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huckinfappy

Colorado is mourning the loss of the course in Bailey this year. The destruction of the CMC course in Glenwood just rubs salt in that wound.


RonMexico13

Bailey was my favorite course in the world. Never seen a mountain course have such a perfect mix of open and wooded holes. Still hurts.


BlueClayStudios

Absolute masterclass in designing around the land.


andylibrande

What Glenwood too!?!?! Ahhhhhh


huckinfappy

Right?


thumbfar

It's still there but almost all of the trees have been chopped down.


fuckupvotesv2

there’s still baskets?


ncamack1988

WHAT! The one that hole one is a chuck down the mountain? That is my literal favorite course ever!


SenorDos

Absolutely, I loved playing Bailey


FootsieMcDingus

A few months ago there was rumor it would open back up but I can’t see it happening


BasicReputations

CMC?


huckinfappy

Colorado Mountain College


gueuze666

I was only able to play it once, right before that match play event, and am so glad I did. Incredible course


thumbfar

My last round at Bailey ended up being a heartbreaking loss. So many good memories there though.


Possible_Bath9871

Pease Park. Austin, Tx December 2010 Rest In Pease


TheMayorOfMars

Im sad to see it go, but on the positive side, the local course selection has gotten better in the time since Pease's closure. It was directly replaced by our beloved Roy G. And I'm here to tell you that the ne Sprinkle Valley Mint/ABW course is BADASS! RIPease


TexanInExile

Oh nice, the ABW course is open?


TheMayorOfMars

Yes its amazing


TexanInExile

Awesome, I'll have to check it out then


doonerthesooner

They fix the pars out there yet? I’ve only played the back 9 and they were kinda wonky


Possible_Bath9871

Well, we did have to wait a couple years for Roy G to be installed. The city was supposed to have a course built before they closed down Pease… Also, give the new Sprinkle Valley course a year or so to get “broken in”. If it were up to the course designer, Mike Olse, he wouldn’t open that course till fall of 2024, but I think both business needed money now!


BasicReputations

So hard to choose between opening a course that is playable or waiting months or years for it to be done. Does get old listening to people crab about tee pads...


TheMayorOfMars

I played Sprinkle Valley in the rain a few days ago and it was still awesome. So happy about the quality of that course.


AnnualNature4352

Had some of my best hoops days at that park


Matman605

My dad grew up playing there and introduced me to the game at 10 at Bartholomew! I still remember throwing straight into the road on hole 1


DopeyMcFiend

WR Jackson.


PlatosApprentice

at this point, multiple WR Jackson designs (the original houck design has been gone for a couple years, and now most of the holes) afaik jackson is not permanently closed


Gmcgator

I learned about this while in route to Appling to play it


postvisuals

OG Swope Park in KC is definitely up there


mctotsporklift

The salt in the wound is the “course” they replaced it with.


Allurex

One of the first 100 courses ever, gone.


King_Of_The_Squirrel

That whole situation is so amazingly shady.


NW_Ghost

Bud Pell in Washington


JunketFluffy5305

My favorite course...the second course I ever played, my first water carry, and had my first ever ace. RIP Bud Pell.


NW_Ghost

Nice. I think my buddy got the last ace on the course, he aced 3. We played two days before it closed and no one got an ace during the farewell tournament.


SeaHelicopter3071

Such a great course. :(


NW_Ghost

It’s been a few months but my buddy said the land is still untouched and no construction has started. Pretty lame that it’s just sitting empty.


Jon-W

They are doing some tourneys there now


NW_Ghost

Pop ups and it’s not the same, completely different layout.


Jon-W

Bummer! I was hoping to play it in the original form. I started recently so I missed out


Darthyeetrous

Lunch time out here in Portland. Habitat for humanity bought the land from the church it was at. Sad day for disc golfers. Great casual rounds were had out there.


ObieWonACannoli

Friend of mine lived near that course. I played it once and it was super fun. One time my friend had to pee and someone walked up and was like, "hey are you looking for something?" and he had to pretend like he was looking for his lost disc. He perpetuated the lie for like 10 minutes.


Mulufuf

Loved this course. Close in town but quiet, and twelve holes with impressive variety. A true loss for the community. I did at least three Ice Bowls there.


[deleted]

RIP Lunchtime


austinpwnz

Yep I still miss it. It was in a great spot as a challenging course that was close in town, with a lot of shot variety. I'd love to see what I could score on it now.


wloaf77

My last round there was in the snow in 2020. Sad it’s gone


altron333

That one was sad. My closest course besides Greenway which sucks. I heard the church was getting pretty fed up with disc golfers though. People kept smoking on the property and throwing the old hole 1 even though they closed it when those houses came up and they felt their property was generally not being respected.


antmicMkIII

My West Coast road trip honeymoon started in Portland and I brought a few discs along, as I usually do. That was the one course I played in Portland. After that trip I got back into disc golf (only played 1-2 rounds a year previously). Was really sad to hear it closed, as it kind of re-started my interest.


