Cemetaries and Disc Golf

[z Vaughn z]

Anyone ever notice that most cemetaries would make sweet disc golf courses?(minus the headstones and dead bodies)

[ck34]

I suspect citizens would have grave concerns with this location. The proposal would be a monumental task with only a ghost of a chance to get approved and would likely die as citizens dug in with objections.

This is one of those rarely spoken observations many have had, similar to how cool it would be to have a disc with razor blades around the edge so you could throw it like Odd Job's hat.

[z Vaughn z]

I'm just saying that when I'm driving around, I'm always making holes in my head, and I've found that quite often, cemetaries present excellent geography for a course. Sparse trees, large bushes. There are a couple cemetaries in Kalamazoo, MI that have awesome undulation, and would make sweet courses.
You were right, this would present grave danger when presenting such a proposal to un-earth the site and make a course.
dig it

there is a course in emporia kansas that has a few holes right next to cemetary.

[md21954]

we have a small cemetary with tombs from the 18th century at druid hill dgc in baltimore.

hole 2 is behind the pines in the background. the cemetary, surrounded by an old iron fence is OB of course.

though overgrown in this picture, the cemetary and other historic portions of the park have been and are being renovated.

it's time to get back to druhill if you haven't been in a while!

[jmonny]

I suspect citizens would have grave concerns with this location. The proposal would be a monumental task with only a ghost of a chance to get approved and would likely die as citizens dug in with objections.

Yeah, that proposal might come back to haunt you, its probably best to leave it buried.

[ck34]

Those cryptic remarks are dead on. Sounds like several courses are only a stone's throw from cemeteries. That's where the 2m penalty in the opposite direction is taken for granite

[klemrock]

LOL

[Jake L]

Not to beat a dead horse....

Horizons park in Winston Salem NC, set up a temp course for the "classic" a yearly PDGA tourny. One of the holes on the back, you tee'd a few feet from a few gravesites, dated in the 1800's.

[Moderator005]

Yeah, that proposal might come back to haunt you, its probably best to leave it buried.

Please stop, these bad jokes are killing me!

[jmonny]

WITCH joke are you talking about?

I can see it now....."Disc Golf Course Dead-Ahead"

[klemrock]

"Death is the only thing we have not completely succeeded in vilgarizing." -Aldous Huxley, 1936

Until now!

[WakandaRat]

sounds like a good course, I am dieing to play. but i would be dead tired afterwards

[esalazar]

hell yeah, some night golf would be killer in a cemetary!!

[circle_2]

...a lot of 'natural' roller stoppers, too!

[tbender]

Would the only discs allowed be Phantoms, Banshees, Reapers, and Spirits?

[jmonny]

There would always be a STIFF breeze out there. But be careful where your spike hyzer lands.

[slo]

There would always be a STIFF breeze out there. But be careful where your spike hyzer lands.

Why, you have a problem with 'tombstones'?

[okcacehole]

Ghost stamps only!

Build a disc golf memorial cemetery that will be a disc golf course/cemetary for departed disc golfers. Put up statues for well known disc golfers who have passed on or as we say have (Turned over).

Instead of R.I.P I want

Turned Over
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I'm just saying that when I'm driving around, I'm always making holes in my head, and I've found that quite often, cemetaries present excellent geography for a course. Sparse trees, large bushes. There are a couple cemetaries in Kalamazoo, MI that have awesome undulation, and would make sweet courses.
You were right, this would present grave danger when presenting such a proposal to un-earth the site and make a course.
dig it

I learned to play disc golf in a cemetary in Kalamazoo before there were any courses with baskets in the area. I lived in a house in the cemetary and noticed people were throwing these strange frisbees real far so I asked someone what they were doing and they told me it was disc golf. We used to make up different courses in the cemetary using headstones as targets. It was alot of fun but it really beat up your discs. Some peolple may think it is disrespectful of the dead but why should they care, they're dead. I don't think anyone plays there anymore since we have 4 courses with baskets.

[scoop]

It was a moribund day; almost morose. As I was driving down the road, I saw this drop-dead gorgeous piece of property. I thought it would make a heavenly disc golf course.

I found the owner (Mr. Potter), who had just bought the farm. He was taking a dirt nap beneath a large oak tree, and I didn’t want to disturb his dreamless sleep. I had a grim feeling that he had recently gone into the fertilizer business.

So, I paid the piper and tipped Charon, but still had to sneak past his dog Cereberus before I could get through the pearly gates.

On the first, softly-mounded tee-box, I threw a prayer of a shot with my Arc Angle, and it died just beneath the cairn. I should have thrown my Reaper.

On the next box, I threw a spike hyzer that knifed into the ground like a guillotine, but I was able to exhume the disc without having to commit hara-kiri.

There was something different about this Elysian Field, and my game never got heated up, it’s as though my disc were covered in adipocere and my arm was developing algor mortis. It was a difficult course; it bequeathed me nothing.

I stumbled over an old friend who was too busy pushing up daisies to join my card. So I continued to walk through the valley of shadows alone (I knew I was alone, because there was only one set of footprints in the sand).

I didn’t need my mini disc too often, as nearly every throw landed near a marker.

On the final hole, my shot skipped off a bucket (I kicked it out of the way), and landed six feet under the shule…I think it was a bed of death camas and hemlock.

When I was done, I cashed in my chips, visited Davey Jone’s locker, and vowed to revisit Potters Field. But for now I was content to shuffle off this mortal coil.

[greenbeard]

I'll pass. If I loose one more disc to an undead zombie I'll just scream.

I mean, c'mon, you take one single dump on someone's final resting place and you get haunted by the living dead forever? It's just uncool.

[Jake L]

Rooster wins. All the posts were funny, but he hit a home run.

[esalazar]

freaky !! this is simply freaky!! nice work robbie!!

[august]

You know, interestingly enough, in the late 1800's and early 1900's, cemeteries were designed as parks where people would go and picnic on a Sunday afternoon. That's why you see marble benches and ornate statuary at some old cemeteries. Modern cemeteries are way too utilitarian and boring. The old ones are very interesting places. So it's really not too far fetched that people would have fun in a cemetery.

I buried my dog near the tee for the 4th hole at my private course so I could visit while I play. She was a great caddie. There is another private course in Virginia that has a family cemetery near the first hole.

[Chris Hysell]

And Mike August wins. The proper spelling is cemetery.

[tbender]

Graveyard.

[ck34]

And Mike August wins. The proper spelling is cemetery.

Nope. He didn't change it in his title. Check my second post on the first page.

[johnbiscoe]

hollywood cemetery in richmond is a gorgeous, historic place, "housing" 2 presidents, the president of the confederacy, and more confederate soldiers than any other cemetery, among others. we used to play object golf there with whamo's before we knew dg really existed. of course, it's all fun and games until someone gets arrested...