Does a course near you have a pro-shop on it?

[Jethoma27]

I am from the greater Cincinnati area and have played a lot of courses all over ohio, nothern kentucky, indiana and even some in Colorado as well. It seems the only course that I have ever seen with a legit pro-shop on it is Mt. Airy here in Cincinnati. The pro-shop it called The Nati Disc Golf and they sell everything from discs to bags to gatorades right there at the heart of the course. Their selection is excellent, as well this is not just some hole in the wall shop if you catch my drift. Do you guys have any legit pro-shops at your local courses? Maybe I just havent traveled enough to see more of the courses in the country but it seems to me that this is a pretty rare thing. Also, Mt. Airy is a free to play course, if you are ever in the cincinnati area do your self a favor and play it. It is a great course.

[mashnut]

Morley Field, Huntington Beach, La Mirada and Sylmar do from what I remember in Southern California. Nothing around Chicago does unfortunately, though we have a couple shops that are near courses.

[silverbullet]

no courses near me do . but i am pretty marshall street disc golf pro shop is located at the pyramids disc golf course. somewhere close to boston i believe

[Cgkdisc]

Six courses in the Twin Cities with Pro Shops on site: Blue Ribbon Pines, Hyland SSA, Bryant Lake, Elm Creek, Kaposia and The Valley. They're not all fully stocked stores but enough discs and other items to be useful.

[chrishysell]

For years I have been the travelling pro shop with 99% of my product being Discraft. Now Chris Brown sells Innova plastic out of his truck as well. He has a good amount of discs for sell.

[vonDrehle]

Burlington has a Camp store that I believe has some disc and what not.

I wouldn't mind a disc company coming out with some sort of disc vending machine. :D Don't imagine it would be too difficult to work up.

[bradharris]

Marshall Street and Maple Hill in Leicester, MA 1 1/2 away from me (I still consider that close). Killer B Disc Golf at Devens an hour away. Top O' the Hill and Beauty Hill an hour to the north. I think that pretty much covers it, lots of options in New England!

[silverbullet]

Burlington has a Camp store that I believe has some disc and what not.

I wouldn't mind a disc company coming out with some sort of disc vending machine. :D Don't imagine it would be too difficult to work up.

how cool would it be to see a vending machine with CE/10x kc pro aviars/champ rocs :D

[412Disc]

no sadly

[scarpfish]

I'd say fewer than 5% of courses I've been to have a pro shop, and even for some of the ones that do, its often closed.

You know the sad thing is even if more public courses set up a pro shop occasionally, the vendors there could probably make good money peddling plastic, and the city/county or whatever government jurisdiction who owns the park could make good money charging those vendors a fee to set up shop, revenue from which could help pay for course maintenance and improvements.

[Steve West]

Six courses in the Twin Cities with Pro Shops on site: Blue Ribbon Pines, Hyland SSA, Bryant Lake, Elm Creek, Kaposia and The Valley. They're not all fully stocked stores but enough discs and other items to be useful.

Eight, if you count the discs for sale in the clubhouses at Wirth Par 3 and Fort Snelling.

[Bones2039]

There is no real pro shop at any of the courses in the St. Cloud Metro area, but the discmobile is out at Calvary Hill and Riverside most of the summer selling discs and other things.

[thrembo]

No pro shops on the courses down here. The last one I saw was on the Niles MI course.

[Cgkdisc]

Originally Posted by Cgkdisc
Six courses in the Twin Cities with Pro Shops on site: Blue Ribbon Pines, Hyland SSA, Bryant Lake, Elm Creek, Kaposia and The Valley. They're not all fully stocked stores but enough discs and other items to be useful.

Eight, if you count the discs for sale in the clubhouses at Wirth Par 3 and Fort Snelling.

Those count. I think not only does the Twin Cities metro have the most courses of any metro area but perhaps the most sites with pro shops/pay-for-play. Is that what your data shows Steve?

