MORE ON DISC GOLF
By Roger & Sue Anderson, Caroline St., firesweep@verizon.net
Thu, 19 February 2009
On the subject of disc golf in Leddy Park, we happened to visit a park where disc golf was played last May while visiting our daughter and son-in-law out in Iowa City at law school there. They lived right in the city and we decided to seek quiet green place to take a walk. At a park about 10 minutes outside town, we instead found a place where the formerly semi-wild forest with it’s serene walking trails had been partially converted into a disc golf course, an environment much like a regular golf course: a sterile grassy lawn mono-culture with isolated trees, heavily mowed and manicured, sporadic metal structures used as “pins” and, judging by the obvious heavy wear, well used. It was busy that evening with numerous small groups making a fair amount of noise. After walking about a bit, we left, disappointed. What a shame if the same fate were to befall our lovely Leddy Park. Disc golf belongs, but only in an appropriate location, certainly not in Leddy Park.
Roger & Susan Anderson
Caroline St.