New British Columbia course

[ClearwaterDGC]

Well, after having played 3 courses about an hour and a half away, my gf decided we needed a course here in town and after a few mass emails she got in touch with our local ski hill committee and off to the races they went!

We contacted some local (somewhat local anyway) players and course designers to help, but everyone is so busy these days it was either wait until August...or wing it. So..we chose the latter.

This is the design that her and I came up with, and would really like some critiquing. The baskets go in the ground on Wednesday, but there is always room for change down the road.

I will post some pics of the holes as we go along here, but thought I would throw out the map for the heck of it.

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg174/bcboy72/courselayout.jpg

I just spent an hour reading about what everyone liked or disliked about ski hill courses and think we did a decent job of mixing it all up. I could be biased though ;)

We have two holes that are open and big drops (to us..approx 100' of drop over a 300-390' on the ground measurement). These holes are numbers 9 and 18 and both lead back to the lodge.

Numbers 7 and 16 are both drop away holes as well, but are in treed areas with 10-15' fairways winding down the hill.

We have 4 holes that cut across fairways, and on two of them used recessed (into the timber) tee pads with a window to throw out to give some level of difficulty. Not much, but some..

A few of the beginning holes are just flat and around the clubhouse to allow older/disabled/people pushing kids to play a few holes also.

There is fantastic potential, with great wooded, technical fairways, for another 9 holes above the current 18.

More photos to come.

Feel free to point out any issues, or give thoughts, etc..

Thanks all, and I look forward to maybe playing with some of you one day!!

[what'shisname]

What ski hill is this going in at?

[ClearwaterDGC]

Clearwater Ski Hill, 122km (70 miles) north of Kamloops, B.C.

We haven't been getting the snow we used to (and no, I am not blaming global warming..lol) and our season should be fantastically long :) Last year we could have played year around! The hill is pretty low elevation. Lodge is at 1500'. Hill is just a t-bar.

[what'shisname]

Cool. I used to live in Kamloops, lots of great courses around there.

I was hoping it was somewhere in the Windermere valley though, I've been looking for a course out around Invermere for a while now. I'm going to go check out a course out at Nipika Mountain Resort this weekend that looks promising.

http://www.nipika.com/main.php?p=22

[ClearwaterDGC]

The Rose Hill course is where I threw my first discs and have since played it many a time. We also tried out the Heffley Creek course a few weeks back.

All courses, good and bad, are still good to me..lol..so I really don't know the difference.

We are thinking of a trip into the Okanagan this weekend to play some rounds.

[Jaysus]

Is it too late to swap the positions of holes 5 & 8 so you don't have to cross a fairway after playing #7?

[ClearwaterDGC]

Never too late for change!! But yeah, that was one of my contest points on the course design as well. What I plan on doing there, is making the underbrush light enough that the players finishing 7 will be able to see anyone teeing off of 5 and vice versa. (as it really isn't far) We will put up warning signs as well with maybe verbal announcements of teeing and crossing?

Changing 5 and 8 would alter the flow too drastically we felt..and would still have to cross the long fairway at some point.