Ninigret Park RI

Chris Bunce · Post by **Chris Bunce** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:58 pm

Anyone ever played this course? I'm going fishing down there soon and was thinking about checking it out. Looks like they have a full 18 holes. Any good?

Buzzkill · Post by **Buzzkill** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:20 am

I think it a rustic 14 holes now.

Matt DeAngelis · Post by **Matt DeAngelis** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:03 am

Here is a website I made for the course. You should be able to find scorecard, layout description, directions, etc. on the site. When are you going down there? I haven't played the course in a while and wouldn't mind hitting it up again.

http://members.cox.net/deangm/

James Lane · Post by **James Lane** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:24 am

The holes that are there are good

Paul Oechsli · Post by **Paul Oechsli** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:32 am

I played it last August and it was "awful", almost unplayable condition.

Even with a map from the website it was difficult finding certain holes (tees and baskets).

Much worse though was the fact that many holes were severely overgrown with nasty, thick, dense, brush areas. Don't know how much of this type of vegatation goes away in the winter time so perhaps it is a little easier at this time of the year, but my senes is that this beach type of vegatation stays around year-long.

It is a shame as the course would have some potential.

However, given its location and the type of vegatation endemic to the area the course would require a "heavy investment" in regular manpower to keep it in enjoyable, playable condition.

Matt DeAngelis · Post by **Matt DeAngelis** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:41 am

Exactly Paul. The course is damn near unplayable in the Summer. I learned how to play at this course, the first course I ever played. It really gets you to think about the rough when you throw, and it teaches you how to play out of the rough. I haven't seen a course that even comes close to the rough at Ninigret.

The unfortunate thing about Ninigret is that the parks dept doesn't support disc golf at all. The course would have to be maintained by the players. Even that gets a little dicey. The course designer, TM Dyer, doesn't want work to be done on the course unless he is involved. It makes sense, since at one point an entire portion of a hole was removed to make a path to walk to the basket, without approval. This in turn makes maintaining the course very difficult and frustrating. It feels good to be associated with Borderland now and have the ability to run leagues, tourney's, and clean up days without too much hassle.

If you were to play the course, now would be the time to do it. The course plays well from September-June. July and August are by far the worst months to play there, but we used to still go out and play.

Shannon Leclerc · Post by **Shannon Leclerc** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:10 pm

Are you after striper?
I surf cast down there too once in awhile.
Thought about trying that course out when the fishing is slow.

nice drive kid wrote:Anyone ever played this course? I'm going fishing down there soon and was thinking about checking it out. Looks like they have a full 18 holes. Any good?

Chris Bunce · Post by **Chris Bunce** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:00 pm

GreenMeanie wrote:Are you after striper?
I surf cast down there too once in awhile.
Thought about trying that course out when the fishing is slow.

Yeah, man. That's exactly what I'm gonna do, go down to Blue Shutters/East Beach and see what I can catch down there.

I'll report back on the course conditions. From the way it sounds, I'll be throwing a bunch of DX stuff.

T.M.DYER · Post by **T.M.DYER** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:03 pm

Hey Matt,

I have a name, not just, "Course designer"...

The course is in Limbo right now... four holes were removed to make room for the Army corp of Engineers to remediate some hazardous soil...

They blew out the vegatation last fall and are supposed to finish in the spring of 2008...

As Matt suggested the course is very tricky due to the type of vegatation...

I cut this course out of the scrub brush that was there...

I only had permission from the town to do things that I had disscussed with them...

Some "players" took it upon themselves to "improve the course" without town permission...

Of course they improved the spots where they throw or landed...

My Opinion that is not improvement... it is called vandalism...

I set up a number of challenges to players throws on the different holes that I designed...

IMO...if you make it easier for you...you are grooming the course for your throws...this tree is stupid... my disc always lands where I can't throw...cut it down and the course will be better...

Very Hard for me as the "course designer" to not want to stop the destruction of what I worked very hard to create...

There are some other threads about Ninigret... I will post on them to bring them to the top...

I have been working with the Town dilligently over the last ten years to keep the project on track..

I am glad that there is interest in this course...The course should be pretty playable right now...

Holes #3,#4,#5,#8 and #17 are removed and Not Playable at this time...

Mach II News are on holes #1,#2,#6,#7,and #18 the rest are an odd collection of home made and othe type catching devices...

Please respect the wishes of the town and do not play the closed holes...

Thanks,

T.M.DYER

T.M.DYER · Post by **T.M.DYER** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:37 am

Hey Matt,

Love to see my name in BOLD letters... thanks for inserting it...

How did you edit your post???

Thanks,

T.M.DYER

Matt DeAngelis · Post by **Matt DeAngelis** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:31 pm

All the posts that you have made can be edited or deleted. When you are signed in to the site, look at one of your posts. The upper right hand corner of each of your posts should give you the options of editing and deleting.

