Downriver work party, Sat. August 21st

[psychodwarf]

Come to Downriver Sat. morning at 10:00 am to help with new tee-pad installations and some new pin placements. General cleaning up is also on the menu. Bring gloves, shovels, rakes, buckets, wheelbarrows and hole diggers. We'll most likely need a big straight breaker-bar. Kevin is bringing donuts and drinking water. Any other food or goodies will be welcome. If anyone has any Quick-crete we can use please let us know other wise we'll go pick some up. See You There. Gordy. PS, Advance recon will be on site by 9:30.

[Burge]

Hey Gordy, Joe, and whomever else will be there tomorrow morning, I too, will be there and I will bring the tools of which you seek--including a hole digger, gravel spreader, hard rake, a few shovels, a mattock (kinda like a dirt axe), and a big-ass breaker bar. See you in the mornin'!

[White Walls]

Originally Posted by psychodwarf

...new tee-pad installations and some new pin placements....

can anyone tell us what changes were made?

im just curious. any info is appreciated.

[psychodwarf]

the tee pads for hole 14, 15, also the baskets will be moved as well soon .. 2 ,3 , will have NEW tee pads AND be moved as well (#2 already has a new tee pad. in front of old 2 tee pad in front of the bushes ) as the saying goes " ITS A WORK IN PROGESS "

[Burge]

Major kudos for everyone that helped out yesterday! We may not have been a huge crew, but we were a great crew. We kept our goals realistic and accomplished them. 14, 15, and 2 have been completely re-set and new baskets will soon grow form the planted sleeves.

I would gladly post up the name of everyone that helped, but I'm real crappy at remembering names and I would wind up naming about half and then the rest would feel jilted. We all know who we are, we're the ones that showed up and got something done! We're the ones who can now play the course and say, "I made that teebox; I planted that basket; I helped build this course". Now were the ones that, when we play with our slacker friends (and you know who you are--my slacker friends at least), and they begin to gripe about the course changing, you can say, "Hey, flatass, I helped make those changes and if you don't like it, then why don't you show up at a club meeting or a work party and do something about it, instead of being a whiney little beeyateecha. Now, shut up and throw."

[Yoduh]

Do club meetings happen?

[Parks]

I believe Jeff is trying to schedule one for mid-September.

[Wobbly Bob]

Originally Posted by Yoduh

Do club meetings happen?

Wrong topic.

[Wobbly Bob]

Originally Posted by Burge

Major kudos for everyone that helped out yesterday! We may not have been a huge crew, but we were a great crew. We kept our goals realistic and accomplished them. 14, 15, and 2 have been completely re-set and new baskets will soon grow form the planted sleeves.

I would gladly post up the name of everyone that helped, but I'm real crappy at remembering names and I would wind up naming about half and then the rest would feel jilted.

Well Burge, I'm not any good at remembering names either. That's why I wrote them down.
Thanks to those who showed up and helped at Saturdays work party. Some fine work was done and I'll never do another tee box without that special tamping tool you brought.

• Sean Johnson
• Chris Burge
• Joe Barnett
• Gordy Crafts
• Aaron Baker
• Bob Perrewe
• Kevin Sakus
• Chris Barker

Now we need to get the key and move the baskets.

[Gordy #21004]

I thought it was Erin or Arron Barker, you know, the Alaskan Wildcat. G.

[Burge]

Finally got a chance to go out and play from the new teepads this morning. Man, 14 is TIGHT! Is there no latitude with the city's tree-maven to at least trim the inside branches of the trees around the teebox? It's only going to get worse as the seasons progress.

I do like the new 15 though--especially since I parked it for a deuce on the first throw.

[Parks]

Originally Posted by Burge

Finally got a chance to go out and play from the new teepads this morning. Man, 14 is TIGHT! Is there no latitude with the city's tree-maven to at least trim the inside branches of the trees around the teebox? It's only going to get worse as the seasons progress.

It won't get worse.

In fact, it will open up. Holes should always be designed a bit tighter than intended because people playing the course will naturally widen it some. That hole's original fairway used to be a lot tighter, too.

[Burge]

Originally Posted by Parks

It won't get worse.

In fact, it will open up. ...because people playing the course will naturally widen it

"naturally"? I suppose miscalculated thumbers and tomahawks might reduce the branches, but what's going to happen before that is the more environmentally inconsiderate players are going to just snap off branches they deem are in their way. All I'm saying is that a little sculpting early on will prevent the less civilized players from making their own adjustments--sasquatch-style.

[Gordy #21004]

Originally Posted by Burge

"naturally"? I suppose miscalculated thumbers and tomahawks might reduce the branches, but what's going to happen before that is the more environmentally inconsiderate players are going to just snap off branches they deem are in their way. All I'm saying is that a little sculpting early on will prevent the less civilized players from making their own adjustments--sasquatch-style.

