Ever considered moving for better golf?

[jeremy2]

SE PA aint a bad location either

Too far north

 

[MDR_3000]

I wish I could do my job in a place other than Vegas that has better golf (I'm a poker dealer).

Not sure about your industry but do they need poker dealers on riverboat gambling operations? They have riverboat gambling on the Mississippi in good DG towns like the Quad Cities....

We have one casino now with a poker room, with another being built..should be done by the summer I think.

And the disc golf is off the chains. www.qcdiscgolfclub.com


I've thought about moving away from here...just because I'm a pansy when it comes to the cold...but the disc golf is too good.

 

[Jimmy]

I imagine i could find a dealing job in a place other than Vegas, but it wouldn't be a good career move. I'm very fortunate to have a job in which I love, that pays the bills and then some. Vegas is really the only place to get ahead in this business, as I want to build a career and eventually get my own room. When that happens, I may be able to move to achieve that goal. My other option is to root myself in NC or somewhere and travel the Poker Tournament circuit. But, I did that for a little while and hated it. It's a grind to say the least, and not nearly as lucrative or rewarding. Hopefully, I'll be able to start traveling to play golf on a fairly regular basis.

 

[Timko]

I wish I could do my job in a place other than Vegas that has better golf (I'm a poker dealer).

Not sure about your industry but do they need poker dealers on riverboat gambling operations? They have riverboat gambling on the Mississippi in good DG towns like the Quad Cities....

We have one casino now with a poker room, with another being built..should be done by the summer I think.

And the disc golf is off the chains. www.qcdiscgolfclub.com


I've thought about moving away from here...just because I'm a pansy when it comes to the cold...but the disc golf is too good.

Hey Mike, you can do what I did...

..but I do miss all my IC/CR courses, and I can't get to West Lake in an hour anymore.

 

[Will Aubrey]

I have considered moving back to Louisville. I grew up there, I have friends there and I love the Iroquois Park course. It's where I first played, in the early 80's. But word is they are going to redesign that course. And there are other reasons for me not to live there. My friends here like to play disc golf or basketball. My friends there like to go strip clubs and drink. Although that has a certain appeal, I think my lifestyle here is healthier. Carousing works better for me when it's one or two weekends a year LOLOLOL.

Plus we now have four courses within an hour of where I live. Two years ago we had none.

 

[jnecessary]

I grew up in Des Moines, starte disc golf when I lived in the Twin Cities and moved back to Des Moines. Disc golf wasn't really a consideration when I moved to either of those places, but really the only places I've considered living since I started playing have had lots of excellent courses so I haven't really had to consider it.

I will most likely be living in Iowa City in the fall, for the next few years while my wife goes through grad school there. How is the DG scene in that area? I'm going to be there weekend after next to visit U. of Iowa with her and we plan to get in a round if there is something close by. Any ideas on a course and any information on the Iowa city and surrounding areas DG scene would be excellent.

 

[dflaschiii]

I wish I could do my job in a place other than Vegas that has better golf (I'm a poker dealer). Atlantic City is awful for dealers, I would never live in L.A, and I'm not sure of the market in other areas. quote]

South Lake Tahoe!

There are plenty of casinos there and the disc golf is very VERY good. Three courses right off the lake, 63 total holes and all are top level courses. There is another course in Truckee, only 15 minutes away, that is pretty good.

One prob is there is so much snow most of the year, I was up there a few weeks back and some baskets were buried, and the snow came up to my hip. But in the summer season it's hard to beat such a concentration of good courses.

But then again, I think we all dream of living in a place like Tahoe, but few can afford it...

 

[dflaschiii]

As far as Iowa City goes, I went to high school there and discovered disc during that time. When I first started in late 90s the scene was pretty small and you could play a weekend round easily, but the sport has really blown up since then and the courses are gettin crowded.

My sentimental favorite is Sugar Bottom, about 20 min north of town, it's a nice course next to the resevior, it tends to be quieter there, and great scenery.

Then there is Turkey Creek, which was once a simple nine hole course that has doubled in size. It's very nice, but often crowded.

They recently made a course in City Park in IC that I haven't been back to play yet. Apparently it's very wooded and very difficult.

Cedar Rapids is half hour north and has three nice courses. For a bigger trip Davenport is a mecca of sorts, as is Des Moines where they held the Worlds. Also a course up north in Waterloo (I think?) where they held the 89 Worlds.

Very good club scene there too... makes me wanna go back and visit soon!

