Baseball is ruining my fun

[mrtho]

Anybody else have a similar problem

I go to my local 9 hole course and cars parked everywhere over holes 5 and 6. I play the other 7 holes and give them the park because there is an 18 hole course 5 miles away. I get there and not only are people parked near the basket on 18 they are parked pretty much on top of the thing (its usually playable) there are 3 cars within the bullseye and 25 empty spaces in the friggin parking lot. Is that enough for them? NO they also park their lawn charis in the middle of 16.:doh: We are good right? NOPE, lets set up a frigging table 15 feet in front of the 17th tee also. :wall:

I dont mind sharing the park but these baseball people need to share too! They are hogging up 5 holes out of 27.

At least the football people only hog up the two holes on the nine hole course when they practice.


Just saw the typo RUINING why can i not edit the title?

 

[NegaSnapples]

I had someone at Schenley Park yesterday laying on a towel reading a book next to number 1's tee pad. I throw off and she gives a really weird look to me. Then the second person in our group throws off and we hear a snarky, "Uhh, do you think you all could throw somewhere else?". The four of us were dumbfounded... we just told her that no, we could not, this is a disc golf course.

Schenley has a ton of recreational people running around, flying kites, etc. at the first two holes. Most people don't even see/understand what those numbered baskets are there for.

 

[mrtho]

Sure just as soon as we finish this hole we will move to the next.

 

[brutalbrutus]

We get all kinds of that stuff here. Baseball, football, sunbathers, picture takers, poke hunters, nature hikers, dog walkers, sleeping homeless people...

There is a course near UC's campus that has a trapeze set up right next to hole9 basket. There is another course that is closed sometimes for an archery range...


...we came across two people having "a good time" in a hammock once strung up right off the fairway.

 

[da Crippler]

Just saw the typo RUINING why can i not edit the title?

Just their way of shaming you for eternity.

 

[Fab Man]

I avoid my home course , Peaks View Park on weekends during softball season! I think it was great planning to put a nice level cement pad for lawn chairs next to diamond 4. Only problem is the sign describing hole six obstructs the view. And who's idea was it to put a basket in the prime shaded seating area on the other side of home plate.

My favorite was the guy I asked to watch out, said not to worry, he's been hit by worse. I can't imagine any thing much worse then being hit by a 12 speed driver. Sometimes they will move after a disc hits their cooler or landings near them, which they will usually toss back to you.

Hammocks a problem for anyone else?

 

[RFrance]

Here at Picnic Island holes #1 and #17 are right along a narrow beach on Tampa Bay. It is gorgeous so I can't blame people for laying out blankets; stringing a hammock; or just strolling down the fairway on the weekends. I know they are coming so I just don't play those holes then. There is also a barbecue pavilion looking over the fairway so there are always people walking out from the sea grapes unaware that they are on a course. One time someone set up a wedding tent on the #17 tee pad. I left before the big event started.

 

[jakebake91]

Some of this is course design. There is a hole at Wakanda Park in Wisconsin that plays directly over a beach. Now granted, in summer the lake is a radioactive green color and only mental ppl actually go into it. But still. Bad idea.

 

[slowplastic]

The good thing is when people are oblivious and a disc lands nearby, some assume it's like a catch frisbee and no big deal if they got hit. In your mind you know it was a spike hyzer with a driver and it would have really messed them up for standing in the wrong spot blindly...best to not let them know it could have been bad...

 

[zontar]

if it's people, don't throw. if it's just cars, don't worry about it, especially if you're a good runner.....

 

[lyleoross]

I see this too, and even worse, guys that drive their cars out on the course to set up a picnic etc. I don't even mind them taking their family to the park, such is life, but driving your car out in any park is just rude.

 

[Jimb]

Baseball is ruining my fun, too...

I'm an Orioles fan!!!

 

[JC17393]

This thread is why exclusive use pay for play is the future of this sport. You don't deal with picnickers and ball game spectators when the only thing on the property is disc golf.

 

[discerdoo]

Baseball is ruining my fun, too...

I'm an Orioles fan!!!

Reds fan here, I feel your pain.

 

[nate22]

This thread is why exclusive use pay for play is the future of this sport. You don't deal with picnickers and ball game spectators when the only thing on the property is disc golf.

Played in a few state and national champs here with people all over the place, really takes you out of your game.

So glad someone built a private 18 hole that's hosting our state champs this year...oh wait, that was me lol

 

[davetherocketguy]

Sounds like the course needs to be redesigned with a new layout.

 

[SD86]

I had someone at Schenley Park yesterday laying on a towel reading a book next to number 1's tee pad. I throw off and she gives a really weird look to me. Then the second person in our group throws off and we hear a snarky, "Uhh, do you think you all could throw somewhere else?". The four of us were dumbfounded... we just told her that no, we could not, this is a disc golf course.

Schenley has a ton of recreational people running around, flying kites, etc. at the first two holes. Most people don't even see/understand what those numbered baskets are there for.

Yep. I've seen people plop down right in the middle of a fairway, and when we tell them it's a DG course, they say something like "Why can't we both enjoy the park?" Because if you get hit by a flying disc, you'll be 'enjoying' serious injury if not worse.

And then we had a young couple that liked to put up a hammock in the wooded part of the course, but right in the throwing lane...

 

[frasnow]

if it's people, don't throw. if it's just cars, don't worry about it, especially if you're a good runner.....

Actually do worry about it. This sounds like a great way to get a course PULLED. We all need to realize parks are meant to be shared. If someone is in the fairway, kindly warn them that other disc golfers might throw on them. If they don't move, skip the hole and move on.

 

[DavidSauls]

Lots of public parks have issues with shared use. To varying degrees; some have a (mostly) disc-golf-only area, where you deal with occasional civilian walkers; some with so much overlap that it warrants avoiding them at certain times. "Better design" is a hope, but in many cases, the only answer would be "fewer courses".

Cars are another level of aggravation. There's one course in my area that wraps around soccer fields, and parents of kids, or adult players, like to park in the shade. Meaning, on the course. You can't just ask a car to move, or watch out, or wait for it to pass on by.

This thread is why exclusive use pay for play is the future of this sport. You don't deal with picnickers and ball game spectators when the only thing on the property is disc golf.

Yes. When you routinely play a course where share use is never an issue, you really notice it when you visit a course where it is.

 

[DiscJunkie]

Castle Hayne Park in Wilmington, NC just underwent an upgrade.
Second entrance cost us old basket #1, old Basket #5 and long tee area on old #4.
We gained new Basket #5, #6 and #7.
We gained a world-class playground, Soccer fields, baseball fields and lots of strollers, families taking a scenic walk, seniors walking their pets, and young couples out for a run.

So what if their are baskets? What are these concrete squares?
Could it be that this part of the park is being used for something else beside walking/strolling/hiking?
So what! It's so beautiful down that lane!