A New course in Houston just about ready

[mattman]

Originally Posted by tarazarr

Miller.... I've priced out the raw stock metal required to build a PDGA approved equivilant basket... raw material are right at 100.00, that does not include approx. 50' of chain required.

If the labor were donated - it would cost about as much as it would if you could get a "Supplier" to sell you factory baskets "At Cost".

Good luck with either of those routes.

turned out quite nice, was too cold to putt though.

I hear from a co-worker that his neighborhood is getting a discgolf course. He lives off of Longenbaugh and hw6 area.

[Miller]

Originally Posted by mattman

turned out quite nice, was too cold to putt though.

I hear from a co-worker that his neighborhood is getting a discgolf course. He lives off of Longenbaugh and hw6 area.

Actually this was not about the Windwood course. This location never took off.

What neighborhood are you talking about though? Is there a park, causeway? What are they using?

[mattman]

Originally Posted by Miller

Actually this was not about the Windwood course. This location never took off.

What neighborhood are you talking about though? Is there a park, causeway? What are they using?

I was referring to the basket. I am not sure, busy morning I will get more info later today.

[tarazarr]

Originally Posted by tarazarr

Ok now that I have your attention.....
I've been reading the message board for the last few days and it seems like a great medium to promote the Houston disc golf scene, unfortunately (the majority of) what I've been reading amounts to little more than trivial squabbling and complaining....

So here's a chance to come together (with involvement, not rhetoric) as a group to do something very positive for the scene. It's no doubt agreed that Houston could use a few more, well thought out courses (like the private course at Oak Meadows, designed and built by players, for players.

Here's my proposal and yes I am willing to be positively involved in making this happen.

There is a church and YMCA next to each other on the West side of HWY 249, about 5 miles north of Beltway 8, that has very adeqaute property to host 18 holes (9 on each piece of property). If I meet with say, the youth pastor at the church and the director of the YMCA and get a signed agreement from each allowing the construction of the course, would there be 17 members (minimum) here willing to get positively involved?

This is what would be asked of you as a designing/building participant.
1. A meeting (on site) to roughly lay out the course, then
2. each participating member would take ownership of, be in charge of, and have complete control over designing and building (their) 1 hole along the roughly laid out course flow.
3. The participating member (having ownership of their hole), would either look for sponsorship from a local buisiness to pay for the PDGA approved basket and aquire it, or would be free to get very creative in the original design, building and sponsoring of a basket (PDGA premium, 24 chain, spec target of course) as long as it doesn't detract from the beauty of the property.
3. We could improve the houston Disc gold scene one new (player designed and built) course at a time. Creating exposure to thousands of new potential disc golfers everywhere we get a new course in by hosting tournaments there. By creating the goodwill, increasing the exposure to the sport and giving back to the sport you love and are so passionate about, those tournament pots would get bigger and bigger.

The scene gets better, if we make it better. Would you rather unite as brothers and sisters and do something positive, or would you rather waste this great resource (message board and "community") and reduce it to not much more then a place to vent over trivial things.

Peace
and hoping to see 17 positive people step up.

no that location never took off....nor would 17 people step up and commit.

So I just gave up......NOT

Where there is a will, there IS a way.... refuse to take no for an answer and do 1 thing each day to make your dream a reality.. The journey of a million steps begins with the first one.... stop talking....start walking....one step a day is all it takes

and Matchu was commenting on the custom made basket "The Receptor"

[tarazarr]

the receptor

[Smokin' Joe]

Nice piece of work! I miss green grass and blue skies!

[tarazarr]

my son Spencer gets ALL the credit.....he built it in his high school welding class... It went to the Texas state welding competition where it won second place... Afterwards he paid his Instructor for the raw metal and gave the basket to his dad....Great kid!!! and a pretty good welder too.

[tarazarr]

Spencer...with second place ribbon

[srm_520]

Originally Posted by tarazarr

no that location never took off....nor would 17 people step up and commit.

So I just gave up......NOT

Where there is a will, there IS a way.... refuse to take no for an answer and do 1 thing each day to make your dream a reality.. The journey of a million steps begins with the first one.... stop talking....start walking....one step a day is all it takes

and Matchu was commenting on the custom made basket "The Receptor"

Actually, David worked pretty hard at getting that course working with the church, meeting with church officials, and him and I even laid out a 9 hole course for the church property itself. (nice little design given the terrain and trees) Problem was security issues, so the idea is dead for now - but rest assured it will be brought back to life at a later date when the church is more ready to reevaluate the idea.

Anyhoo - 17 people don't need to commit nor would it have mattered. The matters was timing and it just wasn't there at that point.

I will say this though - given the soccer fields, and the YMCA usage, this piece of land is much more limited than Windwood, and is at best a varied flat 9-holer. We tried squeezing in 18 and there were too many conflicts in the space.