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Springfield, IL - Lincoln Park North
Written by SIDG Admin
Saturday, 06 February 2010
Capitol City, home of Lincoln, delicious horseshoes, and now another full disc golf course! That's right Springfield, IL is expanding its disc golf facilities by another full 18 hole course, but what makes this new edition is that the course is nestled conveniently in Lincoln Park where a championship class 18 hole course already resides.
Thanks to the continued efforts of the Springfield Disc Golf Club and the Springfield Park District this dream of having 36 holes of disc golf in one park is becoming a reality. While the course is not 100% complete it is however playable at the moment. I've had the opportunity to play this course a few times now over the past several months and each time have enjoyed playing with the local club members that are always willing to show out-of-towners around.
Now you might ask how is this new course going to play out? Will it affect the old course in anyway? What’s a horseshoe? These are all good questions and ones that I can hopefully answer with the knowledge I have gained over many rounds with the local club members. Lincoln Park as it is now will actually go through a slight re-configuration.
While I have yet to write up an official review on great course known as Rock Springs in Alton, IL I was surprised to run across an article on the web about it.
It seems they have gotten around to finishing the teeboxes there which will make the course all the better, now if they can get their signage complete this will be an all-around great course and really a great course for the Southern Illinois area, even if it is almost 2 hours away.
It's that time of year again, cold, windy, possibly even snowy, you guessed it it's time for Ice Bowl!
This yearly event is aimed at raising money and food to help fight hunger. The Ice Bowl tournament is now in its 23rd year and in 2009 raised close to $250,000 and almost 60,000 lbs of food. The money and food was raised from the roughly 133 reporting events across the world and Carbondale was included in those numbers.
Last year we raised $600 and 340 lbs of food, not bad for our initial Ice Bowl. This year we hope to do a bit better with a goal of 500 lbs of food that will go directly to the Good Samaritan Food Pantry right here in Carbondale. As most of you know this past year has been hard for many and this just confirms the need to do what we can to help those in need during these winter months especially.
As a disc golfer you know you need a bag to carry the ever expanding collection of discs that you acquire over time, but what bag out there can hold just about every possible disc you may need on a given course and still have room to house just about anything else you could ever need? -- ok minus the thought of a portable kegerator!
Enter in the INNOVA Discarrier which by INNOVAs own words describes this bag as "Want to carry everything you need for a tournament and a sack lunch? Then the DISCarrier is for you", and they back up this claim with a 20-25 disc capacity, two 32oz drink holders, numerous storage compartments, all while being ultra lightweight yet extremely durable.
Here is another clinic from Discraft that really shows some nice options for getting out of trouble on a course.
The putting style shown in this video I found to be very useful at the last tournament in Centralia. I am also a big advocate from shooting from a knee to give yourself more room for your approach or putt.
Capitol City, 
It's that time of year again, cold, windy, possibly even snowy, you guessed it it's time for Ice Bowl!
As a disc golfer you know you need a bag to carry the ever expanding collection of discs that you acquire over time, but what bag out there can hold just about every possible disc you may need on a given course and still have room to house just about anything else you could ever need? -- ok minus the thought of a portable kegerator!
Here is another clinic from Discraft that really shows some nice options for getting out of trouble on a course.
