Pinconning Disc Golf Club

anyone that has played Blizzard Hills would be doing the course a great favor by going to http://www.pdga.com/course_directory/course/blizzard-hills-dgc
and posting a favorable and honest rating. Remember, the course is the only non publicly funded public course in the Saginaw Valley and has been cut out of the woods by hand and all signage, baskets and upkeep comes from donated funds.

Random Draw Doubles to celebrate Pinconning's Cheese Town Challenge Race and weekend full of events. Be at Blizzard Hills for registration from 10:00 to 10:45, tee off at 11:00. ALL SKILL LEVELS, beginners will be teamed with higher skill level players, many prizes and only a $5.00 donation to PDGC to play. Kevin is cooking his famous venison burgers after the round, bring your own beverages, chips or whatever to pass around. And you may want to stay around for a singles challenge following dinner.

Anytime between now and when Ward retires and closes the Blizzard Hills Bar on April 30th, any disc golfer that stops in for a drink and says " Ward, we love the disc golf course" will get a free Glow Mini compliments of Ward Prindle, Saganing Eagle's Casino and the Pinconning DIsc Golf Club (1 mini per disc golfer please).

And mark the dates - April 26 will be the kickoff evening for Blizzard Hills / Pinconning Disc Golf Club's 2010 doubles season. We will tee off at 5:30 (starting time changed to 6:00 on May 17th), drawing for partners shortly before that, so be on time. The Monday night doubles is now participating in the "Michigan Cooperative Points Series - Summer", so make certain to sign on to Disc Golf Scene and supply me with an email address so I can enter you as a regular player. You can find more info on the Cooperative Challenge at Disc Golf Scene.

And with a tear in my eye I remind all that the Blizzard Hills Bar is closing at the end of this month so Monday the 26th will be our last league evening to have the 19th hole. It'll be a nice evening to bid Ward a Happy Retirement and thank him for allowing and continuing the disc golf course. And if you miss out on Monday's play, Wednesday April 28th will be a special night at the bar. Some good ole boy musicians that travel around making impromptu stops at local bars treating the patrons to live music are rumored (scheduled) to stop in to play, probably around 7:00 or 8:00, so BE THERE. To help bring some players in and send Ward off to retirement with a HUGE Disc Golf Farewell, I'm scheduling a Singles Round on Wednesday the 28th at 5:30 with the Michigan State Berth Packages as the main prizes. It will be $5.00 to play, $2.00 optional event ace pool (CTP if no aces) and we will need 5 paying players to have the Berth available with up to 3 Berths being handed out for 1st, 2nd and 3rd if we can get 15 players or more. The field will be capped at 32 players. There will be some additional CTP and Long Putt prizes as well. Please visit Disc Golf Scene Tournaments (Berths At The Blizzard) to reserve your spot by posting your intentions under the "TALK" tab. please feel free to contact me with any questions. [email disguise]

now get your discs and godiscn

here is a message I received yesterday
"hey craig it is jacob i was just wondering when leagues start cause im ready for this season"
my sentiment exactly, Jacob !

I am thinking that April Showers may bring undesirable situations for Monday evening play, so the plans are to start our regular Monday night league sometime near May 3rd. If good weather persist, I will announce an earlier starting time. Until then, it would be GREATLY APPRECIATED that anyone playing Blizzard Hills will take time to pickup a few sticks from the fairways and if anyone is in favor of any additional work, there's plenty to do. Winter plowing left mounds by tee's 1 & 10, they must go. Most all tee pads need raking and leveling, there are still logs in fairways that could be carried and stacked and there is also more grooming that could be done on holes 12 and 14 (PLEASE, don't take any cutting or grooming upon yourself before arranging your ideas and thoughts with Jim, Craig and most importantly, Ward. REMEMBER, the Blizzard Hills DGC is on Private Property and between Ward and the PDGC, we will patrol the area in detail this year. ANYONE observed destroying ANY of the natural habitat will banned from admittance and prosecuted when possible. Destruction and littering has become a HUGE issue at the Midland and Freeland courses and as traffic increases, I expect some of that problem for us. PLEASE, if you are a regular player, it goes without saying that you won't be breaking trees - etc, but what you MUST do is to be an Ambassador for the course and disc golf in general. Please take time to welcome and chat with anyone that looks new to the course. Be specific and firm in making our wishes and desire known to maintain the course on Ward's private property. Not that it's a possibility or has been talked about but we must remember that Ward could just as easily take our privileges away as quick as he was to KINDLY DONATE this GREAT space. It would help TREMENDOUSLY if everyone that showed up to play would drop by the bar to quench a thirst or at a minimum, donate a dollar or two towards gracious contribution to the World of Disc Golf. Disc golf is growing at a faster rate than every before, currently surpassing ANY other organized sport. If we can maintain and improve this great course throughout the 2010 season, we'll have a PDGA approved course, a course that will be ready for Sanctioned tournaments and maybe even a National Event in the near future. What's it going to take ? MORE HARD WORK and more money. Anyone that has any ideas or contributions for tee pads, LET'S KICK IT IN GEAR. I want to see tee 1 & 10 done in concrete before league starts, what do you think ?

