Illinois Bottom Courses

[Sayer Jackson]

i am surprised no one was at quad day (  have not got the update on how fun that was yet )

I plan on being down and available to play around  3  on Sunday  (  apparently taking kid to both lunch and dinner - I thought dorm food was better now a days  )  and will have materials to mark the tees or  create new ones and mark those )

LOL Trust me, dorm food is not better now a days, I got out of there as fast as I could.  Would you mind if a couple buddies and I join you on Sunday?  We can help you out marking and scouting tees if you want.

[keitherboo]

I can be there Sunday as well.

[Dan Michler]

The all-time worst courses I have ever played.  You've got to really love disc golf to have fun playing at any of these courses!   

#9  Summitt Park, Summit...Hard to have fun throwing putters at trees for 45 minutes.
#8  Longwood centre,  Lake Villa...Hole 9 over the pond is sweet, but do you want to risk your plastic on this worthless course?
#7  Hanna Beardsley School,  Crystal Lake...We had a blast playing this with OB, but at 1100 ft., its absolutely going on the list.
#6  Leo Leathers, Mundelein...Holes 1 and 9 are tough!  Feel free to skip 2-7!
#5  Patriots Park, Homewood...Nothing they could do with this tiny park, no redeemable qualities.
#4  Twin Creeks, Buffalo Grove.....you could kick the disc off the tee and ace the first 4 holes.
#3  Commissioner park,  Frankfort...Home to the 'Impaler'. When electric towers are used as obstacles because there are zero trees, you know there's a problem.
#2  Nims Park, Rock Falls....not the worst because it will make you laugh and its 18.
#1  Volunteer Park, Romeoville...The worst course that I've ever seen!
 

[Chainmeister]

The all-time worst courses I have ever played.  You've got to really love disc golf to have fun playing at any of these courses!   

#9  Summitt Park, Summit...Hard to have fun throwing putters at trees for 45 minutes.
#8  Longwood centre,  Lake Villa...Hole 9 over the pond is sweet, but do you want to risk your plastic on this worthless course?
#7  Hanna Beardsley School,  Crystal Lake...We had a blast playing this with OB, but at 1100 ft., its absolutely going on the list.
#6  Leo Leathers, Mundelein...Holes 1 and 9 are tough!  Feel free to skip 2-7!
#5  Patriots Park, Homewood...Nothing they could do with this tiny park, no redeemable qualities.
#4  Twin Creeks, Buffalo Grove.....you could kick the disc off the tee and ace the first 4 holes.
#3  Commissioner park,  Frankfort...Home to the 'Impaler'. When electric towers are used as obstacles because there are zero trees, you know there's a problem.
#2  Nims Park, Rock Falls....not the worst because it will make you laugh and its 18.
#1  Volunteer Park, Romeoville...The worst course that I've ever seen!
 

A good list.  Hard to argue with any of the choices.  However, if you live in or near the City of Chicago you would be thrilled to have any of these courses close by.  Its pathetic that there is nothing save a 9 holer that winds through a college campus quad and a sometimes open pay to play that is really for big arms only.  There is not one generic 18 hole course anywhere close to the city.

[goalkeeper19]

The Frolfing Illini started, and died, with the class of 2006.  Greg Schwartz (2007 Am World Champ) started the club in 2002, and it went strong while him and his roommates were in school, but as soon as everyone graduated, none of the younger FI members were devoted enough to keep the club going.  Same goes for the WKU club.  We had a ton of fun driving down to Bowling Green and playing college tourneys there.

[jack]

I think you guys are missing the point of NIMS. If you think of it as a warm-up for Sinnissippi or as 18 baskets in a park to goof around on and throw for "aces" (Note: I don't consider a NIMS ace a real ace), it can be pretty fun. I've never considered NIMS in the same sense that I'd consider the other courses on your lists. Then again, I don't see the point of playing crappy courses and ranking which one is the most craptastic.

[Dan Michler]

I think you guys are missing the point of NIMS. If you think of it as a warm-up for Sinnissippi or as 18 baskets in a park to goof around on and throw for "aces" (Note: I don't consider a NIMS ace a real ace), it can be pretty fun. I've never considered NIMS in the same sense that I'd consider the other courses on your lists. Then again, I don't see the point of playing crappy courses and ranking which one is the most craptastic.

Hey, I actually had alot of fun at some of the courses on the list, so I don't think I am missing the point.  The point is to have fun and play disc golf which is what I do.