[Steve West]

Those count. I think not only does the Twin Cities metro have the most courses of any metro area but perhaps the most sites with pro shops/pay-for-play. Is that what your data shows Steve?

Arrgh, don't start that! I don't want to try to mathematically define "metro area", "pro shop", and "pay to play", or even "site".

Does the gas station within a hole's length that sells starter packs count? The Walgreens down the block? The gift shop in the county park office a mile from the course?

I do know we have more pay to plays than weeks of summer. Wirth Par 3, Fort Snelling, Bryant Lake Park, Hyland Ski & Snowboard Area, Elm Creek Park Reserve, Kaposia Park, Bunker Hills, The Valley, Blue Ribbon Pines, Baylor Park, Castle Rock(?), Lakedale Campground, Maiden Shade, Glen Hills County Park, Axldog Acres, Morning Star, Lambs Creek @ Pioneer Grill, Tower Ridge Park. At least 299 pay to play holes within 100 miles; more if a certain mythical course ever opens.

Maybe Monday needs a new league?

[jcf5083]

Only my home course! :thmbup:
The bad thing about pro shops is that it also means a round fee so the pro shop worker(s) gets paid.

[nstraz]

Most of the courses in Maine have a pro-shop on site.

[roadtripstuff]

Only my home course! :thmbup:
The bad thing about pro shops is that it also means a round fee so the pro shop worker(s) gets paid.

I don't know if I would call the booth at Blendon a pro shop, especially when compared to some of the ones mentioned above. The Nati Pro Shop is sick, as is the 19th Hole at Sylmar. Hell I couldn't even get a stock star Valk at the booth at Blendon.

[Danger]

Morley Field, Huntington Beach, La Mirada and Sylmar do from what I remember in Southern California. Nothing around Chicago does unfortunately, though we have a couple shops that are near courses.

So cal courses with ON SITE pro shops (not a gas station down the road):
Morley Field - Pro Shop
HB - Pro Shop
La Mirada - Tennis Pro Shop with discs (DTW is around a mile away)
Sylmar - Pro Shop
El Dorado - Tennis Pro Shop with discs
Lake Casitas - General Store with discs
Sky High - Pro Shop
Van Buuren - Golf Pro Shop with discs

I read Kit Carson has a pro shop, but I didn't see one anywhere.

[blapblapblap]

as far as middle tennessee goes i think the only strictly disc golf shops are raising chains and cloud 9 and i'm pretty sure neither of these are located on an actual course.

[bikinjack]

The only Pro Shops I can recall ever having seen were the awesome one at the IDGC and the one at Trophy Lakes. Both are at least a few hours drive from me.

[roadtripstuff]

Ahh, how could I forget the IDGC, that place is awesome. I don't know if its still the same way, but they use to have the disc shop, museum, and then a little chill room with a big screen tv.

[Jethoma27]

Hey guys OP here, just to touch on a few points that you guys have been talking about, places like The Nati Disc Shop are on a free to play course, there is no fee. I do not know how they struck a deal with the city of cincinnati to create the proshop, the workers there are definately not getting paid much. I suppose that they are leasing the building from the city and are just running the pro shop out of the building.

The one major thing that I noticed though is this and I think it's the most important thing about the creation of a pro shop on public courses.
Ever since they put in the pro-shop the course has improved so much more than in the past. Don't get me wrong it was always well maintained but ever since the pro shop went in, they have added benches to almost every tee pad, a brand new sweet putting green, they have renovated all of the teepads it seems and the course in general just looks a lot better and cleaner. Inside the pro-shop, they have a huge jar thats labeled "course renovation fund" and I always chip in and it seems like most fellows do as well because that thing is damn mear always more than half full, not just with change but with cash as well.

Now I dont know if it was the creation of the pro-shop and the money generated from it that has increased the overall quality of the course or if it was just that the city donated money to the park (doesnt seem very likely).

