Cemetaries and Disc Golf

[ck34]

Rebels both above and below ground...

[rangel]

You brought back a few memories.

First. I believe I saw a picture (somewhere) of a guy throwing a Frisbee off the top of a memorial. I think it was in a book. I will have to see if I can find that again.

Second. As a teenager (many years ago) the fastest shortcut from my high school to the local mini-mart was thru a large cemetery. Strange...no one would ever go with me thru there at night.

Third. The neighborhood park here has a small family plot (very old) right behind the left field wall of the softball field. The field, the woods and the plot would make for some good smaller holes.

Fourth. A local ball-and-stick course actual plays the 18th hole over (around) another small old family plot. The green measures over 300 ' (yes that is the length of a football field) and makes kind of a kidney shape around the plot. Local rules are lift and place with no pentalty.

Last. Rooster. Excellent.

[august]

I don't win very often, so thanks for the acknowledgement.

I almost forgot about the slave cemetery at Loriella!

Could you imagine the amount of bad DG karma you would have if you had an enemy buried in the DG cemetery. I mean Steady Ed is in discs, so why couldn't someone's headstone have a basket on top of it? You would need all premium plastic though, imagine slamming granite corner with a high speed driver in cheap plastic. And you know some guy would have his stone have a huge hole in it that would play as a mando and it would be right before a water hazard. Hey if I was dead and gone I might as well leave the hardest hole ever... I ain't gonna bogey it. [img]/msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[savard1120]

I have had the exactly same thoughts about a cemetary in kalamazoo. I used to live right behind the one on W.Main and thought about what a sweet course it would make, but oh how wrong it would be.

[Pizza God]

I seem to remember a cemetary at Sanders Ferry in Nashville area.

I for one like the idea of a Disc Golf cemetary, free for all PDGA members. I wonder if you can actually do it. For some reason, you can't bury anyone in my families cemetary acros the road from my parents home.

Also, if I ever build my dream course, the parking lot would be next to that family cemetary, the course would go up to the Slave Cemetary and then down to the old James (not actually related to me) Cemetary in the field on the way back to the homestead, this would put you throwning past Logan's place, my cousins son's memorial. (he died at 6 months, there is a granite stone and his ashes are scattered in a fenced in area.)

But that is also just a dream that I hope to build someday.

[jmonny]

I like to resurrect this thread around this time of year, so I dug it up for everyone.

[tkieffer]

Too many unplayable lies in cemetaries. Some things are best left at rest.

[pterodactyl]

The cemetary would have been a great place to "throw" a disc golf tourney on Oct 31st.

[johnrock]

While it would be interesting, too many people would complain and "kill" the idea. In Wichita Falls, TX a lady was leading nighttime tours of a local resting place and explaining the history of some of the markers. Seemed to have many visitors interested. Local residents are trying to shut her down claiming it's disrespectful to the interred. I could imagine if it was Dg'ers playing around the markers, leaving beer cans/bottles, cig butts, and other common trash would have the residents banning ALL DG.

[drdisc]

While designing a course in Macon Ga., a local took me to the cemetary where the Allman Brothers used to "party" late at night. Their house was just up the street. Many of the tombstones and statues were inspirations for their songs.
My friend took me around and we played on the course that they used to play while in college there. Little Martha, Sweet Mellissa, etc. were some of the targets!

[petershive]

One of the pins on the original University of Wyoming object course was the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Monument. A veteran complained about disresprect, and the University nearly banned the whole course. Later they let us back with a redesigned layout (interestingly, because it is seen as a recruiting plus).

Afterwards I apologized to the Veterans. They (all but the one) wanted us to reinstate the monument as a pin. They felt that it was a great way to have more people made aware of it.

A cemetery is a memorial. There's not much point in a memorial if nobody visits it. What would you want for yourself and your descendents? Would you want your descendents to bar people from the vicinity of your headstone because they were playing a game? I wouldn't.

I know we can't do it, because we can't risk offending those who believe that you should behave in a cemetery as you would in a church. As pointed out above, it wasn't always that way. Too bad it is now.

[bruce_brakel]

I have often thought it would be cool to have a memorial disc golf course where people could bury their loved ones knowing that they would always be being visited by happy people enjoying the outdoors and playing a social kind of game. I think it could be done in a way that would be respectful of the dead and would also provide additional income for the upkeep of the grounds. But I'm legally nuts so what do I know.

[keithjohnson]

My mother already has used this idea - she asked to have her ashes buried at the local discgolf course, so her son would visit her.

[chainmeister]

Frank DeFord did a nice piece about ball golfers and their final resting place on NPR this morning. http://www.npr.org/2011/11/23/142448...e-hard-golfers He ended the piece by staing, "At last. He's one under."

[go18under]

Kerieakes Disc Golf course in Bowling Green KY is located adjacent to an old cemetery.....and locals swear the course was built on unmarked slave graves....

[pterodactyl]

Maybe Jarva DGC could be the first official cemetary/disc golf course in the world. I don't see why they couldn't coexist. You could have some fun night rounds. I can see it now: The Jarva Zombie Open tourney.

[bgiggey]

This is such a great thread, but will never happen sadly :/

Cemeteries were actually our first "green spaces." They once became so popular that literature had to be handed out on how to properly use the space. Frisbees, blankets, drinking, relaxing --- it was once a wonderful space to not only mourn the dead, but reconnect with nature and get away from the city life. They got so popular that eventually cities had to find real "green spaces" --- not to long after that we got Central Park. Pretty cool!

Now they are only viewed as mourning spaces, bummer. I love the idea of DG courses and cemeteries.

[drdisc]

One of the most popular southern Rock Cemetaries in the South.
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