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Hello everyone,
I am going to be publishing a survey asking for some general information about you as well as your overall impressions of the disc golf courses surrounding you. I want to know what grade you would give most of the courses in your local area. I want to be able to take this information and use it to better course design moving forward and also help to tailor ideas and proposals to parks departments to help improve the older courses that are out there.
The bottom line is any of the courses that were installed in the 70's and 80's are now reaching a critical point in their history . . . with the influx of new technology, the expanding player base, and the maintenance issues (including the infrastructure) that seem to be glossed over on many courses . . . I fear we will begin to lose many of our courses and for the sake of history I think we need to preserve the courses that we have and bring them up to par by setting standards for safety, design, construction, and maintenance. If we do not do this . . . we will lose more courses in the next decade than we have in he past 20-30 years in my opinion.
I have an event page on facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/1529580733969535/ so please go there to follow any pre-discussion that might happen. I will also be posting the direct link to the survey here and on that event page when it gets published on Saturday February 7th.
I am asking for people to share the link and/or the facebook event page because the more people from all skill levels and all lengths of careers from all over the place . . . the better information that will be produced.
If you have any interest in sponsoring this by offering up some prizes for participants, please let me know. I will be giving some things away to random people who submit the survey with their email address. If you would like more information, have any questions, or would like to help me in any other way please feel free to get in touch with me.
Thanks in advance,
Mike Harrington
The Disc Golf Experience
http://www.thediscgolfexperience.com
[email protected]
262 894 3404
I am going to be publishing a survey asking for some general information about you as well as your overall impressions of the disc golf courses surrounding you. I want to know what grade you would give most of the courses in your local area. I want to be able to take this information and use it to better course design moving forward and also help to tailor ideas and proposals to parks departments to help improve the older courses that are out there.
The bottom line is any of the courses that were installed in the 70's and 80's are now reaching a critical point in their history . . . with the influx of new technology, the expanding player base, and the maintenance issues (including the infrastructure) that seem to be glossed over on many courses . . . I fear we will begin to lose many of our courses and for the sake of history I think we need to preserve the courses that we have and bring them up to par by setting standards for safety, design, construction, and maintenance. If we do not do this . . . we will lose more courses in the next decade than we have in he past 20-30 years in my opinion.
I have an event page on facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/1529580733969535/ so please go there to follow any pre-discussion that might happen. I will also be posting the direct link to the survey here and on that event page when it gets published on Saturday February 7th.
I am asking for people to share the link and/or the facebook event page because the more people from all skill levels and all lengths of careers from all over the place . . . the better information that will be produced.
If you have any interest in sponsoring this by offering up some prizes for participants, please let me know. I will be giving some things away to random people who submit the survey with their email address. If you would like more information, have any questions, or would like to help me in any other way please feel free to get in touch with me.
Thanks in advance,
Mike Harrington
The Disc Golf Experience
http://www.thediscgolfexperience.com
[email protected]
262 894 3404