Willow Park

Jeff Kelley · Post by **Jeff Kelley** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:48 pm

Anyone have a good description of the new Willow Park layout? Visited the other day briefly and I'm hoping to go back armed with a better idea of where I'm going. Not sure if the admin guy in charge of the course (Kurt Waggoner) is still online/ around. It seemed like the signs were off, possibly with old descriptions from before the course was redesigned? Someone had scribbled in new descriptions in marker, but still confusing to me....

Thanks

Jeff Wilson · Post by **Jeff Wilson** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 5:56 pm

1's tee is near the upper parking lot and goes down the hill near the boulders. 2's tee is on the hill and goes across into the opening in the trees - I think that was the stolen basket. 3 goes aling the tree line to behind the big bush. 4 is a long straight woods shot that starts behind 3's basket. 5 & 6 go across the lax field and kind of criss cross each other. 7 goes up the hill past the bandstand. 8 goes into the woods above the BMX track and 9 goes up the hill towards 1's tee ... hope that helps ....

Jeff Zipkin · Post by **Jeff Zipkin** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:03 pm

kurt's living down in GA now, showing them southern boys that New Englanders can huck a disc too.
wasn't aware one of the baskets was stolen, although i haven't been there in probably 2 years.
this is the first i've heard of traffic on that course in forever.

Jeff Kelley · Post by **Jeff Kelley** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:45 am

Thanks guys

Jeff Wiechowski · Post by **Jeff Wiechowski** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:05 am

this thread needs another Jeff.............. :roll:

Careful throwing while you're there......... kiddies running around the playground area sometimes wander into the fairways.

Jeff Prendergast · Post by **Jeff Prendergast** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 12:05 pm

CaptainAnhyzer wrote:this thread needs another Jeff..............

Ask and you shall receive.

Where is willow park? upstate?

Jeff Wiechowski · Post by **Jeff Wiechowski** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 1:34 pm

Jeff P wrote:Where is willow park? upstate?

Bennington, VT

Titan Bariloni · Post by **Titan Bariloni** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 5:29 pm

is there 18 now ????lived in bennington as a kid hated there old layout if there is 18 guess i have my plan for monday

i cant even believe i am seeing a willlow park thread lol

Jeff Wiechowski · Post by **Jeff Wiechowski** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:17 pm

9 tees but only 8 baskets.........#2 by the road was stolen a couple years back. Tough to play when kids are around the play area, don't wanna behead a 4yr old.

Titan Bariloni · Post by **Titan Bariloni** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 1:57 pm

would love to see a well thought out 18 put in bennington.

its a great area and i think the population is big enough to keep it alive
plenty of other spots in town to put it at

i would drive every week to play a league at 1 thats how much i like the area

Jeff Zipkin · Post by **Jeff Zipkin** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 3:03 pm

mista3putt wrote:would love to see a well thought out 18 put in bennington.

its a great area and i think the population is big enough to keep it alive
plenty of other spots in town to put it at

i would drive every week to play a league at 1 thats how much i like the area

agreed titan. in fact we had a group from bennington playing j park this past friday since they have no true local course.
who knows someone in the area to spearhead a new course?

Titan Bariloni · Post by **Titan Bariloni** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 3:47 pm

most of my local connections have moved away from bennington,
any diehards up there?? the high school there always had alot of land and fields or the deer park?or even by the ny line at the orchards. Pownal to
then ya can draw from pittsfield, northadams

Jeff Wiechowski · Post by **Jeff Wiechowski** » Sun Aug 15, 2010 7:34 pm

We walked thru the park on Saturday and threw around alot of ideas. We settled on a slight redesign of the 9-hole layout with the expansion to 18 coming in the near future. The key reason for the redesign is to improve safety for the non-DGers but also to be able to add 9 holes easily without sacrificing flow or moving any of the first 9 holes.

Stay tuned for more in the coming months......

Titan Bariloni · Post by **Titan Bariloni** » Mon Aug 16, 2010 12:01 pm

Jeff W wrote:We walked thru the park on Saturday and threw around alot of ideas. We settled on a slight redesign of the 9-hole layout with the expansion to 18 coming in the near future. The key reason for the redesign is to improve safety for the non-DGers but also to be able to add 9 holes easily without sacrificing flow or moving any of the first 9 holes.

Stay tuned for more in the coming months......

I would like to arrange to be at next walk through..if possible

Where would the expansion be...? Up the hillish area..? is it still wooded to the north..?

Remember that they have plenty of summer activities fireworks,carnival..ect ect

I am sure you know that already anyways....

Titan Bariloni · Post by **Titan Bariloni** » Mon Aug 16, 2010 1:08 pm

i would drive every week to play a league at 1 thats how much i like the area

This statement may haunt me.....I will come to "many" leagues up there..

I can't wait till Bennington has an Official Club

Jeff Wiechowski · Post by **Jeff Wiechowski** » Mon Aug 16, 2010 1:34 pm

We only walked about 1/3 of the total area that's available for expansion. Most of the woods are too thick to get a true visual of any existing lanes thru the mature trees. We're gonna hold off until the leaves have fallen to walk thru again.

We also checked out some of the nearby businesses for possible hole sponsors and within throwing distance is an Olympia Sports store !!!

