Boxford, Massachusetts
A private disc golf course designed by Eric Powers on his home property. Short and technical, it winds through stone walls, tight gaps and mature landscaping, then heads into the woods. Built for shot variety: a place to sharpen your game, and for neighbors and new players to enjoy.
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Axiom Pro HD baskets in red, fitted with MVP Black Hole silencers to keep the chains quiet and solar Disc in the Dark lights so every basket glows after sunset.
| Access | Private land · by invitation · book a tee time online |
| Season | Year-round, conditions permitting |
| Hours | 10 AM to dusk for members · non-members by invitation |
| Typical round | 30 minutes to 2.5 hours, per UDisc |
| Tees | Pavers, wood, dirt and a rubber mat |
| Terrain | Lawn and wooded hillside · not cart-friendly |
| Guests | Must play with a member at all times |
| Safety | Never throw toward the road or the house |
| Dogs | Not allowed |
| Facilities | No restroom or water |
| Course | Holes | Par | Length (ft) | 18-hole length (ft) | Shortest (ft) | Longest (ft) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tangled ValleyBoxford · Tournament | 18 | 48 | 3,248 | 3,248 | 121#5 / 14 | 245#2 / 11 |
| Scouting WoodsPeabody · Main | 9 | 27 | 2,049 | 4,098 | 163#5 | 353#8 |
| Endicott ParkDanvers · Main | 9 | 27 | 2,498 | 4,996 | 206#9 | 317#6 |
| Pye Brook ParkTopsfield · Main | 20 | 61 | 6,569 | 5,912 | 189#13 | 780#19 |
| Clement FarmHaverhill · Orange (B tees) | 18 | 59 | 6,534 | 6,534 | 227#17 | 544#16 |
Most-played layout for each course, from UDisc, October 2026. Sorted by length over 18 holes; 9- and 20-hole courses are scaled to 18.
Logged in UDisc on any layout.
Lower is better. Months with no ranked play are skipped.
Tangled Valley logged its first round on March 25, 2026. Through the spring it was mostly a practice loop: two rounds in March, seven in April and a May spike to 23. Summer went quiet. In June the course slipped to No. 120 in Massachusetts for rounds played, and July and August logged nothing.
The league changed that. Weekly league nights started on September 11. September closed with 41 rounds from 7 players, 3 of them first-timers, and the course climbed to No. 66 in the state. Nationally it moved from No. 10,075 to No. 4,972. In the last four weeks, play is up on the four weeks before.
$100per year
Your name on a hole sign.
$100per year
Your name on a tee sign.
$1,000per year
Your name on the course sign and this website.
Each sponsorship runs one calendar year. Email eric@tangledvalley.com to claim one.
Questionable names. Permanent glory.
Name a hole, let Judge Tangles rule on it, then decide if it’s worth entering. Puns, local legends and disc golf disasters welcome.
Fall 2026 · inaugural season
Weekly league nights for the friends and neighbors who call Boxford home, and anyone else who wants in. Singles, shotgun start, scored live in UDisc with handicaps.
Handicap places start Week 4, once UDisc handicaps kicked in. Points use that week's scale by place. Players without a handicap yet are placed after those with one.
How points work
The Golden DiscWhere par goes to die with honor. A league honor society for the brave souls who keep the trees busy.
Win the Rusty Shield once and you're knighted. Your title comes from the hole that has bogeyed you most this season.
Current pot
Thinking about hole 6? The Discmania Mermaid floats. Just saying.
Annual membership
A small private club for the people who want Tangled Valley to be their home course. Members get year-round access to the course, a standing league spot and a say in what gets built next.
Owner · Founder · Course Designer
Built Tangled Valley on his own land in Boxford and laid out every hole. A PDGA member since 2026, Eric passed the PDGA Certified Official rules exam in October 2026 and is certified through 2029. He runs the league as its PDGA League Director and plays amateur in the Mixed Amateur 40+ division; his first PDGA event was the Jewelry City Ice Bowl in March 2026. PDGA profile →
Lifetime Honorary Member · Assistant League Director
Holds the Tangled Valley course record: 46, two under par on the tournament layout, set Oct 30, 2026. Won the Golden Disc five times in the Fall 2026 league, including the first three weeks. Helps run league nights as assistant league director. PDGA profile →
Lifetime Honorary Member · Assistant League Director & Head of Scouting and Recruiting
Set the first Tangled Valley course record: 48, even par on the tournament layout, on Oct 1, 2026. Won the Golden Disc three times in the Fall 2026 league (Oct 1, Oct 15 and Oct 23). Helps run league nights as assistant league director and heads up scouting and recruiting.
The same board is posted at the course. Print the sign →
Play any day the course is open. Book a tee time on the Course tab and you're on.
Bring up to two guests per round, up to four guest rounds a month.
A guaranteed place on every league night. The $5 Ace Pot is still paid weekly.
A season disc stamped with the club roundel, plus a member bag tag.
An end-of-season 18-hole invitational with a members-only Golden Disc.
Members vote on new holes, tee pads and baskets, and join two work days a year.
| Annual dues | $250, paid at the start of each membership year |
| Membership year | 12 months from your join date |
| Founding rate | Founding members keep $250 a year for as long as they renew |
| Joining | By invitation after a round with a current member |
Your land, your course
We'll design and build a disc golf course on your land, and help you run it.
Bring Tangled Valley to your land. We designed this course, built it by hand and run it every week. We'll do the same for you, from the first site walk to your first league night.
Tangled Valley, as it looks on UDisc: baskets in the woods, tees cut through the trees and a pond in play. Tap any photo to see it full size.
Every package starts with a free site walk. Pick how much you want us to do.
