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, 2022-06-16 04:30:03,
It is summer and things are happening outside. Sports, activities and recreational opportunities have people up, active and moving around. The best part is, you can join in on the fun, too.
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A night at the ballpark is hard to beat, especially with Avista Stadium’s scenic mountain backdrop. Though, it’s made even better when the home team is scoring runs and winning games, and as of this writing that’s what the Spokane Indians have been doing over the first two months of this season. They’re near the top of the Northwest League in wins and are far and away its highest scoring team, averaging over five runs per game. You’ve got 35 chances left to catch the team in action from June 16 onward before the final home game of the season on Sept. 4. Check the schedule at spokaneindians.com.
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, 2022-06-08 01:00:00,
Disc golf is just like golf, except without the balls and clubs. Replace those with a plastic disc and swap out the flag sticks and holes for metal baskets. There you have it: Disc golf, mostly.
It’s cheaper and requires less equipment, but like golf, the disc version is played in a wide open space—a chance to enjoy New Mexico’s high desert scenery. While professionals are starting to make a name for themselves, earning millions in sponsorships, the sport remains a relaxed game for most players, works for big groups of friends and there’s something satisfying about the way a plastic disc hovers and slices through the air before falling back to earth.
Among the local disc golf community are the die-hards who, on any given day, can be found toting their bag of discs from tee to tee. Still, disc golf is the type of sport anyone can play and one of the fastest-growing in the nation. Home to a few courses with a new one on the Southside nearing completion, Santa Fe could be the place where the interested player turns into a devoted enthusiast.
“Disc golf is booming,” says Ryan Flahive, who leads the Santa Fe Disc Golf organization. “We saw the numbers spike during COVID and, in 2021, there were 1.5 new courses installed [nationwide] every day. That’s huge growth.”
The most played course in Santa Fe is Arroyo Chamisos Park, behind the Genoveva Chavez Community Center (3221 Rodeo Road, (505) 955-4000). The 18-hole course has three different sets of tees, giving players of all skill levels a place from which to start: Red tees are for beginners, blue for the more experienced and yellow for advanced golfers. The basket placements require some clever shots to navigate around the juniper trees, and an active disc golf league can be found discing it up most…
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, 2022-05-10 14:30:00,
Posted May 10, 2022, 11:59 pm
After a boom in golf’s popularity that followed the emergence of
Tiger Woods as a sports superstar, the game slipped into a post-Tiger
effect downtrend. Over a 15-year period from 2003 to 2018, the number of
golfers declined in the United States by 6.8 million.
More than 1,200 courses closed across the country over that same
span, golf manufacturers saw sales sink and considerable hand-wringing
followed over what could be done to bring golfers back and also attract a
new generation to the game.
Former golf great and course designer Jack Nicklaus even suggested,
among other things, enlarging the hole to speed up play or dividing
18-hole courses into three six-hole courses instead of two nine-hole
ones to allow players to play 12 holes, thus spending less time at the
club.
Then along came a global pandemic.
At first, people were confined to the indoors when COVID-19 struck.
Eventually, social distancing and small gatherings were encouraged.
Outdoor activities were deemed more safe, which aligned perfectly with
golf.
In 2020, especially over the second half of the year, numbers for golf suddenly improved. And they’ve continued to skyrocket.
A pandemic and the sport’s commitment to modernization have lured many back to the fairways.
“The golf course was considered a place for people to escape the
pandemic,” Longbow Golf Club general manager Bob McNichols said. “You
don’t play golf indoors where you’re restricted in the air you breathe
and the access you have to the environment. So, golf became a popular
activity for people who were no longer doing things the same way they
always did and looking for not only activities, but a way to get better
at the game.”
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One of those activities that has grown in popularity is disc golf. According to UDisc 2021 Disc Golf Growth Report, the sport has gained significant traction throughout the pandemic as people have looked for safe, socially-distanced outdoor activities. The report states that in 2020 between 35-37 million rounds of disc golf were played in the United States.
Locals who enjoy the sport will now have an additional course closer to home as Mid Michigan College is revealing its new 18-hole disc golf course that is part of the Harrison campus trail system this weekend with a tournament on April 9.
While the course is being debuted this weekend, primary construction was finished in the fall of 2021; and, the course is already highly-rated on UDisc.
Scott Mertes, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Community Outreach at Mid Michigan College, says adding a disc golf course to the trail system seemed like a wonderful opportunity to respond to a need in the community.
“Disc golf is a very popular sport and there are few facilities in the area for people to play. So, we looked at this as an opportunity to respond to a community interest and provide a free venue for those interested in the sport to come out and play in a beautiful yet challenging environment,” he says.
In a demonstration of how disc golf brings the community together, the course at Mid Michigan College’s Harrison campus was created through collaborative efforts with Central Michigan University (CMU).
“One of our course designers (Jordan Bruursema) is a current faculty member at CMU,” Mertes says. “He along with his co-designer, Craig Clingan, designed the course and helped in the actual construction. Additionally, we have partnered with a graduate-level sports studies class taught by Dr. Marcia Mackey, to assist in the planning, implementation, marketing, fundraising, etc. of our inaugural tournament/group breaking on Saturday, April 9. We are extremely appreciative of the work Dr. Mackey and her students have done.”
Mertes says the course, along with all of the trails on the campus, are free and open to the public. He believes this new course will provide students and community members with a fun, affordable opportunity to get outdoors and entertain themselves.
