Championship Courses

In 2021, Brighton Ski Resort built a disc golf course with one goal: make it the best mountain layout in the world. Designer Chaz Critchfield mapped 18 holes down ski runs and through alpine forest. The result is 3.4 miles from the top of the Majestic chairlift to the base. You ride up with discs in hand, then play your way down. Some holes drop hundreds of feet from tee to basket. In 2022, they added the Crest 9 near the base, free to play and good for beginners.

At 9,000 feet, nothing plays like the valley. Wide-open ski runs for long downhill bombs. Tight evergreen corridors demanding accuracy. Wasatch peaks in every direction. The course hosts the annual Majestic Open and rotates into the Utah State Championships.

Four years in, Brighton ranks #12 globally among ski area disc golf venues. In 2026, it hosts the PDGA United States Women's Disc Golf Championship, the first Major in Utah since 2021 Pro Worlds. The world's best women will play the same course Utah locals have been talking about since it opened.

Creekside is the 8th disc golf course ever built. In 1982, "Steady" Ed Headrick—the inventor of disc golf—came to Salt Lake City and laid out 18 holes through Creekside Park's cottonwoods and creek crossings. At the time, there were maybe a hundred courses on the planet. Utah's oldest surviving course has been here ever since, and in 2032 it turns 50. Old enough for official historic designation.

In 2004, the county renamed it the Walter Frederick Morrison Disc Golf Course after the Utah native who invented the Frisbee. There's a stone plaque at the entrance. When the county tried to pull the baskets in 1992, local players founded Team Utah just to fight back. They won. Tuesday Doubles became a weekly institution, drawing 100+ players on summer evenings. The Creekside Open, now in its 28th year, is Utah's longest-running tournament.

A 2023 renovation gave the old layout new legs: MVP Black Hole Portal baskets, rebuilt tee pads, proper drainage. Rounds jumped 54% the following year. Creekside is now one of the busiest courses in the world, and still the spiritual home of Utah disc golf. Forty years of first aces, lost discs in the creek, and friendships made on the tee.

In 1981, disc golf came to Utah. A handful of players installed 18 holes at Rosepark—Utah's first course and among the first hundred on Earth. Five years later, the city converted it to the Jordan River Par-3 Golf Course. Tony Finau learned to play there as a kid. Disc golf disappeared from the site for nearly three decades.

On November 22, 2014, it came back. Local designers Mike Milne, Brian Usher, Marc Grimes, and Markus Mika worked with the Tunnel Runners club to build a modern course on the bones of the old one. They called it Roots. The name stuck.

Today it's one of Utah's busiest courses. The same ground where Utah disc golf started is back in play, over 40 years later. Full circle.

In 2020, Curtis Clements asked about building a disc golf course in Lehi. Everyone said the city wasn't interested. He asked anyway. The parks director said no chance, no money, no interest. But someone else suggested Spring Creek: 40 acres of swamp the city couldn't develop. Clements walked it with his dad that fall. The city gave them $25,000 and said good luck.

Two and a half years of volunteer work followed. The first workday brought 100 people; by the end, five regulars were doing most of it. They bought a mower that got destroyed hitting stumps. Spring turned the ground to swamp. Russian olives (invasive thorny nightmares) had to be cleared by hand. Hole 2 alone took 200 trees. But the holes Clements envisioned on that first walk came together exactly as planned.

In 2025, Lehi finally stepped up: equipment, maintenance crews, real infrastructure. The wetland nobody wanted now grows natural grass year-round without irrigation. The course has legitimate par fours and punishing technical corridors. It's the toughest layout in Utah County. In 2026, the world's best women disc golfers will throw through fairways carved from swampland by a community that refused to give up.