I just started another job in Irving off 183. I love being so close to a course. I play this park every day at noonish. This was my first time to play Fritz Park. I can�t say enough about this park. I really like how there is no traffic from people not playing disc golf. Anyways I had heard that the park might get more holes a long time ago but heard the city did not support this. Was this a roomer or does the city not support expanding the park. The park only having nine holes is perfect for me to play at lunch. I just wanted to let whoever designed this course know that it a great place and I play it every chance I get. O I have been taking a buddy I work with to play and he has thrown about six of my disc's in the creek so if you have found any send me a pm. plz!

...and he has thrown about six of my disc's in the creek so if you have found any send me a pm. plz!



Yeah, sure. I bet HE threw all those discs in. /msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

LMAO!

Yes, there are 9 holes designed on the other side of the creek, when they have been in, it made Fritz one of the best courses in the state. (in my opinion)

Up until 2 years ago, there were even sleeves in the ground for those holes. But that bastard of a park manager (the guy who works at the park and is in charge, not the city park managers who like disc golf) went and dug them up after the last tournament held there.

As far as foot traffic, any course you play durring he day is usually empty. Try playing fritz on the weekends. But with the new parking lot (instead of the road though the park) I will say that helped with the foot traffic from the old days.

I learned how to play at Fritz park. I was a member of the Irving Disc Sports Association for years back in the late 80's and early 90's.

Really. Thank for the history I appreciate it. Well that parks manager cant live for ever then we will have our revenge. hahahahaha! Was there any reason he gave for doing this other than being a [I'm a potty-mouth!]?

Really. Thank for the history I appreciate it. Well that parks manager cant live for ever then we will have our revenge. hahahahaha! Was there any reason he gave for doing this other than being a [I'm a potty-mouth!]?



Maybe we should go over there and give him a nice disc golfer's hello with some paintball guns. /msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif :D

I WAS BLEEPED FOR CALLING HIM A M O R O N! Ya Kid lets say hello that will change his view on disc golf! LOL

I WAS BLEEPED FOR CALLING HIM A M O R O N! Ya Kid lets say hello that will change his view on disc golf! LOL



This message board has turned into the kiddie pool. No post counts, and they are bleeping words that are not even swears.

Fritz is a nice 9 hole setup. The old 9 holer with the temp. 9 on the opposite side of the creek was an awesome course. Anybody remember the Fritz Open when it was like 109 both days? I was going through a bottle of water on every hole. Man, that was a brutal weekend. /msgboard/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

I didn't play back then but I am pretty sure that I would have sat that event out. /msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

My recollection is that that every tourney at Fritz was hot as hell with no wind. :D

I also recollect that the 18 hole layout was one of the best courses around at the time. It stood right up there with the old Vet and Victoria as tournies that one had to play.

Kid Roc, you were not even born when the Fritz open was played.

It was a July tournament back in those days.

The last one was in 1998, it was like 110 that weekend, I have never been so glad to miss a cut in my life.

The last time the course was used was for a Midweek tournament set up for MaceMan, the next year we put the baskets out on Monday and the Park manager cut MY locks and even damaged one of the CARROLLTON 9 baskets.

Another city guy (an old Fritz guy and employee of the city of Irving, took the basket to the welding department of Irving and got it fixed and then even brought it to me in Carrollton)

Kid Roc, you were not even born when the Fritz open was played.




Okay now my interests are peaked. What was the year of that one?

My first Fritz Park Open would have been in 1988 or 1989

It was the 5th annual

That put the first one on or about 1983 or 1984

I went to Live Oak this weekend with Glen Hale, when talking to him, he told me he was the TD for the 1st few Fritz Park Opens back in the early 80's.

We were talking about the 1st courses put in Texas. Fritz Park was the 2nd one in the DFW area, and maybe the 2nd in Texas.

So whats that guys problem with disc golf? (Parks Manager)

He does not want disc golf in the south side of the park.

For over a year they left the Victoria baskets over there (after the Fritz Park Open) There were several complants because of disc golfers and park users. A few of the holes were near the playground and picnic area. Rec disc golfers have no respect for other park users.

