Disc Golf Atlanta Disc-cussion

by **O4PETESAKE** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:17 pm

Eh, we did some awesome work on #5's tee box last saturday. I am anxious to work on some other ones, perhaps #8 or #15. This course ain't gonna perfect itself, although it's pretty close to begin with. Anyone think they can make it ?

by **grease** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:30 pm

Wish I could, but I'll be out of town this weekend.

by **Mike D** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:52 pm

Easter weekend.

The park will be extremely crowded on Saturday. The countywide Easter egg hunt is being held at White Oak this year.

The local tv station (local access channel 16) is going to be out there filming. They will be doing a special on the Disc Golf course around noon or so than film the Easter egg hunt.

Come on out early and maybe you can get in on a shot or two!!

Later,

Mike D

by **O4PETESAKE** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:34 pm

Maybe I will go diving for some plastic instead then. Boy those kids will freak out when they see Swamp Thing instead of the Easter Bunny.

by **O4PETESAKE** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:49 pm

So,
If anyone is interested to know, I talked with Jason H. about dong coursework this weekend 04/19, Sunday. We plan to be out there around lunchtime to do a bit of touch-up on 5 and 18's tee boxes. Possibly doing some pathway forging across the ditches on 12 and/or 5.
2 weeks ago was my first time helping out with White Oak course work, and It felt good to get some progress made, plus this gives me a small sense of "ownership". I can't wait for this course to be 'tournament ready' .Hopefully more people will start to come out and take some pride in one of the best courses around. I'll check this thread regularly, so post a reply if you want to pitch in. See you out there!

by **atl scott** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 4:09 pm

O4PETESAKE wrote: dong coursework

anybody?

by **grease** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:14 pm

This Sunday is monthly doubles at Deerlick.

by **O4PETESAKE** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:58 am

atl scott wrote:
O4PETESAKE wrote: dong coursework

anybody?

Kinda funny how the word "dong" got your attention . Maybe you could help out by bringing a tool, instead of acting like one. Ha!

by **Redan Randy** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:36 pm

O4PETESAKE wrote:
atl scott wrote:
O4PETESAKE wrote: dong coursework

anybody?

Kinda funny how the word "dong" got your attention . Maybe you could help out by bringing a tool, instead of acting like one. Ha!

Dong is a funny word, kinda like Peter, only Peter is much more "Keith size".

by **O4PETESAKE** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 2:51 pm

I don't know Keith, but yer fowl; putting his size out there like that. Anyways, as long as he wants to help, and can swing a pick, or dig with a shovel, he would be huge in my book.

by **Redan Randy** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 3:46 pm

O4PETESAKE wrote:but yer fowl

by **O4PETESAKE** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:22 am

Believe me you "pecker". I did it that way 'cuz YOU put the "U" in foul. Such a buzzard!

by **Redan Randy** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:39 pm

Buzzard pecker

by **O4PETESAKE** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:18 am

I borrowed a gas powered auger, so who is ready to knock down all 18 tee pads this weekend?
I am not sure how long I will have access to the equipment, so if nobody can make it, I will just level the pads out myself (with the exception of #4)

by **Warnerspot** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:08 am

What time will anyone be out working on the course this weekend?

by **O4PETESAKE** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:23 pm

I plan to be at the park early on Saturday 04/25 10am-ish. I hope some other folks can make it at some point, but I plan to be there all day. If Sunday happens to work better for anyone, I should be free to help then as well. My main goal is to level as many tee-pads as possible, and other than that I am looking at some fairway improvements on hole #10.

by **atl scott** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:00 pm

I can be there Sunday morning until about noon if anyone wants to work then.

by **grease** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:18 pm

There are still a lot of dead trees still standing on 10 and 11. Bear in mind, though, that dead dogwoods
are hard to handsaw.

by **O4PETESAKE** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 8:53 pm

10:00 AM This Sunday 4-26 I will be out there starting on #8 first. If anyone happens to have a chainsaw or wheel barrow, bring them.

by **Mike D** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 10:24 pm

Pete,

Thanks foe all your hard work!!

Tee pads on hole 1, 3 and 8 look greta. Now if we can just get Jason out there with that tamper tool!!

