What a monumental, record-breaking season under the pines! The final 2025 wrap-up numbers are officially in, and they solidify Fort Tuthill’s status as an absolute crown jewel of Arizona disc golf. Thanks to our local grinders, weekend warriors, and an incredible wave of global travelers, our home course pushed its way to historic new heights.
Let’s look at the ultimate snapshot of the incredible impact our community created together in 2025! 🥏🚀
📊 2025 Global Impact Metrics
Across nearly every major metric, Fort Tuthill experienced double-digit growth compared to the previous season. Check out these booming Year-over-Year (YoY) jumps:
- Total Rounds Played: 9,139 (+19% YoY 🚀)
- Unique Players: 2,153 (+16% YoY 👥)
- Total Holes Tracked: 136,909 (+16% YoY ✨)
- Total Throws Flown: 483,092 (+20% YoY 💨)
📅 Busiest Day of the Year: September 27th, locking in a wild, single-day record of 172 rounds during a massive tournament weekend!
🗓️ Busiest Month of the Year: August, drawing a spectacular 1,209 total rounds as players took full advantage of the late-summer mountain air. ☀️
💥 The 2025 Ace Count
While our total ace count took a bit of a statistical dip compared to an anomalous 2024, the local chains still took plenty of premium punishment off the tee pads.
🎯 Total Aces Tracked: 51 ACES 💥
Fifty-one perfect, single-stroke throws into the baskets! Huge shoutout to everyone who caught absolute chains off the pad this year. 🎉🏆
📈 Leaderboards & Course Rankings
Thanks to everyone consistently checking in on UDisc, Fort Tuthill blasted its way up the national and global leaderboards, breaking deep into the elite Top 10 courses in the state of Arizona!
- 🌵 Arizona: Rank 6th (Up from 10th in 2024!) 🔝🔥
- 🇺🇸 United States: Rank 216th (Massive leap from 321st in 2024!) 🦅
- 🌐 World: Rank 341st (Up from 472nd in 2024!)
🏃♂️ Most Active Disc Golfers (Total Rounds)
Shoutout to the ultimate local legends who practically lived in the woods this past year:
- 🥇 @djtownson – 90 rounds 👑
- 🥈 @jfadakai – 71 rounds
- 🥉 @chiefbeefin – 68 rounds
🌍 Global Tourism & Growth: Welcome to the Pines!
Our course proved to be a massive economic and recreational engine for Flagstaff, introducing hundreds of fresh faces to the sport while welcoming travelers from nearly every corner of the country and beyond.
🌱 Fresh Faces on the Fairways:
- New to this course: 1,307 players (+15% YoY)
- Brand new to disc golf: 138 players (A fantastic +37% YoY! 🎉👏)
- Ratio of new players: 6% of our entire playing field!
✈️ Where Travel Players Visited From:
- From over 30 miles away: 1,312 players
- From over 150 miles away: 744 players
- From over 300 miles away: 645 players
- 🇺🇸 Visiting States: 48 out of 50 states represented! 🤯
- 🌐 Visiting Countries: 9 international nations logged!
🏆 Leagues & Premier Events
Organized competitive play saw a historic explosion in frequency, providing a steady anchor for tournament card battles all year long:
- Total Events Hosted: 43 (A mind-boggling +72% YoY! 📈)
- Unique Event Players: 228 players
- Busiest Single Event: September 26th, packing the course with 168 competitive tournament rounds!
📐 Layout Deep-Dive: How “Main-Yellow” Played
Our classic Main-Yellow layout was the undisputed favorite on the property, hosting 7,901 tracked rounds this year. Here is how the pins tested the field:
| Metric | Placement / Percentage |
| 🐦 Easiest Hole | Hole 7 (The ultimate birdie pocket, scoring -0.04 relative to par) |
| ⚠️ Hardest Hole | Hole 3 (The ultimate tree-kick card wrecker, averaging +0.57 over par) |
| 🐦 Birdie Percentage | 17% |
| 🪵 Par Percentage | 50% |
| ⚠️ Bogey Percentage | 24% |
🔋 Pure Community Fitness Power
Look at the staggering health and wellness metrics generated by our local scene just by carrying bags and hiking the beautiful Coconino County terrain in 2025:
- ⏰ Hours Logged: 15,755 hours of active play (+18% YoY)
- 🚶♂️ Distance Walked: 17,374 miles (+18% YoY 🥾)
- 👟 Total Steps Taken: 38,559,361 steps! (We successfully crossed the 38-million step mark under the trees!)
🧠 Better Together: Continuing the Momentum
These numbers are an incredible badge of honor for our local club, but they are also highly effective advocacy tools. Showing Coconino County officials, park boards, and city decision-makers that Fort Tuthill DGC brings in thousands of unique visitors from 48 states and 9 countries—all while driving massive local physical wellness and introducing 138 new people to the sport—gives us the perfect data-backed evidence we need to successfully advocate for continuous layout upgrades, course maintenance, and future infrastructure funding.
Let’s keep carrying this historic momentum right through the rest of the 2026 season!
