To me it's the larger issue of where you want the sport to go. We want the City to replace those flimsy baskets in Ber Juan. We want them to pour tees. We want them to buy tee signs. We want them to evaluate land appropriate for a second, 18-hole course. If we want these things to happen, we have to support the City events. Disc golf has for decades been little cliques of guys running events under the radar because we want to keep all the money and not cut Parks Departments in, but 90% of our courses are in public parks. So we expect them to cater to us by dedicating acres of land to our hobby and then bitch when they keep some registration fees that goes toward moving the grass and other administrative costs involved with running a park system.
I've been around in this game for a long time, and the parks department is always cast as the villain. They aren't. They expect us to behave like everyone else. Softball players pay league fees and don't demand to see an itemized accounting that every cent they paid goes back into softball programs. So do soccer players, tennis players, basketball players, volleyball players...everybody pays. For some reason we disc golfers think we are special and can control every dime spent on disc golf. That mentality has kept disc golf out of mainstream parks and recreation programming for 30+ years. I think enough is enough.
