Jody Mitchell
Eagle Member
After countless meetings with our local parks & rec. group and deputy city manager, we finally got the approval of adding a DGC to a park here.
Leading the course design team is yours truly, with help from Nick Wrenn, Jayson Camper and Mike Griner. Special thanks to my wife Carrie Mitchell for making the initial call to the city and parks & rec. and hundreds of hours being on the phone with very important people in the Disc Golf know.
Moving on, the course is located at Flat Rock Park, 18 holes, concrete 5x10 pads already down and dry, Disc King's King Pin baskets which will have 3 alternate pin placements to be shuffled around throughout the year. I'll add more info on an official opening date in the next few days. Course par is set at 59 but could be tweaked as the basket won't be in the ground for a week or so. There's still some manicuring and touch ups to do with underbrush, foliage, etc. I'm not a big fan of mandos but we have 4 holes with safety mandos because there's a bike path that serpentines throughout the park. As far as actual footage for each hole I can't give you because as I've said, the sleeves for the baskets aren't in the ground at this moment. I can tell you that the overall footage could wind up being around 7500 ft. with the longest hole being 800+ft. and shortest 220ish. The front 9 are fairly open with the back 9 being longer and more wooded.
Right now, I can show the the land we're using, the park's site and our parks & rec. department's site which will also update within the coming days.
This will be 2 courses under my belt (one still private on hunting land) that I've designed so that too is just as exciting as having a home course itself.
Anyways, if you have any questions, I'll answer the best I can.
http://www.columbusga.org/parks/
http://columbus2004.web.infoseek.co.jp/columbus/flatrockpark.html
^Photo 12 is hole #1.
http://www.discking1.com/Baskets.html
Anyone passing through, PM me and I'll meet up for a round.
Also, we're undecided on what to name it. We've chosen 2 but I'm up for opinions. The 2 we have are Disc Golf Playground At Flat Rock Park or De La Roca which is spanish for "of the rocks".
:thmbup:
Leading the course design team is yours truly, with help from Nick Wrenn, Jayson Camper and Mike Griner. Special thanks to my wife Carrie Mitchell for making the initial call to the city and parks & rec. and hundreds of hours being on the phone with very important people in the Disc Golf know.
Moving on, the course is located at Flat Rock Park, 18 holes, concrete 5x10 pads already down and dry, Disc King's King Pin baskets which will have 3 alternate pin placements to be shuffled around throughout the year. I'll add more info on an official opening date in the next few days. Course par is set at 59 but could be tweaked as the basket won't be in the ground for a week or so. There's still some manicuring and touch ups to do with underbrush, foliage, etc. I'm not a big fan of mandos but we have 4 holes with safety mandos because there's a bike path that serpentines throughout the park. As far as actual footage for each hole I can't give you because as I've said, the sleeves for the baskets aren't in the ground at this moment. I can tell you that the overall footage could wind up being around 7500 ft. with the longest hole being 800+ft. and shortest 220ish. The front 9 are fairly open with the back 9 being longer and more wooded.
Right now, I can show the the land we're using, the park's site and our parks & rec. department's site which will also update within the coming days.
This will be 2 courses under my belt (one still private on hunting land) that I've designed so that too is just as exciting as having a home course itself.
Anyways, if you have any questions, I'll answer the best I can.
http://www.columbusga.org/parks/
http://columbus2004.web.infoseek.co.jp/columbus/flatrockpark.html
^Photo 12 is hole #1.
http://www.discking1.com/Baskets.html
Anyone passing through, PM me and I'll meet up for a round.
Also, we're undecided on what to name it. We've chosen 2 but I'm up for opinions. The 2 we have are Disc Golf Playground At Flat Rock Park or De La Roca which is spanish for "of the rocks".
:thmbup:
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