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[Billipo]

Ball golf tends to constructs courses (altering terrain, installing lakes, incorporating major plantings, etc) while disc golf tends to work around existing features.

Any examples of "Heavy Equipment" disc golf courses?

[cjskier]

People pay LOTS of money to play golf, no one pays anything to play disc. So no I doubt there is any of that kind of construction on any disc courses.

[Janbobbo]

Actually Discgolf Terminalen in Skellefteå, Sweden is a course where some major work has been put into making it as professional as possible. Yet they don't reach the investments that a ball golf course requires. But they have basically made forest areas into nice grass fairways. That has required moving some large amounts of good soil to make the grass grow. They've made a hill which is about 10-15 feet tall where they put a tee. Aside from that they have som 3 or 4 manmade ponds.

Here's a link to the course: http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=2322

[DavidSauls]

Not exactly, but at Stoney Hill we hired a bulldozer to create two new fairways, greatly extend a 3rd, as well as improve some others.

We also had some really big equipment out to build a 2-3 acre pond. Not exclusively for the disc golf course, but that was one of the factors in doing so as the prospective pond had always been on our minds.

Seems I recall reading that Highbridge Hills involved some earthmoving in its construction.

[bcr123psu]

Since this spring I've seen heavy earth moving equipment at Blue Mountain - Valley Park (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=3910) in PA and at Sabattus Disc Golf (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=2850) in ME. Both are pay-to-play courses, FWIW.

[Jaysus]

Actually Discgolf Terminalen in Skellefteå, Sweden is a course where some major work has been put into making it as professional as possible. Yet they don't reach the investments that a ball golf course requires. But they have basically made forest areas into nice grass fairways. That has required moving some large amounts of good soil to make the grass grow. They've made a hill which is about 10-15 feet tall where they put a tee. Aside from that they have som 3 or 4 manmade ponds.

Here's a link to the course: http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=2322
That course looks great!

[zenbot]

My bum in on the Swedish Swedish.


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3050/2572414412_00bc303f4a.jpg

[Sadjo]

The Course at Blue Ribbon Pines in Minnesota built a pond so the course would have a water feature.

One thing about golf courses is they'll normally make most of the their money but selling lots on the course with great views. So the golf courses are making money in a lot of cases with land sales on top of membership fees. So that provides more incentive to build nice courses...selling lots for top dollar.

[Janbobbo]

That course looks great!

It is a great course for sure! The pictures are quite alot out of date, but you could get an idea of what the course looks like by looking at the clips from Scandinavian Open there this year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VbB24loV94 The first 9 holes are called the black nine and are just some 2 or 3 years old. Very challenging and fun though!

[DavidSauls]

Now that I think of it, I've seen plenty of heavy equipment on courses. Mostly damaging the course for some other construction project, though.

[Billipo]

Actually Discgolf Terminalen in Skellefteå, Sweden is a course where some major work has been put into making it as professional as possible. Yet they don't reach the investments that a ball golf course requires. But they have basically made forest areas into nice grass fairways. That has required moving some large amounts of good soil to make the grass grow. They've made a hill which is about 10-15 feet tall where they put a tee. Aside from that they have som 3 or 4 manmade ponds.

Here's a link to the course: http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=2322

love that tee on hole 12.