I finally got a chance to play Turtlecreek since the tee pads came in.  It is an amazing difference.  This is a course I used to play 3 to 4 times a week (ok, 7 to 8), and it feels like picking up a new car or replacing your computer with the latest and best.  It is just so much better and funner. 

Great job, Steve!  Also, Matt and I have been pitching in a little with course work, and the fairways are looking their best ever despite the recent explosion of honeysuckle.

Hope to see a big turnout at the Turtlecreek Open. 

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I read this and went out at my lunch hour to walk the front nine.  Tried throwing a few but too damn windy and cold.  The trees are well placed, they were definitely put in with the DG course in mind.  It will be years before some them become mature and really provide an obstacle.  It would be nice if they created some mandatories around the new trees, that will add an immediate impact to the difficulty of the front 9.

Thumbs up to the Parks Department!

Turtle Creek does an excellent job maintaining the disc golf course. All of the wood chips they have put down in the past couple years have helped with moisture and erosion. Turle Creek keeps getting better!

I like on #2 how they put 2 trees about 10 feet in front of the basket and 5' left / right. You need to get it through the uprights for an ace.

Some mandatories would make this really interesting. Some suggestions...

#1 - must go right of the new trees that are in the middle of the fairway. This will leave you with about a 30' wide fairway between the new trees and the existing wood lined boundary.

#2 - must go between the two trees in front of the basket

#4 - take your pick...must go left or right of the trees in front of the basket

#10 - once again must go right of the new trees, leaving you a narrow fairway between the new trees and the old woods.

Honestly, I don't know Stevo. That's my primary worry. Those hornbeams look pretty tough even though some are small, and the larger ones may be big enough to take a beating. If they don't survive, then the next step may be to plant trees on new fairways out of play. Then when the new trees are big enough, we move the pins/tees to the new fairways. We'll just have to see how it goes.

If anyone is looking for some trees, I got them @ Bern's Greenhouse. They still have some left on special. They are $50 a piece. They are 2-4" diameter and some are 20ft. tall. Some had price tags of $249.

Thanks Dan H. for doing some course work today.

Course looked great today. Thanks to everyone that was out there this week getting it ready for the tournament. I'd imagine that the scores will be lower than last year with the amount of care being put into the wooded fairways. I remember them being tighter and much less forgiving when you got over in the crap last year. We'll see in a few hours just how well my 45 holes of practice did me out there today....followed by 36 holes of Miami Whitewater.

I may not look great tomorrow...but the course sure does.

Someone did pull the basket on #7 and threw it behind the hill. They also pulled several tee posts.

yeah it does make no sense at all...especially if you are just gonna throw it behind a hill? probably just some anti disc golfers mad at how cool we are!