I count 13 from your list that I have played, M Bertrand being my 1st in 1986...yes I"m old. I'll agree that Maconaquah in Peru, IN definitely has a Hendrick feel to it.
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Great Thread!
Was reading through and came up with this question: Is there a "signature" of a Steady Ed design? Do these courses have any common defining features?
Was he involved with the original layout at Iroquois Park in Louisville? For some reason it seems like I've heard that before.
I know Ed liked to lay his courses in a Figure 8 pattern.
just got a message from the Peru Disc golf Club. the club designed and built Maconaquah. "steady Ed" was not involved in the design.I count 13 from your list that I have played, M Bertrand being my 1st in 1986...yes I"m old. I'll agree that Maconaquah in Peru, IN definitely has a Hendrick feel to it.
I count 13 from your list that I have played, M Bertrand being my 1st in 1986...yes I"m old. I'll agree that Maconaquah in Peru, IN definitely has a Hendrick feel to it.
One of Ed's big selling points to parks was that disc golf could use land that wasn't good for any other sort of programmable activity. He knew that if we had to fight for land with baseball and soccer we would lose. He sought out spots with elevation and trees that would need a lot of landscaping to be developed into anything else; it put us in competition with disorganized user groups like people who like nature trails.I can confirm this on the four I've played.
More than trees, though (Huntington Beach and Oak Grove are fairly openish), I'd say elevation is a trademark of the Steady Ed "touch."
It appears to my eye that he likes to find tasty seams of elevation and follows them to great effect, creating a lot of rollaway, drop off, and blow-by potential. Trees are definitely used to good effect in the heavier wooded designs I've played (Honeybear and Bertrand), but the way he picked out and followed the best bits of elevation seemed the one constant among all four.
One of Ed's big selling points to parks was that disc golf could use land that wasn't good for any other sort of programmable activity. He knew that if we had to fight for land with baseball and soccer we would lose. He sought out spots with elevation and trees that would need a lot of landscaping to be developed into anything else; it put us in competition with disorganized user groups like people who like nature trails.
It also made for great disc golf, so win-win. The down side is the massive erosion that occurred by not properly landscaping the sloping land we used.