Disc Golf Tournament on a Ball Golf Course

Schoen-hopper · Post by **Schoen-hopper** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:49 pm

You can throw some long rollers on the short grass, that is fo sho.

Does that course have some elevation to work with?

You could have fun with designing a dg course at a country club. Tweak on it like Denny Ritner at the Plantation. Not that you would want a whole lot of OB on every hole, but you could use fairways or cart paths for layup vs. go for it 2nd shots on a par 4 or 5. Pretty much like you would a pond. What could you do in the way of a dog leg? Do they have any thick trees out there you can't take easy shortcuts through? Lots of great possiblities!

ronconversjr · Post by **ronconversjr** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:37 pm

I`ve played several great courses existing with a ball golf course. The best of these used a limited number of fairways ,but usually across the fairway(rather than down it). Tees playing from or through the shule are best for our sport because trees and rough are the obstacles of choice for Disc. Greens are fine OB`s. While discs aren`t ESPECIALLY bad for greens the amount invested to maintain them makes any risk just plain reckless.

ronconversjr · Post by **ronconversjr** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:42 pm

I`ve played several great courses existing with a ball golf course. The best of these used a limited number of fairways ,but usually across the fairway(rather than down it). Tees playing from or through the shule are best for our sport because trees and rough are the obstacles of choice for Disc. Greens are fine OB`s. While discs aren`t ESPECIALLY bad for greens the amount invested to maintain them makes any risk just plain reckless.

disc golf superhero · Post by **disc golf superhero** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:05 pm

Schoen-hopper wrote:Does that course have some elevation to work with?

This course you could have a perfect drive straight down the fairway and still find the ball two feet above or below your feet on your up shot. Indian Rock is the beginning of this areas geology.

carlbren21 · Post by **carlbren21** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:55 am

Schoen-hopper wrote:What are your ideas for the course? Play it as the regular course, or play it safari style?

Another thing that is typical with fly 18 courses is that greens and bunkers are OB. I agree with the bunkers, but hell, why not put the baskets on the greens? I take some discs every time I play ball golf and even spike hyzers don't damage the greens as bad as ball marks. They only leave a mark at all when the greens are really wet. Even if they do, you can fix them easily. Playing on the greens is pretty fun because it is a faster surface than any we typically get to play on.

Go ahead and put the baskets on the green if you only want to play the tournament once. Not sure what kind of floppy disc you were spike hyzering to the green, or what rock hard dirt greens they were, but pretty sure that a disc would damage a green. Not a good idea to put a basket on a green... unless they are sand greens... then it would be too easy...

Schoen-hopper · Post by **Schoen-hopper** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:08 am

I've only played on public courses. But I've done so probably 20 times or so. Rarely left marks and were easily fixed when it did happen, not as bad as ball marks.

I know in theory it doesn't sound like a good idea. Just speaking from experience here. I could see how if the greens were super wet it could be a different story.

It's a mute point though for this tourney. They already said no greens.

carlbren21 · Post by **carlbren21** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:09 am

Concerning beer at the course... just penalize a stroke to everyone that throws trash on the ground. I would think people would have enough respect and common sense to do this automatically, but you never know. Besides, there are baskets in the back of every cart so it's not like they'd have to put the cans in their bag! If we can't stop people from littering on the course, we shouldn't be there in the first place.

On a separate note, elks cc is a great place to have a dg tourney! Lots of elevation, good fairways, nice clubhouse, not super long, etc... I would def. come check it out. I think doing a combo dg and ball golf tourney would be fun, but it might turn some people off that only play one sport ot the other. On the other hand, it might encourage people to try a different sport? I'm interested to see where this one goes...

Schoen-hopper · Post by **Schoen-hopper** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:12 am

It would be fun to play some ball golf at a country club!!!

MOthrows · Post by **MOthrows** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:18 am

What kind of tournament format are we going to have? Is it going to be straight up singles, or doubles, or something else?

disclizard · Post by **disclizard** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:58 am

Concerning beer at the course... just penalize a stroke to everyone that throws trash on the ground. I would think people would have enough respect and common sense to do this automatically, but you never know.

