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SILVER SPRINGS SHOOTOUT RESULTS HERE!!!

Shot of the Week

Joe P.G. at Maximo Park

the monkey ball 50/50 basket fund
more baskets means more fun!
During this year and forward
the monkey ball CTP 50/50's will go to:
50% to the winner of the 50/50 of course and
50% towards a DGA Mach II($257) added to that clubs course

This will encourage local clubs to welcome
"the monkey ball"
and collect some funds to add another hole or practice basket.
in other words, more monkey balls, more baskets

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"One Grand Disc Golf Tour"

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...more pars in more places...

Upcoming Events

DAYTONA OPEN

IS FULL!!!

Tour del Soul

Brooksville, The Quary Golf Course

July 18th

monkey ball

at Cliff Stephens, Clearwater

Saturday, July 25th

9am sign up, 10am tee

2 round of 18, cook out lunch

fund raisers for the SPCA of Tampa Bay

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Jan.
10-11 S.W. Fla. Open, ft. myers, FFT
17 Night Flight Invasion, floral city, Sun King
31 Super Ice Bowl, water tower, Sky Pilots
Feb.
1 Super Bowl Blowout Handicap, Cliff Stephens, TBDSC
7 Tour Del Sol, Ocala, Sun King
7-8 Barnett Park Champ., Barnett Park, Orlando, Bob Lewis
14-15 Juliana, Live Oak, Denny Ritner, Shawn Harrigan
21 monkey ball, n.e. coachman, mbdg
22 ice bowl, F. Burton, Coca Bch
28 tour del sol, water tower, Sun King
March
1 Orlando N'Ice Bowl, Turkey Lake, James LeBaube

1 club appreciation day/board election, Coachman, TBDSC
5 Tocobaga League Draft, Maximo, TDSC
7-8 Melbourne Ams, Wickham, FFT
14-15 Sarasota Am Shootout, water tower, Cal Lincoln
14-15 Melbourne Pros, Wickham, FFT
21 Tocobaga Board Election, Maximo, TDGC
28-29 Sizzler, Tradewinds, ft. lauderdale, FFT
April
4-5 Jax Open, Jax, four palms, FFT
11 tour del sol, gainsville, Sun King

11 Lid Golf, Water Tower, B. Moore
18-19 Fun n Sun, n.e. coachman, FFT, TBDSC
25 tour del sol, turkey lake, orlando, Sun King
May
2 tour del sol, floral city, Sun King
9 tour del sol, Wickham, melbourne, Sun King
16-17 Sarasota Pro, water tower, Sky Pilots, FFT
23-24 Sarasota Ams, water tower, Sky Pilots, FFT
June
6-7 Tallahasee, seven hills, FFT
13 tour del sol, port charlotte, Sun King
20 monkey ball, Limona, mbdg
27-28 Silver Spring Shootout, Ocala Greenway, FFT
July
11-12 Daytona Open, Tuscawilla, FFT
18 tour del sol, Brooksville, Quarry Golf Course, Sun King
25 monkey ball, cliff stephens, mbdg

August
15 tour del sol, ft myers, Sun King

15 Maximo Open, Maximo Park St. Pete, Tocobaga

15 Dog Days Drive Off, Turkey Lake, Orlando
22 Ace Race, Tuscawilla, Daytona

29 Snake and Lake Partake, Lakeview, Sarasota

30 Girthday Golf, a Jim Widick Celebration, NWTP, Sarasota
September
5-6 Labor day luau, floral city, Sun King

12 Ace Race, NWTP, Sarasota
19-20 Florida State Champ.,F. Burton/Wickham, coca/melbourhe, FFT
October
3-4 Roctober feast, ft. laud, Easterland, FFT
10 tour del sol, live oak, Sun King
24-25 Orlando Open, turkey lake, James LeBaube, FFT

31 Fright Feast, Lakeview, Sarasota Sky Pilots

November
14-15 Mocasin Lake Pro/Am, Cliff Stephens, TBDSC, FFT
17 tour del sol, Jax, Sun King
28 Turkey Ball, TBA, mbdg
December
5-6 Tocobaga Games, Maximo, St. pete, TDGCulb
12 tour del sol, miami, Sun King
26 monkey ball, Taylor Park, Largo, mbdg

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Pinellas Park to add disc golf course in Youth Park

By Anne Lindberg, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Sunday, June 28, 2009

PINELLAS PARK — This city's staff has the go-ahead to create the county's newest disc golf course.

The 18-hole course will be at Youth Park, 4100 66th Ave. N. The 30-acre park already has three baseball fields, seven soccer fields, a tot lot, playground equipment and a multipurpose court, among other things.

"It was just one of those things that somebody said, 'This would be easy and could go on there until we do something else,' " Pinellas Park spokesman Tim Caddell said.

Council members heard about the idea during a workshop Tuesday.

"They said, 'Cool, go with it,' " Caddell said.

The idea has several advantages over other ideas for Youth Park, Caddell said.

First, setting up a course is relatively inexpensive — about $8,000 for the metal baskets that act as "holes" — and the course is relatively maintenance-free once it's set up. Additionally, disc golf is a game that all ages can play.

It's played much like traditional golf except that players toss a disc towards a basket. Like golf, the player must take his or her next throw from the lie, or landing spot, of the disc. The person with the fewest throws wins.

It's unclear where or when disc golf originated, although the Professional Disc Golf Association says there are references to a similar game as far back as 1926 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Kids there played a game with lids that became known as Tin Lid Golf that was pretty much forgotten as those kids got older.

Other references to a similar game come from the 1930s through 1960s when it seemed to fizzle out just as the Frisbee came onto the market.

But pockets of disc golf-like activities remained, including a California effort that used Frisbees as the discs and Hula Hoops as the "holes." Eventually, Wham-O, the manufacturer of the Frisbee, included disc golf as one of the activities in its annual World Frisbee Championships and the game took off.

Pinellas has several of the courses, most north of Ulmerton Road. The best known may be in Clearwater.

Caddell said it will take six to eight weeks to build the Pinellas Park course. Opening is expected by the end of the summer.