You never forget your first time!! Yes. This is where I first started my disc golf "career". Ironically, I started here before the course was built. A friend brought me out here on our lunch break and was trying to teach me how to throw. I figured I'd be a pro since I could zing a free style Frisbee. Boy was I wrong!! After a month of practice, I started to get the hang of it. We then ventured to Heritage Park in Frankenmuth, MI to play my first round of disc golf.
However, a few weeks later we heard rumors of the city designing a disc golf course for the exact same park where I learned how to throw a disc golf driver. The rumors were true and we started to play the course. Before they put up the signage, we made up our own tee boxes, which ended up being entirely backwards. Once the signs were up we were off the races.
The course is well documented and the signs have the distances. The tees are grass or walking path. There is no real need for paved tees yet.
My family absolutely loves this course; however, we don't make it there as a family much just because it's 45 minutes from our house.
Basket 1: Par 3, 410ft (minus a few since it was recently changed). This is a great basket to test your driving skills in windy conditions. We've not aced this yet, but we've landed a few feet from the basket.
Basket 2: Par 3: 320ft. Drive straight into pine trees and hopefully you can snake it through or curve it around. We've not aced this yet, but we've hit the basket.
Basket 3: Par 4: 429ft. No chance of an ace... On your second throw you either have to thread it through the eye of the needle or throw a backhand hyzer up over the trees.
Basket 4: Par 4: 330ft. No chance of an ace on this basket either. The first throw bends to the left and the next throw snakes down the walking path through the woods. If you get off the beaten path, prepare to get frustrated... ha!
Basket 5: Par3: 180ft. Throw a backhand hyzer and fade it to the left at the end. We've hit the basket but have not aced yet.
Basket 6: Par 3: 155ft. I'd recommend a forehand throw so it fades to the right at the end. We've hit the basket but have not aced yet.
Basket 7: Par 3: 190ft. This is a shot into the woods. I don't have any real strategy for this one... good luck!
Basket 8a: Par 4: 349ft. This basket is very deceiving!! This will test your driving skills and your patience. Be cautious on your send throw. It very well may roll all the way back down the hill. Windy days make this basket a killer. We've landed close to the basket, but that's about it.
Basket 9: Par 3: 355ft. Throw downhill and keep it as low as possible. You typically have the wind from the west at your back. We've landed next to the basket, but haven't aced it yet.
Caution: Watch out for poison ivy on basket 4 at the turn.
Caution 2: Watch out for land mines (aka dog droppings). read more