The Tucson Disc Golf Association will meet Thursday, Sept. 14 at Pima Community College East Campus, 8181 E Irvington Rd. after Groves league at about 7 p.m. An agenda has been posted in the Board Meetings section in About the Club. All club members are welcome to attend!
Rillito River Disc Golf Course is open! Baskets are in at Rillito. Big thanks to course developer and TDGA board member Dave Shircore and Pima County for making this happen, and for all the folks who sponsored baskets and came out to help install baskets. The course is still a little rough and mosquitos are a challenge, but the course and the bugs will break in and we’ll be looking to add teepads and signage.
The course is north off Ruthrauff Road just east of La Cholla Blvd, just as the road turns there is a driveway with a low concrete Rillito River Park sign (mostly visible coming from the east just as the road straightens, it’s a driveway that also has a Dead End 100 ft. sign, drive back and you’ll run into the parking lot. While we’re working on hole signage, there is a main sign you can snap a pic of. Teepads are marked by bricks in the ground – yellow for A, green for B, orange for C. There are no lights (this is a dawn to dusk park) nor water but the county plans on installing a porta jon.
The TDGA board will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday July 13 at Barrio Brewing, 800 E 16th St. All club members are welcome to attend. For an agenda, go to Board Meetings.
The TDGA board will meet at 7 p.m. tonight, Thursday June 8 at Bianchi’s at Silverbell and Speedway. An agenda is posted on the TDGA website. Any club member is welcome to attend.
Congratulations to Tucson’s own Andrew Bohme won the open division of the 12th Annual Lemmon Drop Presented by Legacy Discs and DG Woodworks, shooting 19 under on the new three-round layout.
TDGA member John Waugaman took first in Advanced Masters, and other top 10 local finishers include Scott Carle and Wayne Blas in open grandmasters,
The TDGA would like to extend its deepest gratitude to Lemmon Drop TDs Mike Wierda and Ben Vosper, presenting sponsors Legacy Discs and DG Woodworks and all the hole sponsors, the whole course construction crew, and the spotters and players who made this a unique, extreme disc golf experience.
The Sunday ‘A’ handicap league at Santa Cruz River Park will move to an 8 a.m. start time this Sunday, April 2… This is our normal changeover time and we’ve been repeating this at league for weeks, but remind a friend! Thanks!
Great News! Fundraising for the Rillito River Park Disc Golf Course is officially
under way! The Phase 1 price tag for 19 baskets and installation is approximately
$7,400. When TDGA reaches $3,700, the Pima County Parks and Recreation
Department will match us and Phase 1 will begin.
Unlike Tucson’s last course, Quail Canyon, this will be a free to play course, open to all. We won’t be able to offer incentives of free rounds like we could at Quail, but those that help fund this course will have their names proudly displayed, first on the Rillito River Park
Disc Golf Course Message Board, which will one day greet players at the course
entry, and later, on individual Tee Signs as that later phase gets added. For display
purposes on our Message Board, the course/basket sponsorship will have the
following categories based on the general cost of Removable “Championship
Level” Baskets (TBD) that will eventually be purchased for the course.
National Tour – Elite Series Donor: $240 (1 person)/Tax-exempt $270
Super Tour – A Tier Donor: $120 each (2 persons) /Tax-exempt $135 ea.
B Tier Donor: $80 each (3 persons) /Tax-exempt $90 ea.
C Tier Donor: $60 (4 persons) /Tax-exempt $68 ea.
X Tier Donor: $ Any amount (Individual or Any # of persons)
Standard donation checks should be made payable to the Tucson Disc Golf Club.
There is a way to make your donation a charitable donation that can be taken off
of your taxes, but be aware that there is an administration fee of 10%. So, this
means to give the Rillito DGC project the same dollar amount, the donation
amount would need to be larger: $270 instead of $240. (See above.)
Charitable donation checks should be made payable to the Parklands Foundation,
with a note in the “For” blank specifying Rillito Disc Golf Course.
Printable donation forms can be found on the TDGA website. Please see any of the
TDGA Board Members with your Rillito River Park DGC donations or questions.
TDGA Board Members: President- Dave Wichner; Vice President- Jeremy Herr;
Treasurer- Dave Shircore; Secretary- Nick Stefano; Am. Rep.- Kyle Unger.
