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Michigan New Course Updates

ru4por said:
Nice. We have tournaments on both the 10th and 11th, so I cannot make the road trip. :(

I sure am not a fan of the Fri/Sat/Sun tee time stuff. It really is prohibitive for the traveling player.....................at least for the next few months until I retire. :D
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Yep I am not a fan of the 3 day format myself simply because there is no way I can commit to taking a Friday off for a tournament. Then again I am not running it.
 
davetherocketguy said:
Yep I am not a fan of the 3 day format myself simply because there is no way I can commit to taking a Friday off for a tournament. Then again I am not running it.
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For anyone traveling, and I assume that is the idea behind this size of a tournament, you need to take off Thursday to travel and get set up. All to play for 4 hours a day, sometimes in the middle of the day. Thankfully, many send the old guys out first, or very early.
 
Driving an hour doesn't bother me, I commuted that far each way for 10 years, moreso I was just surprised at tournament rounds being so far apart. Prior to the aforementioned tournaments this year all other single round per day multi course events I had to reference were playing ledgestone and DGLO where the course are within 15 minutes of one another.

The single round per day tournaments fit our current family situation fairly well as my wife can go camping which she loves and I don't particularly mind. Meanwhile I get to play a competitive round which I love but I don't lose an entire day of our "vacation" which my wife likes. Even the middle of the day thing works out alright because that means I'm only gone during lunch/naptime for the toddlers. So I don't even have to feel too guilty about abandoning her at the campground with the kids.
 
Got word today of considerable damage, damaged baskets and downed trees on the Monster Course at Hudson Mills. The park has reached out to us to set up a work day to help get the course back on its feet. It was described as unplayable. I have not been out there. We are having our league tournament of champions and club member appreciation party on the OG, Saturday. I will try to get out an update on the courses.
 
ru4por said:
Got word today of considerable damage, damaged baskets and downed trees on the Monster Course at Hudson Mills. The park has reached out to us to set up a work day to help get the course back on its feet. It was described as unplayable. I have not been out there. We are having our league tournament of champions and club member appreciation party on the OG, Saturday. I will try to get out an update on the courses.
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I was out there Sun, and can can confirm Monster holes 1 & 2 looked pretty bad. Ran into Groot there, and he said #11 was as well.

I played Original, and while you could see some trees down here and there, none of them affected play at all.

I said as much when I updated Course Conditions.
 
Apparently, there are 9 baskets at Veteran Memorial Park in Warren, MI.

Veteran Memorial Park - Warren, MI
https://app.udisc.com/applink/course/36206

On Sep 11th, someone posted on U-Disc:
This is not an object of course. They have they have baskets.
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Can anyone confirm?

Personally, I won't list a course until I've seen for myself that it's playable and ready for public consumption. Too many questionable/rushed/misleading courses listed on U-Disc.
 
BogeyNoMore said:
I don't know how long they plan to keep the targets up, but the dates for Art Prize are: September 15 - October 2, 2022.
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I played this afternoon and chatted with the artist/designer for a bit. It's uncertain what will happen after October 2. He said something like "it's all up for sale, and I have had several entities express interest including the park/zoo where it is currently set up, but I also wouldn't be sad if it just ended up back in my yard."

There were groups on every hole throughout my visit. Definitely not much in the way of challenge, etc. but a very fun and unique idea. I am going to write a quick review to help spread the word.
 
DFrah said:
I played this afternoon and chatted with the artist/designer for a bit. It's uncertain what will happen after October 2. He said something like "it's all up for sale, and I have had several entities express interest including the park/zoo where it is currently set up, but I also wouldn't be sad if it just ended up back in my yard."

There were groups on every hole throughout my visit. Definitely not much in the way of challenge, etc. but a very fun and unique idea. I am going to write a quick review to help spread the word.
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This weekend was out because of family plans.
Next two weekends are out because I'll be out of town. So I'm hoping they keep it up into October.
 
BogeyNoMore said:
This weekend was out because of family plans.
Next two weekends are out because I'll be out of town. So I'm hoping they keep it up into October.
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I'm out of town the next two weekends as well. Not sure if any info on the fate of the course will be publicly available. Feel free to DM me if you want me to check that it's still there. It's about a 10 min drive from me.
 
ru4por said:
Have any of you "up north" guys heard of this course? It is listed on UDisc and my nephews stumbled across it while camping in a county park on Pickerel Lake. They were reasonably impressed.

https://udisc.com/courses/camp-pet-o-se-ga-jLBL?latitude=18.016459&longitude=8.376481&zoom=2
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Resurrecting this one from a couple months ago. I was planning on hitting the two courses at Grayling Rotary on my way up to the UP today, but there was a cross country meet or something like that going on so I judged those courses as unavailable - and ended up stopping here instead. I'll write a full review soon but short version: this is a nice new course. Mostly flat terrain and semi-open fairways with just enough trees to keep things interesting, in my opinion. The main thing it's lacking is tee pads. There are three tees per hole but currently they are all still natural. I think I'm going to give it a 3.0 as things stand now. There's definitely potential for it to be a 3.5 with nice pads and a couple other finishing touches. Not a destination, but a solid option for locals and people already visiting the area.
 
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This one was listed in 2019, de-listed a month later by owner request, and now re-listed after I saw it on UDisc, contacted the owner (and Tim) and talked it through. Private course, but open to the public. It's a pretty solid 9er if no one is around, probably about a 2.0 in my book. Main drawback is that you might have to skip most of it if visiting in the summer, since it plays through a summer camp. Still, the wider Sault Ste. Marie area (at least the MI side) desperately needs a good course - or even an OK course - and this is at least the latter.

https://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=10832
 
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