Disc Golf Rules

Goal

The goal of disc golf is to get the disc into the basket in as few throws as possible. A disc that comes to rest in the disc golf basket or suspended in the chains constitutes the successful completion of that hole. One throw is one stroke. Hazards can also add strokes to your total score.

Mandatories (A.K.A. Mandos)

A mandatory, or mando, is one or more designated trees or poles in the fairway that must be passed to the correct side as indicated by a red arrow. If the disc passes to the wrong side of mandatory, either play from the previous lie or from a marked drop zone area if applicable and add a one throw penalty.

Hazards

Hazards in DGV include water, out of bounds (landing outside of the designated areas of play), and sand traps. Usually landing in a hazard results in either moving to where the disc last touched in bounds or rethrowing, then adding a one stroke penalty. However, landing in a sand trap results in play-as-it-lies (adding a one stroke penalty).

Special Hazards

On Kaho Park holes 4 and 8, the “Bunker Rule” applies, which is used on some holes in the European Open and United States Disc Golf Championship in real disc golf. On these holes, landing out of bounds results in a re-throw with no penalty stroke. No distance is gained upon throwing out of bounds.

Scoring

Each hole has a par score. Par is just an arbitrary value determined by the course designer that is used as a number the average person might be expected to score on a hole. The par for a course (or round) is the sum of the par of all the holes in the course (or round). Players shooting under par (or less strokes than par) is considered good, while shooter over par (or more strokes than par) is considered bad.

• PAR: When a player’s strokes matches the hole’s par, it is called a par.

• BIRDIE: A score of one under par on a hole.

• EAGLE: A score of two under par.

• ALBATROSS: A score of three under par.

• CONDOR: A score of four under par.

• BOGEY: A score of one over par.

• DOUBLE BOGEY: A score of two over par.

• TRIPLE BOGEY: A score of three over par.