Course maintenance is important.
There’s lots that goes into it.
Grass, plants and trees: They keep growing. Somebody’s gotta cut ‘em down to size when they get overbearing. Should the course have multiple pin placements for each hole, baskets need to be moved. Not to mention hornets nests – they demand swift, effective removal. Lastly, don’t even get me started on clearing crowded fairways, as it’s a task that’s never fully complete.
This stuff is especially big for newer, recently installed courses, but even decades-old layouts require occasional upkeep. Ninety-nine percent of disc golfers enjoy their local courses without even thinking to lend a helping hand when the club gets together on the weekend for cleaning.
Those who do can testify of the following …
It’s hard work.
The type of “course maintenance” I’m talking about today is NOT that …
Well, kind of.
Have you ever had one of those rounds in the woods where the frisbees in your bag behave more like tree-seeking missiles than golf discs? Without even knowing it, in a slang sense, you’ve bypassed mere tree-trimming for full-blown (and inadvertent) course maintenance …
Ouch.
Mocking buddies use the term to refer to a disc that’s shanked so hard right out of the hand that it smashes a nearby tree and does noticeable damage to it. It’s technically course maintenance, as the gap is now bigger than it was before for future disc golfers – fairway-clearing at its finest.
This is a double-edged error, though …
The bad of it all is that you suck at disc golf. The good of the wayward huck, however, is the local disc golf community has one less thing to worry about when doing course maintenance.
Still, you’d rather be on the dishing end of a “course maintenance” declaration.
Use it at your own risk …
Karma’s a witch.
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