[WestsoundBT]

Growth is important as the alternative is death.

Even staying still is going backward. If you're growing, you are alive.

I'll put in an argument on the most basic of levels - land. There are a ton of reasons why consistent growth provides benefits, but courses is one thing we hold in common.

For most all of us may realize - available land is premium. Disc golf may sometimes get the "scraps" of the most otherwise conventionally unusable land, and sometimes nice land too, but its still afforded to us as long as we provide a solution to some need that is seen. (for most areas, that may be parks departments seeing value in having the offering of DG as part of their facilities lists)

Most of us realize where we are as a sport in that value pecking order - way lower than we'd like. There will come a time where even the most revered courses will face a challenge - maybe a land swap between agencies - maybe a "need" for a new school,aquatic center,sports fields, jail, water treatment plant, whatever. These things happen.

We need to be in a place always where we are growing and alive simply to justify our existence when these challenges occur. And that's not even trying to gain anything yet.

This is but one part of the argument why staying still or "Us Four and No More" can be so self destructive without realizing it.

Fortunately I'm encouraged by the overall pattern of slow, steady, sustainable growth that exists now. Local conditions may vary, but the overall growth curve seems in place. I'm in favor of a regular and periodic "bump" or two in the curve, but I'm also liking sustainable growth better than flash in the pan growth.

(yet I also know that innovative thought and attempts at rapid growth are how the slow steady growth occurs - aim high!)

Locally - I'd like for disc golf to get better at finding ways to account for our own statistical growth and justify our existence much better than we do now. It's hard to do tracking, account, and report for say... RPW (rounds per week, or UPW (users per week) on our courses. In the NW, our sporting takes place in the woods where no one sees us.
i.e. If the parks dept doesn't see us or hear from us in a positive growing way - we might not even exist