I remember after our nine-hole went in Dave McCormack was there and told me that he had been approached to design another course in town. He said the landowners wanted a tough, tournament-quality course and he wasn't sure that was right for a town that had no disc golf scene. He thought a beginner-friendly course would be better. I disagreed and told him we were standing on a beginner-friendly course. Making the next course harder would create a balance and the courses would compliment each other. I don't know if that had any impact on him or not, but he did design a significantly harder course and they do compliment each other quite well. They both have their pros and cons, but considered together we 27 holes with pretty decent variety.
It's hard to see that from the outside, though. If you don't live in an area it's more like "that course sucked, that course sucked, that course I liked, that course was awesome." You don't consider that one might have been short, one might have been really long, one might have been heavily wooded, one might have had open tee areas so you could get your drives away, and considered all together they can cater to a wide variety of players.
tl;dr: Having a bunch of similar courses all bunched together with no variety do as good a job at keeping everyone happy as having a course with 18 versions of the same shot.
It's hard to see that from the outside, though. If you don't live in an area it's more like "that course sucked, that course sucked, that course I liked, that course was awesome." You don't consider that one might have been short, one might have been really long, one might have been heavily wooded, one might have had open tee areas so you could get your drives away, and considered all together they can cater to a wide variety of players.
tl;dr: Having a bunch of similar courses all bunched together with no variety do as good a job at keeping everyone happy as having a course with 18 versions of the same shot.