China Wok has a pretty tasty buffet too !

Kenji Cline · Post by **Kenji Cline** » Mon Aug 16, 2010 7:58 pm

Pulled from DisCap.net forums

MichiganJeff wrote:Tentative plan for the Eagle Scout redesign of the 9 hole layout.

Once we get into the 18 hole redesign, hole #1(shown dashed) will be removed. Nine holes will be added into the blue shaded areas.

Here you go Titan so you can see what we have cooking.

Titan Bariloni · Post by **Titan Bariloni** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 10:16 pm

is that walk from 7-8..shorter then it appears or is it visible from 7..?

what is the ground like...for digging..? tees/pins

the future expansion area seems to appear like a great opportunity for the back 9.....is it just thick with under growth or will some big boys have to be dropped...

Is the budget from city..0..?

Is there any high school students interested in project that could assist with fund raising..Mt Anthony High is fairly close to Willow Park

Have the other sporting directors been contacted..? baseball/football

I am sure a few local shops would support the cause with the right pitch

Has GMDC been contacted..?

enough questions for now..

Thanks again DCers for getting disc flying

Jeff Wiechowski · Post by **Jeff Wiechowski** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:33 am

Titan Bariloni wrote:is that walk from 7-8..shorter then it appears or is it visible from 7..?

what is the ground like...for digging..? tees/pins

the future expansion area seems to appear like a great opportunity for the back 9.....is it just thick with under growth or will some big boys have to be dropped...

Is the budget from city..0..?

Is there any high school students interested in project that could assist with fund raising..Mt Anthony High is fairly close to Willow Park

Have the other sporting directors been contacted..? baseball/football

I am sure a few local shops would support the cause with the right pitch

Has GMDC been contacted..?

enough questions for now..

Thanks again DCers for getting disc flying

Good questions that i'll forward to Tony Malikowski. He's the driving force behind this endeavour.
I can answer a few though....

The 7pin to 8 walk is about 150ft. Not sure what your concern is there........

The ground looks to be solid but not too rocky, i haven't sunk a shovel into it to know for sure.

We only walked about a third of the future expansion area because it was pretty thick. We'll wait til the leaves fall and then look for the lines among the mature trees. From there we can flag any trees that need to go.

Tony and his friend Rick have done some semi-serious clearing of a few current holes with no issues from the park or town so we're assuming that once we get into the new area, they'll have no issue with us knocking down the dead ones and clearing the fallen stuff. Any live big boys that need to go, we'll most definitely ask.

Titan Bariloni · Post by **Titan Bariloni** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 4:55 pm

TY

so NEFA dubz April...pick a date..?

Jeff Wiechowski · Post by **Jeff Wiechowski** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 7:09 am

Titan Bariloni wrote:TY

so NEFA dubz April...pick a date..?

@ Willow? Odds are it'll only be 10 holes.......it might have a couple more fairways cut.

Titan Bariloni · Post by **Titan Bariloni** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 10:57 am

Jeff W wrote:
Titan Bariloni wrote:TY

so NEFA dubz April...pick a date..?

@ Willow? Odds are it'll only be 10 holes.......it might have a couple more fairways cut.

Odds are no more then 30-40 people will play event....region,weather conditions...ect ect

Rindge will only be 12 holes 2 rnds 24 holes total...45 player Cap...

Also we can always add a temp hole or 2 if numbers of event warrant it

Make it happen..I will help with Event!

Titan Bariloni · Post by **Titan Bariloni** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 11:50 am

april 23rd..? will work out HUGE for the schedule.....I will help you guys out

also might have to check willows park schedule for that day..but a good starting date to work with for a little exposure win/win

Titan Bariloni · Post by **Titan Bariloni** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:27 am

I smell a NEFA grant for this course

Kyle Moriarty · Post by **Kyle Moriarty** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 2:21 pm

I'm gonna be at this park on Friday, Anything happen to it recently/anything that needs done to it for a few hours?

Jeff Wiechowski · Post by **Jeff Wiechowski** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 2:44 pm

A few DisCap members will be roaming the woods behind the soccer field in search of the future back nine. Currently, all the tee signs are removed for the redesign as are a couple baskets.

I believe there's a workday scheduled of Nov 13th. The plan is to relocate the remaining baskets to their new locations and carve new fairways where needed.

The latest scoop can be found at: http://www.discap.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1478

Kyle Moriarty · Post by **Kyle Moriarty** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 10:30 pm

Sweet deal, if my team didn't have an XC race that day i would help, damn running.

Jeff Wiechowski · Post by **Jeff Wiechowski** » Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:54 pm

Workday at Willow - Nov. 13th

We will be there from 10 to 4. I expect few will stay the whole time. Whatever you can do will be greatly appreciated. Bring shovels, saws, post hole diggers, gloves and whatever else you have and think we will need for clearing and setting posts and baskets.

Jeff Wiechowski · Post by **Jeff Wiechowski** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 7:55 am

So after this weekend, this is the current layout. 5, 6 & 10 baskets are not in place, we need to purchase sleeves.

Jeff Wiechowski · Post by **Jeff Wiechowski** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 4:32 pm

Only the first 9 on the above map are in. Played today and it's in great shape.

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