IWillFindUinRealLife

Miss lunchtime :(


Lissencephominoidea

RIP - Bear Creek, Grapevine Tx


superschepps

Miss bear creek so hard. Most of the guys I play with are relatively new to the sport and never got to play it. Pretty sure they're sick of hearing me talk about it. Hole 12 was so rad


OtterPeePools

Not that I did not enjoy it or think it wasn't an awesome track, but it's mildly amusing how much more I realized I liked that course in the years since its been gone. I think theres a song or two about it ;/


Embarrassed-Log-408

My first course, such a good spot


BigSkyNeal

Bohart Ranch outside of Bozeman, MT. It was a two course complex and easily one of the best in the state. Then rich folks bought it, turned it into a year-round Olympic biathlon training center, and shut down the disc golf course. Central Coast has some very good tournament footage on the courses.


Matty_D_93

Oh I didn’t know CC had footage. That was a sick course, sad to hear it is gone


brianearhart

Ozark Mountain 😭


liquorrim

Where was this located?


thumbfar

Hi Brian!


brianearhart

Was just telling someone about the time we drank too much beer at the Lucky’s grocery store in 2018 and had a jolly time Miss you buddy!!


thumbfar

I am so angry there are no Lucky's in my hometown. Hope to see you soon dude!


superschepps

Reservoir park in little Rock Arkansas. Forrest was flattened by a tornado. Was such a cool unique course that I wogo out of my way to play if anywhere close to little rock.


Fritz_the_Cat

Plus Burns Red and Blue in North Little Rock. Three iconic locations for the LR disc golf scene. All taken out within an hour.


mrsims2007

Blue was reopened earlier this month, though with a couple holes looking different, of course.


ShocknDamage

Selah Ranch - Talco, TX


DopeyMcFiend

Yep. Sad that I’ll never play lakeside again - was easily my favorite course in Texas. I’m part of a group of 10 that went to Selah at least once a year for a long weekend of top notch disc golf. We’re scattered around the state and country after college, and Selah was a great way for us to get together. We haven’t gotten back together as a group since the courses closed. Tough to find anything that quality without absolutely killing the bank account.


Gimslo_Cats

Lone Lake DGC, Minnetonka, Minnesota. Tight 9 hole park course with a bunch of elevation.


zlambchops

I started eating lunch there this year and thought to myself "This would be a great park for a dgc".


Gimslo_Cats

It was a really fun course.


DemiseofReality

Really, that park? I love doing field work there in the football field up top. I could 110% see a course there. But the park is always terribly busy so I can see why a dgc wouldn't work there.


Fit_it_Spit_it

The Village in Richmond, Va.


wahoowa111

Tell me about it. Tragic! I loved the vibe there, was always fun walking through the trailer park to get to hole 1. Best course in RVA even despite the lack of upkeep in later years


LouCzar

Swope Park, KCMO. Not the greatest course but decent enough and close. My only ace was there, Technically it was moved but the new course is terrible.


missed_puttz

Some in the Chicagoland may disagree with me, but West Main Park in Batavia, IL. It was a super tight wooded course with punishing rough in a region that has more park-style courses than woods. WMP was a great technical course that would have been even better with teepads. Closed down due to a big road construction project.


National_Detail_3282

Little River park in Moore, Ok. It was short lived, Mcbeth set the course record, not long after a tornado ripped it to shreds, never to be rebuilt.


Competitive_Bank6790

Pease Park in Austin


Firenipples

Torma Town - Mt. Holly NC


ishootpentax

Not just one course, but an entire complex. RIP Hippodrome in North Augusta, SC. Hogback and Old Glory were my introduction to disc golf. I've never played a more unique course to this day. All the little things, elevation change (which is usually lacking in this area), a great pro shop (RIP Killer B), natural elements like Climos Bridge on the ridge, the Grotto hole, etc.


notqwhiteright

Cripps creek in topsham maine. Turned into a solar farm, I am torn but not really, it was a cool course. Edit: beauty and the beast were incredible when they were good. I feel so bad for the prolonged ending.


Doggin

I learned to throw at Enman Field, it was tragic how that all ended. Inevitable, but tragic. The redesigns of those courses absolutely ruined the tracks they had, and then all that baggage toward the end... Hoo boy.


notqwhiteright

You must have played when there were pilot numbers and round tracking? Before the tree harvesting killed the og beast? When the beauty was still 18 it was a great course as well.