BLIZZARD HILLS IS AWAITING PLAYERS. Fortunately the winter didn't leave as much water lying around so Blizzard Hills is ready to play. Last year we started our Monday Night Doubles the first week of May. Keep an open eye for the actual starting date 2010.

Clark Slater hits an Ace on hole 13, the first ace recorded on the newly opened back nine. Way to go Clark ...

THE MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF THE DAY

Blizzard Hills, Pinconning Michigan is nearly finished with all 18 holes. October 16, 17 & 18th., Troupe #150 from Westminster Presbyterian of Bay City camped, ate, WORKED HARD and learned the game of disc golf at Blizzard Hills Disc Golf Course. With the help of the 7 scouts, 3 leaders and 10 members from the Pinconning Disc Golf Club and Monday Night League, we were able to get ALL fairways cut through the thick woods. The posts have been set on all but holes 11 and 12, and these final 2 will go in this week. All that leaves for the cutting crew is some final trimming around a few tee areas, final cutting of a few annoying trees and some minor hauling of brush and logs to clear the walking as you discover the depth of this course.
The Pinconning Disc Golf Club made Troupe #150 the Official Scouting Crew for Blizzard Hills DGC and with doing so invited the group back next year for a weekend that has more disc golf than work. The scouts added a tremendous long time effect to the course by taking a 4' pine tree from the fairway of hole 10 and transplanting it within a few feet of the course map and hole 1 bag and meeting bench. If you look hard at the photo below, you'll see the pine between the group. To all of the Scouts and their leaders, we can never thank you enough for the weekend of hard work. The first 12 holes completed are ready and groomed for GREAT play and the final 6 will be open for play within 2 weeks, the bar is open and ready for your visit; so get to Pinconning and visit Ward at Blizzard Hills.
We still have a very few fund raiser discs available, don't hesitate to write with requests.
And make sure to check the new sign when coming to the course on Pinconning Road.

We need a crew for a couple more days have hard work and then it will be one of Michigan's best disc golf courses, ready to teach anyone a lesson in technical play and make you a better disc golfer.

Just a reminder, we have some Boy Scouts camping and helping cut and clear the final 6 holes at Blizzard Hills this weekend. The plan is to start working / playing around 10:00 each day and ANYONE and EVERYONE that could come out and help will be rewarded by knowing that come spring (or before) we'll have an 18 hole, magnificent course in Pinconning. The goal will be to get all of those 6 holes cut and cleared but the reality is, if we can get hole 14 brush cut and semi clear of the big trees, it'll be a successful weekend of work. I hope to see many of you there. Feel free to bring gloves, shovels, rakes, trimming tools, chains saws or whatever it takes to get you to and stay the day at Blizzard Hills.

This coming weekend (17th & 18th) is a WORK WEEKEND at Blizzard Hills. We have a group of Boy Scouts volunteering on the course and camping for the weekend. The hopes and plans are to complete the final trimming and cutting on holes 10 through 15, with MAJOR attention to hole 14. This will be the best opportunity we have had to involve the community and get many hands working towards the goal of completing all 18 holes. As far as I know now, we will probably be there Saturday by 9:30AM and stay until we drop. Sunday's schedule will be established as we finish the work day on Saturday. Call me if you need any further details -
989-686-1375 - thanks to all that have and will help.

The plans are to make tomorrow a day to clear the final fairway at Blizzard Hills. ANYONE that wants to help, PLEASE DO SO and thanks. bring your gloves, rake, trimmers (gas or hand) energy and cold water and your discs.
Jim usually starts about 9:30am , I'll try and be there by 10:00 at the latest.

any questions, please email or call. There is toms of stuff to get dome before the September 19th tournament. oh yea, the tournament posting will be up next week.

Information to players coming to Pinconning for Monday night random draw doubles play and with a chance to win the ace pool. The ace pool is starting again at $7.00, since Ron was SO KIND to donate a few bucks to get it kick started and on it's way back up to a substantial amount. Thanks you Ron, you're a gentleman... So the rules are this. It is $6.00 to play and that includes the ace pool. Players showing up for their first or second evening of play ever, get two weeks of the ace pool only. Please make note that the course is under construction. Some weeks we will play different holes than the past week. The league starts at 6:00 without exception and also all rules may change depending on the evening, the moon or the emotional stability or instability of any particular group that shows up to play and argue about trivial issues.

Another ace at Blizzard Hills. Ron hits #3 for his first ever ace in a basket with chains and with an audience. For those of you that don't know Ron P. from Tawas, Ron is the designer and course care taker (CC) at the AuGres Michigan course. It is a fine target course on the old airprt property within the village of AuGres. Ron has had aces on his target course but never had a witness. The ace last night was without fail, the most perfect shot that I have witnessed at Blizzard Hills. Way to go Ron P., I'm glad I was a witness to the ace that used the route I would like to see declared as a permanent Mando.
In fact, it was such a pretty ace it deserve another mention - Ron P. (sorry I don't have the spelling for your last name) tossed the most beautiful shot perfectly down the fairway of the #3 hole at Blizzard Hills. The shot took the route that designer Terry Calhoun intended for the hole, left of the tree 15' off the tee pad, the tree that I was wishing to make as a mando.Way To Go Ron on ace # 2 on hole #3 since the course opened. Ron and Ben Murphy share the honor of both acing that hole to take the ace back to start.