How to Build a Disc Golf Course

Building a disc golf course requires a creative course design and an ideal location with well-thought out plans for the terrain, current park activities and any unique or qualifying features. The key to building a Disc Golf course is maximizing your investment whether it's time or money. Follow these steps to create and build a disc golf course.

Instructions

Difficulty: Challenging

1. Hire a qualified designer to map out your course. Ask for references and visit any other courses your candidates designed so you can see their work in person.
2. Monitor the building of the course to make sure it is safe and fair. You want to build the course so potential dangers are non-existent. The fairways should reduce any possibility of throws landing in streets, adjacent fairways or parking lots. You want your course to be fair. When throws are bad, no gain. When throws are good, lots of gain. You want to provide different degrees of success in throws with the chance of luck still existing in the game.
3. Ensure the course is well-balanced. You want to have a mixture of fairways. Create some that are long and short and even open and tight. Try to include dog left, dog right and straight fairways. Create a wide variety of skill shots to keep the course a challenge but still interesting. Players like to negotiate challenges, obstacles and score well.
4. Build your disc golf course with strategy in mind. Players need to experience the decision-making process of a shot with the benefit of experiencing the correct or incorrect placement of a shot.

Tips & Warnings

• A disc golf game that's rewarding, satisfying and pleasurable only happens on a safe and fair course.
• Disc golf courses should coexist with other park activities like baseball, soccer, tennis and playgrounds.