Dear DISC members who were clever enough to sign up to our Yahoo group,

 

You are getting the advance notice about the Fling IX which will be
held this year at the new course at the Lake Casitas Recreation Area.
The Ventura Disc Golf Club’s promotional work has paid off and we are
looking forward to a great event up there.

 

Below find the cover letter that is going out in the mail this week
with the flyer. The pdf of the flyer is in the files section of our
Yahoo group at discsports.org

 

 

We are in the midst of the design process for a course at Elysian Park.
The current design is up at Cliff’s public file section at
http://homepage.mac.com/clifftowne  the most recent file is named
ely15feb28. Have a look and feel free to join us in playing and
refining the design. We are trying to get out there on Saturday
mornings with some Chings to set up 4 holes at a time and play them
through twice. Call Cliff at 323-574-7678 (cell) to confirm if you are
showing on Sat AM.

 

Cliff

 

 

 

2/28/05

 

Dear DISC members,

We are proud to announce that this year’s Fling IX will be held at the
Ventura Disc Golf Club’s new course up at the lovely Lake Casitas
Recreation Area between Ventura and Ojai on Sat. June 4th. Once again
there will be a limiton the number of players (72) in the event. Avoid
disappointment, fill out and returnthe enclosed form ASAP. We will be a
PDGA* event (C-tier points) and have asked to be sanctioned as a So Cal
Disc Golf** point event as well.

The Fling IX will be run like last year’s event, with food and a cool
player’s package accompanying the fun of disc golf and Disc Arcade
games. Close to a thousand dollars in prizes were awarded last year and
the DISC club account grew by more than $600. Our thanks to last year’s
helpful and generous players, volunteers and sponsors (Innova and
Discovering the World).

If you are interested in knowing what DISC has done for you lately, in
addition to running the Fling VIII in 2004, we ran the Fall Jr.
Discsports Program for the Los Angeles Unified School District’s South
Youth Services. We set up Ultimate and disc golf demonstrations and
then ran an exciting season ending tournament. Pix are up at
www.discsports.org (which links to our new Yahoo Clubs website). We are
proud that our 3rd annual Ice Bowl In Paradise at Elysian Park on 1/29
made $934 for the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, and it appears that
our long running efforts to get a disc golf course installed in Los
Angeles may finally bear fruit in Elysian Park. We are currently
working with parks, politicians and neighborhood groups and are feeling
foolishly optimistic about this project!

The Ice Bowl in Paradise was a DISC membership event this year (if you
played, you will save $15 on your Fling IX entry). Restricted access to
that section of the park did not limit our fun. Ten women played, Billy
Carnaghe won the CTP and we had 15 other players from the Santa
Maria/Santa Barbara/Ventura areas! This consistent support of DISC by
our Tri-County players adds to the pleasure of running the Fling at the
new course at Lake Casitas this year. Now it is our turn to drive! DISC
has sponsored a basket at the new course and you can help too. Go to
the Ventura Club’s web site at:
www.seedlesssrecords.com/understable.html for more info. The Lake
Casitas Recreation Area web site is a good source for info;
www.lakecasitas.info click on “price list”, “camping” and “water
adventure”. Day passes are $6.50 per car. Some may prefer to show up on
Friday. Campsites run at $18 per night (plus $6.50 reservation charge),
2nd car $10 – good facilities, hot showers etc. Trailers can be rented
- $65 per night plus campsite fee – 2 night minimum. The camping area
closest to the course is Mallard (we have 5 “Friday night only”
campsites reserved there – 1st folks to contact Cliff get those). The
closest RV hookup area is Indian. Registration will be near Tee 1 at
the Coyote Boat Ramp area but lunch and Disc Arcade may be in Mallard.
An early draft of the course map is posted with some other DISC files
up at http://homepage.mac.com/clifftowne Check our www.discsports.org
site for updates also.

The Fling is similarly priced this year. We aim to have a fun time and
raise the same $600 or so that we have in past years. Pros – please
note that the top third in each division win prizes or gift
certificates – not cash. If you can’t make it, please support our
efforts to grow the sport (AND get a super cool collectable disc) by
joining DISC (“Membership only box on the flyer). If youarecoming and
want to add to the bottom line grab some extra Disc Arcade vouchers.
DISC donations are tax deductible as usual. Please contact us if you
can help with our education and recreation projects, or wish to help in
other projects to grow the sport.

 

Thanks so much for your support!

 

* A year’s subscription to Disc Golf World News is an attractive
benefit of PDGA membership. For a PDGA membership application contact
Cliff Towne @ 323.660.4026 e-mail: clifftowne@...

** If you are interested in becoming a Southern California Disc Golf
member go to:http://www.socaldiscgolf.org/