Later,

Mike D

by **O4PETESAKE** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:31 am

Thanks to Wade and Dale for helping with tee pad work this weekend. I Ran out of time to get #12 and #17, but I hope that I will get out there again this coming weekend. Wade said Deerlick has a doubles tourney this Sunday, so I would imagine I will be out at White Oak on Saturday.

by **Warnerspot** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:32 pm

What time and what are we working on this weekend?

by **O4PETESAKE** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:46 am

I want to level the tees on 12 and 17. This will get us as far as we can go with tees until the resources are available to build the pad for #4. Other than that, I want to put a path through the swamp on 12, and move dead trees out of 10's fairway ( chainsaw would be great if anybody has one ). I will try to be out there around 10am-late this saturday, so if anyone wants to help, I appreciate all the help we can get.

by **maximus** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:16 pm

O4PETESAKE wrote:I want to level the tees on 12 and 17.

Hey guys, I was out there yesterday and the work looks great. I only wish I could get out there more often but the drive is a bit long and this weekend is already full. I did notice that the tee for 15 is holding water, or was, as it is muddy for the front couple of feet. I didnt have any tools or i would have tried to add a little dirt back and smooth out. shouldn't take but a few minutes to touch it up, so no one else slips like i did.

Thanks again to you guys and ALL volunteer disc golfers who help make the courses what they are! I spoke to a local beginner out there and he wondered why the park was doing one or two tees at a time and why THEY weren't finishing, and I politely told him that the park was gracious enough to give the land and help with the baskets, but that the work being done to upkeep and improve the course was mostly done by volunteers for free, and he was a bit shocked. Anyway, keep it up, it IS appreciated!

by **grease** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:01 pm

Good job and thank you guys! I really appreciatd the new teepads yesterday. Only minus
was that it looked like 16 was moved over. We had to shoot that down as the shot from
the new pad would've been pretty bogus. I should be able to make it out for a little Saturday
if you're doing more work.

by **O4PETESAKE** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:45 pm

grease wrote:it looked like 16 was moved over. We had to shoot that down as the shot from
the new pad would've been pretty bogus.

Mike, Wade, and myself thought it was a better spot than being right under the landing zone for 12's errant throws. Where else might we go for now, until the island is given to us by the parks dept. ?

by **SlingShot** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:55 pm

back to where it was.

by **grease** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:52 pm

Mike was with us last night and agreed that the new position was bad. Errant shots on 12 may
possibly go near 16's pad, but they wouldn't be the norm imo.

by **O4PETESAKE** » Thu May 07, 2009 11:28 am

I am pretty tired, think I'll just golf instead of work this weekend. I don't know if anyone else has a schedule/agenda to improve #4's teepad, but that project is probably a bit outside of my scope.

by **Mike D** » Thu May 07, 2009 11:38 am

Pete,

Wade and I plan on digging the long positions for hole #2 and Hole #8 on Sunday. Other than that I think an off week is a good call.

I also want to place a mailbox in between hole #1 and #7 with scorecards/maps. If we have the energy we will try to put that in on Sunday also.

Later,

Mike D

by **O4PETESAKE** » Thu May 07, 2009 1:30 pm

I should be able to make it. That sound's like a quick and fairly easy work day anyways.
Any idea what time ?

by **Mike D** » Thu May 07, 2009 1:36 pm

We should be out there around 10:30 or so.

by **O4PETESAKE** » Thu May 07, 2009 2:32 pm

I like the idea CHOP had about using a little cement mix on the surfaces of the teepads. Sounds good in theory!

by **Mike D** » Thu May 07, 2009 3:33 pm

Lets try it and see what happens.

by **Can't Hit Open Putts** » Thu May 07, 2009 5:13 pm

It works! my father-in-law used to park an old El Camino on a low spot and it ended up getting it stuck after some heavy rains. After the land dried out a bit he dump some of mix and raked it in. He did it a couple times and after one particularly heavy rain the car barely made tracks in the ground.

by **maximus** » Mon May 11, 2009 12:12 am

I will be up for some course work out there this week or weekend for those interested. I think 4petesake said he would be out of town? If someone who knows what NEEDS to be done will show up or can get in touch with me and have a specific agenda, I will try to make a day of it, maybe two, to get a lot of work done and help get it ready for the USDGC qualifier #1. I may not be able to make it on Sat or Sun, but will make it for a day sometime in the next week and a half!

by **O4PETESAKE** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:04 pm

If anyone wants to do something this weekend, post on here. Hotlanta is on Saturday, but what about Sunday?

by **keith johnson** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:07 pm

O4PETESAKE wrote:If anyone wants to do something this weekend, post on here. Hotlanta is on Saturday, but what about Sunday?

