Disc Golf 'going big': For(e) or against?

[Yoduh]

I too am a fan of pay to play. San Diego runs a very successful pay to play course where it's $2 a day to play golf. If that's to much for a family to afford to play than I guess they need to try and do something that's more affordable. Snobby is nothing disc golf will ever become. Not even close. What $2 provides is someone to collect trash, upkeep the course and to continue improvements. The opposite is it's free, it get's overused and under kept and volunteers get overused and burnt out. The land looks rough and couses get pulled cause they aren't kept up properly. Folf at any park will always be free but paying money to throw at chains is probably where the game is going whether some want to kick and scream or not.. We're eating our vegetables and growing up disc golf. Gotta act like big boys and girls and chip in to keep it nice for our kids. If this keeps some people away then those people don't have the love to find a way. People will if they really want to will find a way. Pick Disc over beer or cigarettes or whatever it takes.. Or don't play. I bet very few would quit. Maybe the people who are looking for a place to get wasted and litter lol

[Yoduh]

Not growing is not death. That's some silly unsustainable growth formula that our economy tries to follow which is one of the reason our economy is spinning out of control. Our sport needs to develop symbiotic relationships with the parks they live in otherwise our sport will fail.

[hawgman]

I think that 'Pay to Play' can be misleading by what the actual pay cost is or becomes in future. I have no problem with 2-3 dollars if course is going to be kept up by someone or parks group or whoever. If the cost is 3+ it better be really well kept, proper signage and trails and such. If it goes above 10 it better be spotless, all fairways groomed, excellent signage and trail flow and such.
I feel there will always need to be grass roots level involvement to keep the sport available for all to start out with. Then if you want to move up to fully kept courses so be it.
My experiences are from what is happening in Salem especially but Oregon in general and these opinions are my own and may not be agreed with, so be it.
Keep the sport growing ( I started over 30 years ago) but keep it available for the families starting out to the 'Pro' who wants to make the money at it. Just be careful what you ask for and how it grows. Educating the masses and explaining why we need help to keep courses up can go a long way.
Communication and Respect can be wonderful things in life.
Steve 'Hawgman' Moore

[sillybizz]

Originally Posted by rastafarice

The only reason to play is to have fun... If that means drinking and smokin nah herb or not.... And the only appeal to this game to me is that it is not gay like ball golf with stuck up racist type people so let's not worry smokers and drinkers!!

Actually Disc Golf is quite Gay. Many Gay people play the sport (including myself) and even one Gay professional is sponsored by Discraft. Stuck up? Racist? Those are stereotypes that aren't always the case. All disc golfers aren't unemployed, pot smoking, hippie, college kids, some of us don't even go to college.

[Bruce]

I have zero issue going and dropping 20+ dollars on a round or two at Skyline, and would do it way more often if it wasn't an hour and half away. We need MORE courses like that.