Findley State Park

The Findley State Park course in Wellington, Ohio now provides a re-designed 18 hole course. 20 minutes from Medina. 25 minutes from Norwalk. The new and improved layout (Summer 2012) by local players is now the type of course when you finish playing 18, you're going to want to play 18 more to get a few strokes back. Timewise, it takes about 75 minutes with a two-some and about 2 hours for a four-some. The newly positioned holes are strewn about many species of mature hardwood trees in a mostly ...
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The Findley State Park course in Wellington, Ohio now provides a re-designed 18 hole course. 20 minutes from Medina. 25 minutes from Norwalk. The new and improved layout (Summer 2012) by local players is now the type of course when you finish playing 18, you're going to want to play 18 more to get a few strokes back. Timewise, it takes about 75 minutes with a two-some and about 2 hours for a four-some. The newly positioned holes are strewn about many species of mature hardwood trees in a mostly unused portion of the state park. The new holes are tighter, longer, and heavily wooded with a fair amount of left to right fairways and challenging, subtle, elevation changes throughout. As of September 2012, there is one set of natural tees with lots of room for alternates on most holes, which are the Lightning DB-5's.

With the new layout in its infancy, poison ivy seems to be evident and hopefully an increase in players/foot traffic will help aleveiate this by wearing it down. So I suggest wearing long pants and/or high socks!
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I rate this course 2.5 out of 5 stars. - Plenty of parking - The park itself is very large with camping and multiple activities. - There is a bathroom (permanent outhouse) by hole #8’s basket - The entrance is marked with a very nice sign and billboard - The flow could be considered a con, however, the use of available land was done well even though the overall flow can be difficult to follow. Thanks to the accurate course map posted on the billboard, you can navigate your first time o ...
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I rate this course 2.5 out of 5 stars.

- Plenty of parking
- The park itself is very large with camping and multiple activities.
- There is a bathroom (permanent outhouse) by hole #8’s basket
- The entrance is marked with a very nice sign and billboard
- The flow could be considered a con, however, the use of available land was done well even though the overall flow can be difficult to follow. Thanks to the accurate course map posted on the billboard, you can navigate your first time out without getting lost.
- There are four holes with multiple tees
- Natural tees but most are in good condition
- Baskets are old but are in good condition
- Very nice mixture of shots required. Open and tunnel shots, over and around rough.
- Beautiful thick wooded forest area
- Not much upkeep is needed but the grass around the first few holes is always well cut and logs are set around many of the back 6 holes showing the paths to the next tee or fairways
- Not much traffic from either walkers on the path or other disc golfers
- Trash can located at the parking lot, very clean course

Cons
- Some of the tees can quickly become deep puddles in the spring season
- Even with the accurate map, next tee signs would be very helpful
- Very short course. Great for the kids but if you enjoy the long bomber throws then this course will feel very cramped.
- Boring elevation, very flat course
- Needs benches. There is an old picnic table by hole #9’s tee but something else would be nice.
- The flat area between holes #3 & #5 turns into a black swampy mess in the spring season which makes the whole area including the fairway where you are supposed to land very difficult to play

Other Thoughts
- A fun course, though small, but on a very large park.
- There is a donation box by the DGC sign at the entrance
- Not much of a challenge overall
- A very good player would easily birdie every hole while a brand new player may find this course extra difficult and frustrating due to the how thick the woods are
- The most challenging hole is probably #4 from the long. There are several paths to take on this right turning hole and heavy tree growth blocking you at every path.
- There are no signature holes here that stand out in my memory but I really enjoyed hole #8. This is a very pretty wooded fairway. The trees to the right are in a nice row making a wall that you have to turn around at the end to get to the basket.
- There are no other courses nearby, this is a small course far from the highway in a remote location
- This is not a destination course and is only worth the travel if you plan on using the park itself for other purposes along with playing a round of disc golf which could turn out to be a fantastic day with the family (note that you can rent discs from the campground store)
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interesting course that is for the majority densely wooded. the first two holes tease you with easy open birdie shots, but then you get thrown into some serious trees (and muck when i was there) for the remainder of the course. not many distance holes, but very very technical. still enjoyable tho. natural tees always bring a rating down, as traction was iffy at best. the baskets were also smaller and harder than the standard basket (i think they were the lightning ones), which caused a few ...
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interesting course that is for the majority densely wooded. the first two holes tease you with easy open birdie shots, but then you get thrown into some serious trees (and muck when i was there) for the remainder of the course. not many distance holes, but very very technical. still enjoyable tho. natural tees always bring a rating down, as traction was iffy at best. the baskets were also smaller and harder than the standard basket (i think they were the lightning ones), which caused a few putts to skip out. at least that what i'm gonna say lmfao. the flow was easy and decently marked with signage (some homemade with crayons lol), and there was a map detailing the course (all 18 holes) near the parking. i'd play it again, but would wait for it to be dry. i also played in december, and i can't imagine what it would be like in the summer with those trees.
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