Hotlanta is on Sunday too.

by **grease** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 8:00 pm

Pete, your zeal is much appreciated, but how about having some barbecue and some watermelon and chill
out this weekend.

by **O4PETESAKE** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 9:08 pm

sooooo? this saturday seems good, but I might try to get out to deerlick sunday doubles. I'll be out on Saturday regardless, so who can make it ?

by **Mike D** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:25 pm

What do you have in mind Pete?

Want to put in 17's alternate position?

I was also thinking about clearing the "tall grass" on hole 12

or

thinning out the "shule" on hole 8.

Let me know what sounds good.

Later,

Mike D

by **O4PETESAKE** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:41 am

I was thinking my industrial strength 'Round Up' would work well on 12's grass, but the effect will take a week or so to be observed. I have enough to try the same on 8's shule, though it might only make dried out shule.
I am all for "relief" pin placement on 17, but lets get a round of golf in prior to digging the hole.
I'll try to be out there between 9:30 and 10, and my day is wide open. Nick said he would come, and I'll see about contacting Wade.

by **grease** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:41 pm

O4PETESAKE wrote:sooooo? this saturday seems good, but I might try to get out to deerlick sunday doubles. I'll be out on Saturday regardless, so who can make it ?

I don't think there's dubs this weekend at the Lick.

by **O4PETESAKE** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:04 pm

OK, this weekend for real this time...unless Kelly is around again. Either way, I am tired of this shule. I have 3 garden sprayers which can be filled with roundup, so who wants to help and when ?

by **Mike D** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:09 pm

Pete,

This weekend = Tournaments!!

Saturday - Meeks Madness - Blairsville
Sunday - ADGO Event - Redan

Don't you ever play tournaments??

by **O4PETESAKE** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:26 am

I sprayed roundup on 12's tall-grass, and 8's shule(so don't eat the wildberries).

by **haztech19** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:12 pm

Is there another work day planned soon. I would like to come out and help.

by **Funky Bobby J** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 7:58 am

There is one scheduled for this Sunday...at Deerlick. Come out and help.

by **O4PETESAKE** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:41 am

Yeah, I'll be at Deerlick to help as well. Think some people are gonna get there around 11 on Sunday.

by **keith johnson** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 12:28 pm

Hopefully if everything goes well - keep OCT 2nd open. :mrgreen:

by **keith johnson** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:16 pm

SATURDAY OCTOBER 3rd is set for a work day to improve the tee pads at "the W"

The goal is to spread Crusher Run gravel into the red clay where the tee pads are and compact it so that it actually will be a grippy surface, but not build it up so much that it moves around and forward like at ERP.

The Oct 17th thing, and the Fright Flight Events will give it a good test to see how it works and if it needs constant maintenance, or if it will only need to be addressed once in a while like I'm thinking should be the case if it is done right.

If we can get 6-8 people there we can work in 2 man teams to load the golf cart and work on a couple of pads at a time while getting the next cart loaded, and we can trade teams out so everyone is not always shoveling or always compacting.

After the lunch we could play a round of doubles to check them out if we can still lift our arms up. :mrgreen:

by **grease** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:57 pm

I reckon I could drag myself over there.

by **O4PETESAKE** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:50 pm

I am going to bring lunch for all the people who come help Oct 3rd- stadium dogs, and chips,beans,drinks

*we probably should plan on building a wooden frame for 4's tee pad, but thankfully #18 has one already. All the others should be fine as is, be it a temporary fix. Just stating the obvious, but someone needs to come up with lumber then.

by **keith johnson** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:30 pm

Sorry - I was already looking at the 2010 calendar for the GSSS and had it on the table when posting.

SATURDAY OCTOBER THIRD 2009 Work Day at "the W"

See above Keith Johnson post for info.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can make it out to help!

Keith

by **O4PETESAKE** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:41 pm

It is so awesome that this is finally going to happen. I can't wait to get these pads done so we can stop worrying about the rain so much.

by **O4PETESAKE** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:31 am

Just #s 11,13,16,&17 still need gravel. I will not have any opportunity to help with coursework for the next month or so, unless after work on a weeknight, but I just know someone else will help ready the teepads before Fright Flight.

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