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Patapsco disc golf course was recently granted $5,000 for upgrades!!!Surprised  This money will be used to build new tee pads and signs for the course. 

Park officials are looking for volunteers to help aid in the contruction process.  Volunteers will be "overseeing" a group of 5 teens along with their supervisor to make sure they are building the tee pads correctly and offer any guidance/support you can. One volunteer on all days would be ideal, although the most critical day of the week to get someone out there are the Tuesdays. Each week a new crew will be showing up to begin work. On Tuesdays, new groups will need to help identifying what they are doing, how to do it, and where to get started. The idea is that when they are done on Thursday they will have built 2-4 tee boxes.

Duties will include:

• Measuring and cutting boards (this could be done at any time, not just with the crews)
• Using a level
• Being able to follow a very easy blue print (thanks Brian and Joel)
• Able to help teach kids
• Patient and creatively able to teach young teens how to play disc golf
• Demonstrating tool uses and safety
• Leaders (although they will have a crew chief they might not know a thing about construction and any help would be helpful for them)
just to name a few

Work day hours are Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 8-2

 

If you can help, please contact:

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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.

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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

Contact:
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Chevy Chase, MD 20815
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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.

Last Updated (Friday, 26 June 2009 13:16)

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