Course Design

In addition to mapping a 36-acre property this Winter, one of my primary reasons for being up in Northern Wisconsin today is to help "tweak" an eighteen-hole disc golf course…

Under the periodic guidance of long-time disc golf course designers such as Chuck Kennedy and Steve West, I was able to learn that designing effective holes, effective courses, requires what…

Although the most visible role I have with DGA is to crisscross the country playing as many unique disc golf courses as I can (1,741 courses played and counting), my…

Today was the main reason for my trip this weekend, designing a new "Red" (recreational) course for one of the (ball) golf resorts in the Brainerd Lakes area of Northern…

I was thinking a lot on my recent trip to/from Tennessee about course design. Specifically, how much I have learned about course design while playing over 1,500 unique disc golf…

Today was one of those fun opportunities I get to have a few times per year, presenting a disc golf workshop to approximately twenty Parks and Recreation professionals at the…

After playing in cold, wet conditions most of yesterday here in Wisconsin, today I got to work most of the day designing what will be the 12th disc golf course…

Today was my first chance in quite a while to play and study some of the course designs created by H.B. Clark. A world-renowned course designer who has designed a…

After waking up with the sun and sneaking in a quick eighteen holes of disc golf at Cornwallis Road Park in Durham, North Carolina, I made my way to Virginia Beach,…

Another day, another seven new courses played in the rain and wind. Today felt more like a "job" than a hobby or fun...as I needed to slosh around in wet,…

Today was a big day for me, as both a course collector and a stats/numbers/quants "wonk."  The day I became the fourth player in the history of the sport to…

While needing to travel up to the Minneapolis St. Paul metro today for work, I found enough time to be able to play a relatively new course at Nelson Park…

Over the years, I've created ten disc golf course designs across Southern Minnesota and Southeastern South Dakota (eight entirely solo, and two others with a bit of help).  Mostly what…

After playing 1,300+ disc golf courses across North America and portions of Europe, you develop a feel, almost a "sixth sense," for how course designers of varying levels of skill…

After nearly a month without being able to play disc golf due to a bout with pneumonia and a sinus infection, I finally got back on the road course collecting…

When playing Yucaipa Regional Park in Yucaipa, California for the first time a few days ago, I was feeling conflicted.  The player in me?  I kept thinking to myself: “This…

Now that I am (more) settled in Los Angeles at my aunt and uncle’s place (two of the nicest people one could ever hope to meet and proudly call family),…

I got to thinking today, about how cool it is that disc golf is a sport that can be enjoyed just about anywhere, on any terrain.  The six courses I…

After enjoying four hours at “the Mothership” (DGA headquarters) on March 6, I headed North to try and play at three camps/campgrounds.  Successful on two, politely turned away on the…