I like to design a course with 2 tees on every hole, a long and a short. My main reason for this is to keep the course interesting and fun for everybody. I have seen too many courses go in with just one tee on every hole and the course starts out like gang busters, with a lot of people playing. Then as some of the player’s skill level goes up, they feel like it’s too easy. Before you know it they start making the holes longer. Then the younger kids, women and older players, who can’t throw quite as far as the other players, don’t have a chance of getting a birdie. They will more than likely quit playing, when it’s not fun anymore. I don’t know about you, but I play because it’s fun. Now you have a course where there is only a hand full of people playing. When you have a short and a long tee more people will have fun and enjoy playing the course. Young, old and beginners can play the short tees and the more advanced and pro players can play the long tees to even up the game if they play in the same group. When the pros want to get a confidence builder they can always play the short tees. If a young player thinks he is getting really good he can move back to the long tees and maybe get humbled a little bit or maybe his game will elevate.  

       I will be the first to admit that I am not the best designer of Disc Golf courses, but I have to say that I have designed some decent courses. The Lucky 8 DGC is not the best design that I have ever done, but it is without a doubt the toughest and is one of the reasons that I have had the success that I have been fortunate to have. It has been reconfigured at least 8 times, no pun intended. The Seth Burton Memorial DGC in Fairmont is the best design I have ever done. It’s a beautiful course and is fun to play. The DGC in Huntington at Rotary Park is a really good course. You have open holes, woods holes, short holes, long holes and up and down holes. The two courses in Ripley at the Parchment Valley Conference Center are good courses also. The grounds and the place in general are beautiful. There are only 9 holes right now, but will both be 18 holes pretty soon. The course at Camp Mad Anthony Wayne is a pretty good course, even though we did away with the two prettiest holes after it got shortened to a 9-Hole course. Camp Wayne is no longer in the ground, I with the help of my good friend Andy Harshbarger designed a new course at Rotary Park and used the baskets from Camp Wayne. It's called Indian Rock.

     I just recently designed 2 courses in Ashland Ky. A short but technical course and long Champinionship course. They are called Armco White and Armco Blue. You can go to the PDGA course directory and check out the lengths and more about most of the courses I have designed.

    I am curently working on a course in Ripley W.Va. at Cedar Lakes, not sure if it is going to be 18 holes or 27. More details in a couple weeks.  

     I have designed at least a dozen other courses that were either temporary or are no longer in the ground.

    Last but not least, there are 4 things that really make me happy these days, playing a good round of golf, helping a beginner with some pointers to improve their game, hearing people make good compliments about my design and seeing a smile on Adele’s face. I always see the fourth one if any of the first 3 happen.