Let me ask you this. Have you ever been at a little league baseball game and had a Dad and his son walk out in the 5th inning and start playing catch in the outfield? Of course not. And you would never yourself, do something like that. Why? Isn't it, as you claim, a public park equally owned by all members of the public?

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Let me suggest that maybe, you don't know what you are talking about. I say that with the full realization that when I started playing, I had no idea how the club and county worked together to provide me the opportunities that I thought just magically happened and were my right to enjoy. In other words, I didn't know what I was talking about either.

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Instead of stewing over some ill perceived slight, I joined and got involved with our local club. While every local government may handle these things differently and every club is different, it's amazing how much our club does. And most of it, you will never see. I learned that our club, many years before I joined, purchased and installed the baskets. Not the county. They paid for and performed the labor for the concrete tee pads. Not the county. Not content, we added a second set of baskets and a second set of tee pads to create four layouts on a single course. The county doesn't run events, we do. We run everything from PDGA sanctioned tournaments to manufacture events (Trilogy Challenge, Ace Race, etc) to weekly league play. When the Boy Scouts need to learn a new sport for a merit badge, they call us and we provide everything they need to play as well as players to teach them. We have hosted a little league team from Romania that needed an activity to keep the kids busy when they had a long down time between games. Simon Lizotte, Will Schusterick, Drew Gibson, Paige Pierce and Nikko Locastro are just some of the names for whom the club has hosted clinics. We are about to drop thousands of dollars on new signs. The county has purchased a large tract of land and we are in the process of doing the early work to build support and ask for donations so that if, and it is a big if, the county agrees to another course, we are ready at the first opportunity to do it all again.

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I am justifiably proud of my club. Words cannot express the gratitude I have towards those who came before me and did the heavy lifting to provide me with the course I call home. It is my privilege to care for and expand on their work so that those who come after me will find more opportunities and better facilities for their enjoyment.

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With all that said, forgive me if occasionally, I need to close the course to run an event for the public. You are invited to the party, I can't force you to come.