The answer is likely a combination of these factors as well as others. It could be that many of these communities have so few courses that their most popular course simply had a better shot at being one of its five best. It could be that when there are fewer disc golf options (as is pretty much universally the case in places where less disc golf is played), players gravitate to better courses. It could be that in places with smaller disc golf communities, more resources are put into making courses in high traffic areas good courses. It's hard to say if this has any one specific meaning. Thirteen of the 18 overlapping popular/best courses came from states in places 27-50 on our list of most popular courses. In the article on most popular courses, we organized the list by how many rounds each state's top course had – the first state in the list having the most rounds played on its most popular course and the 50th the least rounds played on its most popular course. Something else of note is that the vast majority of states where the most popular course was among the state's best were places where less disc golf was played generally. The states where the absolute best course was also the most popular were Alaska, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Of those 18, eight were states' number one courses. It turned out 18 of the 50 states had their highest traffic on one of their best courses last year. state from 2020 and see how many ended up being among the states' best. Because of that, we thought it would be interesting to go through our list of the most popular disc golf course in every U.S. By popular we mean simply "most played." Each year when we reveal the most popular course in each state, it spurs a lot of debate about whether the courses that get used the most really, for lack of a better word, "deserve" how much play they get based on their quality. Photo uploaded to UDisc courses by amandahardyĪlong with which courses are the best in each state, we also keep track of which ones are the most popular. How Many States' Best Courses Are Also Their Most Popular? Photo of hole 1 at Maple Hill, Massachusetts' and the world's best disc golf course in 2021 and also Massachusetts' most popular in 2020. Before that, we take a look at some of the most interesting things we noticed about the courses that made each state's list. Each state is listed alphabetically with a table showing the rank of each of its top five. You can find the states' best disc golf courses at the end of this post. In 2020, we only revealed each state's #1 disc golf course, but we got so many requests to go further that we've expanded to each state's top five in 2021. This is the second year we've released rankings like this. Some states may have fewer than five dots due to multiple top courses being at or very near the same location. The smaller dots show the locations of other top courses. The large blue dot indicates the location of the #1 course. State: 2022." Locations of the top five disc golf courses in each U.S. See the latest rankings for each state's top five disc golf courses in "5 Best Disc Golf Courses in Each U.S.
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