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I find the idea of moving away from concrete for tee pads interesting. I am hesitant to buy into any replacement working in the huge variations in climate, terrain, soil and use that would be seen across an area the size of the US vs. Finland. How well do natural turf tees hold up to freezing, shoveling, ice chipping and salting? How about flooding, 120 degree heat, drought? I am not condemning the concept, just wondering how well they actually compare. My local course http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=7150 has made use of these pads....and they are really fantastic. But Bonnie Brook is closed for the winter. Look forward to the efforts of this group...more course is fantastic for the sport.
 
ru4por said:
I find the idea of moving away from concrete for tee pads interesting. I am hesitant to buy into any replacement working in the huge variations in climate, terrain, soil and use that would be seen across an area the size of the US vs. Finland. How well do natural turf tees hold up to freezing, shoveling, ice chipping and salting? How about flooding, 120 degree heat, drought? I am not condemning the concept, just wondering how well they actually compare. My local course http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=7150 has made use of these pads....and they are really fantastic. But Bonnie Brook is closed for the winter. Look forward to the efforts of this group...more course is fantastic for the sport.
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The DiscGolfPark TeePads have been tested in some of the harshest conditions (Finland) and have held up for the last 10 years. I'm confident that they will be able to withstand our US winters as well.
 
I was surprised that Ft. Morgan, Colorado was chosen for the first course. It's not exactly a DG hotbed, being an hour from any large population center. But I will say, with the neighboring Optimist course (27 holes), this is IMO the best DG complex on the entire Colorado front range, with a total of 45 quality holes. I was in CO last month, and drove out to play the new Pessimist course. It's absolutely worth the drive. I like the river bottom terrain with holes playing through the Cottonwoods.

I had no problem throwing off the turf tee pads. It was a dry day, so I can speak to the grip when wet. Great tee signs. It's great to see a company come in to a place and work with a municipality on a DG course like this. I hope one of those other 500 courses ends up in my area here in W. Washington.
 
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jeffmonty said:
I was surprised that Ft. Morgan, Colorado was chosen for the first course. It's not exactly a DG hotbed, being an hour from any large population center. But I will say, with the neighboring Optimist course (27 holes), this is IMO the best DG complex on the entire Colorado front range, with a total of 45 quality holes. I was in CO last month, and drove out to play the new Pessimist course. It's absolutely worth the drive. I like the river bottom terrain with holes playing through the Cottonwoods.

I had no problem throwing off the turf tee pads. It was a dry day, so I can speak to the grip when wet. Great tee signs. It's great to see a company come in to a place and work with a municipality on a DG course like this. I hope one of those other 500 courses ends up in my area here in W. Washington.
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I did see a several tournaments were hosted out there this year so the hour drive has not hurt the popularity of those courses. I completely missed the new course up there until you posted this though. May be taking a short drive on my days off!
 
I have to say that locally in St. Louis I have talked to many who don't agree that we want longer courses. More challenging yes, but big arm dependent courses typically are rather boring. Longer courses are great for big events and are necessary, but I feel as if more compact, but challenging courses will grow the sport more as far as being appealing to newbies.
Maybe that is my noodle arm speaking.
 
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Just played the brand new disc golf park in south Carolina and it's awesome! Baskets went in monday, i helped install some of the tee pads last Sunday. One thing i personally like about the pads is that they are more environmentally friendly. They wouldn't be easy to move per se, but it is doable and the land would recover pretty quickly once you pulled it up. Once concrete is poored it's pretty much there forever.

I'm also looking forward to my shoes lasting longer.
 
geo_08 said:
I have to say that locally in St. Louis I have talked to many who don't agree that we want longer courses. More challenging yes, but big arm dependent courses typically are rather boring. Longer courses are great for big events and are necessary, but I feel as if more compact, but challenging courses will grow the sport more as far as being appealing to newbies.
Maybe that is my noodle arm speaking.
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Any good disc golf area def needs begginer friendly courses. Most of the areas I've played in have plenty of those already. Challenging courses are generally harder to come by. Its an under represented segment of disc golf right now.
 
Who is Alan Kane? I don't want to see anymore NC courses botched by Schwartz or incompetent locals.
 
BrotherDave said:
Who is Alan Kane? I don't want to see anymore NC courses botched by Schwartz or incompetent locals.
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Alan is very active in the Augusta disc golf scene. He currently is managing the hippodrome property and pro shop in North Augusta. His first design, Langley Pond Disc Golf Park just soft opened this week. He is a great guy and the Langley project turned out fantastic
 
Hopefully some courses will go in around the Bay Area of California. For what the weather is like year round and for how many people live there the amount and quality of courses is really lacking compared to other parts of the country.
 
Pbmercil said:
Alan is very active in the Augusta disc golf scene. He currently is managing the hippodrome property and pro shop in North Augusta. His first design, Langley Pond Disc Golf Park just soft opened this week. He is a great guy and the Langley project turned out fantastic
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He was also PDGA Events manager for a few years and is the driving force (with Pete May) behind collegiate disc golf and the National Collegiate Championships (held at Hippodrome each year).

I think he is experienced enough to be trusted with designing a course, and if it comes to it, connected enough to get the right minds involved in a team design effort.
 
BlazedOrangeHat said:
Hopefully some courses will go in around the Bay Area of California. For what the weather is like year round and for how many people live there the amount and quality of courses is really lacking compared to other parts of the country.
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The Bay Area and Seattle share the same sort of issues...lots of people and surrounded by water. The amount of land is limited, and what land there is, is already being used for various purposes. It's a little defeating seeing posts on here about how dg is blowing up in different areas with tons of new courses going in, while things stay more or less the same here, just the courses get more crowded.

That being said, I sure wouldn't complain about a new road trip worthy destination course going in somewhere nearby.
 
I like this idea. This is great to inform town, cities, park systems and so on that this is an available option in professionally installing a course. I think the first initiative would be contacting park administrators with the video and a quick paragraph or two about disc golf and course installation just to spread the word so they have someone to contact and consider adding this into their yearly budget. The one thing I would consider would be having options such as the teepads assuming those might be quite pricey, some parks just might not simply be able to afford it.
 
Things like the teepads can be bought afterwards so the park could get a design, baskets and the signage first and get pads down the line.
 
Pbmercil said:
Alan is very active in the Augusta disc golf scene. He currently is managing the hippodrome property and pro shop in North Augusta. His first design, Langley Pond Disc Golf Park just soft opened this week. He is a great guy and the Langley project turned out fantastic
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Not his first design. He did All Terrain (at Carolina Adventure World), and Seven Oaks (near Columbia).
 
What, exactly, are these teepads? Are they like the "astroturf" mats, or something else? The description on the website isn't real clear.
 
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