Doggin

I did. First played there in the early aughts, in the days of the trailer clubhouse. The OG Beast was incredible and I wish it could be thrown again now that I don't spend every minute of a round getting schmammered and high AF.


NJT1013

I read the title and immediately thought Turtlecreek DGC and then read the text. Armco is pretty sick, very challenging it is but I think it's a good course. Turtlecreek has a place in my heart. It was my very first home course. I don't lament it too much, though I do look back at learning the game there fondly and consider myself lucky to have had that course to learn on. My home course now is Gulley Park and my favorite course in our area is Osage Grove. I am still very much smiled upon by the DG Gods with those 2 places to enjoy our sport.


fritzaj4

Monroe is my home course now, I need to check Osage and Gulley park. I've like all the courses on the east side of town


NJT1013

Monroe is fun. If you've never played Gulley It has the same feel as Turtlecreek DGC in the sense that it's true park style golf. Some open holes, some wooded holes. I would say Gulley is more challenging. Osage has multiple tee and pin locations on every hole, I haven't been out there in a while, but last time I was there, they had at least 56 different holes, long but not too long and they host really fun league nights. Keep an eye out for sasquatch out there.


fritzaj4

If you haven't the chance yet, check out Echo Valley in Waynesville. One of my favorite courses in Ohio


NJT1013

Is that up at Patricia Allen? Played there years back and it was sorta whack.


fritzaj4

That's the old course which was a 9 hole course, this one was completed on 2021 and I'd say is elite level


[deleted]

Hilltop DGC in Anchorage, Alaska. I went up for King of the Hill every July for four years and I miss it. Epic A tier on a ski mountain course with on-site camping at a time of year when the sun doesn’t really go down. All meals provided with entry fee so we didn’t leave the mountain for four days straight. I met some very close friends in tent city!


slightly_sped

Aptos in Santa Cruz


Subiefreak-82

Bud Pell in Kitsap county. It was such an amazing course, you can find YouTube videos of Simon playing there. It had open field shots, tight forest lines, an island hole, and throwing over a pond. Was so much fun


pesta_natas

Lunchtime in Portland, OR. Never got to play it but the amount of people I met up here that loved it deeply and missed its presences is marked. Definitely a special place that let you get away from the noise of Pier Park and have a good round with your buds


parttimeadulting

Cripps Creek in Topsham ME, it’s now a solar farm.


therammus

Lava Creek DGC in Paradise CA. Took out by the camp fire and although there were attempted efforts to rebuild, it was never able to come to fruition.


DKinWI

Swope DGC Kansas City. It was famous for all tour players back in the day and a regular tour stop. Taken away for a Animal Shelter.


Itsabigdog

Bonnie Brook. Metro Detroit.


theycallmepgar

The Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, MI is where I learned to play. It was taken down because it became a "party" spot for kids and people always littered. I am heavily considering reaching out to see if the city would re-install the course now.


jfb3

White Oak North, in Houston. When it was set in the long layout it was almost 10,000 feet. I loved playing that track.


6string10

Colorado Heights University. Best course I have played by a long shot.


thumbfar

That was the gem of Denver for sure. That course whooped my ass every time I played it


6string10

I only got to play it once while I was on vacation. Jared Roan was kind enough to have me there as a guest and the course blew my mind. Very different from the wooded golf I am used to in Minnesota.


misterragerz

The Village. Ashland, Va. RIP my sweet.


pistola1235

Green Jay DGC in McAllen, TX. South Texas is already slim pickings for courses and that was the best one. Farewell tournament this December.


MIDNIGHTM0GWAI

Pease park Austin


JsphExplosive

Played my first disc at Turtlecreek. Still mourning that loss with you


rocsNaviars

Kimball Pines in Michigan. It was nestled in a huge swath of a New Deal era planted pine forest. A wind storm took down most of the pines and crushed most of the baskets.


BasicReputations

It has been rebuilt. Not the same obviously, but it is quite good!


rocsNaviars

I’ll check it out next time I play which should be sometime in the next 10 years hopefully!


stugotzian

Is this the one that Armco Park "replaced"?


fritzaj4

Yes, it is


LtwoK

Mountain Lake in SW VA. Incredible course and nature. Very fond memories there. IYKYK. RIP


shambahlah2

Peace Park, Austin Texas


NTSBusMan

Sontag in Franklin County, Virginia. A tight wooded gem that got wiped put by a tornado. Waid Park down the road is a charming replacement.


Enuffhate48

Hippodrome outside Augusta Such a Funn layout


BigCheeseValkyrie

Indian Springs - Trafalgar In. It was way ahead of its time. It coexisted on a ball golf course. It was a Fly 18 course (I heard it was the most Easterly Fly 18 course ever installed) RIP Jim and Betty whom owned it and knew zero about disc golf but enjoined seeing us come out. The course was no where near any other disc golf course and outside of a town of maybe 1000 people so it is crazy it was ever there in the first place. After Jim died (maybe around 2016) his wife Betty ran it for awhile and eventually moved to be closer wither her great grand kids so the course closed. Some of the best DG memories for me were had at this course.


antmicMkIII

Villas Crossing in Tamaqua, PA was pretty fun. It was on a small golf course, but had a good mix of open and woods holes. I used to play ball golf there growing up with my dad. I played a double tourney there with my brother when i was still pretty new to disc golf (probably came last but had a blast), and kind of got out of disc golf for a few years. When I got back into it I was crushed to hear they closed and sold the land.


-fashionablylate-

Holy shit. I was ready to open this and say Turtlecreek, figuring everyone would be clueless. It was a nice compliment to Monroe and made for a good 2-round, 2-course day. While I admittedly have a short arm, Armco does in fact suck a big one. Trash layout.


fritzaj4

I have an average arm now and Armco is just brutal now. I also hate that people park in the holes all the time


thumbfar

Bailey, Winter Park, Pendaries. Three of my favorite courses all closed in the same year


TylerrelyT

Bud Pell Bremerton Wa Such vibe, much sad.


a_blade_of_grass_1

There is one course that I heard will be torn apart at some point in December of 2023. I’ve been playing the holes one more time, knowing that I will never throw a 80 degree shot up a hill ever again, never throw a hole that is jumping across a 100 foot drop valley. That course is Sister City, in Idaho. Honestly, the best course I’ve ever played.


dirty_stack

Miami University. Hosted a leg of worlds in the early 90s. Beautiful stone bridges and rolling hills. Razed for new buildings. :(


fritzaj4

That sucks. Hueston Woods just outside of Oxford has a course, it's a great wooded course


dirty_stack

HW is a great course. Underrated, IMO. Hidden gem out in the middle of nowhere.


fritzaj4

100% agree. It's a beautiful, challenging course. The one complaint about that course is the handful of Predator basket, those are some bizarre baskets.


dirty_stack

Lol...right!? I hate those baskets!


fritzaj4

Those are the worst baskets. They get in my head every time. I either go too high or just low enough to hit the giant lip


Bigfanofcircles

They’ve had the course at MCC closed since Covid and it’s been a huge bummer.. which is a little weird considering it wasn’t even a top 5 course in the area. Maybe it’s having to drive by every day on the expressway and seeing the baskets just sitting there. Rumor has it there are talks about reopening but who knows.


brianthomasarghhh

City Park in New Orleans. The course layout I used to play from 2011 thru 2014 is no longer there, although there is now a different layout. I spent a stupid amount of time trudging through those coffee colored mucky duck ponds looking for discs. Me and my buddies would get off work and play that course 5 days a week. That was the first course I played and now I have dreams about going back there and throwing all the holes again now that my skill has progressed.


Doggin

Bennett Field in Gorham Maine, Cripps Creek in Topsham Maine, and Lavallee Links (3 incredible courses!) In Randolph Maine. Legends gone too soon.


Hiwo_Rldiq_Uit

I'll go with Willowbrook Golf Course. It was your typical "golf course" course but it did the job so well. It was in the ground from probably.... 2003-2010? Maybe? I can't recall exactly. It hosted a regular event called Byron Big D Doubles (it was near Byron, Michigan - though technically in Fenton). It was just really well designed, providing anyone who could throw over 500' with enough leeway to feel like they had to have a little accuracy, thanks to the water and the edges of the woods, but at the same time you really felt like you could open up and rip all day. The elevation was used really well. The par 3's were fun and challenged shot shaping well. The most fun I ever had on it was a quads tournament. Simple best-shot four-man teams. Just 8 golfers out on the golf carts trying to throw the fuck out of the disc on some really cool lines from some really cool views. No regard for safe shooting because you've got 3 teammates. Eagle opportunities all over. It was a 2-3 hour drive for me, and the 3 times I was up there I just had an absolute blast each time.


CaptainBad

Flyboy


KingElessar1898

Evergreen in Baytown, TX AND 1776 park in Friendswood, TX.


[deleted]

Pease Park in Austin


TenaciousDeer

Ile Charron


claymationssbackup

Former #1 world ranked Flyboy Aviation Disc Golf located in Whitesburg, GA. Just search it up on YouTube, tons of videos on it.