What a thrilling, high-altitude season up on the mountain! The final 2025 wrap-up numbers are officially in, and they show that disc golf at Arizona Snowbowl is reaching incredible new heights. Despite having a shorter season than our year-round neighbors due to winter snowpack, our mountain community absolutely crushed it with massive percentage growth across the board! 🏔️🥏
Let’s take a look at the ultimate snapshot of the spectacular impact we made at 9,500 feet in 2025!
📊 2025 Global Impact Metrics
Our high-altitude course saw some of the most dramatic year-over-year growth in the region. Check out these booming Year-over-Year (YoY) percentage spikes:
- Total Rounds Played: 345 (A massive +65% YoY 🚀)
- Unique Players: 195 (+29% YoY 👥)
- Total Holes Tracked: 4,181 (+29% YoY ✨)
- Total Throws Flown: 14,026 (+49% YoY 💨)
📅 Busiest Day of the Year: August 30th, locking in 33 rounds in a single day as players flooded the mountain for Labor Day weekend!
🗓️ Busiest Month of the Year: August, drawing a peak-season total of 114 rounds when the summer alpine weather was absolutely perfect. ☀️
💥 Double-Digit Chains: The 2025 Ace Count
Hunting for metal on a ski mountain requires some serious control, but our players dialled in their lines perfectly. In fact, we doubled our efficiency from the previous year!
🎯 Total Aces Tracked: 10 ACES (+100% YoY 🎉🏆)
Ten perfect, single-stroke throws down the mountain and directly into the heart of the chains! A massive salute to our 2025 marksmen. 🎯
📈 Leaderboards & Course Rankings
Thanks to everyone checking in on UDisc during their summer chairlift trips and alpine hikes, Snowbowl made a healthy leap up the state, national, and global play-count charts:
- 🌵 Arizona: Rank 80th (Up from 87th in 2024) 🔝
- 🇺🇸 United States: Rank 5,526th (Up from 6,262nd in 2024!) 🦅
- 🌐 World: Rank 8,209th (Up from 9,168th in 2024!)
🏃♂️ Most Active Disc Golfers (Total Rounds)
Shoutout to the top mountain grinders who logged the most vertical miles with a bag on their back:
- 🥇 @bigb22 – 6 rounds
- 🥈 @finegina – 6 rounds
- 🥉 @charlieh5828 – 5 rounds
🌍 Tourism & Growth: New Peaks, New Faces
The mountain air proved to be the ultimate catalyst for growing the game, triggering a massive wave of beginners while acting as a beautiful destination for traveling golfers.
🌱 Fresh Faces on the Mountain:
- New to this course: 153 players (+43% YoY)
- Brand new to disc golf: 13 players (A mind-boggling +550% YoY! 🎉👏)
- Ratio of new players: 7% of our entire field!
✈️ Where Travel Players Visited From:
- From over 30 miles away: 69 players
- From over 150 miles away: 29 players
- From over 300 miles away: 26 players
- 🇺🇸 Visiting States: 13 different states represented!
🏆 Layout Deep-Dive: How the “2025 Snowbowl Redesign” Played
The freshly updated 2025 Snowbowl Redesign was our most active set of chains, hosting 206 tracked rounds. Here is how the mountain terrain tested the field:
| Metric | Placement / Percentage |
| 🐦 Easiest Hole | Hole 4 (The ultimate downhill birdie pocket, scoring -0.25 relative to par) |
| ⚠️ Hardest Hole | Hole 12 (The ultimate card-wrecking mountain incline, averaging +0.88 over par) |
| 🐦 Birdie Percentage | 14% |
| 🪵 Par Percentage | 53% |
| ⚠️ Bogey Percentage | 25% |
🔋 Pure Alpine Hiking Power
Playing disc golf at this elevation is an elite workout. Look at the incredible physical health and wellness footprint our community generated on the mountain slopes:
- ⏰ Hours Logged: 823 hours of active play (+52% YoY)
- 🚶♂️ Distance Walked: 762 miles (+37% YoY 🥾)
- 👟 Total Steps Taken: 1,720,809 steps! (Over 1.7 million steps tracked on the mountain!)
🧠 Better Together: Elevating the Game
These growth metrics are a spectacular badge of honor, especially considering our shorter operational window compared to down-valley courses. Showing resort management, tourism boards, and parks departments that our player base grew by 65% and introduced 550% more beginners to the sport gives us the perfect data to advocate for continuous layout maintenance, better signage, and permanent course infrastructure.
As we move through the 2026 summer season, let’s keep this awesome mountain momentum rolling!
