12-22-09
12-08
My biz partner, Chad and I met with the Seminole County parks board (just N of Orlando) about the possibility of installing a disc golf course. They suggested a dormant, but still mowed, golf course that runs through a nice neighborhood. We’re working on a plan of attack for them.
12-09
World Champion Disc Golf Design installed our 2nd “Have Course-Will Travel” Rent-a-Course at Lincoln Avenue Park West in Mount Dora, FL. Located about 30 minutes NW of Orlando. The course is situated in stand of mature live oaks (my favorite) directly across the street from Mount Dora Middle School.
The baskets will stay in the ground for 6 months, at the end of which, the city parks and recreation dept will decide if they want us to pull it out or replace it with new baskets. We plan to run a formal grand opening in January along with instructional clinics and hopefully a regular league.
The 9-hole layout is only 1,799 feet (hole average 199’) and is a bit annoying for a strong disc golfer because it feels as if you should be able to birdie every hole. In fact, most advanced and up level players ARE capable of a birdie on every hole, but doing so in-a-row won’t be easy. I’ve yet to do it.
12-14
The Orlando area has TWO weekly night-golf events. The one at Turkey Lake is officially called “Wednesday Night Flights”, but I prefer Turkey Dark Meet. There’s another one on Monday, at an undisclosed location. Contact me for details (frivolist@cfl.rr.com).
12-19
We took another stab at a work day despite the holiday rush etc. I didn’t expect many people and I got what I expected. 2 people, other than myself, showed for the work day. (Thanks Marshal & Jaime) I skipped the handicap (several people showed for that) and just went straight to working on the course. It took 7 hours but we got it done.
I’m pleased to have the work day at my home-course behind me. Not because of the actual work. I just hate to have a promise hanging out there that I’ve not been able to make good on due to extenuating circumcises …uh, stances.
Here’s what we are giving up at TL…
This area was completely over-grown with weeds and huge vines. I cleaned it up and once it got really nice, we had to move it because of the park’s master plan.
So we pushed the fairway off to the right (from this photo’s perspective)
Here’s the rec tee for the new fairway…
An ideal shot from the red or blue tee will give you this look.
Still plenty of clean-up to do but it should work out to be a nice hole in a few months.
Meanwhile, I’m prepared to be called the biggest jerk in disc golf (again) for a few months while people try to wrap their heads around a new challenge that I originally had no intention of giving them. It’s a far more aggressive fairway than I’d like to see on the first hole, but, as I’ve said before. It’s not my idea, I just have to make it work.
12-21
I met Jaime at a local 9-holer to disc-uss plans to run an informal tourney as a fund raiser for Rick Rupe, a Daytona disc golfer who was diagnosed with brain cancer. We want to try to bring out 9 more holes to make it a full 18. So we walked a few of the “planned” fairways to check for playability.
I stuck around for night-golf and ended up being odd-man. Irony? Maybe.
I shot –16 par and took the spoils! To be fair, we played 27 holes from short, long, short.
I uncharacteristically fell asleep before midnight. Of course, I awoke around 4:30 AM and after another hour of consciously staring at the inside of my eyelids, I gave up on sleep and decided to see what I could do with a few extra hours. You’ve just read the results. Oh well, it started out promising anyway…
Tomorr… uh, later today…
Christmas shopping, errands, WCDGD meeting