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Disc Golf Community and Volunteerism
I am not writing this essay to talk about how I discovered the game, or how I became hooked, or to discuss all of my travels since I found this awesome sport. I am writing this essay to talk a little bit about Disc Golf Community and Volunteerism, something I think is overlooked in our sport by. Ever since I came into this game 5 years ago there have been people who have focused their efforts on getting sponsored. I have to admit I might have had those thoughts once or twice too. They stand up trying to get noticed for their level of play or the brand of discs they choose to throw. Some of these people do end up getting sponsored because some companies see financial value in getting their name out there with someone so vocal and in the public eye.
I am here to ask everyone out there to consider sponsoring another type of person, someone that contributes tot he sport of disc golf without standing up and saying look at me. This is the person who volunteers at all of the workdays, who takes time out of their busy schedule to help out with course projects, the person who contributes to the disc golf community by assisting on clinics and demonstrations and helping with leagues, or the person who simply put, helps make the disc golf community stronger and helps to spread the word about disc golf in a positive light. To quote Crazy John Brooks, “these people are the lifeblood of our sport” and without them the courses would not be in the condition they are, there would be less disc golf community, and disc golf might continue to receive bad publicity for the negative things that happen in our sport.
So, with this call for a new type of sponsorship, I would like to say that there is someone local that I think deserves this basket, someone who has spent many of his personal hours on weekends and afternoons on a tee sign project for a local course, someone who volunteered to come to every one of the workdays I scheduled . . . and he even brought his two boys along to help with garbage removal. He is always there to bounce ideas off of to help me make my leagues better, and he is always more than willing to come up with ideas of his own on how to do things differently in the sport. This is someone that jumps at every opportunity to make the sport of disc golf better in our area, and he does so without asking for anything in return. I would like to say thank you to him and our local club would like to thank him for his volunteer efforts and I would like to do something nice for him since he has helped us out many times in the past year.
If my essay is to be selected as a winner, I will gladly pass along whatever prize I receive to my friend and volunteer extraordinaire as a way of saying thank you.
Thank you DGA for the opportunity.
I am not writing this essay to talk about how I discovered the game, or how I became hooked, or to discuss all of my travels since I found this awesome sport. I am writing this essay to talk a little bit about Disc Golf Community and Volunteerism, something I think is overlooked in our sport by. Ever since I came into this game 5 years ago there have been people who have focused their efforts on getting sponsored. I have to admit I might have had those thoughts once or twice too. They stand up trying to get noticed for their level of play or the brand of discs they choose to throw. Some of these people do end up getting sponsored because some companies see financial value in getting their name out there with someone so vocal and in the public eye.
I am here to ask everyone out there to consider sponsoring another type of person, someone that contributes tot he sport of disc golf without standing up and saying look at me. This is the person who volunteers at all of the workdays, who takes time out of their busy schedule to help out with course projects, the person who contributes to the disc golf community by assisting on clinics and demonstrations and helping with leagues, or the person who simply put, helps make the disc golf community stronger and helps to spread the word about disc golf in a positive light. To quote Crazy John Brooks, “these people are the lifeblood of our sport” and without them the courses would not be in the condition they are, there would be less disc golf community, and disc golf might continue to receive bad publicity for the negative things that happen in our sport.
So, with this call for a new type of sponsorship, I would like to say that there is someone local that I think deserves this basket, someone who has spent many of his personal hours on weekends and afternoons on a tee sign project for a local course, someone who volunteered to come to every one of the workdays I scheduled . . . and he even brought his two boys along to help with garbage removal. He is always there to bounce ideas off of to help me make my leagues better, and he is always more than willing to come up with ideas of his own on how to do things differently in the sport. This is someone that jumps at every opportunity to make the sport of disc golf better in our area, and he does so without asking for anything in return. I would like to say thank you to him and our local club would like to thank him for his volunteer efforts and I would like to do something nice for him since he has helped us out many times in the past year.
If my essay is to be selected as a winner, I will gladly pass along whatever prize I receive to my friend and volunteer extraordinaire as a way of saying thank you.
Thank you DGA for the opportunity.
