What an absolutely historic, record-shattering year on campus! The final 2025 wrap-up metrics are officially in, and the Northern Arizona University (NAU) disc golf community absolutely crushed it. We saw massive spikes in total rounds, an explosion of brand-new players, and a collective step count that crossed into the tens of millions. 🥓🪓
Let’s dive into the ultimate snapshot of the incredible impact our Lumberjacks made on the fairways in 2025!
📊 2025 Global Impact Metrics
Across the board, the numbers for the NAU course didn’t just grow—they soared! Check out these phenomenal Year-over-Year (YoY) jumps:
- Total Rounds Played: 3,730 (+38% YoY 🚀)
- Unique Players: 946 (+14% YoY 👥)
- Total Holes Tracked: 57,916 (+14% YoY ✨)
- Total Throws Flown: 193,631 (+36% YoY 💨)
📅 Busiest Day of the Year: February 16th, racking up a wild 44 rounds in a single winter day!
🗓️ Busiest Month of the Year: August, drawing in a massive 441 total rounds as students flooded back to campus for the fall semester. 🎒
💥 Chains Rattling: The 2025 Ace Tracker
The precision off the tee pads this past year was unbelievable. The local chains took an absolute beating as our community tracked an exceptional number of hole-in-ones!
🎯 Total Aces Tracked: 47 ACES (+38% YoY 🎉)
Huge congratulations to every single marksman who carded a perfect 1 off the tee in 2025! 🏆
📈 Leaderboards & Course Rankings
Thanks to your consistent UDisc check-ins, the NAU course climbed significantly on state, national, and global leaderboards, cementing itself as an elite campus track!
- 🌵 Arizona: Rank 24th (Up from 25th in 2024) 🔝
- 🇺🇸 United States: Rank 1,009th (Massive jump from 1,456th in 2024!) 🦅
- 🌐 World: Rank 1,525th (Up from 2,107th in 2024!)
🏃♂️ Most Active Disc Golfers (Total Rounds)
Shoutout to the ultimate campus grinders who practically lived on the course in 2025:
- 🥇 @pickle444 – 58 rounds
- 🥈 @jaminator13 – 49 rounds
- 🥉 @evanlunceford – 42 rounds
🌍 Tourism & Growth: Welcome to the Game!
Our campus course proved to be a major engine for introducing new players to the sport while welcoming traveling disc golfers from all over the globe.
🌱 Fresh Faces on the Fairways:
- New to this course: 574 players (+12% YoY)
- Brand new to disc golf: 79 players (A mind-blowing +65% YoY! 🎉👏)
- Ratio of new players: 8% of our entire field!
✈️ Where Travel Players Visited From:
- From over 30 miles away: 408 players
- From over 150 miles away: 198 players
- From over 300 miles away: 158 players
- 🇺🇸 Visiting States: 36 different states represented!
- 🌐 Visiting Countries: 3 international nations logged!
🏆 Leagues & Campus Events
Organized competitive play saw a healthy boost in frequency, keeping card battles active all year round:
- Total Events Hosted: 7 (+17% YoY 📈)
- Unique Event Players: 80 players
- Busiest Single Event: February 16th, packing the lines with 35 tournament rounds!
📐 Layout Deep-Dive: How the “Main” Layout Played
Our Main layout hosted all 3,730 tracked rounds this year. Here is how the course tested the field:
| Metric | Placement / Percentage |
| 🐦 Easiest Hole | Hole 16 (A total birdie-fest, scoring -0.6 relative to par) |
| ⚠️ Hardest Hole | Hole 3 (The ultimate card-wrecker, averaging +0.64 over par) |
| 🐦 Birdie Percentage | 19% |
| 🪵 Par Percentage | 50% |
| ⚠️ Bogey Percentage | 23% |
🔋 Pure Lumberjack Power
Look at the staggering health and fitness footprint our community built up just by walking campus and slinging plastic in 2025:
- ⏰ Hours Logged: 5,711 hours of active play (+36% YoY)
- 🚶♂️ Distance Walked: 6,602 miles (+34% YoY 🥾)
- 👟 Total Steps Taken: 14,670,598 steps! (Nearly 15 million steps taken on the course!)
🧠 Better Together: Continuing the Momentum
These amazing metrics do more than look pretty on a screen—they are highly effective tools for course advocacy. Showing university administration, recreation boards, and student organizations that disc golf is driving student wellness, introducing dozens of new people to the sport, and bringing in travelers from 36 states gives us the leverage we need for course upgrades, maintenance, and future expansions.
Let’s keep carrying this incredible energy through the rest of our 2026 season!
