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📋 Meeting Minutes
🏞️ Future Course Improvements - Ayden
- Discussed potential layout changes including moving Hole 1 away from the ditch and behind the tree on the right
- Considering adding a pyramid obstacle on Hole 2
- Drainage work has been completed on several ditches
- Tree trimming completed on Holes 7, 12, 15, and 17 - overhanging limbs removed
- Plans to add planks/boards for ditch crossings
🏆 Ayden Founders Day Tournament
- Date: Saturday, February 7th
- Funds raised will go toward team jerseys for the Ayden/Grifton DGC ($25 each)
- Plan to take junior players to USDGC with remaining funds
- Discussed making the ditch on Hole 8 OB rather than casual for player benefit
- Bathroom availability: Tommy (Parks) will open bathrooms if temperature is above 35 degrees
- Paint for OB lines has been donated; spray wands available
- March 28th: Disc golf event at Ayden/Grifton Festival with chili cook-off, car show, and CTE showcase
🌳 Course Improvements - Farmville
- Long-term plans for concrete tee pads to replace current turf pads
- Hole 7 retaining wall will be removed due to safety concerns
- Future design: Most holes will have one tee pad with two pin placements; three holes will have two tee pads with one basket
- Pond work in progress - artificially lowering water level to clear vegetation
- Parks Director Christopher has been very supportive - mowing has improved significantly
🍲 Chili Bowl Fundraiser Tournament
- Date: Saturday, January 24th at Farmville
- Format: Two rounds - First round with Mulligans ($1 each, 5 per hole), second round is a sanctioned C-tier tournament
- Paper scorecards will be used to help track mulligans
- Benefiting local soup kitchen
- Need: Chili makers (sign up!), bowls and spoons are covered - don't forget your ladles!
- Tent/generator for crockpots being brought by Mike Ellis
💳 Club Membership Discussion
- Current Club membership for 2026: 25 members
- 2025 Total club members: 41
- Membership fee: $15/annually
- Current benefits: Patch, $1 off premium plastic from store, $1 off doubles
- Proposal: Partner with local pros (Blake Poland, Stephen Futrell, etc.) to offer discounted coaching sessions and clinics for GVDG members
- Discussed potential tiered membership system with additional benefits
📢 Club Communication
- Concern raised about reaching members - not everyone sees Facebook invites
- Discord server proposed for announcements, disc sales/trades, and event coordination
- New GVDG website in development - will include events calendar, tournament listings, course information
- Website will feature automatic tournament scraping from Disc Golf Scene (60 mile radius)
- Coordination needed with Adam regarding domain/hosting
⛺ Camp Boddie Disc Golf Course - Special Presentation
- Presented by Stewart Goodson (founding GVDG member, former 7-year treasurer)
- Location: Boy Scout camp near Blunts Creek (approximately 30 minutes from Greenville)
- Two courses being developed: 9-hole course near dining hall and 18-hole championship course in wilderness area
- Camp already has 9 portable baskets
- 9-hole course: Tee signs built and installed, tee pads in, fairways cut - baskets to be placed in February
- 18-hole course: 65-70% of fairways already cut; most holes will have alternate pin placements
- Course will be open to the public (not just scouts)
- Seeking GVDG support: Volunteers needed for Sunday afternoon work days (February timeline)
- Hole sponsorship opportunity: $500 covers basket, two pin placements, and tee sign
- Background: Disc golf is now an option for the Golf Merit Badge
🎁 Donations
- Jim Engelman donated 80-90 discs
- Tax receipt being prepared
- GVDG is a 501(c)(3) - donations are tax deductible; local businesses can sponsor holes
✅ Action Items
- TJ/Stelly to mark Ayden course on January 19th for Ayden Founders
- Monitor weather 10 days before Ayden Founders, arrange portable toilets if needed
- Post layout updates to UDisc and ensure course layout is entered into PDGA for the tourney
- Document Chili Bowl fundraiser results with photos of donation
- TJ to coordinate with Adam on domain/hosting and website launch
- Schedule Camp Boddie volunteer workday for Sunday in February
- Reach out to local clubs for Camp Boddie hole sponsorships
- Explore partnership opportunities with local pros for member clinics
📝 Additional Notes
- Another Round disc golf store has recently expanded into the area
- The Refuge mentioned as potential future course location (has land, lakes, and may have existing baskets)
- Tree on Hole 13 at Farmville is a safety concern - large branches falling; will be addressed during future course redesign
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