What an incredible year it was out at Little America! The full 2025 wrap-up numbers are officially in, and looking back, our community accomplished some unbelievable milestones. From massive competitive battles to a mind-blowing explosion of hole-in-ones, your passion for the sport left a huge footprint on the course.
Let’s dive into the ultimate snapshot of the impact you helped create in 2025! 📈✨
📊 2025 Global Impact Metrics
While total rounds saw a tiny dip compared to the previous year, we welcomed a healthier, more diverse pool of unique players to the course than ever before!
- Total Rounds Played: 2,105 (-7% YoY)
- Unique Players: 864 (+8% YoY 👥)
- Total Holes Tracked: 29,568 (+8% YoY 🥏)
- Total Throws Flown: 111,895 (-3% YoY)
📅 Busiest Day of the Year: May 31st, logging a record-smashing 54 rounds in a single 24-hour stretch!
🗓️ Busiest Month of the Year: May, which pulled in a staggering 377 total rounds as spring hit full stride.
💥 The Year of the Ace! 💥
If it felt like the chains were constantly crashing in 2025, it’s because they were! Little America witnessed an absolutely legendary spike in perfect tee shots this past year.
🎯 Total Aces Tracked: 66 ACES (+61% YoY 🎉)
A massive shoutout to every single player who found absolute perfection off the pad in 2025—sixty-six hole-in-ones is an unbelievable community stat!
🏆 2025 Leaderboards & Course Rankings
With course development booming worldwide, our play-count benchmarks held steady as a premier regional track:
- 🌵 Arizona: Rank 31st (vs. 29th in 2024)
- 🇺🇸 United States: Rank 1,853rd (vs. 1,725th in 2024)
- 🌐 World: Rank 2,774th (vs. 2,502nd in 2024)
🏃♂️ Most Active Disc Golfers (Total Rounds)
These local legends spent serious time grinding out lines on the property:
- 🥇 @codi21wood – 33 rounds
- 🥈 @ryans569 – 22 rounds
- 🥉 @stpetey – 21 rounds
🌍 Tourism & Growth: Welcoming New Faces
Little America has cemented itself as a major destination course, attracting travelers from all over the world while simultaneously introducing fresh faces to the sport.
✈️ Where Travel Players Visited From:
- From over 30 miles away: 438 players
- From over 150 miles away: 188 players
- From over 300 miles away: 133 players
- 🇺🇸 Visiting States: 31 different states represented!
- 🌐 Visiting Countries: 2 international nations logged!
🌱 New Additions to the Scene:
- New to this course: 569 players
- Brand new to disc golf: 46 players (+5% YoY 🎉)
🏆 Leagues & Sanctioned Events
Organized competitive play kept our tournament scenes electric and engaged throughout the 2025 calendar:
- Total Events Hosted: 6 (Holding steady at 0% YoY)
- Unique Event Players: 77 (+1% YoY 📈)
- Busiest Single Event: March 23rd, packing the cards with 32 tournament rounds!
📐 Layout Deep-Dive: How “BLUE” Played
(B Pool AZ States Layout)
The BLUE layout was our most active set of chains this year, accounting for 1,292 total rounds. Here is exactly how it tested the field:
| Metric | Placement / Percentage |
| 🪵 Easiest Hole | Hole 18 (A averaged just +0.1 relative to par) |
| ⚠️ Hardest Hole | Hole 1 (A brutal check-in averaging +0.93 over par) |
| 🐦 Birdie Percentage | 10% |
| 🪵 Par Percentage | 50% |
| ⚠️ Bogey Percentage | 28% |
🔋 Pure Community Power
Look at the collective physical health and fitness footprint our local community threw down just by carrying bags and chasing plastic across the year:
- ⏰ Hours Logged: 4,695 hours on the course
- 🚶♂️ Distance Walked: 5,795 miles * (That’s like walking across the United States twice!)*
- 👟 Total Steps Taken: 12,573,578 steps
🧠 What’s Next? Using Our Data to Grow
These 2025 metrics are more than just fun highlights—they are the perfect evidence to show local businesses, park boards, and city planners that our disc golf community is a vibrant powerhouse for tourism and wellness. Let’s carry this awesome momentum forward into the rest of 2026!
