challenges to the players. Hole # 25 has long and short tee pads that create 2 distinctly different looks at the pins, 2 of which are obscured (A by a huge boulder, B by a huge hill) and C which may well be the toughest pin position of any of Tyler's 36 holes. Other notable additions are # 27, a steep downhill shot through a narrow fairway, # 29 which plays uphill along the Main Park Drive, and # 30, another steep downhill shot. Hole #31 poses the challenge of the steepest up-hill tee shot at Tyler. It also boasts the park's only Par 4 A pin position. There is tons of elevation change here on the West. This course requires a lot of skill and an equal amount of stamina. It is as tough as the East, but in a very different way.

It gets crowded on weekends and can be buggy. The 7 newest holes on the west have tee pads with wood chips. Over time, they will all have at least one concrete tee pad.

This is an excellent complement to Tyler East. Equally challenging as its East counterpart but very different in its look and feel, this will challenge even the best players wishing to play it.

Save your energy for this round as there are some pretty steep elevation changes! With the new added holes this west course will challenge the best, I played all 36 the other day and boy was I whooped at the end! Hole 31 is a really cool blind shot, dogleg left and then right when in c pin. Get to holes 35 and 36 you can air out if you have any arm left! Wach out for the ob on the left as I see peeps finish with double circle sevens regularly. This course is loved by the club members and it shows. Well maintained, trash cans, water fountains and bathrooms.

The new holes have wood chip tee pads, hope to get concrete by the time the yetter rolls around.

Great job BCDGA!

18 challenging holes that snake through a beautiful old wood forest(some trees 10+ft around) In a full day at Tyler you will see glory and defeat, risk and reward, and will need every shot in your arsenal to be on point. 3 pin/2 tee positions for each hole makes playing Tyler an ever changing beast, you never really know what to expect. Sometimes the layout can change 1 or 2 times in a week. Multiple full bathrooms & water fountains through out the park are an added bonus you dont get at many courses. When I first played Tyler I couldn't really think of needed improvements, yet in that 6+ year span each year this course seems to grow and add new and unique touches to make the rounds different. Since my last review 9 new holes have been added to the park, 6 of which are on the west course. First new hole you will encounter is 25 aka "the boulder hole" This was one of the ghost holes from GE am cup and The Yetter. Long tee is a tight shot with 2 distinct routes. Short tee is a completely different look from up on the hill next to parking. A pin nestled behind a boulder, B pin is behind the first large mound and C on top of next large mound. After playing 26 walk straight past C pin to the rest of the 5 new holes, all current pins are in A placement with natural tee areas (concrete to hopefully go in late summer/early fal)l. 27 is a tight down hill to flat pretty much dead straight, really fun shot. 28 is a smooth more open RHBH anny or RHFH. 29 in A is an easy RHBH hyzer, fun ace/birdy run. 30 straight lane to A pin. 31 is IMO the hardest new hole on West, tee area is directly at the bottom of a 50-60 ft hill. Blind shot up and a dog leg left. First shot is more about placement up the hill than distance. In C this will be a par 5. 32 is also one of Tyler's former Ghost holes, straight shot with ABC pins clustered around a landing area.

Need to mention how great the BCDGA is. THANK YOU! The work that went into these new addtitions does not go unoticed. So much respect for this club. From constantly improving the course and relentlessly changing the pin positions to selling custom Tyler state park disc which a % goes back into the park. Building a lost and found locked box to get lost plastic back to their owners and all the great Charity events/ benefit events/ pro-level events you guys roc.

Hard to think of something worthwhile for this section, the first thing that comes to mind is, if your off your game, Tyler can be rough day in the woods. Especially in a competitive round, this course is not very forgiving... Dont give up! Second thing that comes to mind is car and walking paths sometimes come into play on bad shots or ricochet off trees, also sometimes the fairways get confused by park non-DGers as hiking trails, give them a polite heads up and they are typically happy to obligee.

Tyler was the course that i was introduced to the sport, lets just say those first few rounds were frustrating at times. But looking back it was this course that forced me to get my game up to level it is at currently.

Hiking Boots/shoes recommended

-May the course be with you-

Pro level course representing the best of what disc golf has to offer. Mostly wooded with a handful of field holes to stretch that arm a bit. Very technical requiring a full bag of shot types at your disposal. Top-notch club takes impeccable care of this place. Highly recommended.