🌲 McPherson Park: December 2025 Replay
The year is wrapped up! December brought plenty of action to McPherson Park, with solid traffic and impressive ace numbers to close out 2025. Here is the official breakdown of the stats from December 1st – 31st.
📊 By The Numbers
Activity remained steady throughout the month.
- Total Rounds: 482 rounds tracked on UDisc
- Unique Players: 233 disc golfers visited the course
- Total Time: 762 hours spent on the fairways
- Distance Walked: Players took 2,064,173 steps, totaling 936 miles.
🏆 Course Rankings
McPherson Park holds its spot as a top-20 destination in the state.
- #19 Most played course in Arizona 🌵
- #326 Most played course in the United States 🇺🇸
- #382 Most played course in the World 🌍
👑 The Leaderboard
A shoutout to the regulars who braved the December chill! Here are the most active disc golfers at McPherson Park this month:
- 🥇 gracec: 17 rounds
- 🥈 michaelokeeffe: 10 rounds
- 🥉 daddestmanalive: 9 rounds
- satfrizz: 7 rounds
- ascheffert: 6 rounds
Honorable Mentions: stpetey (6), cassady8 (6), deezz170 (5), charlieh5828 (5), and pattypenguin22 (4).
✈️ Tourism & Traffic
December 6th was the busiest day of the month, with 37 rounds played. We also saw plenty of travelers stopping by to fling some plastic.
Distance Travelers:
- 51 players visited from over 30 miles away.
- 44 players visited from over 150 miles away.
- 36 players traveled over 300 miles to play here!
State Roll Call:
Players from 19 different states visited McPherson Park in December, including:
South Carolina, Colorado, Oregon, California, Arizona, Kansas, Missouri, Washington, Illinois, Texas, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Mexico, Michigan, Iowa, Nevada, Utah, and Louisiana.
📈 Skill Breakdown
The course was most popular with Intermediate level players this month.
| Rating Category | Description | Rounds Played |
| < 50 | Rookie | 2 |
| 50 – 100 | Beginner | 14 |
| 100 – 150 | Recreational | 101 |
| 150 – 200 | Intermediate | 174 |
| 200 – 250 | Advanced | 116 |
| > 250 | Elite | 21 |
Fresh Faces 👋
68 players visited McPherson Park for the first time in December, and 5 disc golfers played their first UDisc round ever here.
⛓️ Layouts & Aces
The classic layout continues to dominate the play counts, but the ace race was heating up with 8 total aces!
Most Active Layouts:
- Mach V/Old Baskets: 423 rounds
- McPherson Red: 51 rounds
- SHORT STOP: 8 rounds
Ace Alert! 🚨
There were 8 total aces logged in December!
- Most Aced: Hole 7 (2 Aces logged)
📅 Events
The local scene gathered for a couple of events to close out the year.
- 2 events were played during the month.
- 43 unique players participated in events.
Note: There are currently no upcoming leagues scheduled on UDisc.
