Sedgley Woods -Philly

[Chainmeister]

I played at Sedgley Woods on Saturday while visiting family on the east coast. This is a shoret but trecacherously wooded course.  They have three tee positions for each hole.  The long tees arent really long but add a couple turns to holes that already require you to be a Jedi to thread your way through.  The course is shorter but way woodier than Rockford's west course.  The park is in town so you get a lot of locals showing up.

I played with the local club, www.sedgleywoods.org on Saturday.  They play both tags and doubles on Thusrdays and Saturedays.  30-540 players showed up for tags.  low score get low tag.  They do this every week and keep standings of how people do overall.  They then play random draw doubles.  I played tags but had to leave before doubles would end.  I shot 68 on a mix of longs and shorts. My Champion Roc is somewhere on that course.  There is a 200 or so foot hole that flies over a ravine.  You walk way down and way back up.  You fly 200 ft.  I burned the shot and went way left on the ravine.  On the penalty shot I put the disc just shy of the cliff on  the opposite side and made an easy three, scoring five.  Arrrgggghh.  I played the shorts through ten holes after that and was even. 

They have a very active club and lots of folks show up each week.  The local gendarmes are cool and beer is pretty open.  they all had refreshements in the park.  I brought a copy of their club magazine, not newsletter but magazine.  I will bring it on Friday to pass around.  the players were very gracious to an out of towner.  I met and talked with a lot of players.  I had exhanged e-mail with a couple guys before i got there.  Overall, a great time.

[spike]

i think the last time i played sedgley was in 1989 or 1990.  barry noakes was the course pro, great guy, good golfer and designer.   the locals are (or at least were) known for being real friendly, and we had a blast.  it is a typical, old-school east coast-style course, with a whole lotta trouble in a very tight space.  it's good to hear that the course still holds up well and that you had a good time.  philly can be alot of fun or a nightmare, depending on what part of town you wander into.  on that visit, my dad and i won a keg of beer in a darts contest in a brewpub later that night after playing sedgley, and we kept it in our hotel bathtub on ice for the rest of the weekend.  we skipped showering in order to keep the beer cold (ya gotta have your priorities straight), and we kinda stunk by the end of the weekend.  we also saw the cubs beat the phillies 1-0 in 19 innings while sitting near charles barkley in the crappy old veterans stadium on that trip.  good times...

[Mitch]

on that visit, my dad and i won a keg of beer in a darts contest in a brewpub later that night after playing sedgley, and we kept it in our hotel bathtub on ice for the rest of the weekend.  we skipped showering in order to keep the beer cold (ya gotta have your priorities straight), and we kinda stunk by the end of the weekend. 

Stinking Drunk! that's kinda catchy

[Mertzomatic]

 I played my first tournament at Sedgeley Woods back in 1988. Lots of history there. 2001 Masters World Champion Joey Mela starting playing golf there. It hosted many of the Octad tournaments in the 70's and 80's. I remember the Guts World being championships held in the field accross the street there (1990?). Actually is the second oldest basket course in the world (behind Oak Grove).

I met the now famous Mitch Sonderfan there (he beat my butt in a playoff).

  Not one of our better courses as it was designed in the 70's when everyone was tossin midnight flyers and those big black masters frisbees. But as mentioned it has a huge local participation and everyone is family (maybe dysfunctional, but family nonetheless).

Lots of legendary stories have risen from this 30+ year old course but none more told then the one about the family barbecueing chicken in the chains of one of the baskets during a pdga event.

[Chainmeister]

Somebody in Philly found my Champ Roc and we have been exchanging e-mail. Gonna send him the supercolor Prairie Open Spectra as a bounty.   Kyle's artwork is going east.  Cool!!