Thanks for visiting Kiwanis! We just fundraised and opened the course last September, and have made some great progress on the course. We're working to install pads (typically every few weeks) and the goal is to have the shorts done this fall, pending some donated materials, funds, and volunteers. We hope to install longs next year, pending funding. P.S. Mosquitoes have been absolutely terrible at several courses in the area so I'm not sure your day will get considerably better at the next course. 😂😂
I can say it was not any better. haha Battle Creek was hands down the worst mosquitos I've ever experienced over the entire city, haha! You guys have a great start going on there!
@@tossingplasticI have been to almost every course in the city in the past 2-3 weeks and I'd actually rate Kiwanis 2nd or 3rd for mosquitoes. Leila has been the worst by far, IMO. Hope you enjoyed your time here! Let me know if you ever want to join a disc marathon - every July a few of us do every course in BC + Coldbrook. This year it was the BC-168. All the holes (longs) in one day. 😂 It's a great day!
Note to players: He is playing LONGS, if you play shorts, every hole is an ace run and much more forgiving and potentially fun for novice/beginners. This course is Beautiful and well maintained, newer pads and easily seeable signage.
Glad you enjoyed the course! It was helpful hearing thoughts on a hole-by-hole basis! Kiwanis is still a very new course - less than a year in the ground. We figured we were to take some lumps in reviews opening before completion, but figured an extra year of playing was going to be worth it. Felt you were very fair! Short pads going in first because Kiwanis is a youth-centered organization. Developing a true beginner layout that was interesting was one of our core design philosophies. We love the longs too though and are looking forward to upgrading the pads. It's just a next year project - everything moves kinda slow when it's 100% volunteer. Enjoyed the video production! The flight lines in particular were a pleasant graphic augment!
Thank you so much! I spend a lot of time doing production, and it's rarely commented on! This course is heading in a great direction, especially still being so new! Good job, and I'm excited to see the final product
@@SausageFPS We raised funds for the course as this is private property - the Prodigy baskets were the most affordable and have been great during the first 10-11 months the course has been open. That said, we'd love to hear your ideas and would certainly enlist your help if you're able to assist with funding to replace all 18 baskets!
It's ironic that your opening sequence mentioned that it's just not our day. I just got back from Wednesday handicaps and played the worst round in several months. Thank goodness I got that one out of my system, so hopefully, some better rounds are on the way. Really enjoy your videos. Thank you.😊
Strange that you saw Craig in the Northeast. I'm hearing some unconfirmed reports from residents of eastern Kansas that he's been putting up signs campaigning for local road commissioner.
Injury. I popped a rib muscle last Friday on hole 7 throwing big lazer beam forehand to set up a birdie. I made myself take the putt, missed, and called it a wrap on the round.
I've only left a course mid round once. And that was because someone I was playing with had a full blown meltdown after griplocking a disc straight into a tree 5 feet from the teepad. I've played in rain and lightning and even with an injured elbow. I may not play every hole because I don't want to lose my discs in water but if I travel to a course I'm playing it
Love watching your channel. played Deerfield near Mount Pleasant yesterday. Two great courses at that location plus Herons Nest a little further north near Harrison. Worth the trip. check ‘‘em out. Btw, think i saw craig looking for a disc yesterday in the chippewa river.
I typically have the ride or die approach to disc golf. However, wind might be my Achilles heel, as far as quitting a round. I think if I threw into say, a group of picnickers, I’d call it quits then. I’d probably leave the disc there too.
Funniest thing I've ever witnessed in disc golf: 3 older guys in their 50s-60s drinking beer and sharing about 4 discs among them, going slow and oblivious but good-natured (and did let us play through once they noticed lol). The funny part was when we saw one of them pop behind a wide tree to take a leak. He noticed someone walking toward where he was standing so he started shuffling sideways around the tree like it was a stealth mission, all while pissing. It was so cartoony and just hilarious looking.
I recently reached down in some tall grass for my disc and a porcupine crawled out from where i was searching. If i would have gotten stuck by one of his needles, i would have quit my game that day.
@@tossingplasticI will say that before we scraped, dumped gravel, and compacted the unfinished pads, they were a muddy, rooty mess in those woods. While the current long pads aren't desirable, and are temporary, they are better than the borderline dangerous mud pits that were there for a short period.
I played a round this fathers day at the local course when I slipped off the tee pad and shanked my disc into the top of an oak tree. I usually use my berg to knock disc out of trees don't laugh it usually works until you get it stuck in the tree. Next contestant was my halo pig that I got stuck in the tree. My three disc in their day glo glory looking like Christmas ornaments. I finally smartened up and found some sticks but it took some doing still because the sun was right in my eyes. I was afraid I was gonna knock myself out with a stick trying to retrieve my damn frisbees. This ordeal had me using some choice words at loud volumes that I scared the bejeezus out of these poor old people playing a round who had me pegged as a psycho that they wanted nothing to do with. You can't make this 💩up had me cursing the whole way back to the car. Mosquitos are nothing skin so soft is deet free and it works. As always enjoy watching your rounds.😎
@@tossingplastic Question… as a fan of your shoe, do you ever attend pro disc golf events? Me and my middle aged boys are going to DGLO in Michigan this September. Awesome course and experience.