What are your thoughts on this subject? I'm going to go hit a round of 18 in before the rain comes! :thmbup:

[DrenalinJunkie]

Spring Vally Disc Golf Course in Spring Tx. is one of two Pro Shops I have been in. BUt for the size of the shop, they have a ton of discs.

[biscoe]

blockhouse (formerly known as the grange) has one.

[Matthew boals]

One of Indiana's newest courses, "The Hill" @ Northview Church, as a "pro shop" inside the cafe. Innova,beginner sets and 5/6 dozen other discs. That's the only pro shop I know of, in central Indiana. Now in Peru Alen Piers private course has one of the biggest pro shops. Honeybear Campground,also in Peru, has a on site pro shop.

[Alucard_Jh]

Burlington has a Camp store that I believe has some disc and what not.

I wouldn't mind a disc company coming out with some sort of disc vending machine. :D Don't imagine it would be too difficult to work up.

GENIUS! Imagine a world where every disc golf course had a disc vending machine on it. Of course they would probably get robbed a lot.

[707_Roc]

The two i know about are: DeLaveaga in Santa Cruz, CA and a mobile pro shop in Humboldt Co.

[Discette]

So cal courses with ON SITE pro shops (not a gas station down the road):
Morley Field - Pro Shop
HB - Pro Shop
La Mirada - Tennis Pro Shop with discs (DTW is around a mile away)
Sylmar - Pro Shop
El Dorado - Tennis Pro Shop with discs
Lake Casitas - General Store with discs
Sky High - Pro Shop
Van Buuren - Golf Pro Shop with discs

I read Kit Carson has a pro shop, but I didn't see one anywhere.

Goat Hill Disc Golf Course at Center City Golf Club in Oceanside, CA has a ball golf/disc golf pro shop on site. This is a pay-to-play course.

La Mirada and El Dorado are free courses set in city parks. The pro shops cater to tennis but carry discs and supplies.

[Sadjo]

Chattooga Belle Farms sells discs in their store...but it is far from being a pro shop. I'd like to see more courses with pro shops...I can see making the turn and having to buy another discs because I just put one in the drink.

[ZMan44]

Having traveled a fair amount, I have seen a few on-site pro-shops. The absolute best one I have seen is at Sandy Point Disc Golf Resort in Wisconsin. They only carry Innova, but they had more variations of rare discs than I had ever seen...plus bags, shirts, etc. I picked up a Proto Star Archon (Natural Beauty) and they had these new Glittery Champion Sidewinders that I had never seen. Like I said, only Innova; but if Innova makes it, odds are they have it.

[HybridZombiw]

Vegas Needs a stationary proshop at the courses.

[DanJon]

when i lived in phoenix over the winter spinners on the green was amazing. those guys have something special there. and here in wisconsin glide is right by hiestand in madison.

[aPfaff]

blockhouse (formerly known as the grange) has one.

You beat me to it.

[Jason Kerl]

Hey guys OP here, just to touch on a few points that you guys have been talking about, places like The Nati Disc Shop are on a free to play course, there is no fee. I do not know how they struck a deal with the city of cincinnati to create the proshop, the workers there are definately not getting paid much. I suppose that they are leasing the building from the city and are just running the pro shop out of the building.

The one major thing that I noticed though is this and I think it's the most important thing about the creation of a pro shop on public courses.
Ever since they put in the pro-shop the course has improved so much more than in the past. Don't get me wrong it was always well maintained but ever since the pro shop went in, they have added benches to almost every tee pad, a brand new sweet putting green, they have renovated all of the teepads it seems and the course in general just looks a lot better and cleaner. Inside the pro-shop, they have a huge jar thats labeled "course renovation fund" and I always chip in and it seems like most fellows do as well because that thing is damn mear always more than half full, not just with change but with cash as well.

Now I dont know if it was the creation of the pro-shop and the money generated from it that has increased the overall quality of the course or if it was just that the city donated money to the park (doesnt seem very likely).

What are your thoughts on this subject? I'm going to go hit a round of 18 in before the rain comes! :thmbup:

Since I work at The Nati, I thought I would give you a little input on how the shop came to be and how it has helped.

