Terry "the Pirate" Calhoun's Blog – May 2008 Archive (4)

Just sharing notes with all:



Disc Golf Census

Tuesday, May 13, 2008



I left work an hour early today and spent the time from 4:15-5:15 pm standing by Hole 1 at the Bandemer Park Disc Golf Course. I had printed up (on paper, not card stock) some draft Bandemer cards and was handing them out. I also was asking people questions about their disc golf habits, in order to begin working on the ‘script’ that we’ll be asking volunteers to use when we do the Disc Golf Census… Continue

Sheila and I enjoyed a visit from Chuck Kennedy at our home last night. Chuck is one of the more experienced disc golf course designers in the world, as well as a creator of the PDGA ratings system, member of the Disc Golf Hall of Fame, etc. He was near the tail end of three weeks on the road, during which time he had been at the… Continue

Well, it's exciting to see this course start to go in. Lorie Szyperski and her family are doing the hard work of fundraising and clearing. I get to drive north a couple of hours and do the design work. What fun!



Currently laid out are Holes 1-3, 7-9, and 16-18. They are going to work, for most of this year I think, as the first nine. It's getting a little 'leafy' to be able to go in and visualize the other nine holes.



Lorie and her team have cleared the brush and trees for… Continue

I'm involved right now with the design of what will be a great course in Pinconning, Michigan. Pinconning is, to put it mildly, not in the economically most robust part of Michigan, which is itself, not exactly economically robust right now. But the lady raising money for the course, Lorie Szyperski, has raised more than $4,000, so far. (There's even a disc golf course fundraising 'thermometer' on the front page of the local… Continue