Marshall Street Quality Disc Golf Design

Marshall Street's Quality Disc Golf Design Disc Golf Course Design is probably the most challenging service we offer here at Marshall Street. If a course is designed well then it will be fun and challenging for players of all levels. In creating an inviting course, the designer must create a wide variety of holes that provide both balance and flow.
There are many philosophies regarding disc golf course design. Some people love to design out-of-bounds, some people see it as a design flaw. Same goes for mandatories, long holes, tight holes, trees around the pin, pinball shots, and many other areas of disc golf courses. While people may disagree on some of these issues, everyone knows quality design when they see it.
Quality design involves creating a fun and challenging course for players of ALL skill levels, from beginners to touring PDGA professionals. Therefore, a course should incorporate as much natural diversity as possible, including elevation changes (throws up, down, over hills, across valleys), use of water obstacles, woods, and fields. Additionally, in order to score well, a player should be challenged to use a variety of shot types. A course with natural diversity, a variety of shots. Fairways that curve left and right, horizontal windows, overhanging trees, low shrubs, and openings into and out of wooded areas all provide fundamental challenges for disc golfer.
With the introduction of longer flying discs and longer holes, disc golf courses are evolving to include holes which are par 4 and 5. For example, the Airplane course at Maple Hill is a par 72. This concept forces players to utilize game management skills while also requiring more mental and physical endurance. A good disc golf course is designed with the players' varying abilites in mind, giving them ample opportunity to "play smart" or take a risk.
	Hole 5 at Maple Hill is a good example of the risk/reward factor. It is a relatively short (255') hole through a tight wooded fairway with water on the left. The maniacal designers cut a window from the tee overlooking the water to the left, so that a big left to right shot could snuggle up next to the pin. Or players can take the safe and tedious route through the tight woods, all but eliminating any chance of a deuce.
This hole incorporates the concepts of risk/reward and game management, and is therefore a well designed disc golf hole. Come and visit Maple Hill to see our other 17 well designed holes.