Wellsbranch250's Backyard Course In Development.

[davetherocketguy]

Wish I could've come to Huntsville this year but with all the Corona stuff going on they canceled the annual launch...This is looking great!

 

[Monocacy]

Looks glorious WB! And being able to play is a well-earned reward for all of your hard work.

 

[wellsbranch250]

Upgrades to hole V. New path extension and rock berm at the base of the slope. I'm also only maintaining 4 holes right now to cut down on maintenance time. This allows me time to play and upgrade the other 4 . If its anything like last year, I probably wont have all 9 back till September.

 

[wellsbranch250]

Side project completed. Inspired by Taylor Park in the Tampa Bay area.

 

[Monocacy]

Side project completed. Inspired by Taylor Park in the Tampa Bay area.

Which was probably inspired by the TV show M*A*S*H. Which was probably inspired by something else lol.

Nice touch!

 

[davetherocketguy]

Which was probably inspired by the TV show M*A*S*H. Which was probably inspired by something else lol.

Nice touch!

I believe the origin came from a homesick soldier constructing the Alaska Highway during WW2. He erected a sign to home with a distance and other solders later followed suit making IIRC a sign forest.

This is a REALLY cool addition to any course.

 

[Casey 1988]

Which was probably inspired by the TV show M*A*S*H. Which was probably inspired by something else lol.

Nice touch!

From the ten year reuinion they did more like a documentary about time on the show, they said in 1993 that the post was inspired by a post they were told about on a M*A*S*H unit they were using with permission the diary/journal of one guy who worked there as a Doctor that had a post with all the places the people who stationed at the camp were from.

Look at the post sometime in M*A*S*H and you will see Crab Apple Cove, San Fransico, the Town that one of the two cooks was from, Otomawa Iowa, One just saying Military bases for Major Margret, The Town in Arkansas that the second General was currently living in, Toledo for Klinger, Ect including Boston. also had Honolulu where the one Hawaiian Islander nurse was from, some like Radar were given the board to take the board home in the TV show when they left the war, others like Lieutenant who was first in the M*A*S*H they left up or put a new board up for the place they were from in Illinois as they never got to go home getting shot down in the Sea of Japapn. In the final everyone is taking the board home with them or burning them in a big bonfire of odd stuff that the locals could not or would not use except Klinger who marries a local person that episode that he gets close to in final season.

 

[brutalbrutus]

Side project completed. Inspired by Taylor Park in the Tampa Bay area.

Nice... now you need to put a mini basket on it like the one at Mt Airy.:thmbup:

 

[wolfhaley]

Nice... now you need to put a mini basket on it like the one at Mt Airy.:thmbup:

That's where I saw something like that! I knew I seen one somewhere but could not for the life of me remember.

 

[wellsbranch250]

With the overgrowth explosion over, I got some course work done further into the woods.
Holes 3,6 and 8 pictured. Holes 2 and 7 are still overgrown.

Green tee 3

Green tee 6

White/Blue tee 8

 

[wolfhaley]

That is an awesome looking piece of property. How could there NOT be disc golf course on there

 

[brutalbrutus]

With the overgrowth explosion over, I got some course work done further into the woods.
Holes 3,6 and 8 pictured. Holes 2 and 7 are still overgrown.



Green tee 6

You should put a basket on one of those boulders. Talk about a death putt...

 

[wellsbranch250]

You should put a basket on one of those boulders. Talk about a death putt...

i have thought about it, but the top of the rock is an edge. it would take a custom rig to level it or drilling into the rock which is something i wont do. the basket is currently located directly behind the rock.

picture from this winter

 

[brutalbrutus]

i have thought about it, but the top of the rock is an edge. it would take a custom rig to level it or drilling into the rock which is something i wont do. the basket is currently located directly behind the rock.

picture from this winter

Well if you ever get bored with it where it is, there are options. If you can or know someone that can weld, you could make a steel plate and attach a sleeve to it cut at the right angle. Then you can attach the plate to the rock with an industrial adhesive. There are some epoxys that might work. The hard part will be if there are any cracks. If its just too rough of a surface, it could be filled in with cement to make a flat, then use an epoxy or something similar to attach the plate. But if there are any cracks, it in theory could spit the rock worse during temp changes.

 

[wellsbranch250]

Well if you ever get bored with it where it is, there are options.

The shown placement is actually a fan favorite among those that come out here. You'd have to play it to really understand why as the hole is very 3 dimensional. It rises about 40 feet in elevation and when you wind up short, its a blind prayer birdie putt. to have a honest look at birdie, the tee shot has to successfully dive bomb from above or slit between two rocks on the left. Back in February, i moved it to a new position further down fairway and left to mix it up and everyone wanted me to move it back.

 

[magictenor1]

Looks awesome. My brother (aclay) and I need to come up and play it with you sometime.

 

[wellsbranch250]

New Red (rec) tee on hole 3 ready for play. the basket is in position A, which is around 200 feet. Position B and C are 228 and 250 feet from the red tee. Next on the docket is to clear hole 4 from a downed tree and to beat back the overgrowth on holes 2 and 7. I also purchased another basket a couple weeks ago, so 3 holes will have two baskets.

 

[wellsbranch250]

For the first time in 3.5 months, the whole course is playable again.

Hole 2 from the Red tee still needs a lot of mid-fairway maintenance, but the grounds crew would rather throw.

my friend Rob trying to scramble on hole 3. he saved par.

Chandler teeing from atop the mini bluff on 4.

 

[brutalbrutus]

Man that course looks like a military slogan...



Its not just a course, its an adventure.

 

[wellsbranch250]

Its not just a course, its an adventure.

There is a big element of "pick your own adventure" here. A run of the green tees, in short placements, is around 1300 feet. where as my longest tee to longest basket layout is approaching 3000 feet, and it will eventually be around 4,000 feet once finished.

planned far (blue or white) tee layout to far basket.
1. 580 feet - par 5 - up 90 ft in elevation (completed except for tee)
2. 500 feet - par 4 - down 20 then dogleg right up 70 feet in elevation (1 of 2 segments complete)
3. 550 feet - par 4 - down 40 feet in elevation (no work done)
4. 385 feet - par 3 - down 80 feet (completed)
5. 217 feet - par 3 - up 30 feet in elevation (completed)
6. 500 feet - par 5 - up 80 feet in elevation (1 of 3 segments complete)
7. 600 feet - par 4 - down +100 feet in elevation dogleg left (last leg complete)
8. 219 feet - par 3 - up 40 feet in elevation (completed)
9. 495 feet - par 4 - down 50 feet, dogleg left, up 10 feet (completed)