Dana
Double Eagle Member
Apparently baskets are in at the new Lockport course (Dellwood Park?). Anyone been out there?
Yes. Mach X baskets, beautiful tee signs and great teepads.
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Apparently baskets are in at the new Lockport course (Dellwood Park?). Anyone been out there?
I played the new Brookfield course this morning. They might as well cancel the grand opening and pull the course. What a waste of 7 baskets and a good amount of concrete. If Midwest DG was involved in the design, this is a new low for them. More likely someone who has never played DG came up with the layout. Aside from baskets too close to teepads, this course also features baskets too close to playgrounds, horseshoe pits, cornhole boards and baseball fields. Plenty of walking paths also in play. There were plenty of other park users out on a Thursday morning, so I can't imagine this place on a nice weekend day.
tldr - Don't bother playing Kiwanis Park in Brookfield.
Hearing things like this kills me. I'm hoping to come up with something or some way to stop courses being designed by people that don't know what they are doing (Midwest DG, beginners, landscape architects, park managers, non disc golfers and any other jokester that thinks he/she can design a good course).
I hope that Fairfield is the start of that in Chicagoland. Other places like the Twin Cities or Charlotte have bought in to the idea that it's worth paying a designer to have a good, safe course while Chicago park districts keep putting in crappy unsafe layouts in crowded parks. Maybe having a local course getting great ratings and feedback where an outside designer was brought in will help that a little.
Hearing things like this kills me. I'm hoping to come up with something or some way to stop courses being designed by people that don't know what they are doing (Midwest DG, beginners, landscape architects, park managers, non disc golfers and any other jokester that thinks he/she can design a good course).
I have a lot of respect for Brett and for him to give the nod to another designer over there says a lot about him.
Make sure to give credit to Round Lake Park Dept. If they didn't buy-in, the project could have ended up mediocre or taken much longer. That's as important to point out to Park Depts considering a DG course as getting a designer capable of doing a good job leading them.
Anyone been to Rollin Ridge lately? I have a chance to play there tomorrow morning, think I will
Anyone been to Rollin Ridge lately? I have a chance to play there tomorrow morning, think I will
Rollin Ridge is always awesome. Just go play it. Course conditions are always pristine.
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We've had a lot of rain lately...I'm sure it'll be soggy in several spots, namely holes 1, 4, 5, 8 and 14.