Here you can learn all about the world's best disc golf course for 2025, Krokhol Disc Golf Course in Siggerud, Norway, near Oslo. This marks the second year in a row that Krokhol has ranked as the world's best disc golf course.
Krokhol is ranked #1 in the most recent World's Best Disc Golf Courses top 100 released annually by us here at UDisc. The rankings are based on millions of player ratings of over 16,000 disc golf courses worldwide on UDisc Courses, which is the most complete and regularly updated disc golf course directory in existence.
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- Basics: Times in top 100, year established, designers, cost, & availability
- History
- How hard is it?
- What's it like to play?
- Three real five-star reviews
Krokhol Disc Golf Course: Basic Info
- How many times has Krokhol Disc Golf made the annual World's Best Disc Golf Courses top 100 since the rankings were first released in 2020?
Year 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Top 100? - When did Krokhol Disc Golf open?
2018 - Who designed Krokhol Disc Golf?
Lars Somby, Ola Kolle - Is Krokhol Disc Golf free or pay-to-play?
Donation-based. See its UDisc Courses entry for suggested donations. - When is Krokhol Disc Golf available to play?
Seasonally spring through fall. Exact opening and closing dates are flexible and weather-dependent.
History of Krokhol Disc Golf Course
In Oslo, disc golf clubs are often based around courses. Muselunden DiscGolfPark has Muselunden Frisbeeklubb and Ekeberg Frisbeegolfbane has, naturally, Ekeberg Sendeplateklubb. Krokhol owes its existence to problems these clubs faced in the late 2010s.
Due to a rapid rise in disc golf's popularity in Oslo and Norway generally, the courses started drawing more players than the fairly small public parks they occupied could handle. For years, it hadn't been a real problem that fairways crisscrossed each other or disc golfers had to wait a while for a break in a steady stream of bicyclists, pedestrians, and people on roller blade-like contraptions that mimic cross-country skis (it is Norway, after all) to throw over a path.
But when nearly every hole started having a group on it, player impatience could create dangerous situations. As a result, Muselunden had to remove six holes from its course and Ekerberg (perenially one of the most-played disc golf courses in the world) removed two par 4s and became a course made up entirely of short par 3s.
The longtime disc golfers who'd played and maintained these courses for years loved seeing the sport grow, but they also longed for a place where they could feel challenged and a little less cramped.
So the clubs started talking with city government to identify a location for a new facility in an area that would be just for disc golfers and lent itself to creating holes for experienced players.
"We looked at a couple of places, but none of them were good or we couldn't get permission to use them," said Lars Somby, Muselunden Frisbeeklubb member and Krokhol's eventual head designer. "Finally, the city told us they had a place we could use in one of the city's forests, and for almost a year Muselunden and Ekeberg worked together to try to figure out how to build 18 quality holes there before we realized it was impossible. We were really bummed out."
But new hope arose fairly quickly.
One day, a Muselunden club member was scanning Google Maps, and he got curious when he scrolled across land that looked like it might be an abandoned ball golf course not far outside Oslo. Shortly thereafter, Somby and another Muselundener, Morten Falk, drove to the spot to scope it out.
"When we got to it, we were blown away; it was amazing," Somby recalled. "A couple of days later we took some Ekeberg club members up there to show them, and they were blown away, too."
The land the clubs had discovered was, indeed, the former back nine of a ball golf course that the owner had removed to reduce maintenance costs as ball golf's popularity continued to slip. Along with the benefit of having many potential fairways already cleared, the area offered up thickly forested areas, drastic elevation changes, bodies of water, and protruding rock walls that created both extraordinarily picturesque scenery and all the elements needed for world class disc golf.
To the clubs' delight, neither the course owner nor the local municipality that owned part of the land the group wanted to use had a problem with them molding the area into a disc golf course. In fact, the course owner saw plenty of benefits to it: the land would continue to be maintained, get used, and the course's cafe would have more potential traffic. He even gave the groups permission to use some of his equipment for building and maintaining the course.
Given the quality of the property, the clubs knew they had no choice but to create something magnificent, and before anyone touched a shovel or a chainsaw, many hours were spent going through the property and planning a design aimed at perfectly balancing elite-level challenge, fun, and visual experience. Once they were satisfied, the long, hard work of realizing their epic vision began.