Breaking a branch, shrub or tree (ie. willful destruction) is always a two-stroke penalty all the time. NO WARNING.:I like to tell em to just take a free drop in the fairway if it means that much to them to navigate the hole. Informed players would do well to always share their respect for the park with all other players and other park users.

[Parks]

Exactly.

If you see anyone intentionally breaking stuff, let them know that it is definitely not okay.

[White Walls]

i finally saw #14 today. i like that its a little more difficult. it seems to even out on #15, which is playing a little easier.

i think #14 would have been perfect if the tee pad was about 20 feet closer. that way the path from #13 would lead behind it, and there would still be a tight shot. hindsight is always 20/20 though, and im definitely not complaining.

what type of lines are you guys throwing on #14 anyway? it seems like it forces you into an overhead shot, unless you can throw a perfect flex. (RHBH)

[Parks]

Originally Posted by White Walls

i think #14 would have been perfect if the tee pad was about 20 feet closer. that way the path from #13 would lead behind it, and there would still be a tight shot. hindsight is always 20/20 though, and im definitely not complaining.

There is actually a half-used offshoot path that leads to the new teepad. I suspect that it will get a lot more use now, since people tend to take the shortest path.

Originally Posted by White Walls

what type of lines are you guys throwing on #14 anyway? it seems like it forces you into an overhead shot, unless you can throw a perfect flex. (RHBH)

For a righty, its a thumber, a gentle turnover with a putter or mid, or a high sidearm.

I think a good flex shot would be hard to throw consistently and is overly complicated for the line that you actually need.

[Stimpi]

Play Stimpi Ridge a little more often and you'll learn a low, straight, flex shot. And that offshoot path used to be the main path, leading to the BACK of old #17's tee. The "regular" path got broken out of the forest by the dumbass sasquatches. Actually, a lot of Downriver has been destroyed by these ungrateful creatures.
Low and straight. It's a good shot to have in your bag.

Originally Posted by Parks

There is actually a half-used offshoot path that leads to the new teepad. I suspect that it will get a lot more use now, since people tend to take the shortest path.



For a righty, its a thumber, a gentle turnover with a putter or mid, or a high sidearm.

I think a good flex shot would be hard to throw consistently and is overly complicated for the line that you actually need.

[Yoduh]

Originally Posted by Wobbly Bob

Wrong topic.

Topic Nazi.. I know there isn't a thread for club meetings not happening, I wonder why Mid September sounds good though. First meeting in 6 months. Torrid pace. Just played High Bridge today with everything in the short. Definitely makes Downriver the best course in town by FAR! Kind of makes the course feel like Stimpi's. Thanks to the workers who helped out at Downriver, good to have clubbies chipping in. Hoping for another light winter to keep the growth in Spokane moving forward.

[Burge]

Still, only remotely close to topic....

Originally Posted by Yoduh

Topic Nazi.. I know there isn't a thread for club meetings not happening, I wonder why

Because you haven't started one yet.

Mid September sounds good though. First meeting in 6 months. Torrid pace.

You could put that in your new gripe thread. (although, it is a bit snide)

Just played High Bridge today with everything in the short. Definitely makes Downriver the best course in town by FAR! Kind of makes the course feel like Stimpi's.

Okay, let's take inventory...so far, you've put down the club, Highbridge, and now Stimpi--and you have yet to say anything on topic. Is this just your need to polish your ego? You must be insufferable to play with.

Thanks to the workers who helped out at Downriver, good to have clubbies chipping in.

Finally, on topic, but yet, you still feel the need to be patronizing. I don't appreciate being referred to as a "clubbie", nor do I think anyone else that SHOWED UP to help last Saturday would appreciate it much either. Do you have other little derogatory cutesy monikers that you use for everyone else on the course that doesn't meet with your esteemed approval? 'Baggers'? 'Newbies'? 'Flingers'? IF you truly do care about the club and the courses, and want to make them a better place, then maybe you should try inputing something positive instead of spitting out your thinly veiled spite and malice.

Hoping for another light winter to keep the growth in Spokane moving forward.

Way to squeeze in more off topic material! It's a nice attempt at a wish of prosperity, but at this point, it's just a cherry on a turd. I can't even begin to deconstruct how short-sighted this statement is. Try this on for size: two light winters in a row will mean a drought in the summer. You don't ever want to hope for a light winter in Spokane. It's not natural. We live in the high desert--we need the snowfall in the winter or we will be looking at high fire risk all summer. Besides, winter is never a time to get someone introduced to the sport; only the truly hardcore play in the snow.

I never had the need to pipe up to you directly before, but the 'clubbie' crack is insulting and makes your self-importance painfully obvious. How about you start your own club and build your own course and then you can just play with yourself and you won't have anything to complain about or pesky 'clubbies' to deal with.

Or glowsticks.