HB Clark Signiture Disc Golf Course Design

H.B. Clark, Disc Golf Course Architect

H. B. Clark has over 30 years of course design experience, both as a volunteer and then as a full time professional. He
has been on the Professional Disc Golf Association Pro Tour since 1977, having won events in most years and cashed as a
top player in each year. Major tour finishes include 8th in the 2005 World Championships – Grand Master Division, 2nd
in the 2002 European Championships – Masters Division, and 3rd in the 2003 British Open – Open Division. He has
hosted and run events since the late 70’s, and prior to that played competitive disc games winning state championships
in freestyle, distance, maximum time aloft, disc golf, DDC, guts, and accuracy as well as numerous overall state
championship titles. He was a player and coach of the Western Kentucky University Ultimate team, and founder and past
president of the Bowling Green Disc Golf Club and a past President of the Louisville Disc Golf Club.

HB has made presentations on disc golf to the National Parks and Recreation Association, the Kentucky Recreation and
Parks Society, and the Tennessee Parks and Recreation Association, as well as numerous Park Boards and Foundations,
and Tourism Departments at the state and local level.

He has taught disc for classes at the elementary, high school, and university levels, and taught community education
classes for families and individuals. He has hosted clinics for season players and community groups throughout his disc
career. He has played on three continents, and competed in major tournaments in Canada, England, Scotland, Norway,
and Sweden. In the United States he has toured extensively from cost to cost and is well known on tour as both a
competitor and a promoter of the sport of disc golf.

H. B. Clark has been designing disc golf courses since 1974, starting with “object” courses on the campus of WKU and at
Hobson Grove Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He is known for excellent temporary tournament course design
(Lampkin Park in BG and George Rogers Clark Park in Louisville) as well as the following permanent park designs:

Kereiakes Park - Bowling Green, Ky.
Hobson Grove Park - Bowling Green, Ky.
Yellow Creek Park - Daviess County, Ky.
Whitesville City Park - Whitesville, Ky.
Lovers Lane Park - Bowling Green, Ky.
Panther Creek Park - Daviess County, Ky.
Franklin-Simpson Community Park - Franklin, Ky.
Dolphin Swim Club - Brentwood, Tenn.
Chalybeate Springs Park - Edmonson County, Ky.
Jenny Wiley State Resort Park - Prestonsburg Ky.
Simpson County Schools, Franklin Ky.
Triple Creek Park - Gallatin Tenn.
Central Park - Murray Ky.
Ohio County Park - Hartford, Ky.
Mills Park - Gatlinburg, Tenn.
Stuart Nelson Park - Paducah, Ky.
Kiwanis Disc Golf Course - Morristown, Tenn.
Tim Horton Camp - Campbellsville, Ky.
Lake Cumberland State Resort Park – Jamestown, Ky.
Pickwick Plantation - Pickwick Dam, Tenn.
Memorial Park - Paris, Tenn.
City Park - Madisonville, Ky
Western Kentucky University – Bowling Green, KY
Mike Miller Park - Benton, Ky.

In addition to design, The HBC Group, LLC recently completed turn key disc golf course design and installations for
City Park of Madisonville, Dolphin Swim Club, Chalybeate Springs (Edmonson County), Jenny Wiley State Resort Park
and Lake Cumberland State Resort Park (The Commonwealth of Kentucky) , Simpson County School System, Western
Kentucky University, and Stuart Nelson Park (City of Paducah). Upgraded signs and information kiosk and maps have
been provided for numerous existing public courses as well.

Beyond disc golf, HB is a graduate of Western Kentucky University’s Environmental Engineering Technology program,
with continuing University training in Civil and Electrical Engineering, and a Masters Degree from Webster University in
Computer and Information Resources Management. He started a professional career South Central Bell in 1978 as an
Outside Plant Engineer, and after numerous management positions in Bowling Green, Ky. and Louisville, Ky. retired
from the Regulatory Department of BellSouth. He is currently a Rotarian, on the Engineering Advisory Board of WKU, a
member and past Chairman of the Board of the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce, a graduate of Focus Louisville,
Leadership Bowling Green, and Leadership Kentucky.