Even after the crowdfunded baskets were installed and the tee pads went in, the crew behind Krokhol never stopped thinking about how to enhance the course. Along with numerous design tweaks over the years, they've carefully planned and installed a second set of tees to make the course feel accessible to average players.
The Krokhol team's constant pursuit of "better" has now landed them at "best" for 2024 and 2025, but don't think that means they're completely satisfied.
"Krokhol is a dynamic project and we never rest on any laurels," said Krokhol co-designer Ola Kolle. "We have many plans and changes in mind and we will continue making them happen together with our great course crew and generous sponsors."
How Hard Is Krokhol Disc Golf Course & What's Par on It Rated?
Krokhol Disc Golf Course has two sets of tees for every hole: gold and blue. The gold tees offer one of the hardest layouts on any course in the top 100 World's Best Disc Golf Courses based on rating at par. The blue tees are less daunting, but they're still likely to be most fun for players with plenty of skill and experience.
| Name | Distance |
Technicality | Overall Difficulty | Par Rating | Scoring Average | |
| Easiest Layout | Krokhol Blue Layout | Long | Highly Technical | Very Challenging | 218 | +12 |
| Hardest Layout | Krokhol Gold Layout | Very Long | Highly Technical | Very Challenging | 271 | +22 |
You can see more about these layouts by checking out Krokhol Disc Golf Course on UDisc Courses.
Learn more about UDisc's disc golf course difficulty categories and our disc golf round rating scale in the posts below:
What's It Like to Play at Krokhol Disc Golf Course?
Somby said that he and the others who helped build and design the course had one very clear goal for their efforts.
"We want to build up the area's players to be able to compete on a higher level," he said.
And, really, though players need thousands of hours of practice to master them, the skills needed most for high-level play are easy to pinpoint: distance and accuracy. Thus, scoring well at Krokhol requires both power and control. For example, take a look at hole 8 from the gold tee as seen in a flyover from MDG Media of 2023's Krokhol Open:
The hole is a an extremely difficult par 4, taking two excellent shots to set up even a dream of birdie. You're first asked to throw big and land soft on a very narrow fairway in the woods where any flare or roll left or right not only takes away the opportunity for birdie but can even make par a tall order. If you manage to hit that, you then need to execute another big shot that makes it out of the first wooded landing zone, flies entirely over a large OB area, and then fades precisely into a sloping green cut into the forest. The global average on hole 8 from the gold tee at the time of publication was 6.15, which is 2.15 strokes over par.
But asking players to meet such high demands is just what Krokhol does.
"We are very proud of this hole and feel that this hole alone kind of exemplifies the whole course and what it's all about," said Kolle.
Another thing Krokhol prides itself on is offering all disc golfers the same experience. Whether you're scratching it off the bucket list during a long layover at Oslo airport in June, out for a weekend round with friends in September, or one of the world's best disc golfers competing at an elite tournament in August, the course's layout, out-of-bounds lines, and basket placements remain the same.
"I think that has been a key ingredient in Krokhol's formula for success," Kolle said. "We don't chase only what the pros want. Everything is manicured the entire time the course is open. Ams are treated the same way as pros during tournaments and casual play. Everyone can play the gold layout just like they saw it on YouTube."
And keeping up the course's aesthetics at all times is important because no matter what you look down and see on your scorecard, you can count on Krokhol's beauty to always give your spirits a boost. When we featured Krokhol in our post naming Oslo the #2 international city for disc golf in the world, one of our local sources said, "I'd say that 18 holes at Krokhol feels like an adventure where you explore and unlock more and more of the forest as you go, and you keep feeling amazed."
It's also important to note that Krokhol offers two very different layouts: gold and blue. The gold tees are meant to be a challenge for the world's best disc golfers, and if you're not among that group or having one of the best rounds of your life, par can be a big ask on many holes (the global UDisc average is more than 20-over par after all). The blue layout is still challenging, but it will feel more approachable – and likely be more fun – for the vast majority of players
Three Real Five-Star Reviews of Krokhol Disc Golf Course
Three real five star reviews of Krokhol from disc golfers on UDisc:
Note that the publication date of this post reflects the last time we made minor updates to it. Some information has not changed since its last major update in 2024.