 

[garublador1]

I will most likely be living in Iowa City in the fall, for the next few years while my wife goes through grad school there. How is the DG scene in that area? I'm going to be there weekend after next to visit U. of Iowa with her and we plan to get in a round if there is something close by. Any ideas on a course and any information on the Iowa city and surrounding areas DG scene would be excellent.

While I have spent some time in IC, a vast majority of it was before I played disc golf. Unfortunately I don't have any information about the disc golf scene there, but I've heard it's pretty good. I'm sure cmlasley, MDR_3000 or Further will have lots of good info, though. You could try PMing one of them.

 

[Timko]

I will most likely be living in Iowa City in the fall, for the next few years while my wife goes through grad school there. How is the DG scene in that area? I'm going to be there weekend after next to visit U. of Iowa with her and we plan to get in a round if there is something close by. Any ideas on a course and any information on the Iowa city and surrounding areas DG scene would be excellent.

While I have spent some time in IC, a vast majority of it was before I played disc golf. Unfortunately I don't have any information about the disc golf scene there, but I've heard it's pretty good. I'm sure cmlasley, MDR_3000 or Further will have lots of good info, though. You could try PMing one of them.

There are 2 IC folks on this board (IowaDiscGolf and cmlasley), as well as me, a former IC person. MDR resides in the area some parts of the year (summer I think) as well. Hit one of those guys up if you'd like someone to play iwth.

Yes, you've got a lot of great golf in the Iowa City/Cedar Rapids area. One of the top 3 courses in the state is in Iowa City (Peninsula Park), and a must play if you've got the time (and it isn't under water). Other than that, my "home course" was Turkey Creek, a shorter technical number with some challenging long par 3.5's if you play the right tee/pin settings. Also in the area is Sugar Bottom, which I think is one of the nicest looking courses in the area.

Then you get up into Cedar Rapids, and get to play Shaver (super tight and technical), Jones (wide open), Legion (before Peninsula, the best course in the area), and there's a new one there too called Wildcat that I haven't played.

check out http://iowadg.com and http://iowadiscgolf.org for more info.

edit: And you live an hour from West Lake! Oh, the jealousy!

 

[phisherman77]

chris, thank god you saw the light and came to KC, disc golf capital!

 

[cmlasley]

I will most likely be living in Iowa City in the fall, for the next few years while my wife goes through grad school there. How is the DG scene in that area? I'm going to be there weekend after next to visit U. of Iowa with her and we plan to get in a round if there is something close by. Any ideas on a course and any information on the Iowa city and surrounding areas DG scene would be excellent.

While I have spent some time in IC, a vast majority of it was before I played disc golf. Unfortunately I don't have any information about the disc golf scene there, but I've heard it's pretty good. I'm sure cmlasley, MDR_3000 or Further will have lots of good info, though. You could try PMing one of them.

There are 2 IC folks on this board (IowaDiscGolf and cmlasley), as well as me, a former IC person. MDR resides in the area some parts of the year (summer I think) as well. Hit one of those guys up if you'd like someone to play iwth.

Yes, you've got a lot of great golf in the Iowa City/Cedar Rapids area. One of the top 3 courses in the state is in Iowa City (Peninsula Park), and a must play if you've got the time (and it isn't under water). Other than that, my "home course" was Turkey Creek, a shorter technical number with some challenging long par 3.5's if you play the right tee/pin settings. Also in the area is Sugar Bottom, which I think is one of the nicest looking courses in the area.

Then you get up into Cedar Rapids, and get to play Shaver (super tight and technical), Jones (wide open), Legion (before Peninsula, the best course in the area), and there's a new one there too called Wildcat that I haven't played.

check out http://iowadg.com and http://iowadiscgolf.org for more info.

edit: And you live an hour from West Lake! Oh, the jealousy!

And Kevin wants to install a monster course at Kent State Park just west of Tiffin. He's had a few meetings with the park already.

 

[SkaBob]

I dunno if anyone's mentioned Michigan golf yet...

I don't have to move for an abundance of great golf. Within an hour's drive there're so many courses it's amazing. And so many of them are just phenominal. If you ever get out this way, come out when the toboggan's baskets are in, or play with a local that knows the course, but PLAY THAT COURSE. If I lived anywhere I didn't totally love like nothing else, I'd move here for golf if that's how I was choosing.

 

[cmlasley]

I dunno if anyone's mentioned Michigan golf yet...

Michigan is nice. I would move to Ludington. Nice little lakeside town. Great courses - Goliath, Beauty, Beast, Leviathan, Flip City, etc.

