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Jonathan Meehan, what can I say about this awesome gentleman and scholar. He is a man that we affectionately call the lopper! He is the disc golf course custodian of record here in the Poconos, PA. Fearlessly he goes about his business weekly sometimes in a solitary way and other times he has the help of disc golf minions like myself and others who share his same passion.

He designs intimidating holes that you may not like when you first play them but after a few attempts your mindset is freed from the negativity and focuses on the positive improvement in your game.

He is a master at getting the most out of a course already in play by placing holes in obscure but natural areas that get you to say wow, I never saw that line or shaped fairway.

He thinks outside the box and yet somehow conforms to the terrain at hand to challenge you to a better day of disc golf through accuracy and finesse.

He works tirelessly like a busy beaver building out our epic course at the Francis E. Walter dam which provides many a rafter a whitewater adventure all summer long here in the Poconos.

He hosts our fundraiser tourney's to get us more baskets, tools and such to make our course grow from one course into now two and helps others in between with their home courses locally.

His passion is without gratitude or recognition from the masses but a chosen few of us get the pleasure of working side by side when we can make it out to help.

From building awesome new holes to amazing tee boxes and long, varied placements on existing ones he strives to involve all your mental capacity while playing.

If he spots an unfamiliar face while working or playing he always tries to great them, welcome them and instruct them on new hole positions, layouts and mapping so they don't get lost as we are lacking tee box and course signage on 50% of the course.

He always has fundraising discs for sale in the trunk of his car and donates the money back into our course fund.

He hosts the weekly dubs tourney's and cooperatively with Mr. Disc Golf himself Mike Solt, he holds fundraisers for our course maintenance free of profit.

Together I couldn't think of 2 people who embody the spirit of disc golf more than these two extraordinary men I get to call my friends.

Mike hosts dozens of tourney's a year in our local market and goes above and beyond to support our local fire companies with 2 fundraisers a year. He embodies the true spirit of the fastest growing sport in America, Disc Golf.

Mike Solt with his financial and personal commitment to building up the sport, our local courses and supporting us players with economical tourney's, discs etc. needs to be honored for his work and that is why I mention these two fine gentlemen together in this post.

Jonathan Meehan and Mike Solt as good as spirits of the game as you can get!

Thank you for all your hard work, dedication to the sport and most of all your smiles when we play together, build a tee box or talk about disc golf life!

Sincerely,
Tom Williams aka "Taco Tom"