Original article posted on Gazette.net on June 3, 2009

 

Residents: Keep golf at Sligo Creek course

Parks Department weighing options for facility

by Jason Tomassini | Staff Writer


While county planning officials have said Sligo Creek Golf Course in Silver Spring will no longer be operated as a golf course beginning this fall, residents asked officials last week to consider any alternative that would keep golf at Sligo Creek.

Parks Department officials met with residents May 26 to discuss the future of the course, which the county Revenue Authority will hand back to Park and Planning on Oct. 1 because the course was ruled a financial drain on the county golf system. It will still operate as a golf course until that date.

But most residents at the meeting weren't interested in finding new uses for the course instead they wanted to explore options that would save the course for golfers of all ages and ability and allow the site to offer the youth golf program First Tee of Montgomery County.

"It fulfills a unique need in the county," said Andrew Kleine, moderator for Prezco, an umbrella group of several civic associations in Silver Spring.

Big News! Montgomery County is apparently giving up on Sligo Creek Golf Course as a ball golf course. I have prepared the following press release, and wanted some feedback/input from everyone here before I take it public. - Brad

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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A Bold Green Vision for the Future of Sligo Creek Golf Course

A championship-level 18 hole disc golf course is proposed to replace Sligo Creek Golf Course. Tentatively named Sligo Creek Disc Golf Course, the facility would be the first of its kind developed by Montgomery County Department of Parks. Disc golf, also known as “Frisbee golf”, is similar to ball golf, with baskets as targets. Disc golf appeals to all ages, men and women, regardless of economic status.

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Bulging discs
July 28, 2005
Marc Ethier
Staff Writer

Tom Fedor/The Gazette

In Middletown last Thursday, Dan Becker (right) of Frederick tosses his putting disc at the basket as Shawn Wirth, also of Frederick, looks on. The game they're playing is called disc golf and it's getting its share of converts these days.

Thoughts on a different way to golf

Just don't call it Frisbee golf. The practitioners of the sport of disc golf are pretty laid-back people, generally speaking, but if there's one thing that gets their discs in a downwind it's using the F-word.

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DISC DRIVE
Originally published August 17, 2005


By Stan Goldberg
Sports Editor

	Dan Becker takes his putt, attempting to place the disc into the steel basket.

AT FIRST GLANCE it looked like four men tossing a Frisbee around on a recent hot and humid Thursday evening at Middletown Park. But in this case, looks can be deceiving.

They were playing disc golf, a sport that has been around since the 1970s and claims more than three million participants.

There are about a thousand disc golf courses in the United States. There is a league for the 20,000 pro players (the Professional Disc Golf Association founded in 1975) and close to 400 sanctioned tournaments.

But the four men that were at Middletown Park weren't interested in turning pro or playing in tournaments. They were just four men who come out to the park at Middletown several days a week to play disc golf. Every Thursday during the summer they play doubles.