Wow! That's a lot of nice cases!!!

Can't wait to check it out in a month.

Matt

Matt, You may be happy to know that many of the discs are backed by mirrors so you can see some of the backs. Lavone did a great job of selecting the cases.

Will the baskets be in on the south course by this weekend?

Mark,

We begin installing the baskets tomorrow, weather permitting. Our plan is to have them installed by this weekend.

Matt Gillis and a crew of Columbia County workers completed backfilling around all 36 tee pads today with wood chips. The Charlotte Disc Golf Club will be visiting this weekend to lend a much needed helping hand. We still have 18 baskets and 36 tee signs to install on top of moving into the new building. It's going to be a very busy week.

Regards,
Brian Graham

Here's a message that went out to the Augusta Club today. If anyone is out there and available to help this weekend, or during next week, the offers here still stand. Just give me a call.

Hey all,

Hope all is well and everyone is getting excited for the Hall of Fame Classic and the general good disc golfing weather that is expected to hit shortly.

I just wanted to send a little reminder of a couple of things.

1. We will be installing anchors on the South Course tomorrow, Thursday April 12. We have an auger to drill the holes, we just need hands to assist with getting concrete out to the holes and to generally lend a hand so that it won�t be just a handful of people doing all the work. If you�re not working during the day, head out to Wildwood. The PDGA will be buying lunch for the folks that help out for half the day (and play golf after?), and I�ll be buying (uh-oh!) beers for those who stay to the end of the day. We really need your help getting this accomplished so that we can install the baskets to be played this weekend. If you have an unemployed or underemployed friend that you think would be interested, please pass this along.

2. The Charlotte Disc Golf Club will be coming down this Saturday, April 14 to knock the South Course into shape. I�d love for Augusta to answer them in terms of people coming out to help, and work accomplished. Same gig as last time. The PDGA will be buying lunch, and (if we get the anchors installed ahead of time) we can play the first round ever on the South Course. For those who have yet to see this property, prepare to be amazed. This course could quite possibly be the most beautiful, challenging and fun you�ve ever played. Please come out to help.

3. Pete May and I have been working on the Collegiate Team Championships which are set to take place at the Hippodrome this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. If you get a chance come out and check out the action. There will be a $10 ticket cover to get into the event, but anyone comes out to a work day can get a free ticket courtesy of the PDGA. For more information please visit www.ncdgu.com (http://www.ncdgu.com)

That�s it. The main message here is please, please, please, come out and lend a hand. We�re so fortunate to live in an area that has so many disc golf courses. The main reason that we have so many is because the players have risen to the challenge in the past. This is another challenge. Please come out and help us create these beautiful championship courses. You will not be disappointed.

As always, please feel free to give me a call with any questions, concerns or solicitations for rides:

(706) 564-5091

Have a great day, and keep it in the fairway.

Matt Gillis
mgillis(at)pdga.com

From: http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/041507/oth_124766.shtml

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Disc golf ready for the spotlight
By Preston Sparks | Columbia County Bureau Chief
Sunday, April 15, 2007

Now that the Masters Tournament is over, another type of golf is bringing the national spotlight back to the Augusta area.

Disc golf - a sport in which players toss a disc toward a basket similar to how golfers hit golf balls to a green - will take center stage April 20 at Wildwood Park in Appling with the grand opening of a new International Disc Golf Center, to be managed by the Professional Disc Golf Association.

It's the culmination of a goal that began in 2003 when the PDGA announced it would move its official headquarters from Toronto to Columbia County.

"It's huge for the sport of disc golf and for the PDGA," said Brian Hoeniger, the association's current executive director.

Hoeniger, who will return to Canada in June when his visa expires, is relinquishing his title to Brian Graham, another PDGA official who lives in the Augusta area.

"We had dreamed of the stability and the credibility that our organization would get with having a permanent home base where we could show everybody what the sport is about," Hoeniger said.

Graham began the transition to the director job April 2.

"I'm looking forward to developing the International Disc Golf Center and making it a positive economic impact for the county and a world-class sporting venue," he said. "For our sport, it is going to be the premier spot."

Since 2003, the association has stayed in a temporary building at the park and basic construction has been completed on two of three new disc golf courses also at Wildwood.

The third course will be completed later this year.

The two courses with basic construction completed will be the site of an April 20-22 Disc Golf Hall of Fame Classic tournament that will draw competitors from throughout the nation and coincide with the disc golf center opening.

