I'm the webmaster for the Cobb disc golf club. Expansion from 9 to 18 holes had been a pipe dream for what, a decade, but roughly 1 year ago (to the month), the relationship we've been developing with the county paid off, and we got permission to expand the layout to 18 holes. Then during the year last year, the county bought a massive piece of land for parkland expansion. In the image above, it's basically everything South of a line about 50' South of the tennis courts. This is literally multiplying the size of the park by severalfold, and a local referendum determined that we have enough ballfields around, and the new parkland should be reserved for "passive" play areas. That works really well for disc golf, which requires very little infrastructure and very little disturbance of the land. So our continued good relationship with the county has opened up a large part of the new land for installation of more disc golf. What has been made available to us will more than double the acreage that's useable for disc golf, and another part of the park that we had permission to build on but no way to connect to because of the layout of the baseball fields, is now accessible and has been serendipitously cleared by recent sewer line construction.
So we most definitely have plenty of room for 36 or more GOOD holes in the park. The trick is laying it out right, now that we have plenty of land, and raising the money for the baskets. The county has basically alloted $0 for disc golf, though they do mow the existing fairways. That means all the $ have to be raised by our club. The Friends of the Park Tournament on April 24 is the best way you can help, or you can join our club.
And the rumor that a recent poster just started about ballfields taking over the current layout is completely false, unless the county has been directly lying to our club's board of directors. The "master plan" drawing above is a bit confusing, and it was created almost a year ago as a "proposal" for what to do with the land. Take it more as a rough draft than a final plan.
As for the "improvements" going on in the park this month, I think the county got a wild hair and wanted to clear some shule while they were putting in new sewer development. Pretty soon they'll be demolishing the Swing Time driving range building and putting an access road in to new parking on the new property. We may be forced to wait for that before we can lay out new holes, but be assured that expanding disc golf is clearly in the county's plans for the new property, and that we have a professional designer associated with Innova who has agreed to help us design the new layout.
