Mark Brown is the owner of the spectacular Splat Hill Resort in Browns Valley, California, the home of Splat Hill Disc Golf Course, also known as Browns and Bows. Brown has combined his love of disc golf into an ideal scenic vacation destination. Though the resort offers several open weekends for disc golfers to come out and play throughout the year, it is a mainly private property offering a great place to camp as well as a lodge with bunk style accommodations for 17 people.

Splat Hill Disc Golf Course
Mark Brown

Guests are able to use the property’s beautifully maintained disc golf course in addition to the excellent catch and release fishing available on three ponds and a native rainbow trout stream. The resort also offers a fast paced game of paintball.

With such an ideal setting, the resort has added weddings to their venue, and it’s been an amazing success. In 2009, their first disc golf wedding was held here. Guests stayed for two days and camped, played disc golf, and experienced an incredibly beautiful wedding. It was such a great time that Brown and his wife decided to landscape five acres specifically for such events.

Since then, there have been numerous weddings, disc golf tournaments, corporate parties, family reunions and even an event sponsored for kids with downs syndrome.

Disc Golf Hall of Famer twins, Geoff and Johnny Lissaman, two of the best players in the world, along with the father of disc golf, Ed Headrick, the inventor of the sport, helped Brown design and determine the final layout of the course.

The front 18 came first, with the back 18 a few years later. Many volunteers came out to help, including some of the top disc golf professionals in the world. Ken Climo, Steve Rico, Greg Barsby, the Lissaman twins, Dave Greenwell, Elaine King, Jim Oates, Ron Russel, and Julianna Korve were just some of the big names that came out to make the course such a success.

Brown has already been approached by numerous groups for disc golf events in 2012, and he hopes to hold quite a few tournaments next year.

Both the front and back courses offer great variety, including multiple ponds and stream crossings, along with well-built bridges. Land obstacles are also a part of the course, with trees, huge boulders and hillsides all included. There is great use of the natural landscape within both, as well as nice elevation changes. The back course is a little more hilly and rugged than the front.

On open weekends, you can come out and play for just $15. It’s a great value for an outstanding time in such a magnificent setting. For serious disc golfers who have a wedding in their future, this is a good venue to consider.

Brown is doing some great things out in the gold country of northern California, and the resort is certainly worth checking out.

The first time K.C. Dermody played disc golf was in the spectacular Black Hills of South Dakota. She has since become addicted to the sport, and enjoys playing in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. She welcomes comments and suggestions, with the goal of promoting the sport of disc golf throughout the world. Find her on www.facebook.com/KCDermodyWriter.

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