Madison Meadows<--- Lombard

[nrapp41]

These IOS tourneys have been filling up quickly?  I was considering trecking up there saturday, but don't get off work until 2:00 am saturday morning.  Any advice on the latest I can show up to get in?

[Dan Michler]

show up before 9am and you'll get in.

[Bruce Brakel]

Registration closes at 9:30 a.m.  The player meeting starts at 9:35.  We stick pretty close to that schedule.  The SAturday player meeting will be pretty quick.  We will just review the out of bounds and remind the players that they are playing 20 holes so par 3 equals 60.  

Because we do split-day tournaments we don't fill.  

For Lombard, Advanced and Pro play Saturday.  Intermediate and Recs play Sunday.

If you want to play Sunday you can.  We have a lot of Intermediate rated players playing in Intermediate this year.  

[CEValkyrie]

I'll be at Lombard tonight to paint the lines for the grass tees.  

[Dan Michler]

course is in great shape.  flags are down which mark the tees that will be used for everybody on saturday.

[Dan Michler]

Hole 13 seems to have been stolen............

[Younk]

Hole 13 seems to have been stolen............

Someone say something about vandalism on disc golf courses...

This sux.  I play there quite frequently and am actually going there tonight.  WIll probably have to make a safari hole now. 

[stpitner]

Hole 13 seems to have been stolen............

I saw the park disctrict folk pulling baskets on July 6th, and I specifically saw them pulling out #13 (we were playing 19 and I was watching them).  They had other baskets in the back of their trunk as well (#2, 4, 17 were already gone for example), is it possible that they just forgot to put it back?  There were guys working on aerating the course after Lombardfest, so I figured they were pulling a lot of them to just work on getting the grass back in shape.  I'm presuming all of the other baskets made it back in position though?

Let's just hope it is getting repaired or something and wasn't stolen... that would be awful!

[stpitner]

Bumped into Mike Krupicka at Lombard last Friday.  Some nice changes happening in Lombard.  I didn't want to steal your thunder in case you wanted to post about it Mike, but I'm too excited to wait any longer

Mike was out there with the park district guys and they were laying concrete down for tees 5 and 15.  I'm presuming concrete went down for 10 and 16 as well.  That should give concrete tees for all of the am/white tees now, yay!

Correct me if I'm wrong on this Mike, but they purchased brand new baskets for the entire course correct?  They were just waiting for them to come in.  I think one of the new ones might have been in on hole 2, and if so, they look like Mach V's.  I don't remember hole 2 having a mach V basket, but that was what was out there on Friday.

It looks like hole 13 will also be back once all of the new baskets are in?  Something like that.

Awesome job on all of the hard work put in to make that course better!

And oh yeah, there are now slats surrounding the first couple of trees down the fairway on hole 16.  So what does my group wind up doing?  The first throw nails one of those trees lol oh well.

[pickax]

I won't take the credit for planning it and working it out with the park district; that was the tireless work of Bill Kiel. Steve Matul spent the morning resetting the baskets so that all the number plates face the right direction, added concrete to the bases, etc. where necessary. There are now concreate pads for all holes. A couple were old tees that were moved and two were freshly poured. They had a real nice broom finish until some idiots decided that a nice tee pad had to be signed by someone who did nothing to help. I think we managed to get rid of all the stick in the wet concrete grafiti, but there was still a chance for more jokers to come around. We waded around the pond hoping that 13 had just been tossed in there but no luck. I did come out with a couple of Eagles on the trip in the pond. I believe the park district bought three new baskets. One will replace 13, one will replace one of the older basksets (#5?), and one more might make it a 20 hole course. I think the thought is to put it behind the cluster of pines the IOS tourneys have been using for #20.

[stpitner]

Thanks for the clarification!  Nuts, was hoping for all new baskets but some of the baskets were absolutely fine.  Hole #4 basket could use a serious upgrade.  I'm pretty sure that 5 is in good shape.  Guess we'll see as time progresses.

So 13 was stolen after all huh?  Bummer.

I don't know why some people think it's so funny to put your name in the concrete, but that's unfortunate that it happened.  Hopefully nothing that was written or attempted to be written was in place when all of the concrete set.

Yay for all involved!

[Haven13]

Went there yesterday for the first time on Independance Day. Chased off by Carnies! They built their carnival on the course. Told me I had to leave because they were roping the area off for the fireworks.

It was 10am.

I hope to be back soon.

I got some accuracy and distance practice on the football field.

[stpitner]

whoops, I should have posted the Taste of Lombard schedule - it's running from July 3rd - July 8th, and they sometimes will take out a couple baskets during this time.  A good portion of the field out by 19 gets completely trampled and destroyed.  Then they go through and aerate the ground and work on reviving the grass.  I don't know when the baskets will get restored if they do pull any this year, but I wouldn't expect it to be back to fully functional for another week or two.

[dltacos]

my brother and i were out there today. when we were on the 1st tee the finished putting in 1. the holes we couldnt play were # 3,12,13,14,16,17,18, and 19

[ChiBlender36]

drove by later today and saw that 17 and 18 were in, so i'm guessing it's good to go, will check tomorrow 4 sure

[Chainmeister]

So is enough of the course back together to play league tonight?  I might be in the area and have my stuff in the car.

[pickax]

As far as I know. Game on. If there are holes still missing, I'm sure an alternate route will be arranged. I hope to see you out there.

[Chainmeister]

Cool.  Unfortunately, I can't play leagues.  I will get out there mid afternoon for a round but will have to leave.

[damonshort]

went out there yesterday for the first time since about April. They've *really* trimmed that place down a *lot*. Was it like that for IOS?

[Dan Michler]

it was *indeed*