It is so bad, he will not let anyone set up that side even for a weekday tournament.

That put the first one on or about 1983 or 1984




Well, I was born in 1982, thank you very much! :D:p ;)

d*rn youngins :D

Making a future OMB feel old at 31

The last Fritz Park tourney in '98 was my first tournament ever.....it was a weekend to remember that's for sure!

its kind of sad that the parks manager holds a grudle that long. A few rotten apples spoiled the hole barrel! (rec golfers and there respect)

Did anyone try to meet with him when all this was going down? You know, try to explain that there are two very distinct variations of disc golfers.

there you go kid that is a much more humane way of dealing with this guy! Rather than paintballing the guy down! LMAO! But the later of the two options sounds a lot more fun!

Hey what time is the mini on Saturday morning? I saw in on the board at the park but I forgot.

I think the Fritz mini is at 9:00. Not positive on that.
Cedar Hill mini is at 3:00. There's a few old men that do both.

I went by there today mini starts at 10 think bring your own double is at 2! Thanks anyway!

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im guessing he forgot about his previous posts already

I'm guessing that your chasing my postin every topic is supposed to be some kind of infatuation with this account which by the way, was sold from ebay. What a doof.

I'm guessing that your chasing my postin every topic is supposed to be some kind of infatuation with this account which by the way, was sold from ebay. What a doof.



i dont care where you bought it

Your a pud. But you flatter me because you chase my posts around.

and now you're chasing mine. hahahaha :D

to bad my post count is not going up. :D

You are an absolute [I'm a potty-mouth!].

I just splashed chains on hole #2 on a skip. I am not a fan of almost Ace's!

What did you throw on #2 to get to the basket, must less splash?

175 champion Orc. There was 5 people watching! O well next time.

That is one h*ck of a crush..that hole must be 450+

I did it from the dirt tee pad.

a DevilHawk would have stuck, i'm sure.

Is that still between the 2 trees on the left of the fairway????

That makes a little more sense...wondering how you accomplished this off the concrete pad

i was about to quit playing altogether if he almost aced that from the normal pad... :)

that hole has to be close to 500'...i'm happy to drive past #3's teebox...

I have a few birds from rollers, but can't reach it in the air.

Now pop it off the teepad:

http://www.dallasdiscgolf.com/courses/fritz/images/fritz_signs-1_r1_c1_f2.jpg

:D

as of a couple of months ago i live about 5min from fritz...been loving it...

I play on my lunch break so I dont take the time to walk back to the pad because its out of the way and I really dont have the time to waste. lmao! Writing that sound's so stupid!

bige, do what i do...throw your drive on #1, then walk over to #2, then drive, then go finish out #1 on your way to your #2 drive...

bige, do what i do...throw your drive on #1, then walk over to #2, then drive, then go finish out #1 on your way to your #2 drive...



Brian, there is a fine line between lazy and efficient. I'm not sure which side this should be listed under? :D Especially since I like the idea.....

Good idea Brian, I have seen it done before, I am just lazy to be honest!

Actually, that is what I do a lot of the time I play out there.

Is this course at all like it was in the 90s?

i dont know...didnt start playing til 2003...didnt play fritz until fairly recently...

Is this course at all like it was in the 90s?



No. Out of the permanent 9 holes, you would only recognize 3 of them.

The back nine has not been set up/played in YEARS!!!!

#1 similar
#2 same
#3 lost some trees, but basicly the same shot
#4 -7 all different
#8 same
#9 different.

The back nine may never be set up again. After the Midweek event a few years ago, the city dug up the remaining sleaves out of the ground.

At least they finnaly planted those old baskets in another park in North Irving.

Are those where W O Harringtons baskets came from?...

Are you talking about that open hillside! The only challenge out there is the wind!

That's the course...it wasn't that bad...it was atleast longer than I thought it may be...probably okay to play a few times a year and good grounds for newbies

Are you going to golf on Monday Ryan?

Yes, when I played Harrington, some of those backets were from the old Victoria Park 9 hole course. The Irving club would move those basket over to Fritz for the Fritz Park Open every year.