Ryan Girard · Post by **Ryan Girard** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:39 am

Anytime anyone wants a real tour of Ninigret contact me. Myself and a few other locals who actually play there have strung together about 20 or so holes to make up a good round. As Matt said the rough at Nini is tough but teaches you to stay on fairways, and teaches you how to get out of troublesome spots.

I am grateful for having a place to throw discs that is fifteen min away.

T.M.DYER · Post by **T.M.DYER** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:49 pm

Hey,

Hope to start working on this course again real soon...

They have started with the next phase of the contamination remediation...

When they have finished...

Only then, can we get to the table with the town and figure out what we can do next..

Please, keep your fingers crossed that it all goes well...

Thanks,
T.M.DYER

Ryan Girard · Post by **Ryan Girard** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:11 am

TM

Keeping my fingers crossed.......

Hopefully stage two moves faster than stage one.........

Wishing we can have 18 medal baskets by years end.......

Will be there to help.

Matt DeAngelis · Post by **Matt DeAngelis** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:45 am

TM and Ryan,

I have crossed my fingers...

Now they are stuck...

What the funk did you tell me to do this for...

Can't wait to play the course when it has 18 baskets...

Chris Bunce · Post by **Chris Bunce** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:45 am

Played the course yesterday, not bad! Only three or four of the first eight holes were open, and I got lost fairly easily. Although there are a lot of signs pointing in the direction of the tees, a few are missing and that makes a BIG difference. Got lost on the course probably four or five times and had no idea where to go. A few of the tees for the next holes are actually on the fairway of the hole you're playing, and the paths are easy to miss. Signs behind the pin saying "Next tee 30 feet back" would fix this. A course map on a scorecard or periodically placed throughout the course would be nice, or maybe a few more signs on the holes where the next tee isn't directly in sight of the pin you just played.

Met the course builder out there and he gave us a lift to the back nine, which we had wandered away from after searching for hole 8 for close to fifteen minutes. Real nice guy. He told me that I'd LOVE the back nine, and he wasn't kidding. Some really awesome holes on the back, and some really cool baskets too. Homemade with stone bases, probably the coolest looking baskets I've seen.

Overall I thought the course was really cool. What a beautiful area. Navigating through it is a chore, but that will hopefully become easier once all of the baskets are in, which the course builder said would be in a few weeks! Right now is the perfect time to play it, I can see how it would get overgrown and be a disc losing and poison ivy nightmare in the late summer. I'll definitely be back.

Oh, and the warmup net is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. That's a first for me. Ripped some drives into that thing that bounced back and almost hit me in the head. Awesome.

T.M.DYER · Post by **T.M.DYER** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:08 pm

Hey Chris,

Thanks for the Kudos...as I posted earlier on this thread...the course is in Limbo..

I am sure you saw the fenced off area where the contamination remediation is in progress...

The signage suggesttions are great...please understand that the course has never been finished....it is still under construction...

We have been waiting for four years for the soil remediation to take place so that we could move forward...

Almost no forward motion to the project since then...

Not sure who this "course builder" you spoke with is...

We can do NOTHING to the course til the ACOE finishes the remediation...

They told me the other day that it will be the first week of June before they are done...possibly the week earlier...

At this time we have no permission from the town to do anything...

We have a pole hole fund that has $2500.00+ in it to help purchase the new nine pole holes for the back and to buy and put up signs that would alleviate the confusion on the course...

My name is T.M.DYER...I designed the course....I installed the entire layout with a lot of help from many volunteers...

I am the one who got permission to design and install the back nine from the town of Charlestown...

Thanks for the compliments on my course design and layout...

I am trying to get on the agenda for the next Charlestown Recreation Commission meeting on the 6th of May...this committee does not meet in the Summer...Sept. is the next mtg

I find it interesting that the "Course Builder" suggests that we will have pole holes in a few weeks...

Chris again thanks for the Kudos on the course...next time you are headed down...let me know...I live close and my schedule is very flexible... Love another excuse to go and play...

My phone 401-789-9005 call anytime best to catch me after dark...

Thanks,
T.M.DYER

Chris Bunce · Post by **Chris Bunce** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:23 pm

T.M., I didn't get the name of the guy who said he built the course. I remembered your posts on these threads earlier and I asked him if he was the designer to see if he was you, but he said that someone else designed it and he built it. He had grey hair and a mustache if that helps, and apparently he used to be the captain of the UConn Football team back when they were in the Yankee Conference.

I really was impressed with the back nine, it looks and plays awesome. There are homemade wooden signs on some if not most holes that say where the next tee is, but I don't think it would hurt to put a sign on all of the holes. The little homemade ones are just fine, and the tee signs on the stumps in front of each hole are really nice. I can't wait to play this course once it's totally finished.