You build it
We walk your land and design a course that fits it.
We build it
We design it and put it in. You just play.
We help you run it
Your course gets the website, app and league tools we use here. Annual plan.
With the Tangled Valley Network, your course runs on the same website, app and tools as ours. These are real screenshots. Tap any one to see it full size, or follow the link to try it live.
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A home for your course, with an interactive map, hole-by-hole cards, the scorecard and course records.
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Players add the app to their phone from your website. No app store needed.
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Players pick a day and a time on the website or in the app, and you get the booking.
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Weekly league nights give players a reason to come back. Standings, handicaps and results update for you, and we help you get the league PDGA-sanctioned.
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The extras that turn a course into a club: a weekly Ace Pot, a record board and a little friendly shame.
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Local businesses sponsor holes, tees or the whole course. Payments and club dues can be made from the app.
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Players get better, and they keep playing. The Academy tools come with your course.
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Monthly numbers from UDisc show how much your course is played and how it ranks. They're useful for landowners, sponsors and bragging rights.
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Contests and inside jokes give people something to share, like our Name Our Holes contest, judged by Judge Tangles.
From a walk in the woods to your first league night, in six steps.
Step 1
We walk your land with you, look at the terrain and talk through what you want: a backyard course, a practice area or a full course people pay to play.
WalkthroughIdeas for your land
Step 2
We lay out every hole to fit your land: tee spots, basket spots, distances and par. You get a course map and a fixed quote.
Hole layoutCourse mapGear listFixed quote
Step 3
We open up fairways, trim low branches and set tee areas so every hole plays the way it was designed.
Fairways clearedTee areas set
Step 4
Baskets go in, along with tee pads and signs. Add solar lights and your course is ready for night rounds too.
BasketsTee padsTee signsLights (add-on)
Step 5
Your course goes on UDisc so players can find it. Network courses also launch their website, app and online tee times.
UDisc listingWebsite and appTee times
Step 6
Network courses get help starting a league, signing sponsors and tracking how the course is used month to month.
League setupSponsorsMonthly stats
Less than you think. Tangled Valley plays 18 holes from 6 baskets on a backyard lot by sharing baskets across holes. Short beginner holes can need as little as about half an acre each.
Both work. Woods make shots more interesting, and open land is faster to build. Most of our course is in the woods.
Yes. Pick the Design package and we'll give you the layout and a gear list. The gear we use is in the Pro Shop.
Backyards, camps, schools, churches, farms, breweries and campgrounds. If you have the land and want people on it, it fits.
Pricing depends on your land and the number of holes. Tell us a bit about it and we'll set up a site walk.
Learn the game
Video lessons, a form check, books and a rules reference to help every player throw farther, putt better and score lower.
How fast the disc has to be thrown to fly as designed. Higher speed needs more arm.
How well it holds the air. More glide means more distance for less effort.
How much it drifts right early in flight (for a right-handed backhand). More negative turns more.
How hard it hooks left as it slows down. Higher fade is more dependable in wind.
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News & Feedback
League news from the course, plus a place for your ideas, complaints and course requests.
| Date | Tournament | Where | Miles |
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Listings from Disc Golf Scene. Miles are straight-line from Tangled Valley.
Free · iPhone & Android
Everything at Tangled Valley in your pocket. Keep score, follow league night live, check in and pay the Ace Pot in one tap, borrow one of Eric's discs, and get your throw coached.
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This is the real app. Tap anything below to open it in the preview.
Features
Just for fun
On a computer? Scan this with your phone's camera to get the app.
Gear for the woods
Every disc from the 90+ brands at Infinite Discs, with flight numbers for each. Tangled Valley is short and wooded, so the course picks lean toward discs that fly straight and stop where you aim them.
Putt & approach · Cosmic Electron · 174g · 2 | 4 | 0 | 0.5
$10 Sold
Simon Lizotte’s putter: deep, grippy and dead straight.
This one found a new home. More used discs coming soon. Questions? eric@tangledvalley.com
$25 and up
Good for stamped discs, fittings, Academy clinics and Club dues.
Order$25
An Innova disc hot-stamped with the Tangled Valley roundel. Pick a putter or a fairway driver. Limited first run.
Order$50
A Tangled Valley stamped disc plus a 30-minute disc fitting at the course. Throw discs from the Disc Finder library and leave with a bag plan.
Order$250
A year of Tangled Valley Disc Golf Club membership, plus a Tangled Valley stamped disc.
OrderOrder sends an email to eric@tangledvalley.com. We reply within a day to confirm and send payment details. Gifts are delivered by email to you or the recipient; stamped discs are picked up at the course.
The gear we use at Tangled Valley, so you can set up your own backyard course. Want us to build it? See Disc Golf Design & Build.
Featured brand · Tangled Valley Pro Shop
Not approved. Not sorry.
Six discs the rules committee would never sign off on. Each one breaks a rule on purpose, and each one fixes something that costs you strokes in the woods: wind, short arms, spit-outs and lost plastic.
outlawdiscs.com
The wanted board
One for every slot in the bag: driver, fairway, midrange, two putters, and one for after dark. Flight numbers are speed, glide, turn and fade, same as any other disc in the shop.
Rap sheet
Approved discs have to meet the PDGA's technical standards, which leave no room for bolt-on weights, holes, grippy add-ons or electronics. Here's which line each outlaw crosses, and what you get for it.
| Disc | Slot | Flight | The rule it breaks | What it fixes |
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First run
Outlaw Discs are concept designs right now. Nothing is made or for sale yet. If you'd put one in your bag, email Eric with the disc you want and you'll be on the list when the first run is stamped.
Throw Like Uncle Rico
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Ride at your own risk