But one year they didn't move the baskets back. The guy in charge of the park got angry about it.

At the first midweek event (of the big show) a few years ago, we put the baskets in the day of the tournament without a problem, but the guy got mad that they were there. (even though we took them out right afterwards and Brian had permission from higher up to use the park.

The next year, we put them out the night before.

within hours on installing the baskets, the park maintanace guy went out and CUT the locks off the baskets. He then pulled all the ones we put out.

In the prosses of pulling them, they damaged on of the baskets. Luckly, one of the Irving city guys plays disc golf and took it to the city weilder and fixed it up and repainted it and even dropped it off at my store.

There had not been a tournament out there sence.

Does anyone know Bob Stewart and how I can get in contact with him? I found 2 of his disc's in out at fritz!

I heard through the grape vine that Fritz has been aproved for another nine east of hole 7's tee pad along the creek! I heard that they just need to raise the money.

Hole 9 is Missing :mad:anyone know anything? W. O. Harrington hole 2 and 10 are missing! B*A*S*T*A*R*D*S!

B*A*S*T*A*R*D*S!



:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Talked to a maintenance/city worker today and he said they where going to replace it! They cut right through the tab that is on the basket side of the pole! The city worker said they where paying 450.00 with there special deal for each basket!

They are getting taken at $450 each, but as long as they replace it..go for it!

What about Harrington..are they replacing those also?

Not really, it cost me $380 to replace #17 with a new Mach II at Jimmy Porter.

but a city buying them every so often should have a better deal worked out with Innova...I have a few golfers that work at Innova from my OKC days and can get a new bucket usually for $400 or less. I only paid $300 for my portable Discatcher.

I think the sleave would have been an additional $50-$75..haven't checked in a while.

Either way it is great news that it will be replaced and bad news that more buckets are getting yanked by "bazsturds" around our city.

actually I just checked DGA and Innova and the city is overpaying...the Mach II was only:

No Frills. $250.00
57 lbs.
Deluxe. $283.50
61 lbs.
Portable.$285.00
67 lbs.

even with shipping added in they should contact one of the companies to get a cheaper rate - irving tax dollars at work :D

It cost $50 to ship it.

I don't have the recipts with me right now, but I paid almost $350 to get #17 at Jimmy Porter from DGA. I then paid $30 for that lock.

It was welded for free thanks to Steve Wind, he got one of the guys at his work to do it after work one day. Steve then put it in place on the course for me. (Steve works for Lennox in Carrollton, just a block or two away from the course)

I ACED THE TEMP BASKET FROM #5 TEE PAD! I wounder if they will ever replace the basket for #9? Oh I aced it with a Bigshow Star Wraith!

congratulations eric! time to start playing the "new #9" from a harder teepad! :)

Hell yes, I remember it. On the way back to Houston, I reached down to put a new CD on. Things got fuzzy and thing got blurry and the everything was gone. No really...got woozy an the next thing I knew I was spinning up onto an embankment at an off ramp. Never could get the weeds from between the tires and the rims. I met Mitch and Patty that weekend. We had lunch at Brahms? Ice Cream Parlor..or something like that.

I was really dissapointed that the last Fritz Park Open was in '98 since my game didn't start coming around til '99. My drive inproved a lot. Found a putt. I learned how to throw 200-250 holes with my putter. Then, as surely as the game came, it went. hahaha That 18 hole layout tore me a new one, but I loved it. If you could master that one, you had some game.



Fritz is a nice 9 hole setup. The old 9 holer with the temp. 9 on the opposite side of the creek was an awesome course. Anybody remember the Fritz Open when it was like 109 both days? I was going through a bottle of water on every hole. Man, that was a brutal weekend. /msgboard/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

Does anyone know if all the "alternate metal strip tee positions" are all installed yet Found about 3 of them: Hole 3a,5a,6a. All the ones I have played are awesome my favorite one is 6 shooting though the fountain:DHey Brian have you played the new tee placements at fritz park?

hey eric...i didnt know about them.

i do know that the "under new mgmt" mini is starting this saturday at 10am....but i cant check it out because i'll be playing in the first anniversary bachelor party tournament...i was supposed to call you and invite you but i havent gotten around to it, so consider yourself notified. :) give me a call... you wanna show me these new tees maybe sunday morning?