I'll actually be working for a couple wetland field studies in the CT - RI coast area this summer so I'll most likely be in your neck of the woods. I'll hit you up and we'll play.

T.M.DYER · Post by **T.M.DYER** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:38 pm

Hey,

The course is closer to a point where we can begin to finish what was started.

Please stay tuned for more info about upcoming work days...

For any of you out there who are "well heeled in the $"...

There is $2600.00 in the pole hole fund for the "back nine" at Ninigret...

I hope to install brand new Mach III's...

We are a little better than half way to enough to purchase new Mach III's for the "back nine"...

Please consider adding to this number...

If you are so inclined...please contact me so that I can share with you the info for the person overseeing the act...

Thanks,
T.M.DYER

Tim Jackman · Post by **Tim Jackman** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 2:34 pm

My friend and I have been playing Ninigret weekly, and look forward to seeing it completed. Very interested in helping out when the time comes.
Good luck with the meetings

T.M.DYER · Post by **T.M.DYER** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 8:03 pm

Hey,

There is a rec. com. mtg. on Tues 10/7/2008 at 7pm at the Charlestown Town Hall.

If you want to say something about what might happen with the disc golf course at Ninigret Park...

This is your chance to show up in person and voice your opinions...

Hope that this is enough notice for interested parties...

Just found out myself today (fri 10/3/2008)...

Maybe I'll see you there...I am sure this will be a pivotal meeting about the course and it's future in the Park...

Thanks,
T.M.DYER

T.M.DYER · Post by **T.M.DYER** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 11:07 pm

Hey,

The "No DIG" has been lifted for the area of the course...

We will be moving forward very soon...stay tuned for work day details...

Thanks,
T.M.DYER

Ryan Girard · Post by **Ryan Girard** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:16 am

Hey TM

Lets get out there and put those baskets in! I am free all day on Sunday,

to work and play some too.........get in touch

Ryan

boston93430 · Post by **boston93430** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:36 pm

Always looking to help as well, never played in RI but would love to lend a hand. I'll keep looking for work parties, I usually have Saturdays off.

T.M.DYER · Post by **T.M.DYER** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 6:11 pm

Hey Fellas,

Thanks for the offer of help...

I am playing in the Devens ace race on Sat...

I have a meeting with some town representatives on Sun...about what we can and can't do...

My game plan right now is to put together the "Front Nine" first...

Put in the pole holes and the DGA tee signs and set up the long and med tees...

Once the "front nine" is put back in place then we will start on the "Back Nine"...

I am going to Texas on the 26th of Oct...will return by 11/6/2008...

Sat 11/8/2008 is a real work day for me...Getting paid for this day...

The next weekend 11/15/2008 will be the day to start putting the "Front Nine" back together...

I wish that it could be sooner but all these things were in place before...

After a solid five+ years....what is a few more weeks???

Thanks,
T.M.DYER

Matt DeAngelis · Post by **Matt DeAngelis** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:08 pm

T.M.DYER wrote: My game plan right now is to put together the "Front Nine" first...

Put in the pole holes and the DGA tee signs and set up the long and med tees...

Once the "front nine" is put back in place then we will start on the "Back Nine"...

Please read this post as one man's opinion. What needs to get done to get the "front nine" put back in place? Getting the course back to the way it was prior to the baskets being removed?

If this plan involves purchasing tee signs and tee pad material before purchases baskets for the back nine, then it is a bad move.

T.M.DYER wrote:I wish that it could be sooner but all these things were in place before...

I'm confused...

It took Dave Kurtz and I 30 min to put the baskets back in place on Holes 3, 4, 5, and 17 when the course was granted amnisty and allowed to have those holes back last year. I tell you what, if it were me, I would have been on the horn for help to get the baskets back in place. Get the course back to at least 9 holes!

Why can't a couple of people combe by, grab the baskets and install them :idea:

I know that the holes aren't the same as what they used to be, but with a little OB rope to mark the "old" fairway, the holes are getting back to what they were...all be it, much easier to go OB!

Hopefully the basket order for the back 9 pole holes will get ordered before anything else gets done with that money! Remember that movie, Field of Dreams..."that's a corny mother funk, you're gonna need some strong [bleep] for that." If you build it, they will come. Put the baskets in, and you can have a ligit tourney there. Have a payout at this tourney and you can raise the money for the signs. BAM!

T.M.DYER · Post by **T.M.DYER** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 10:13 pm

Hey Matt,

If you read my post...it says that I am meeting with a town rep on sun...

It is really disheartening when you post stuff... making assumptions...

And your memory is skewed.. it was in the fall of 2006...not last year...