Just happened to me.. A huge group..100% humidity and beating ☀️ sun . I kost my keys i walked back 4 hokes and decided to just hit the car dripping 💦 sweat
@@tossingplastic Yeah, a group was letting me play through. I went to get a disc outta my bag on the ground & their dog came up bit my arm. It let go shortly after. They apologized. I was like wtf?! Bled a lil. I went to docs in case of rabies. Still finished the round out lol.
If the bugs were so bad that Deep Wood couldn't hold them at bay, if probably abandon the round. If I got a call from my wife needing me for something. Something important. Urgently. Well maybe not. A significant injury. Heavy rain or snow or very close by lightning.
I played a couple courses out in Michigan that were really sweet cant remember the name but it was a park that had 2 courses and 1 of them was on an old ball golf course and it was sweet .they used the golf course layout really nicely. The other course was woods and really fun.
Could that be Burchfield Park in Holt near Lansing? I'm not sure if Renegade's Trail used to be a ball golf course but it's one of the highest rated in the state and the other course is mostly wooded.
@kevinkevinholt renegades trail was sweet, not sure if it's the one I'm thinking of. Lol I travel for work so I play all over and after awhile they blend together. The course I was thinking of was like a old 9 hole ball course. And they used the old sand traps for a few basket locations and they were sunken into the ground perfect so a skip shot. But would be cool to see a video from renegade trails
@@brandongreen9381 yeah that would be the one, I think. Coincidentally I just played it yesterday! Unfortunately the mosquitoes are absolutely horrendous right now, even after they sprayed a few weeks ago. Hopefully that clears up soon.
Thanks for visiting Kiwanis! We just fundraised and opened the course last September, and have made some great progress on the course. We're working to install pads (typically every few weeks) and the goal is to have the shorts done this fall, pending some donated materials, funds, and volunteers. We hope to install longs next year, pending funding.
P.S. Mosquitoes have been absolutely terrible at several courses in the area so I'm not sure your day will get considerably better at the next course. 😂😂
I can say it was not any better. haha Battle Creek was hands down the worst mosquitos I've ever experienced over the entire city, haha! You guys have a great start going on there!
@@tossingplasticI have been to almost every course in the city in the past 2-3 weeks and I'd actually rate Kiwanis 2nd or 3rd for mosquitoes. Leila has been the worst by far, IMO.
Hope you enjoyed your time here! Let me know if you ever want to join a disc marathon - every July a few of us do every course in BC + Coldbrook. This year it was the BC-168. All the holes (longs) in one day. 😂 It's a great day!
Note to players: He is playing LONGS, if you play shorts, every hole is an ace run and much more forgiving and potentially fun for novice/beginners. This course is Beautiful and well maintained, newer pads and easily seeable signage.
Correct! I mentioned all that in the review at the end! I would like to play that layout !
Glad you enjoyed the course! It was helpful hearing thoughts on a hole-by-hole basis!
Kiwanis is still a very new course - less than a year in the ground. We figured we were to take some lumps in reviews opening before completion, but figured an extra year of playing was going to be worth it. Felt you were very fair!
Short pads going in first because Kiwanis is a youth-centered organization. Developing a true beginner layout that was interesting was one of our core design philosophies. We love the longs too though and are looking forward to upgrading the pads. It's just a next year project - everything moves kinda slow when it's 100% volunteer.
Enjoyed the video production! The flight lines in particular were a pleasant graphic augment!
Thank you so much! I spend a lot of time doing production, and it's rarely commented on! This course is heading in a great direction, especially still being so new! Good job, and I'm excited to see the final product
@@tossingplastic I'll second that, the follow flight is so helpful for... Following flight
I really hope the prodigy baskets get replaced. They are trash, its literally the ONLY negative i could give Kiwanis..
@@SausageFPS We raised funds for the course as this is private property - the Prodigy baskets were the most affordable and have been great during the first 10-11 months the course has been open.
That said, we'd love to hear your ideas and would certainly enlist your help if you're able to assist with funding to replace all 18 baskets!
This is one of my favorites in the area! My other BC faves are Kimball Pines and Begg.
Didn't get a chance to play begg sadly!
My wife and I love Kiwanis DGC!!
@@MrLouDoo it has a bright future !
Crappy experience for you, but thanks for sticking with it and taking us along.
It was a MESS lol
It's ironic that your opening sequence mentioned that it's just not our day. I just got back from Wednesday handicaps and played the worst round in several months. Thank goodness I got that one out of my system, so hopefully, some better rounds are on the way.
