The most important part of TEE SIGNS

[RHINESEL]

Everyone covered the basics.

Just remember, tee signs aren't for the players that play the course often, they are for players that are new to the course. Think of how you would want a tee sign to be at a course you have never been to.

Want to test your design? Print out a paper copy and take someone that has never played disc before. Take them for a walk on the course and have THEM guide you. You'll find the flaws pretty quickly.

 

[mashnut]

Want to test your design? Print out a paper copy and take someone that has never played disc before. Take them for a walk on the course and have THEM guide you. You'll find the flaws pretty quickly.

Excellent idea. :thmbup:

 

[Johnny Conservative]

IMO the tee sign should have the hole #, a diagram of where the basket is placed, and the distance from tee to basket.

 

[scarpfish]

Personally, I think pin positions on signs or any kind of hole representation on signs is overrated. Holes are often modified during the first year. Later, pin positions can be added or moved, trees die and have to be removed, etc. With course maps and hole info available online, I'd rather have something graffiti proof for a tee sign.

I've always said that if vandals don't get to them, the elements eventually will. I for one have always liked the framed plexiglass signs like these.

They're not indestructible by any means, but if they get smashed or corroded, or there are changes to the hole and you need to redo them, its a relatively cheap fix. And you can be as simplistic or fancy with the graphics as you want.

 

[Lewis]

Please consider using a different distance measuring device other than G-Earth and GPS. Unless you have a really, really nice GPS, both methods can easily be off by 20'-40'. If possible, get a laser rangefinder and use those measurements.

This deserves added emphasis. I'm often surprised at how many people believe GPS is more accurate than it is. Even the best GPS receiver, in ideal conditions, can't reduce the margin of error to less than a 10' radius, and that's only in North America, where GPS is supplemented by WAS. Elsewhere on earth, the ideal margin of error is about 30'.

Translate this margin of error to a disc golf course, and the wide open hole in an empty hayfield that you're trying to measure with your GPS under a cloudless sky might be 180' or it might be 200'. Cross the pond to Finland, add some forest and cloud cover, and your GPS-measured hole distance could easily be as much as 100' off.

All this is to say that, while GPS is an amazing system that can guide a missile close enough to vaporize you, help give you accurate driving directions in downtown Boston, and help you find your way during an adventure race in a foreign country, it does have its limitations, and it's not quite accurate enough for the scale of disc golf fairways. You're better off using a laser range finder, but they can be a challenge to use, so I've had more success with a good old reel tape.

 

[discoholic]

Everyone covered the basics.

Just remember, tee signs aren't for the players that play the course often, they are for players that are new to the course. Think of how you would want a tee sign to be at a course you have never been to.

Want to test your design? Print out a paper copy and take someone that has never played disc before. Take them for a walk on the course and have THEM guide you. You'll find the flaws pretty quickly.

I agree with Mashnut, great idea. I'll do this.

 

[discoholic]

Ok, here is an example for what I have so far. I plan to add next tee arrows and label the o.b. line. The distances are for just the red tees. Any thoughts.

 

[RHINESEL]

The left looks busy. Move the sponsors to the bottom and move the distances to the middle of the column. I personally like basket images instead of dots, but that is really just my personal view.

I would be happy coming to a course and seeing those signs.

 

[g2avity]

Accurate distance. You can always walk the fairway quickly to locate the basket position. But distance is tougher to gauge, imo.

 

[mashnut]

I don't see a way of indicating the current pin position on your example, I really like to see that when there are blind shots off the tee. It can be as simple as drilling holes next to each of the distances on the left, and putting a bolt or small padlock through the one currently in use.

 

[DG_Before_Breakfast]

Large mammar...nevermind that was another thread about Zam's old avatar.

 

[joegraham]

This is a very cool tee sign at Crane Creek Park course in Santa Rosa, CA. Brand new:

 

[discoholic]

The left looks busy. Move the sponsors to the bottom and move the distances to the middle of the column. I personally like basket images instead of dots, but that is really just my personal view.

I would be happy coming to a course and seeing those signs.

Thanx for the advice. I was trying to leave space for additional sponsors, our club could use the money. But, maybe I'll clean it up until we get those sponsors.

 

[discoholic]

I don't see a way of indicating the current pin position on your example, I really like to see that when there are blind shots off the tee. It can be as simple as drilling holes next to each of the distances on the left, and putting a bolt or small padlock through the one currently in use.

I plan to mount the signs to a larger piece of wood. There will be holes drilled to mark the current position. For the red tees the wood will be red; white for white, blue for blue. I'm thinking that the large colored frame will be easy to spot from a distance. Thanx Mash

 

[DG_Before_Breakfast]

This is a very cool tee sign at Crane Creek Park course in Santa Rosa, CA. Brand new:

Very cool.

The courses in my area could really use some Tee Sign love. But they probably keep them the old ones on purpose since they would just get tagged with graffiti. Plus they finally figured out how to mark the current Pin location so that clowns don't come and change it to irritate people - with big bolts and nuts.

 

[mashnut]

I plan to mount the signs to a larger piece of wood. There will be holes drilled to mark the current position. For the red tees the wood will be red; white for white, blue for blue. I'm thinking that the large colored frame will be easy to spot from a distance. Thanx Mash

Sounds like a great idea. :thmbup:

 

[Lewis]

I plan to mount the signs to a larger piece of wood. There will be holes drilled to mark the current position. For the red tees the wood will be red; white for white, blue for blue. I'm thinking that the large colored frame will be easy to spot from a distance. Thanx Mash

So is there one basket that will be moved between the red, white, and blue pin positions on each hole, or will there be multiple baskets on each hole? Also, have you measured the distance from each tee pad to each pin position, and made different signs for each pad on each hole to reflect the difference?

Also, as a suggestion, you could move the sponsor space to the top or the bottom of the page, rather than along the left side. We didn't develop a polished, professional look, but here's how we did it at Oregon Park (see the attached image).

 

[trifocal]

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I 'd shy away from planting a tee sign this close to a pad.

 

[iacas]

I 'd shy away from planting a tee sign this close to a pad.

Yes. Or at least put it towards the back. But then you're punishing someone who might run up from whatever side you put it on.

 

[BogeyNoMore]

Everyone covered the basics.

Just remember, tee signs aren't for the players that play the course often, they are for players that are new to the course. Think of how you would want a tee sign to be at a course you have never been to.

Want to test your design? Print out a paper copy and take someone that has never played disc before. Take them for a walk on the course and have THEM guide you. You'll find the flaws pretty quickly.

Best idea I've read so far. :clap: :clap: