Reed City Disc Golf course hosts ‘sneak peek’ tournament
, 2022-08-25 15:08:46,
REED CITY — After three years in the making, the Reed City Disc Golf Course offered a “sneak peek” for disc golfers during the Great American Crossroads Celebration last weekend.
City council member Dan Burchette, who has been instrumental in getting the disc golf course at Rambadt Park and has put in many man-hours preparing the course, told the Pioneer the sneak-peek event was a great success.
“It went really great,” Burchette said. “We had about 40 participants — men, women and children — that showed up. Everybody was excited to be out there, to participate in something new. They truly can’t wait to get this thing up and going with the permanent baskets and tee pads.”
He added they even had some people from Texas show up to the event.
“They happened to be in the area, and they are disc golfers,” he said. “They saw that this was a new course going in and decided to check it out. They said they loved it,”
Burchette said most of the feedback from the participants was positive, with most players saying they like that the course is short, but very technical.
Most courses are long, and it is a long and strong throw in wide open areas from the tee pad to the basket, he explained. This course is anywhere from 105 feet to 250 feet, with the shorter courses of 105 feet to 170 feet being very technical.
“They have trees in front of them, or are up or down hill,” Burchette said. “The people seemed to like that. It is nice for those that can’t throw real far, with the shorter distances.”
The only negative feedback received, he said, was that there are some “angle twisters” and “toe stumpers.”
“We didn’t really have a lot of that (negative feedback), and what we did get is stuff we already knew about that needed to be taken care of,” he said. “Things like that you will find in any new course and that is something we will work on over time.”
Three rounds of 18 holes were played, with prizes handed out to those that participated. Several local business owners donated food vouchers, gift cards and other freebies, Burchette said.
“I had about 40 donations from different businesses in town, so for the most part, everybody won something,” he said. “Everybody…
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