For Disc Golf Course Design Services in Minnesota or Wisconsin, please contact me.

My specialties:

Adding Disc Golf to Golf Courses

New Disc Golf Courses For Summer Camps and Schools

New Disc Golf Courses Involving Private/Public Partnerships

 

Site Potential Evaluation for Future Disc Golf Courses

Advice for Eagle Scout Leadership Service Projects

Improving Existing Courses with:  Accurate Colorful Maps, Safety Review, and Updated Tee Sign Information.

Click on some of the links to the left to see some interesting stuff.

About Me has the information on my qualifications as a disc golf course designer.  Use Contact Me to get a message to me.

What is Disc Golf? has the basic introduction to the game.

Disc Golf Badges has images of disc golf-related Boy Scout badges.

Geography of Disc Golf has analysis and maps of all the disc golf courses in North America.

Maps of Courses in US has a bunch of cool maps of all the disc golf courses in the United States, including an animation that shows when they were installed.  NEW - a page that shows the results of my recent experiments to find clusters of disc golf courses.

Most Courses in X Miles has a table of the places with the most disc golf courses (and most 18-hole disc golf courses, and most disc golf holes) within 10, 25, 50, and 100 miles.

400 Holes in a day has the results from some attempts to develop paths to visit the most courses with the least travel.

Clusters shows places that have a lot of courses near each other.

Tools for Course Designers has things that are of interest to anyone proposing or designing a disc golf course.

Service Levels is where I present my theory on how to compute service levels for areas near disc golf courses.  Also, how to compute the ideal location for a new disc golf course.  This is where I put the graphs of cities that show service levels on color-coded maps.

Busiest Courses shows which courses are the busiest, according to my Service Levels theory.

Case Studies shows the application of the theory to real-life cases.

Design Math has papers on modeling throws and using information theory to evaluate the effectiveness of disc golf holes.

Climate for Disc Golf shows a way to calculate how many disc golfers a course will have in each month, based on temperature.

Where Courses are Needed

has a map of the lower 48 United States.  The map shows places where people are waiting for a new disc golf course.

Throw Simulator has an Excel file for disc golf course designers.  You can use it to see where discs would land, and calculate how many would land out-of-bounds.

Naming Your Course has some tips on deciding on a name for your disc golf course.  It also has a list of over-used names that you might want to avoid.

See the disc golf training module for Cub Scout, Boy Scout, and Venturing leaders at

http://www.scouting.org/Training/Adult/Supplemental/DiscGolf.aspx