The Course Bro
June 2nd, 2012, 06:14 PM
Hello, I'm Bro.
This post is something I hoped I would never have to write but there are some persistent rumors about me that I need to address. I've been ignoring these rumors for some time now with the hope that they would dissipate.
The rumors I am referring to are allegations of unauthorized and illegal cutting at both North Park and Seatac. I have done work at both parks in the past but it has been 2+ years since I have done anything at North Park and at least 3 years for Seatac. Almost everything I did at North Park was cleared with Lowell and ALL of the work at Seatac was done with approval by Jub, Guy or Herm.
I hold anyone who hacks on a course to make it easier in the greatest of contempt. Modifying a course to make it easier is an incredibly selfish act of destruction that runs contrary to the very spirit of the sport. I have never and will never cut something because "it is in the way" or "blocking my shot". I though I just needed to become a better golfer and avoid trouble spots.
Seatac is a very special course to me. The full 18 opened soon after I started playing and I've loved it's difficulty and challenge from the beginning. My small contributions have included trimming the grass, removing debris from the fairways, removing blackberries and concrete removal. If you follow the line of bushes off the left side of pad 17 to the grove of trees, there is a huge pile of concrete and metal (now overgrown with blackberries) that I cleared by hand from the fairway. There is probably a couple of tons of concrete there that was the broken remains of house foundations. Each piece was dug up, levered out, broken into portable chunks (less than 200 lbs) and hand carried by me to that pile. I spend days doing nothing but pulling concrete out of all the fairways and moving it out of the line of play. Fallen trees and branches were also my pleasure to remove from the fairways and were thrown off the course or hidden out of the intended line of play.
I did this because I want to feel like I have earned my place on the teepad and to offer a small contribution to the sport we all love. I must admit it angers me to have my name attached to the hole cut in the bushes by the pin on hole 12 at Seatac. Setting the blame on me distracts us from finding the the actual son of a bitch who would whack a hole to make the shot easier. In my mind, the logical extension of this mindset is we should cut down everything and pave the whole course because that would make it super easy. Idiots that vandalize courses should be ostracized from the sport and, if possible, face criminal charges for destruction of public property.
I don't think this post will make any difference in the minds of those convinced that "since Bro cut something somewhere, he must be responsible for cutting everything everywhere."
For everyone else, remain ever vigilant against the weak and cowardly bastards who are such shitty disc golfers that decide that making the course easier is a good idea.
If you made it this far, thank you for enduring my rambling.
Regards,
Bro
This post is something I hoped I would never have to write but there are some persistent rumors about me that I need to address. I've been ignoring these rumors for some time now with the hope that they would dissipate.
The rumors I am referring to are allegations of unauthorized and illegal cutting at both North Park and Seatac. I have done work at both parks in the past but it has been 2+ years since I have done anything at North Park and at least 3 years for Seatac. Almost everything I did at North Park was cleared with Lowell and ALL of the work at Seatac was done with approval by Jub, Guy or Herm.
I hold anyone who hacks on a course to make it easier in the greatest of contempt. Modifying a course to make it easier is an incredibly selfish act of destruction that runs contrary to the very spirit of the sport. I have never and will never cut something because "it is in the way" or "blocking my shot". I though I just needed to become a better golfer and avoid trouble spots.
Seatac is a very special course to me. The full 18 opened soon after I started playing and I've loved it's difficulty and challenge from the beginning. My small contributions have included trimming the grass, removing debris from the fairways, removing blackberries and concrete removal. If you follow the line of bushes off the left side of pad 17 to the grove of trees, there is a huge pile of concrete and metal (now overgrown with blackberries) that I cleared by hand from the fairway. There is probably a couple of tons of concrete there that was the broken remains of house foundations. Each piece was dug up, levered out, broken into portable chunks (less than 200 lbs) and hand carried by me to that pile. I spend days doing nothing but pulling concrete out of all the fairways and moving it out of the line of play. Fallen trees and branches were also my pleasure to remove from the fairways and were thrown off the course or hidden out of the intended line of play.
I did this because I want to feel like I have earned my place on the teepad and to offer a small contribution to the sport we all love. I must admit it angers me to have my name attached to the hole cut in the bushes by the pin on hole 12 at Seatac. Setting the blame on me distracts us from finding the the actual son of a bitch who would whack a hole to make the shot easier. In my mind, the logical extension of this mindset is we should cut down everything and pave the whole course because that would make it super easy. Idiots that vandalize courses should be ostracized from the sport and, if possible, face criminal charges for destruction of public property.
I don't think this post will make any difference in the minds of those convinced that "since Bro cut something somewhere, he must be responsible for cutting everything everywhere."
For everyone else, remain ever vigilant against the weak and cowardly bastards who are such shitty disc golfers that decide that making the course easier is a good idea.
If you made it this far, thank you for enduring my rambling.
Regards,
Bro