Besides the 2,700-square-foot disc golf center, the building being dedicated on Friday also will house the Disc Golf Hall of Fame and Headrick Memorial Frisbee Museum.

The museum and hall of fame will feature such things as items that relate back to the first Frisbees invented. There also will be references to Ed Headrick, who died in 2002 and is considered the father of disc golf and the inventor of the modern flying disc.

Graham said some of Headrick's family members will attend the opening.

Officials with the PDGA say they've been allowing the public to play the new north course at no charge other than the $2 entry fee that all park visitors must pay. When the disc golf center is officially opened, Hoeniger said disc golf players at the park site will pay the $2 park entry fee and a user fee for the center.



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Looking great guys. Can't wait to make it out there someday. Please keep posting pictures. Thx

Chuck Kennedy, the "Steady Ed" Headrick Memorial Course designer, tosses the inaugural disc during the course's opening. http://i.spotted.augusta.com/user/1/gallery/265392.jpg

From: http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/042107/met_125570.shtml


Disc golf lovers flying high
International headquarters opens
By Preston Sparks | Columbia County Bureau Chief
Saturday, April 21, 2007

A ribbon cutting marked its opening, but the toss of a disc onto its roof made things official.

On Friday, a new International Disc Golf Center, managed by the Professional Disc Golf Association, was dedicated at Columbia County's Wildwood Park with the traditional toss of a disc onto the building's roof.

"Old Frisbees don't die, they just land on the roof," explained Brian Graham, the Association's new executive director.

The ceremonial toss was thrown by Farina Headrick, a California resident and wife of the late Ed Headrick, considered the father of disc golf and the inventor of the modern flying disc.

In this case, the disc was a special one, containing some of Mr. Headrick's ashes.

"Mission accomplished," Mrs. Headrick said to an eruption of applause as the disc stayed on the roof, where it will be cemented.

About 300 disc golf enthusiasts showed up from more than 30 states for the opening of the center and two disc golf courses, the Disc Golf Hall of Fame and the Headrick Memorial Frisbee Museum, which includes some of Mr. Headrick's items and some of the first flying discs.

"Ooh, the Speedy!" said Orlando, Fla., resident Gregg Hosfeld, a 1998 inductee into the Disc Golf Hall of Fame, while examining a Wham-O Speedy disc from the 1960s.

Next to it was one of the first flying discs - a tin pie pan made by Frisbie's Pies decades ago that was turned upside down and thrown.

Mr. Hosfeld said Friday's opening, which was coupled with a national tournament, was a long time coming for disc golf - a sport in which players toss a disc toward a basket the way golfers hit balls to a green.

"As far as credibility goes, I think this is going to take us a long way," he said of the new site, which was a goal that emerged in 2003 when the Professional Disc Golf Association announced it would move its headquarters from Toronto to Columbia County.

Iowa resident Des Reading, a three-time world champion and the sport's current reigning women's champ, said the new center gives disc golf a "home base."

"It shares all of our history, and with that history you're able to grow with that," she said.

Barry Smith, Columbia County's community and leisure services director, said the new facility signals great things to come for the county at Wildwood Park.

"I think it means a lot of tourism activity," he said.

Mrs. Headrick told the crowd it also means a lot to her family.

"We thank you very much for making Ed's dreams come true," she said.

Reach Preston Sparks at (706) 868-1222, ext. 115, or preston.sparks@augustachronicle.com.

From the Saturday, April 21, 2007 edition of the Augusta Chronicle


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Farina Headrick, the widow of "Steady Ed" Headrick, tosses a disc with his ashes onto the roof of the building.

Hey all,

We had a great time, and are just now recovering from this great event. Take a second to look through some of these photos, hopefully it will entice you to make the trip on down!

Disc Golf Hall of Fame Classic - Saturday (http://www.flickr.com/photos/7987020@N02/sets/72157600133561943/)

Disc Golf Hall of Fame Classic - Sunday (http://www.flickr.com/photos/7987020@N02/sets/72157600133820884/)

Can someone post pictures of Ed's collection? Thx

Here are links to a few:
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I couldn't get the images to show...?

Can someone post more pictures of the collection? I'd like to see that set of Night Flyers and what's in the shelves below.

Are there any discs / frisbee's that's being looked for to be included?

Very cool!

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The Night Flyers are a set of 40-molds.

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Unfortunately I didn't get pictures of ALL of the cases...you gotta go there for yourself!!!