abandoned courses

[Pablo]

I found a pdf of the HPARD Park Inventory here:

http://www.houstontx.gov/parks/pdfs/inventory.pdf

[Pablo]

And the HPARD Master Plan:

http://www.houstontx.gov/parks/pdfs/...plan-final.pdf

[tarazarr]

Wow...that was depressing

Anybody else read that? I couldn't find disc golf even mentioned, much less any kind of priority of the HPARD..I did see Walking trails, dog parks, skate parks and Spray parks as the big priorities for HPARD..Could anyone find disc golf even mentioned anywhere in there?

[LOU18132]

As I have posted before, Not Even On The Radar. I wonder why many seem so surprised.

[ERicJ]

Originally Posted by tarazarr

Could anyone find disc golf even mentioned anywhere in there?

Yes. See pages 151 & 157.

ERic

[tarazarr]

Dang ERic, page 151 is salt in the wound...

The good news is - disc golf did get mentioned...

The bad news is - it was just to call attention to the fact that across the board disc golf received the least amount of interest than any program offered.

people are twice as interested in arts and crafts programs and nutrition programs then they are disc golf...I'm not complaining I accept it to be the reality right now. Just wondering why

DG's blip on the radar just got dimmer

[mattman]

go republicans.....

art is way more important than throwing frisbee hands down.

we should just go to randons every weekend! fo sho

[hfds006]

Only did a quick glance at the Master Plan but here are a couple of quick comments.

Total participants: 1813 (out of a city of how many?)
Not even the person that put together the survey is going to make an arguement that the results are very significant.

Page 151 refers to participating in a City Frisbee Golf PROGRAM. It doesn't say playing golf. I think those are two very different things. Depending on what a "City Frisbee Golf Program" is, there is a chance a lot of us regular players may not be interested in it.

Page 157: Compare the numbers there to the results for Softball. They are not dramatically different and there are a hell of a lot more softball players in the city of Houston than there are disc golfers.

Also, someone here mentioned jogging trails and dog parks. People in those two groups also vastly out number disc golfers.

I know that we all think that disc golf is the greatest thing ever but unfortunately not everyone that knows what it is agrees and most people have still never even heard of it. So, these results should not be surprising to anyone.

Are there things we could/should do to increase public awareness and opinion of disc golf? Certainly, but that's a whole other discussion.

One more comment because I just can't resist. "Informing the uninformed" and "putting new people in their place" are not the same thing.

[ERicJ]

Originally Posted by hfds006

Total participants: 1813 (out of a city of how many?)
Not even the person that put together the survey is going to make an arguement that the results are very significant.

Most people are shocked to learn how few survey respondents it takes to get a statistically significant sample.

Here's a quick online calculator:
http://www.custominsight.com/article...calculator.asp

Using a sample population of 4,000,000 and 1813 respondants, that yields 99% confidence with a 3% error. That's really good for a random sample.

ERic

[derek]

significantly worthless