I’m the caretaker of Sertoma Field DGC (Walhalla, Sc) and are surrounded by longer championship courses. We are a simple par 3 course with a few hazards, but have recently installed a par 2 (Ace run style) course within our main course, with shared tee pads. We have a lot of retired folks as well as married couples who frequent our course, and have noticed that the men typically play the long holes, while the women play the shorts. It has been greatly received by our local community, and hope that if you’re ever in the Upstate South Carolina area, you stop by and give us a visit!
Totally agree with this. As a lover of DG, I wish I could have my family play a bit more, but most courses are too far they lose interest. Good easy courses are definitely needed more.
Most courses are just too long for my family. Holes over 150' are just too boring for them. I think we could be more beginners to stay in the sport with courses like this.
There's a lot of 9-hole courses out there which are usually a bit easier to play in terms of distance per hole than typical 18-hole courses. As you said though, lot of existing courses can have novice layouts using existing basket locations. Not everyone wants to play a long, technical, challenging course. Also some people want to do on some days, and not others. Optionally, you can just create your own tee location and play from there. Some advanced players create long layouts for themselves, if there's not one already on the course. There's a Custom option in UDisc to create a layout not linked to the course, but it takes no more time than setting up one. You can just name the round the name of the course, maybe modified some to reflect the nature of it. A few people like to straw man this issue by saying par doesn't matter, etc. If par doesn't really matter to them, I don't see why they would object to changing par on a hole.
@@roamingrangediscgolf Yes you have to add them since you're the one creating the custom scorecard. We have a super difficult "par 2" course nearby that is best played as a par 3 course, and I have to do that when playing there. As a course ambassador of a course like that with 100-150' holes mostly, I created a par 2 and par 3 layout, and let the players decide which one they want to play.
I’m the caretaker of Sertoma Field DGC (Walhalla, Sc) and are surrounded by longer championship courses. We are a simple par 3 course with a few hazards, but have recently installed a par 2 (Ace run style) course within our main course, with shared tee pads. We have a lot of retired folks as well as married couples who frequent our course, and have noticed that the men typically play the long holes, while the women play the shorts. It has been greatly received by our local community, and hope that if you’re ever in the Upstate South Carolina area, you stop by and give us a visit!
4:19 this kid gets it
Totally agree with this. As a lover of DG, I wish I could have my family play a bit more, but most courses are too far they lose interest. Good easy courses are definitely needed more.
Most courses are just too long for my family. Holes over 150' are just too boring for them. I think we could be more beginners to stay in the sport with courses like this.
There's a lot of 9-hole courses out there which are usually a bit easier to play in terms of distance per hole than typical 18-hole courses. As you said though, lot of existing courses can have novice layouts using existing basket locations. Not everyone wants to play a long, technical, challenging course. Also some people want to do on some days, and not others.
Optionally, you can just create your own tee location and play from there. Some advanced players create long layouts for themselves, if there's not one already on the course. There's a Custom option in UDisc to create a layout not linked to the course, but it takes no more time than setting up one. You can just name the round the name of the course, maybe modified some to reflect the nature of it.
A few people like to straw man this issue by saying par doesn't matter, etc. If par doesn't really matter to them, I don't see why they would object to changing par on a hole.
I'm going to have to try the custom layout feature. Do you know if others can play that layout?
@@roamingrangediscgolf Yes you have to add them since you're the one creating the custom scorecard. We have a super difficult "par 2" course nearby that is best played as a par 3 course, and I have to do that when playing there.
As a course ambassador of a course like that with 100-150' holes mostly, I created a par 2 and par 3 layout, and let the players decide which one they want to play.