Happy Birthday, Frown!

All monies are safely back where they belong, for anyone keeping track like me.

Another prison tournament in the books. I had more fun this time, since I got to play and not just run ****. Nice tight little layout with some OB on top of roofs and over the walls. I almost aced, but my disc hit basket and fell right on the pin, so I won a CTP (closest to the pin) on a blind, over razor wire shot.

A lot of the area's in the prison are open for tours so we got to explore quite a bit of it all. I didn't take any photo's this time, so here's some random pics from other people who were there that did:

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Disc Golf courses on abandoned prison grounds is one of the weirdest yet coolest concepts I've ever seen.

The Historical Society has been working a lot of fund raising events there like concerts and daily tours, so instead of just being a money sucking plot of land, it's generating revenue now. Our little disc golf tournament was pretty much a fund raiser with all proceeds going to the new Pro Gold course across the street. We already have the funds for 18 Mach III baskets, and we're just about where we should be for tee pads and signs after Sunday.

How does grounds maintenance work when most courses are free to use?

This course was a temporary one that we set up the day before and break it down after the event. All the targets (baskets) belong to a local pro shop, and the tee signs were created by the event organizer. When we were first given the green light last year we had a volunteer crew out there to clear out all the overgrowth, and since then it's been kept up by the revenue generated through tours going through the Park District. I was a part of that original crew, and it was bad. Lots of poison Sumac and Ivy.

And in a general sense, the courses are maintained by the parks department? I'm intrigued by disc golf courses now since I've actually been to one. I mean, we just walked in and there were people drinking openly even though it's a park and you usually can't do that in parks. It's like a little bubble of awesome and I hope there's steps in place at these courses to maintain them so they don't start drifting back into nature.

Ah you mean all the other ones. Yes, the majority of disc golf parks in the US are maintained by city/township/village Park Districts. The business plan is that when you put in a disc golf course, you generate revenue through the surrounding business's by the increased traffic coming through the immediate area. As far as drinking beer and smoking pot, it's usually ok if you're being a responsible person about it. I've never been hassled by police in my years of playing, and have even gotten friendly waves from a few officers as they drove by.

It is a little bubble of awesome, actually. Nice way to put it.

Jazz is funky bro. Also lmfao @ the bolded

Thanks fellas

I use to have the inability to imagine people dancing to Jazz, but once you see it, it can't unseen. It will destroy all prior misconceptions.

The "rangers" are usually just stoner disc golf people anyway so they don't give a **** so long as you're not littering or drawing attention to your shenanigans. I've smoked with those guys before and they're chill af. Disc golf has its own slacker culture of sorts and we'll be damned if we let things like the law get in the way of harmless enjoyment of the outdoors.