Brian Matthews's Blog – February 2008 Archive (4)

On Christmas Day 2007 - after having received a gift of three Champion plastic discs from Santa - the family & I went down to North Port to have Christmas dinner with my mom-in-law. So, I made a plan to hit the disc golf course that can be found down there. The kids went with - probably to avoid the boredom of hanging out at Grandma's - and we tackled the course.



The North Port Charlotte Regional Sports Complex disc golf course is rough-hewn and carved from some serious… Continue

N.E .Coachman Park is probably less than a mile (as the Cro flies) from Cliff Stephen's, and the day I played Cliff I doubled up with this fun little park. The course winds through a relatively thin strip of pine trees and other local foliage, and the day I was there a rather swift-moving creek ran along the back side at holes #8 & #9. I'm also told that you can walk from hole #16 right over to Cliff, if you wanted to.



I made most of my throws with a… Continue

Or, at least I like to think he would have had an affinity for it!



Douglas Adams, that's who!



For those of you in the Not-Know category, Adams (who died in 2001) was a British writer who penned the cult classic The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, a 5-book trilogy, believe it or not. This hilarious and wildly inventive storyline follows the exploits of an Englishman named Arthur Dent, who awakens one morning only to learn that his house is about to be razed to make… Continue

I first visited Lakeview about three years ago, and was very intimidated by it. In fact, I wouldn't even throw hole #7, as the pro pad aims straight across a sizeable pond and I wasn't about to lose a disc to it. There was a lot of shule, and I wasn't even aware that there was an alternate tee for 7 until recently. Most of my disc golf enthusiast friends and relatives don't like Lakeview, for one reason: WATER HAZARDS! Yep, Lakeview has a…

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