 

[Timko]

I will most likely be living in Iowa City in the fall, for the next few years while my wife goes through grad school there. How is the DG scene in that area? I'm going to be there weekend after next to visit U. of Iowa with her and we plan to get in a round if there is something close by. Any ideas on a course and any information on the Iowa city and surrounding areas DG scene would be excellent.

While I have spent some time in IC, a vast majority of it was before I played disc golf. Unfortunately I don't have any information about the disc golf scene there, but I've heard it's pretty good. I'm sure cmlasley, MDR_3000 or Further will have lots of good info, though. You could try PMing one of them.

There are 2 IC folks on this board (IowaDiscGolf and cmlasley), as well as me, a former IC person. MDR resides in the area some parts of the year (summer I think) as well. Hit one of those guys up if you'd like someone to play iwth.

Yes, you've got a lot of great golf in the Iowa City/Cedar Rapids area. One of the top 3 courses in the state is in Iowa City (Peninsula Park), and a must play if you've got the time (and it isn't under water). Other than that, my "home course" was Turkey Creek, a shorter technical number with some challenging long par 3.5's if you play the right tee/pin settings. Also in the area is Sugar Bottom, which I think is one of the nicest looking courses in the area.

Then you get up into Cedar Rapids, and get to play Shaver (super tight and technical), Jones (wide open), Legion (before Peninsula, the best course in the area), and there's a new one there too called Wildcat that I haven't played.

check out http://iowadg.com and http://iowadiscgolf.org for more info.

edit: And you live an hour from West Lake! Oh, the jealousy!

And Kevin wants to install a monster course at Kent State Park just west of Tiffin. He's had a few meetings with the park already.

Screw you guys. Oh well, I guess I'll have to decide between the 11 (soon to be 14) I've got in the KC metro and suburbs.

I do miss a good wooded course though.

 

[cmlasley]

Screw you guys. Oh well, I guess I'll have to decide between the 11 (soon to be 14) I've got in the KC metro and suburbs.

I do miss a good wooded course though.

The upkeep is a killer, though. Especially after a winter like this last one.

To answer the original poster's question. I recently took a job in Waterloo, and I went and checked out the course locations and had a look at them before I accepted the position.

 

[dflaschiii]

Kent State Park would be an awesome place for a course! Good luck with that.

 

[tushamajig131]

I have never considered moving for disc, but I always dream up vacations to new places for a week or two to play courses in a new area. The courses here in New England are great, and if I moved, I would miss them. Between Maple Hill, Pyramids, Borderland, Pye Brook, Buffumville, West Thompson, Barre, Tully, Hodges, Burgess, Wickham, Devens, Northampton, Conway, and the probably 10 courses Im missing, I can get to quite a few great courses.

Though my parents are sick of the winters here and may be moving to NC...may have to visit them quite a bit once that happens

 

[RustyP1]

My girlfriend and I are considering moving to Charlotte, NC or Austin, TX for the DG action after another year here in Texarkana. I'm not sure if I'll be able to continue with the same job / company if I move, but I'm not so tied to my job that I'd be unwilling to find a new one. I've always wanted to live in Austin, ever since I first visited...the "vibe" is definitely great and the courses that I've played were top notch. I know some people down there too, so it would probably be the smartest move, but I'm really looking to get out of Texas for a while just to experience a different part of the country.

To anyone looking to move to Texas, the Dallas / Ft Worth disc golf scene is really starting to blow up! I think right now there are abour 30 courses within an hour drive of downtown Dallas, and there are plenty more coming (including 2 Houck courses in Wylie, TX). Great place to find a job too, as long as you don't mind dealing with the traffic every morning

 

[Midnightbiker]

I havn't played there yet, but I have heard that Austin, TX is the Disc Golf capital of Texas.

I can't imagine Houston or Dallas beating out Austin, even though I've only played Central TX courses. It ain't bad ... largely due to the fact that almost every course in the area is a John Houck-designed course. Plus we got good vibes.

I grew up 10 miles away from where Circle R was later built (10 miles from anything)... 2 championship courses used for World Doubles and Texas Teams, and now world headquarters for Millennium. Heh.. I really am just a local course bum.

My girlfriend interviewed at Michigan State last year and for a while I thought I was gonna head north. Luckily, we didn't

So half the week I live/work near a 150-acre DG ranch, and the other half I stay in Austin with a bunch of sweet courses within 20 minutes. Not bad! Better if I could throw decent.

.... not goin nowhere!!

I have played most of the Houston courses and they are cool. I have noticed that Dallas seems to have double the courses that Houston has.