What a staggering, record-breaking year it was at McPherson Park! The official 2025 wrap-up numbers are in, and they prove what we already knew: McPherson is one of the absolute heartbeats of Southwest disc golf. From massive spikes in international tourism to an unbelievable surge in new players, our community set the bar higher than ever before.
Let’s dive into the ultimate snapshot of the incredible impact you helped create on the fairways in 2025! 🚀💥
📊 2025 Global Impact Metrics
Across every single category, McPherson Park saw explosive growth. Check out these massive Year-over-Year (YoY) performance jumps:
- Total Rounds Played: 8,376 (+20% YoY 🚀)
- Unique Players: 1,809 (+17% YoY 👥)
- Total Holes Tracked: 131,656 (+17% YoY 🥏)
- Total Throws Flown: 451,650 (+20% YoY 💨)
📅 Busiest Day of the Year: September 11th, with a packed house logging 74 rounds in a single day!
🗓️ Busiest Month of the Year: August, which drew in a mind-blowing 1,110 total rounds as late-summer disc golf reached peak fever pitch.
💥 The Triple-Digit Ace Celebration! 💥
If you thought you heard an unusual amount of metal crashing this past year, your ears weren’t tricking you. McPherson Park experienced a legendary, near-double explosion in hole-in-ones!
🎯 Total Aces Tracked: 105 ACES (An incredible +88% YoY! 🎉🏆)
Over one hundred perfect tee shots in a single year! Massive props to every local and traveling marksman who caught absolute chains off the pad in 2025.
📈 Leaderboards & Course Rankings
Thanks to the community’s dedication to checking in on UDisc, McPherson smashed its way up the charts globally and broke deep into the elite Top 10 courses in the state of Arizona!
- 🌵 Arizona: Rank 8th (Up from 11th in 2024!) 🔝
- 🇺🇸 United States: Rank 261st (Massive leap from 386th in 2024!) 🦅
- 🌐 World: Rank 408th (Up from 577th in 2024!)
🏃♂️ Most Active Disc Golfers (Total Rounds)
These ultimate local grinders spent an unbelievable amount of time keeping the fairways warm:
- 🥇 @gracec – 149 rounds (An absolute machine!) 🙌
- 🥈 @michaelokeeffe – 97 rounds
- 🥉 @cassady8 – 95 rounds
🌍 Global Tourism & Growth: Welcoming New Faces
McPherson Park has firmly established itself as a premier destination course, introducing a massive wave of fresh talent to the game while hosting travelers from across the planet.
🌱 Fresh Faces on the Fairways:
- New to this course: 1,141 players (+20% YoY)
- Brand new to disc golf: 147 players (A spectacular +50% YoY! 🎉👏)
- Ratio of new players: 8% of our entire playing field!
✈️ Where Travel Players Visited From:
- From over 30 miles away: 1,014 players
- From over 150 miles away: 561 players
- From over 300 miles away: 461 players
- 🇺🇸 Visiting States: 43 different states represented!
- 🌐 Visiting Countries: 5 international nations logged!
🏆 Leagues & Community Events
Organized competitive play was a massive engine for our park community, keeping local card battles highly active throughout the 2025 calendar:
- Total Events Hosted: 54 (+8% YoY 📈)
- Unique Event Players: 190 players
- Busiest Single Event: April 22nd, filling the layout with 48 tournament rounds!
📐 Layout Deep-Dive: How “McPherson Red” Played
Our McPherson Red layout was the undisputed favorite on the property, hosting 6,123 tracked rounds this year. Here is how it tested the field:
| Metric | Placement / Percentage |
| 🐦 Easiest Hole | Hole 14 (The ultimate birdie pocket, scoring -0.11 relative to par) |
| ⚠️ Hardest Hole | Hole 10 (The ultimate card-wrecker, averaging +0.8 over par) |
| 🐦 Birdie Percentage | 13% |
| 🪵 Par Percentage | 52% |
| ⚠️ Bogey Percentage | 26% |
🔋 Pure Community Fitness Power
Look at the staggering health and wellness metrics generated by our local scene just by carrying bags and hiking the park layout in 2025:
- ⏰ Hours Logged: 14,562 hours of active play (+17% YoY)
- 🚶♂️ Distance Walked: 16,495 miles (+18% YoY 🥾)
- 👟 Total Steps Taken: 36,384,824 steps! (Over 36 million steps taken on our fairways!)
🧠 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 city planners, parks and recreation boards, and local business sponsors that McPherson Park brings in thousands of visitors from 43 states and 5 countries—all while driving massive local fitness and introducing 147 new people to the sport—gives us all the leverage we need to advocate for continuous upgrades, course maintenance, and future infrastructure improvements.
Let’s keep carrying this historic momentum right through the rest of the 2026 season!
