The Rim Rock

   
     The Rim Rock Disc Golf Course in Torrey Utah is one of my favorite courses. It's unique, long and beautiful.
    After getting hooked on disc golf in early 2012 I discovered a website called dgcoursereview.com. I looked up all the disc golf courses near family and discovered this unique red rock course near my family ranch just outside of Capitol Reef National Park. 
     For a disc golf course to be interesting it needs obstacles. These obstacles penalize errant throws. In ball golf you are penalized by having a bad lie. Meaning your ball is lying in a spot that is hard to hit it out of like tall grass(the rough) or sand. But in disc golf you pick up your disc and make your next throw standing where your previous throw landed. So to be penalized in disc golf there need to be obstacles in the air between you and the basket. Thus, heavily wooded areas lend themselves to very interesting, challenging disc golf where fairways are created by clearings in the trees.

     So you would expect a disc golf course in the desert to be easy and boring. However, The Rim Rock DGC, despite having about six trees on the entire course, is one of the best courses I have played. The terrain is made up of canyons, mesas, bluffs, spires, mounds and any other topographical features you can think of. The tees and baskets are strategically placed so that the land itself becomes the obstacle. The penalty for an errant shot is a wall of red rock between you and the basket.

    Another reason this course is so fun that there are a lot of long holes, but you can throw a lot further on this course than normal for two reasons. First, at about 6,500 feat of elevation your discs will automatically fly farther through the thin air. Second, many of the holes are downhill. After holing out on several of the holes, there is a short hike up to an elevated tee where you get to throw downhill towards the next basket. On hole seven, which is 468 ft. long, my drive landed 30 ft. short of the basket, close to a 440 ft. drive. This was easily 100 ft. longer than my normal best. Nothing wrong with feeling like superman.

     And the clincher for this course--it's beautiful. Set at the doorstep of Capitol Reef national park, this course is surrounded by sweeping red rock vistas. And the crisp mountain air is scented with cedar and sage.

    If you don't play disc golf, this course is a good reason to start. If you do play disc golf, play here. I also wrote a review here writing as Memphis Newbie: http://www.dgcoursereview.com/reviews.php?id=890&mode=rev

 My Bro in law Mike's first round of disc golf