Pinconning Disc Golf Club

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.