Why don"t we do this On our courses then?

I think doing a combo dg and ball golf tourney would be fun, but it might turn some people off that only play one sport ot the other. On the other hand, it might encourage people to try a different sport? I'm interested to see where this one goes...

. I like this Idea and would want to make this if its done Ball/disc combo.

carlbren21 · Post by **carlbren21** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:04 am

disclizard wrote:
Concerning beer at the course... just penalize a stroke to everyone that throws trash on the ground. I would think people would have enough respect and common sense to do this automatically, but you never know.
Why don"t we do this On our courses then?

Pretty sure you could penalize someone for littering on the course. At my tourneys and league, I announce it as being a courtesy violation with risk of penalty if caught. Why people choose to be lazy and throw stuff on the ground on dg courses is beyond me. I know I always end up picking up at least 6 cans that were thrown on the ground... many times, right by a trash can?!?!? If we could answer and solve that problem, parks and rec would likely be more open to new courses.

Schoen-hopper · Post by **Schoen-hopper** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:34 am

He're some ideas.

If we could do a combined event, what if you adjusted the ball golf scores to be a smaller percentage of the total score? Most of us are not great golfers, so scoring should emphasize DG. For example, you could easily make a 24 hole disc golf course out there. Then divide the ball golf scores by 3 and add them to the disc scores. Average disc score for 24 holes might be 85. Average golf score might be 105. Divided by 3 is 35. 85+35 = 120. Roughly 30% of the score would be BG. Lots of other ways to do it. Wouldn't have to play more than 18 disc golf holes. In fact, if you are doing both, it will be a long day. Need to start early.

What would work best. Disc golf first or last? Seems like you could have disc golf only pro and am divisions. For those wanting to play ball golf, you could start them at 8 or 9am. Disc Golf could follow that.

Or you could run 2 seperate events. The ball golf one could be really cheap and mostly for fun. Could have prizes for various stuff, not necesarily 100% about score, but I don't know what. Then run a 1 round disc tourney afterwards. Or would 2 rounds of 12 DG holes be better?

That would be awesome to get to play a nice BG course like that. Not sure how that would affect the price.

Looking forward to seeing the killer downhill shots!

carlbren21 · Post by **carlbren21** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:41 am

Schoen-hopper wrote:He're some ideas.

If we could do a combined event, what if you adjusted the ball golf scores to be a smaller percentage of the total score? Most of us are not great golfers, so scoring should emphasize DG. For example, you could easily make a 24 hole disc golf course out there. Then divide the ball golf scores by 3 and add them to the disc scores. Average disc score for 24 holes might be 85. Average golf score might be 105. Divided by 3 is 35. 85+35 = 120. Roughly 30% of the score would be BG. Lots of other ways to do it. Wouldn't have to play more than 18 disc golf holes. In fact, if you are doing both, it will be a long day. Need to start early.

I like the idea of combining bg and dg tourney. I also think it would be good for the disc golfers to have the ball golf weighted less than the dg... however, it might be an opportunity to promote disc golf to ball golfers... and having the dg weighted more than the bg would discourage ball golfers. Different divisions, or flighting the event would probably be the best and most fair way to do it. Either way, I'm excited to see what happens!

MOthrows · Post by **MOthrows** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:27 pm

I started playing disc golf because my eyes weren't good enough to follow the flight of the ball, so I can't say that I'm interested in the disc/ball golf format, but if we played doubles where one partner played disc and the other played ball that might be fun. I'm definitely excited to play on a manicured course with carts!

disclizard · Post by **disclizard** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:23 pm

I started playing disc golf because my eyes weren't good enough to follow the flight of the ball,

Well the real sulution wasn't to give up on ball golf . you should have just stoped hitting them so far....lol

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Disc Golf Tournament on a Ball Golf Course

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