The tees were a little experiment of mine that failed, due to someone else's mischief. Nearly all of them were pulled out of the ground within days of installation, so i never bothered to re-install them. Let me know if anyone's interested, because i'd be more than happy to help out in any way to make this a legitimate 18-hole layout, as it's the closest course to my home. Here's my original post about the holes:

Here are some Google Earth pictures with pins and tee boxes I have set up out at Fritz. I went with 28" strips of aluminum to represent kick boards at the front of each tee box, held in place with two 6-inch nails at either side. Let me know what you think, or better yet, try it out and give me some feedback . Sorry in advance about the picture sizes, but I don't know how to upload or resize things.
Front 9
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1107/1141884351_edb9668a38.jpg?v=0
Back 9
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1154/1141884601_8ce9b06ba2.jpg?v=0
Approx. distances:
1- 300
2- 330
3- 260
4- 550
5- 525
6- 420
7- 360
8- 520
9- 400
10- 270
11- 470
12- 570
13- 390
14- 350
15- 360
16- 265
17- 300
18- 620

C-Dog that was 1997 and your showing your age spots! WOOF- Fritz is a great park with a tough eighteen hole layout. Sure was hot that year...woo...fffff

The IDGC installed the metal strips I was talking about. Someone removed a couple of them but most are there and a nice change of pace for this course. :D

The first set of strips were pulled not as mischief, but because of the placement on the tee-pads. The idea was great and has been used to set up the alternate tees you see now. The IDSA is trying to set up a permanent alt 9 so we can record scores and track the progress of the players on Saturday's mini. Some of the holes will change as we play the holes more. The main concern is how the course will flow when we have 30+ people show up. The first set had really great shots, but would not work with a large group of players. Most of the tees can be found, but like 4a is to the left of 3's basket as a dog leg hole w/ a mando. 7a is to the right of 7's fairway past the tree line and is a really tight hole. The tee is marked w/ white rocks and a metal strip. 8a is to the right of the fairway by the first set of trees and it shoots between two trees. Again a few will change as our experiment continues, but I assure you that the holes will be a challenge long or short.

IDSA is currently having a membership drive and hopes to bring the Club back from the dead. $20 will include a t-shirt and bag tag. The ace pot wil be a members only stating Jan 1, 2008. We will also have best score prizes for the quater and a Club Championship like our cousins in Arlington. Plus many other events through out the year.

Manuel Rodriguez
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Please come visit us on Saturdays at 10:00 singles - 2:30 random doubles. 2nd Saturday is a Harrington with doubles still at Fritz.

Manuel Rodriguez

I for one really appreciate all you guys are doing for Fritz and the Fritz club. I really like all the new holes except 7 needs a little more trimming I think but after that I like the tight fairways!

We cleared out more brush on Sunday morning. Have you seen it since? Still a birdie and think wil be aced w/ a two finger slinger.

Yes I have, I am going to play them today was not really paying attention monday it was raining. I was talking about the last 2 tree's, the inside branches of the trees could be cleaned up a little more. Friday night we played and people were saying the same. Did you play these saturday morning?

Just played all of the alt today hole 4a seems like it might be in 1a's fairway, maybe move it 10 ft up where some of the tree's can block shanks on 1a. I do like the way 7a plays for a 2 finger shot I had not tryed that I was talking about the staight shot with the sign inbetween the trees.

Are you playing tonight?

Yes I'm playing tonight - accually we are addressing the complaints from sat. 4 - 5 - 9 will probably be the first holes to slightly change. I think the rest of them will be alright for now. Should be there about 5:15. Dont be suprised if the gate is locked. Park off Mayo (street by 7 basket) or the other side. Entrance is the first street off Senter - 7-11 side to the left.

PLAYED AT LUNCH THE GATE IS NOT CLOSED