Homie Dog
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I've played there twice. I went there today with 2 of my golf homies and we drove an hour plus to get there. They tell us that if we spend 10 dollars in the disc golf shop that we could play for free, as opposed to paying 5 dollars for a single round. We're in the back looking through discs, they have new and used discs for sale, and my buddy pulls out a disc and says "whatchu know about that?". Turns out that it is one of my old discs that I threw into the pond about a month earlier. The disc flew in blind, so I left it knowing that I have close friends that work for the city park and they do a good job to keep poachers out, even though there are signs posted at 2, maybe 3 spots around the pond.
It's just not right to poach, and I feel like 3 (hopefully 4 or 5) outta 5 golfers would feel the same way. Anyways, back to my story on PlumTree... One of their employees that works on the course doing some course maintenance told our disc golf crew that he knew another employee at Elk Mountain Disc Golf course was poaching discs from another courses lake (Ashe County Park, Jefferson, NC) and selling them to the shop, so they could sell them to golfers coming through the course/shop. The accused person called one of the main guys that throws frequently/works for Ashe Disc Golf Course and admitted that he did take discs from the pond, but he did not take any that had names on them. And to wrap it up, when my buddy showed me my disc, I simply said "Ahhh, that's weak.". Then the owner's son, Will Young, says to us that we can get our weak asses out of there and go to another course. I'm not going to quote the guy but I know those were the words he said.
I'm still kneeling down looking through the used discs and thought for a second about what to say, if anything and I realized he was pretty upset, and was being serious and continued to defend himself and his employees. My crew and I are very calm, we tell him that we didn't come with the intentions to snoop the store for evidence, but honestly came to just throw and buy some discs in the meantime so we could feel we really got our money's worth. I told Will that he was clearly upset and shouldn't be if he had done nothing wrong. He was getting really red, talking super loud and I felt like he wanted to hit me. No one ever placed blame on Will or his employees for buying/stealing/poaching/trading my disc. We just stated that his employee openly admitted to poaching discs that were not his, as long as they did not have a name on it. And I thought and still think that it was "weak" that whoever found my disc didn't call me.
We all felt the same way and wanted to leave at that point anyways, just because of how very unprofessional and rude he was being towards his paying customers. I was walking out of the shop with my disc in my hand and Will Young put both of his hands on my disc and rips it out of my hand as if I were going to put up a fight.
So, just a heads up, if you go to Elk Mountain Disc Golf course and you have lost a disc somewhere in North Carolina, or perhaps the whole country, and you happen to find it there, you probably should just buy the disc back.
That's my rant.
It's just not right to poach, and I feel like 3 (hopefully 4 or 5) outta 5 golfers would feel the same way. Anyways, back to my story on PlumTree... One of their employees that works on the course doing some course maintenance told our disc golf crew that he knew another employee at Elk Mountain Disc Golf course was poaching discs from another courses lake (Ashe County Park, Jefferson, NC) and selling them to the shop, so they could sell them to golfers coming through the course/shop. The accused person called one of the main guys that throws frequently/works for Ashe Disc Golf Course and admitted that he did take discs from the pond, but he did not take any that had names on them. And to wrap it up, when my buddy showed me my disc, I simply said "Ahhh, that's weak.". Then the owner's son, Will Young, says to us that we can get our weak asses out of there and go to another course. I'm not going to quote the guy but I know those were the words he said.
I'm still kneeling down looking through the used discs and thought for a second about what to say, if anything and I realized he was pretty upset, and was being serious and continued to defend himself and his employees. My crew and I are very calm, we tell him that we didn't come with the intentions to snoop the store for evidence, but honestly came to just throw and buy some discs in the meantime so we could feel we really got our money's worth. I told Will that he was clearly upset and shouldn't be if he had done nothing wrong. He was getting really red, talking super loud and I felt like he wanted to hit me. No one ever placed blame on Will or his employees for buying/stealing/poaching/trading my disc. We just stated that his employee openly admitted to poaching discs that were not his, as long as they did not have a name on it. And I thought and still think that it was "weak" that whoever found my disc didn't call me.
We all felt the same way and wanted to leave at that point anyways, just because of how very unprofessional and rude he was being towards his paying customers. I was walking out of the shop with my disc in my hand and Will Young put both of his hands on my disc and rips it out of my hand as if I were going to put up a fight.
So, just a heads up, if you go to Elk Mountain Disc Golf course and you have lost a disc somewhere in North Carolina, or perhaps the whole country, and you happen to find it there, you probably should just buy the disc back.
That's my rant.