“Eventually, perhaps we will get enough students to form a club that can compete with other colleges around the state, giving students an opportunity to enjoy the benefits intercollegiate athletics has to offer,” Mertes says.
Bruursema says the course will provide an additional option for Central Michigan University’s Disc Golf Club to play at as well.
While both he and Mertes are looking forward to the possibility of future tournaments at the course, Bruursema adds that he hopes this course could be the start of something even bigger in the region.
“One of the things we’re trying to do in mid-Michigan is get enough high-level courses in the area to get professional level tournaments here, so we can make this a hotspot for disc golf,” Bruursema says. “I think the biggest economic impact that would have is people traveling from all over the state to this area. Disc golf is one of the fastest-growing sports in the country and it’s exciting to be part of it. I think it’s exciting that Mt. Pleasant has embraced the disc golf community and I think we are destined to become that hotspot.”
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Disc golf, or “frolfing” to the less civilized, is experiencing a boom in interest level and there are plenty of places to try it out in Rockford if it interests you.
This graph from discgolf.com shows how much it has grown over just the past 5 years.
That’s an almost 15x increase in rounds played between 2016 and 2021. Undoubtedly, the pandemic played a huge part in disc golf’s exploding popularity since it was one of the few activities you could still do in public during a lockdown.
I’ll fully admit that I’ve never been disc golfing but that is going to change this summer. I wasn’t aware of the facilities we have here in town and for some reason TikTok has been showing me a lot of disc golf videos over the last year. Maybe TikTok knows something about me that I don’t yet.
For this list of Rockford disc golf courses, I’m going to focus on the ones run by the Park District but there are at least 10 courses in the area from Rockford to Beloit. You can find a complete list of every disc golf course here.
The Rockford Park District has 5 courses in 3 locations for players of all levels.
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According to the Park District website, Anna Page Park is considered “one of the finest disc golf facilities in the country.” It is comprised of 3 separate courses.
Built in 2018 this course works its way through a mature oak savannah and is compact
and level. A perfect course for beginners and kids.
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The newest course in the area, the Shorewood Park course was built in 2021. This 9-hole course along the Rock River is another great course for kids or beginners.
I would also like to note that while researching this article I came across a Rockford Disc Golf group on Facebook and it appears to be one of the nicest communities I’ve ever seen. Just a bunch of people throwing Frisbees in the woods. It doesn’t have to get any more complicated than that.
Discover where you can find the best access in the country for your pick of courses, the unique terrain that lends itself to world-class golf, and what makes select clubs noteworthy.
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A new disc golf course is under construction at Coopers Rock State Forest.
It took the Morgantown Mountain Goats, a local disc golf league, five years to put together partnerships with the Coopers Rock foundation and the West Virginia State Forest to gain the funding and approvals necessary.
“Coopers Rock State Forest had been a location our club wanted to install a course for a long time,” said Nick Buysee, manager of the Morgantown Mountain Goats. “We wanted to construct a ‘Championship Level Course,’ and the terrain of Coopers provides the perfect combination of woods and mountains to do just that.”
J. Gary Dropcho, professional course designer and player, was hired by the parentship to design the 18-hole championship course and a 6-hole Learn to Play course in an area of the state forest that has been designated just for disc golf.
Dropcho has developed multiple championship-level courses in the Pittsburgh area and has over 30 Professional Disc Golf Association Titles.
Dropcho has solo-designed nine courses and led the design on nine others, including the four courses used in 2015 PDGA Pro Disc Golf World Championships.
In 2013, he was elected into the Pennsylvania Disc Golf Hall of Fame and the Disc Golf Hall of Fame in 2015.
After a serious knee injury in 1984, Dropcho said he stopped playing Ultimate, which made him look for other frisbee games to help him cope. In 1988, he helped find the Pittsburgh Flying Disc Society, which partnered with Pittsburgh Citiparks to create the Schenley Park disc golf course.
The new course coming to Coopers Rock, said Dropcho, is the “brainchild” of Buysee and the Morgantown Mountain Goats.
The Morgantown Mountain Goats Club was established in the summer of 2013. They currently have over 50 active members in the club who attend leagues and tournaments.
The club’s first weekly league event launched in the summer of 2013 and ran consecutively all the way through winter and rain until June 2021. For the first time in eight years, the league was canceled during the middle of the round due to heavy rain and severe thunderstorms.
The ultimate goal for the new course is to have a professional level tournament event that brings in top level disc golfers from all over the country.
While there are other disc golf courses in the area—Dorsey’s Knob in Morgantown and Seth Burton Memorial Disc Golf Complex in Fairmont—the new Coopers Rock complex strives to do something which has not been done before.
“The terrain is extremely wooded, rocky and has lots of elevation change, making it one of the most difficult courses to play,” Buysee said.
The course is being constructed with the goal of being the longest, most challenging disc golf course in West Virginia and neighboring states. Its uniqueness, according to Buysee, comes from the forested, eco-friendly design.
Buysee credits Dropcho for designing the course and making it so different.
“His experience in the design of the course will set it apart from a lot of other courses,” Buysee said.
The front nine of the course is currently playable but it still under construction. The back nine course construction is set to start this summer.
The COVID- 19 pandemic delayed the course construction timeline, but the hope is for an official course opening in 2022.
The Mountain Goats will be starting a new consecutive streak Monday, June 21.
“We welcome everyone to play in our leagues and tournaments, regardless of what they look like, where they come from or how well they play the game,” Buysee said. “Disc golf is for everyone.”