First off, if you played the course years ago, then you remember the building being vacant. We took an idea to the parks for use of the building that would be a win win for both parties. We are a private company and lease the building from Cincinnati Parks.

Secondly, course improvements. We do have a jar that is for donations and we appreciate all that goes into it. Many of the upgrades however have come from other sources. 20 brand new red Mac 3's provided by the parks. Benches on each hole installed by local boy scouts. Some funding from the GCFDA club. And some funding from us (practice baskets, driving net, etc.) Tee signs in the works.

Not to mention a bunch of hours put in by the Nati Crew, Adam Jones, and other volunteers.

[Johnny Conservative]

Unfortunately, disc golf is relatively new to those of us in Ashland. It is gaining in popularity every day it seems, but not enough to warrant a pro shop in or near the park. There are a few stores near the park that sell discs, but they are mainly a soccer supply store that carries some Innova/Discraft discs.

[Okie-J]

I live 1/8 of a mile from a Pro shop and course.

[elevated plastic]

Final 9 at shady oaks is the closest for me.

[who-dat]

Blue Angel Park has 3 18 hole courses as well as a pro shop that sells discs, snacks, bug spray, h2o, sports drinks and beer (6 & 12 pks as well as singles!)

[Jimb]

No.

Shawnee State Park in PA sells discs at their boat rental desk... of course, it's only open seasonally. And a "PRO" shop, it's definitely not. One of the kids working there told me this past Summer what a great distance disc the Beast is. I'm not questioning that, BTW. But he also told me it held the world distance record at 500 yards. :doh: :p

I appreciated the effort, anyway. And he was really friendly, letting me look through the boxes of discs they didn't even have on their racks.

[SmoothSailor]

Not technically on the course, but at Mosquito Lake State Park, if you go down the park road for a mile to the camoground office, they have a good selection of innova AND discraft discs, minis, maybe bags and some other stuff.

So I'm saying yeah but not really lol.

[SmoothSailor]

Final 9 at shady oaks is the closest for me.

I used to LOVE going to Final 9 between rounds! Browse the huge selection, admire the wall hangers, ask to buy the dead disc every time I'd go in, and get something to microwave. I can't wait to get back out there.

[Paulie]

Not on, but right near by.

[kpc2004]

spring valley DGC has a fully stocked pro shop with pretty much every production disc available from all manufacturers, and baskets too.

[MacDaddy]

I'd say fewer than 5% of courses I've been to have a pro shop, and even for some of the ones that do, its often closed.

You know the sad thing is even if more public courses set up a pro shop occasionally, the vendors there could probably make good money peddling plastic, and the city/county or whatever government jurisdiction who owns the park could make good money charging those vendors a fee to set up shop, revenue from which could help pay for course maintenance and improvements.

Our club, the Hamilton Disc Golf Union www.thehdgu.com has a contract to run leagues, tourneys and a pro shop at Dillon Park in Noblesville. We are incorporated as a not-for-profit, have insurance, are a registered vendor with the state and pay sales tax, plus 5% of gross sales goes to the parks dept. They do all the course maintenance, and we use the money from the pro shop for insurance expenses, trophies, food and beverages at club tourneys, and to do course improvement projects. It works pretty well. It can be tricky to staff it and hours are limited. :thmbup:

[KFrad]

The ponds at lake shore in Ypsilanti. They dont have a pro shop...they have a fully stocked throw shop :)

[E_Rock25]

BRP does...

[sillybizz]

Lakewood DGC (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=4610) in Seattle has one on site. Actually it is considered Chainbangerz #2. :) Sell everything from discs to hot dogs, candy, chili, drinks and other goodies.

[jeffmonty]

Dalaiwood in Olalla, Wa. has a very well-stocked pro shop on-site. I believe it doesn't open until 2 or 3 in the afternoon,or earlier if there is an event going on. Scott and Jeanne have some really nice dyes they do for sale in the shop, too.