The point of making this list?  To waste time at work and spend more time thinking about disc golf! 

2 of the courses on the list have served as primary practice courses for me in the past due to the fact that they are baskets in the ground and nobody else was there to get in the way of me playing the course however I wanted.  So I do appreciate every course in existence because I'd rather have 4 terrible 9 holers than have nothing at all.

[Bruce Brakel]

In the same sense, Squirrel near me is a crappy course when considered as a course, but is a great place to practice running long putts and then making the comeback putt.  There is never anyone there but us, so you can make up interesting holes if you want to.  Skip4 is a pretty good course there.  1 tee to 5 basket, 6 tee to 1 basket, 2 tee to 6 basket, and so on. 

Anywhere you have at least three baskets in the ground you have something, even if you don't have what the idiot designer thought he was creating.    

[dana]

Nims Park is AWESOME.  You must be smokin crack to put that on your worst course list.

[airspuds]

sunday   230  ish 

i will be marking out the extra tees or making my own and marking them

i will also bring my basket and we can design a couple of extra holes

maroon  lumina

[airspuds]

Bruce   -  got any illini chief dyed discs  ?

[Sayer Jackson]

Sorry Airspuds, not going to make it out to Lohman today.  Buddy with a car is MIA.  If you could post on here where the tees are and how they are marked, that would be awesome.  Thanks.

[airspuds]

played reverse tees  with pitner's younger brother

started by school parking lot  up on the hill

blue markings 

you will play the new 1 tee to 9 basket

should be easy to follow most blue tees clost to basket except for one of them   arrow pointed
played over    both times   

i would say par  would be 29 

[Sayer Jackson]

played reverse tees  with pitner's younger brother

started by school parking lot  up on the hill

blue markings 

you will play the new 1 tee to 9 basket

should be easy to follow most blue tees clost to basket except for one of them   arrow pointed
played over    both times   

i would say par  would be 29 

Awesome tees. Finally got to play them today and enjoyed it much more than the original 9.

[uigrad]

I just found this forum because I was searching for the Folfing Illini site, and the map for the backwards tees.  I'm very sad that the club fell apart.

Does anyone still have a copy of the backward tees?  They used to be pegged on a board at the park, and on the website, and now, both are gone!  I was just at the park a few days ago, and I didn't see any blue marks at all.  Are they pegs in the ground, or spray paint?

Also, I saw a petition to put in an 18-hole course at Dodds Park.  Does anyone know what needs to happen to make this a reality?  Is the Park District working on it?  Do they need donations, or help planning a course?  I'd love to be involved some way.

[airspuds]

Hole 1 started  up the hill by the parking lot to 9 's basket.

the paint should last a while but its not permanent

might be in town on Oct 4  to visit

[Sayer Jackson]

The paint is definitely starting to wear off.  Had a tough time finding a few of the tees last time I was at Lohman on Friday, Sept 11th.  Next time I head out there (probably this weekend) I will bring along flags or spray paint to mark the tees off again.

I wish the Frolfing Illini didn't fizzle out as well.  I am looking to maybe start a new club and run random dubs out there until the weather turns for the worst.  I know about 6 or 7 guys that would want to do it.  I am not sure of the details yet, but I will post here if I get it up and running.

[uigrad]

I just played Lohmann Park again yesterday (Urbana), and someone marked new backwards tees in orange paint.  The paint is much easier to see than the blue was, and there are arrows from each basket to the next tee (same orange paint).

The orange tees are definitely shorter, and probably less interesting than the blue ones, but I think they are a lot closer to the original backwards tees (on the lost forever map that used to be available at frolfingillini.com).  The first tee starts west of the parking lot (instead of south).

[airspuds]

well my original plan was to mark the existing with white ,   then the others with orange,   
but I did not have time   ,,
blue was just going to be for arrows

not sure when i will be down that way

[Sayer Jackson]

I saw the orange tees too.  Seemed a lot shorter than the blues and easier.  Have not a had a chance to remark the blues yet, but they are still barely visible. Hopefully I can redo them when I get out there. 

On that note I would like to say Blue #6 is one hell of a hole.  I play with the same foursome on a weekly basis and out of 11 tries (one guys couldn't make it this week) we have scored 1 par, 5 bogies, and 6 double bogies playing par 3.  It is uphill, 90% of the time has a decent a headwind, and is about 470 feet.