It was about a half a day to put the pole holes back in the ground...

OK...The original nine baskets came with nine DGA signs...all of this equipment is already paid for..and all of the tees were in place once before...

The plan is to reestablish the "front nine" before working on the back nine...

It is interesting that you are worried about how money that was raised to buy pole holes(MachIII) will be spent...

I have been very clear as to what we were raising this money for...

Right now we are about one half of the way to enough money to order the "back nine"

The 17th running of the RI Frost Bite Classic will be as it has in the past...54 holes of golf in one day...

That means that there are 54 different tees looking for a sponsor of just twenty dollars...

If there are at least fifty players who sign up to enter in the event and donate at least twenty dollars each to the pole hole fund...

This will realize another two thousand dollars to add to the $2600.00 already raised for nine Mach III's for the "back nine"...

"Get the course back to at least 9 holes" ...

According to my post I have posted a date to put these holes in the ground...

You planning on coming down to help????

Unless I read it wrong... you (Matt) must be involved in the work of installing teepads at Borderlands...

I want to do it tommorrow...

But I have other plans and commitments...

Some of which are that we need to be clear with the town what, and when we are doing stuff to the course ...

Right now I still have to meet on Sunday to assess with a town representative what we are intending to do...

I am sure that I will need to give them some time to let everyone who needs to know or have a say... can then look at our intended plans and give them a stamp of approval...

Hopefully this enlightens your confused assement of what is going on...

Thanks,
T.M.DYER

Mike Dussault · Post by **Mike Dussault** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 7:35 am

All this beuracracy. With RWDGC a possibility, RI disc golf may become legit. It has been such a long fight for the l'il Nini course, and still just a work in progress. For a while it was pretty cool; fairways were kept, the homemade baskets were super cool, and there were 18 holes. Now what is there? After how many years of building, the course is moving backwards. I sincerely hope this project gets some support, but it is getting harder and harder.
Lets have a RI tourney that the people of the Providence Plantations can be proud of. Long live the Ocean State!

Matt DeAngelis · Post by **Matt DeAngelis** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:04 am

T.M.DYER wrote: If you read my post...it says that I am meeting with a town rep on sun...

I don't understand why a phone call to someone asking if the baskets that were in the ground before the dig could be put back in place...

T.M.DYER wrote:It was about a half a day to put the pole holes back in the ground...

We did more than just put the baskets in the ground that day. We trimmed fairways back and chipped up brush etc...however, the actual time it took dave and I to put those pole holes back in the ground was about 30 minutes.

T.M.DYER wrote: It is interesting that you are worried about how money that was raised to buy pole holes(MachIII) will be spent...

I just want to be sure that tee signs aren't a high priority. If you are planning on buying a full 9 baskets including 9 new tee signs, well yeah, it's going to cost more. Just focus on the baskets and purchase those. Hell, purchase 5 of the funk baskets and put em in the ground! There is $2000 for this to be done...

T.M.DYER wrote: The 17th running of the RI Frost Bite Classic will be as it has in the past...54 holes of golf in one day...

That means that there are 54 different tees looking for a sponsor of just twenty dollars...

If there are at least fifty players who sign up to enter in the event and donate at least twenty dollars each to the pole hole fund...

I'm providing this information as another side of the coin. No one wants to go to a tournament that takes up an entire day, without anything to show for it. I've said it a thousand times before. Every time you plan on the frostbite, I bring up the Buff tournaments. Why? Because the buff tournament costs $30-$40 to play. $15 goes towards the charity and the rest goes to the payout. You will get a lot more players to show up if you have a payout, plain and simple. You will not get 50 people to put up money for a sponsorship if you don't have a payout.

T.M.DYER wrote: According to my post I have posted a date to put these holes in the ground...

According to my post, I think that it can be MUCH sooner.

T.M.DYER wrote: You planning on coming down to help????

Absolutely, I can't wait to see the course get in. If the workday is centered around installing baskets on the front nine and installing X amount of baskets on the back nine, I will be there with a few others from up here as well.

T.M.DYER wrote: Some of which are that we need to be clear with the town what, and when we are doing stuff to the course ...

Right now I still have to meet on Sunday to assess with a town representative what we are intending to do...

I still find it hard to believe that the town will want to sit down and talk about taking the baskets that were in place on the front nine and putting them back in the ground. I understand that there are bigger plans that need to get hashed out, but they don't need to be figured out before ANY WORK gets done.

T.M.DYER wrote: Hopefully this enlightens your confused assement of what is going on...

It does, but I still don't see any reason why those baskets can't be feeling the sweet slap of plastic upon their chains...at ninigret that is.

Matt DeAngelis · Post by **Matt DeAngelis** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:37 am

Just did a search...6 Mach III with number signs will run you approx $2,700 free shipping.

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