Disc Golf in the News

[ru4por]

Crazy personal agendas. Disc golfers are more impacting to the local flora/fauna than people walking their dogs? Kill and eagle?? What the heck does that mean. A bunch of crazy what if's and a handful of hyperbolies. Someone should get the email address of the mayor and post it here. I would be glad to send a quick positve note in retort of the entitled opposition.

 

[Jukeshoe]

a handful of hyperbolies.

This would make a great band name.

 

[brutalbrutus]

This sounds an awful lot like when someone decided to build a richy subdivision in Columbus, OH, right next to Polaris amphitheater. Then wouldn't you know it the richy suburbanites decided there was too much noise....So now one of the great outdoor concert venues is no longer in existence.

 

[Giv'r]

Why is it that people move next to a park thinking they own their view, then the park gets developed and they claim it is their space?

"The view from our back yard is going to be very, very impacted by this crazy, crazy idea of golf discs," Walker said. "I don't care about it. I want my back yard. I want my view. I want my privacy."

She moved from New York... maybe she had a backyard, maybe she had a fire escape... but I somehow doubt that disc golf is going to impact her view very very much in any crazy crazy way...

NIMBYism at it's finest.

 

[billtvshow]

Just came across this:

 

[Vonbeezy1]

NIMBYism at it's finest.

Nimby can be bad AND good. It's not always a bad thing

 

[Grungedude42]

Here's a local write up.
http://currentincarmel.com/field-of-green

 

[kingjames1014]

Here's a local write up.
http://currentincarmel.com/field-of-green

Hey that guy looks familiar

 

[joshmo65]

http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/a...hborhoodsmore/5884571-74/disc-golf-pittsburgh

Good writeup in Pittsburgh

 

[Redshirt]

A local station ran a nice story.

 

[ian4peace]

Recent right up in our local paper about a course we are trying to get installed.

http://blogs.windsorstar.com/life/bringing-disc-golf-to-windsor

 

[ian4peace]

Then we have this, which just aired tonight!

http://windsor.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=405252&binId=1.1143915&playlistPageNum=1

 

[Menacewarf]

Proud to see this course I pioneered and designed featured on a tv news spot. Most of the holes featured are the original design, although a bunch not shown has been changed and updated by the guys still there. Good work JB and the rest!



There is certainly a stigma about playing disc golf on public lands in some places but thankfully in some other places out west, such as southern oregon, it is seen somewhat in the norm and along the lines of other low impact outdoor recreation and thus accepted. It also doesn't hurt that myself and many others, when creating and stewarding theses courses, put a big emphasis on communicating to all the need to keep the place clean and be respectful. It's nice to see it pay off to where it can be on TV.

 

[ScottyLove]

Here's a piece that ran on our local news a few weeks back...

Good Sports Report

After piece ran, the news anchor went on to mention that Jake and his partner had just won the Under 16 Doubles World Championship.

 

[zenbot]

Found this pic stumbling on a site of problem solvers.

What's that putter anyway?

 

[brutalbrutus]

Judging by the thumb track its a rhyno or a pig.

 

[Menacewarf]

Found this pic stumbling on a site of problem solvers.

I like zenbots definition of news. Whenever big things happen in the world my first source is of course, pleatedjeans.com

 

[TOB3RT]

Not in the news, but there was a guy who explained DG to Alex on Jeopardy :clap:

 

[discddwn]

Dx Rhyno

 

[zenbot]

I like zenbots definition of news. Whenever big things happen in the world my first source is of course, pleatedjeans.com

In my opinion it's the single most balanced reporting.