Tendick Park Pay to Play

[amdiscgolfer]

Hello all,

The OZaukee Disc Golf Club needs SERIOUS Feedback!!!!

The Ozaukee County parks Department has made the decision to go forward with making Tendick Park pay to play.  Anyone who has played at Token Creek knows what a course that should be pay to play looks like.  Not saying that Tendick Park does not have the potential to be a great course or of the caliber of "Pay to Play" status.  What we are saying is that the course is not ready now!

We (the OZDGC) need serious feedback on both sides of this topic so we can go to the upcoming board meeting to ensure that all sides have been represented fairly.

Please provide your feedback on this topic!!!!

[Chainmeister]

Are they looking for momey?  Do they want to squeeze out disc golf because they see it as undesirable?  Do they think they have a gem and want to milk it?  I am not sure of their motivation.  I played at your Mayhem Open last year and thought Tendick is a very nice park but not a premier park.  I hope to get back to Mayhem this year mainly to support your club and secondarily for the course.  Pay to  play is for courses that expect big events or perhaps fly 18 courses.  Tendick is neither of those.  That being said, a lot of Badger state parks are pay to play in that you have to stick a few bucks into an envelope if you park in the lot. I have done this when hiking or biking in the Kettle Morraine. Perhaps they figured you guys are used to that and they could sneak in a small user fee.    If they go pay to  play I suspect a lot of folks will be driving down to Milwaukee to play the new courses there.

[Dan Michler]

how much?

[Mukey]

Having never played Tendick I'm not sure what improvements the extra revenue could go towards. As long as the $ went back into the course & park, a few dollars is not going to keep me from going.

My experience with pay to play has been in Indiana at Lemon Lake Park in Cedar Lake & Rogers Lakewood Park in Valparaiso. Nice tees, signs, bag hangers at every hole, all these things make it nicer than a "free" park. For me that's the bar, I want it to be nicely groomed and have extras that a normal disc golf course wouldn't.

My $0.02

[amdiscgolfer]

the Per day fee is $5

The year pass is $50 or $70 I cant remember off hand.

The PD says the fees will be put towards "improvements" on the course.

This is all well and good but anyone in Wisconsin knows what happened out at Heritage Trails in Slinger.  They put in a bike trail and something else with the money that was generated from the pay to play.

[shawn]

Hertitage is in need of a major redesign and it could be stellar..  it has a few great holes that could be tuned to be "stellar."  It needs the Mark P. tweek.

Tendick... not sure what to say...  other then you do have a course there and it has baskets...  so you got that going for you. good luck with the pay per play.

What improvements are they going to make?   Are they going to pay Yohann for chippin'?

[amdiscgolfer]

They have not said what the "fees" would be going for, who would be there to enforce the "Pay to Play Policy".

They somehow feel that $5/day is going to generate the revenue to put in multiple placements and teepads.

[mirth]

so what are the revenues from your club's disc sales going to go towards then? I saw on your ebay listings that the revenues were going towards those projects...

[amdiscgolfer]

The intent was to go to the county with our "revenue" and do a matching fund, Providing them with half or more for the Teepads

[Jon Brakel]

No matter what the fee is if I pay to play I expect only people playing the course to be on the course (and people that work there--maitenance, police, etc.). I don't expect to pay to play and then have to contend with people setting up volleyball on hole 5.