Pay to Play

Hudson Mills this year has started making players pay to play. It costs $2 a round, or you can purchase a bag tag for $50 annualy. This cost is in addition to parking passes that cost $4 dollars for a day or $20 annualy. Was wondering if any other parks are also starting to charge just to play Disc Golf. Also I am pretty torn on the issue. I think that it is good and inevitable for the image of the sport. But also Disc Golf is gaining more and more popularity in part due to its affordability.

[ROBEY the one.]

good point.

[ROBEY the one.]

cheesey points!!! woot woot.

[Tim]

So you would feel it necessary to get an annual pass at all of them??????

[Ruther4d]

There are currently 4 courses in the vicinity of San Diego. Morley Field ($2.50 during the week/$3 on weekends & holidays/$35 month/$350 annual) Sun Valley golf course ($5 for 18 holes) Emerald Isle golf course ($5/$8 after 4pm weekdays/weekends for 18 holes) and Montiel Park (free) 9 holes with dual teepads

And some of you are complaining about $70 a year!!! Makes me sick just thinking about it.

[ROBEY the one.]

that sucks. glad i dont live there.

[Ben Calhoun]

Yes you just made us glad we don't live there. You should move.

[LionsShot]

So I live about 75 miles north of San Diego and there are 5 courses within an hour of me that charge to play that aren't listed in the thread a couple above this one. The sixth one is further away, but in Southern california.

1. Hemet disc golf ($5/$9) for either 9 or 18 holes. No annual pass
2. Riverside disc golf ($7/$12) for either 11 or 22 holes. No annual pass
3. Yucaipa disc golf $5 for a week day or $7 for a weekend day. Annual pass $120 or $60 for disabled
4. Wrightwood disc golf $5 for the day. Annual pass $20.
5. Huntington Beach $2 dollars for the day. I don't know of a Annual Pass
6. Ventura disc golf $10 for a week day or $15 for a weekend. Annual pass $100

[Paul Novak]

I have seen this issue, before and everyone has seemed to talk about it a lot. I just think that even if you have to pay the fee to enter the different courses because they are a state, or metro, or county park, if you shell out for a $50 bag tag it should be good at every pay to play course in the state, whether it be a state, or metro, or county, that way you at least get your $50 worth, I think a lot more people would be willing to pay the $50 if it was pay to play other places and it was eligible at all courses.

[Joe Gill]

Pay to play is here. For a $50 annual you get a lot of golf. That equals one 18 hole round with cart at most golf courses

[ROBEY the one.]

yeah but this aint ball golf, and pros dont get paid like ball golfers, why should we pay the high prices? are they reseeding the greens? i like the idea of pay to play just make it cheap.

[ROBEY the one.]

they just got a whole bunch of obama bucks, how can they be shrinking? Besides that i would rather have 1000 people pay 25 bucks then 100 pay 50 or 60 wouldn't you? the main problem with pay to play as i see it is the money the course raises doesn't go back to the course, it gets put in a pot and split up among all kinds of activities. at our local pay to play there are 5 times as many people paying to golf then to use the bike trails or dog park, but they get equal funding and preference when it comes to overlapping problems.

[The FORCE]

I would still pay to play if 100% of the courses in Kalamazoo were as such. However they are not and only a couple courses here are pay to play. They are GREAT courses. Indeed 90% are high quality enough to have to be paid for to play. The problem with pay to play isn't the pay to play. It's WHY they are pay to play. Vandalism is probably the #1 cause of pay to play. Those of us good doobies take with us what we brought to the course, or make sure it ends up in a trash receptacle. Those of us who don't seem to deposit trash everywhere and make it so the signs are either not legible because they want everyone to know how talented they are with paint markers, or demolish the sign all-together so it's hard as hell to navigate for first timers. THUS ruining the beauty of someones design and disturbing the powers that be (parks systems, cops, etc). Pay to play keeps the crowds at the free to play drinkin/smokin courses so those of us who really want to play a civil round of disc golf anytime, because that's how it should be, can. It's golf, not beer pong.