Skittle68
Sous Chef
My friends and I play disc golf in a public park, where we just have targets marked on trees with two pieces of white tape. You try to get the disc to the tree in the least number of throws possible. Anyway, my boyfriend designed this course 5 years ago, and now this guy wants to come and put baskets in, and make it a public course with signs, and set tee boxes so anyone can come and play. We play across the park, and then back, using the same targets from different tee boxes so that we have 18 holes, but with a public course it would end up being a short, 9 hole course. So not only will putting baskets in destroy 9 of our holes, every course I've ever seen has issues with erosion, garbage, people breaking off branches in their way and killing trees, drinking beer, throwing cigarette butts everywhere, and the biggest issue is that this is a pretty heavily trafficked park- lots of picnics and families. If there are people in our way, we always skip the hole, or change the spot we throw from (almost every hole on our 18 hole course has an alternate tee box for that reason). I bet a lot of disc golfers will think that the park goers should get out of their way because "it's a disc golf course." I can see innocent bystanders getting hurt. Am I being hypocritical?? There is a parks and recreation meeting tonight about it that I plan to go to, but I'm worried that they will say we just don't want to share our course. Unfortunately everyone else in our disc club either has to work, or is out of town so I have to go by myself and represent how we all feel about it. That's why I'd like to hear an outside opinion. I'm not very good on the spot, and I'd like to have an idea of how people are going to respond, and whether anyone is going to agree with our point of view, or if they are going to think we are being selfish.
Oh, another thing that bother me is that this "disc golf dude", as he calls himself, plans to use the 9 holes up the park that my bf designed, and we have been playing for years, but when people ask who designed the course, the answer is going to be, "Chuck, the disc golf dude", or whatever his name is. It bothers me because mike put a lot of work into it- the course has been evolving and getting better for 5 years. He drew out maps and really put thought into it. So anyway, a little feedback/suggestions/devils advocate would be really helpful . Thanks all!
Oh, another thing that bother me is that this "disc golf dude", as he calls himself, plans to use the 9 holes up the park that my bf designed, and we have been playing for years, but when people ask who designed the course, the answer is going to be, "Chuck, the disc golf dude", or whatever his name is. It bothers me because mike put a lot of work into it- the course has been evolving and getting better for 5 years. He drew out maps and really put thought into it. So anyway, a little feedback/suggestions/devils advocate would be really helpful . Thanks all!