Art Dye

This course is so unique, there is nothing else like it in Utah. Art Dye is challenging for golfers of all skill levels. Depending on the season, water hazards can come into play on several of the holes. Trees can come into play on every hole. Extreme elevation changes as well as risky basket placements add to the fun of Dye. The reasons I do not give this course an A+ are- No tee signs or tee pads (although there are small concrete blocks with numbers). It is a multi use park which can be bad f ...
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This course is so unique, there is nothing else like it in Utah. Art Dye is challenging for golfers of all skill levels. Depending on the season, water hazards can come into play on several of the holes. Trees can come into play on every hole. Extreme elevation changes as well as risky basket placements add to the fun of Dye. The reasons I do not give this course an A+ are- No tee signs or tee pads (although there are small concrete blocks with numbers). It is a multi use park which can be bad for the golf experience, people standing in fairways, vandalism, etc. The fairways for holes 1 and 2 are sometimes littered with work vehicles and/or mounds of concrete or other stuff, this does not make them unplayable and can inspire some creative throws but none the less is a negative. Despite these faults there is a rugged charm that Art Dye has. I hope that this course never dies. Update: 2/3 of the holes now have quality tee pads, they are unique and well made. Benches and stumps have also been installed at many of the tees. Baskets are being moved more frequently now, utilizing all the different positions including the super elevated basket on 6. Art Dye is a great example of how small, consistent improvements by locals can dramatically improve the overall quality of a course. Art Dye could just continue to get better and better.
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I see why people like this course and some of the holes are unique and fun challenges, but the course is just far too flawed, in my opinion. Hole one beats the absolute crap out of your discs if you don't clear 400+'. I had a bad drive, came up just short of the woods and ended up with a nasty gash on a new star plastic disc. Same thing on two. It's not a tough distance to hit if you have a decent arm, but if you're aiming to land just short of the basket and undershoot by even 20 feet, your dis ...
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I see why people like this course and some of the holes are unique and fun challenges, but the course is just far too flawed, in my opinion. Hole one beats the absolute crap out of your discs if you don't clear 400+'. I had a bad drive, came up just short of the woods and ended up with a nasty gash on a new star plastic disc. Same thing on two. It's not a tough distance to hit if you have a decent arm, but if you're aiming to land just short of the basket and undershoot by even 20 feet, your disc gets beat up. A couple of the distances seem wrong (4?). The woods are absolutely full of broken glass, trash, and randomly, dirty blankets, so that's no fun. There are random kids running around and riding bikes through the woods almost nonstop, so there are obstacles all over the place. Some of the holes that shoot downhill have absolutely terrible footing. If you don't drive down to flat (can happen easily by hitting a tree, or if you have a weak arm), you'll have to approach from very unstable and loose dirt, where it's difficult to maintain balance. I've seen other players fall while trying to make approach shots. If you're playing in the evening, you can forget about putting towards the west on some of the holes without having someone hold a disc in front of your face to block the sun. I started a round at 6 PM and I was annoyed to have to constantly take off and put back on my sunglasses. Some of the shots are blind with extremely long unmaintained grass all over the place, so if you shoot at all imperfectly without a spotter, you're going to definitely lose discs. I played reasonably well (1 over par, which is probably a pretty decent round for me), but I still found myself really annoyed and frustrated with the course. I see the merit of this course, but to me, it's unquestionably not worth the drive from Salt Lake City, except for very rare circumstances.
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