Lake Perry Course Pics Update

[rlangton]

Is this course completed?

[PETRIE]

That is an excellent question.

rlangton,

Once it's done, some of the Manhattan guys and I will have to schedule a road trip over there. We'll pick you up on our way through t-town.

[rlangton]

Sounds good. I've definitely been wanting to check it out.

[Muddy96]

Has this course been finished yet. Are there any pictures of it?

[Muddy96]

Does anyone know the most current update on Lake Perry?

[carlbren21]

Course is not completed. We had a work day two weeks ago and there were only three of us that showed up. Most of the clearing is finished, front side 95% done, back side 75% done. Hoping to have another work day in the next couple weeks to finish the clearing. Then it is setting baskets, tee signs, benches, etc... I will post on here about our next work day when it is scheduled. Would love all the hands we can get to get this thing done.

[ditziwt]

Any updates on the course?
I was up there on Memorial Day weekend and couldnt find any evidence of where it is at.

[ereser]

I'm just wondering where exactly this course is. I'd love to play it! I saw some pictures of when it was being built but haven't found much info on it lately.

[scarpfish]

The course location is at Longview Public Use Area on the east side of Perry Lake, just across the cove from Lakeside Village. This is about 9 miles north of Perry (the town). To my knowledge, the baskets are not in yet, but if you look at the location on Google maps, you can already see the tee pads, which were poured more than a year ago.

[jsun3thousand]

the course is not done. they have everything necessary for a course. the tees were poured over a year ago. the baskets, benches, ect etc are there. the word is that some more fairways need to be cleared and then it's time to install the course. i haven't heard anything about a workday or possible workday in the future.

[CHAS.]

Any updates? Any workdays planned? I could help through the winter.

[CHAS.]

Going to ask again anything new? I could volunteer a weekend or two.

[PETRIE]

I wonder if the Tuttle Creek State Park could make a trade (state park to state park) of some sort for these baskets... We've got a well used course, but have 13 year old rusted baskets.

OR maybe we could just "borrow" these baskets until the Lake Perry course is completed.



Seriously though, has anyone heard anything about this course? Heck, I would help a couple weekends this summer if it finally gets this course playable... (It's only about 20 minutes from my family farm (back home))

[scarpfish]

May 2010....

Is this course completed?

November 2010....

Has this course been finished yet. Are there any pictures of it?

June 2011....

Any updates on the course?

December 2011....

Any updates? Any workdays planned?

March 2012....

Going to ask again anything new? I could volunteer a weekend or two.

Sensing a theme here folks? If so, this from earlier in the thread might be a hint on why this project has fallen by the wayside.

They had to put the pads in now because the corps got a large Obama grant that they either had to use, or it would go to waste... hence pads before anything else. I was surprised too when they said they were already in.

I hate to be a negative Nancy, but that really explains what this "project" was about. It was more about USACE spending a government grant than it was about putting in a top notch disc golf facility. As long as there was money, there was enthusiasm, and deluxe blue Mach III baskets ordered (but not installed), and benches and tee pads being poured (completely contrary to how a properly installed course should be built). As soon as the money dried up, all the enthusiasm was gone. That's why after all the initial hubbub we've had two years of silence.

And honestly, unless money becomes available again, whether through another grant or some other source (fundraiser tournament series anyone?), I don't see this course being completed anytime soon.
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I wonder if the Tuttle Creek State Park could make a trade (state park to state park) of some sort for these baskets...

The Perry course is being built in a USACE park like the 18 holer at Pomona, not a KDWP park like Tuttle Creek, Eisenhower or the 9 holer at Pomona. Its a completely different agency.

Now said being said, back in December I stopped by Clinton State Park west of Lawrence to play the two old Wakarusa festival courses there, only to find that all of the baskets had been removed. I figured that the removal was due to winter maintenance, but stopped by the park office on the way out to inquire about the courses. As it turned out, the baskets had been removed because a couple of them had been stolen (and these were rickety old DB-5's) and they wanted to protect the rest.

So if there are 18 baskets sitting in storage at Perry, and we have an existing course at Tuttle that needs new baskets (and teepads as well, but that's for another rant), and two pulled but existing 9-hole courses at Clinton that need baskets period, I don't think some basket swapping is that out of order. Of course, living miles west of all of this, I don't have a say in this matter.

[Schoen-hopper]

If you have baskets and tee pads, you pretty much have a course. Why not just install them? I'm guessing because there is so much work removing trees? Are the Nordgrens the contact on this place? Do they answer emails from any of you? Maybe they know who you could get with to get the ball rolling again.