Really enjoy your videos. Thank you.😊
Yes sometimes it just needs to happen! I just took 1st at a big tournament so I rebounded well! Hope the same for you!
Strange that you saw Craig in the Northeast. I'm hearing some unconfirmed reports from residents of eastern Kansas that he's been putting up signs campaigning for local road commissioner.
The man truly is a phenomenon
@cmb6087 can't let him get to close to your house
Lmao .. you need to make a video
Where we all think we seen Craig walking past the fairway into the woods like a Sasquatch
Not a bad idea haha!
@@tossingplastic 😄
Injury. I popped a rib muscle last Friday on hole 7 throwing big lazer beam forehand to set up a birdie. I made myself take the putt, missed, and called it a wrap on the round.
Sheeesh yea that sounds pretty bad. I've thankfully never had a bad injury playing!
I've only left a course mid round once. And that was because someone I was playing with had a full blown meltdown after griplocking a disc straight into a tree 5 feet from the teepad. I've played in rain and lightning and even with an injured elbow. I may not play every hole because I don't want to lose my discs in water but if I travel to a course I'm playing it
Wow a meltdown huh, what was all that about?
We completely understand about the mosquitos...we had to leave a course due to them by hole 2 so they are horrible right now...
Out of nowhere they got so bad!
Love watching your channel. played Deerfield near Mount Pleasant yesterday. Two great courses at that location plus Herons Nest a little further north near Harrison. Worth the trip. check ‘‘em out. Btw, think i saw craig looking for a disc yesterday in the chippewa river.
@@FrederickLambert-j9q glad you enjoy it! Craig was probably looking for dinner in that river haha
I remember it was renegade trails in delhi chapter township. Its ranked 52 in the world it was a beautiful course.
And I think it was number 2 in Michigan.
Killer course
I've been eyeballing that one for awhile!
@@tossingplastic i usually play fpo& b pool lay out or short to longs .
I agree.. the mosquitos have gotten bad in the last week..like all this rain and high heat drive them to breed faster then normal
Been terrible!
Only a lightning storm or injury has taken me off the course, so far!
I respect the full send mentality haha
I typically have the ride or die approach to disc golf. However, wind might be my Achilles heel, as far as quitting a round. I think if I threw into say, a group of picnickers, I’d call it quits then. I’d probably leave the disc there too.
Crazy windy days can be highly annoying!
If i bump in to a group of beer drinking young dudes with one disc each..i just leave.
Can be a bit much forsure
Funniest thing I've ever witnessed in disc golf: 3 older guys in their 50s-60s drinking beer and sharing about 4 discs among them, going slow and oblivious but good-natured (and did let us play through once they noticed lol). The funny part was when we saw one of them pop behind a wide tree to take a leak. He noticed someone walking toward where he was standing so he started shuffling sideways around the tree like it was a stealth mission, all while pissing. It was so cartoony and just hilarious looking.
Hole two pre warm-up, that was great!
Should come up to Marquette and play the new course. Buck Buchanan memorial. I think you’d like it.
I would love to get up there!
I recently reached down in some tall grass for my disc and a porcupine crawled out from where i was searching. If i would have gotten stuck by one of his needles, i would have quit my game that day.
Woah that's WILD those things are sneaky !
Mud!! Mud has got me to say screw it I'm out. Twisted knees. Wrenched back. Yep, mud.
@JeffAnderson1964 oh yea that's a good one, didn't even think about it!
@@tossingplasticI will say that before we scraped, dumped gravel, and compacted the unfinished pads, they were a muddy, rooty mess in those woods. While the current long pads aren't desirable, and are temporary, they are better than the borderline dangerous mud pits that were there for a short period.
I played a round this fathers day at the local course when I slipped off the tee pad and shanked my disc into the top of an oak tree. I usually use my berg to knock disc out of trees don't laugh it usually works until you get it stuck in the tree. Next contestant was my halo pig that I got stuck in the tree. My three disc in their day glo glory looking like Christmas ornaments. I finally smartened up and found some sticks but it took some doing still because the sun was right in my eyes. I was afraid I was gonna knock myself out with a stick trying to retrieve my damn frisbees. This ordeal had me using some choice words at loud volumes that I scared the bejeezus out of these poor old people playing a round who had me pegged as a psycho that they wanted nothing to do with. You can't make this 💩up had me cursing the whole way back to the car. Mosquitos are nothing skin so soft is deet free and it works. As always enjoy watching your rounds.😎
That's is a wild story haha! I enjoyed reading that! Glad you enjoy the videos !
You should stop at the Allegan, Mi First Baptist church course. Still need a little work on the front 9
Is that a new course?
Fun course in Morristown, TN with the same name.
@Eyesofgod1 yes I played that one! That is a weirdly common name in the DGC world
Nice
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@tossingplastic
Question… as a fan of your shoe, do you ever attend pro disc golf events?
Me and my middle aged boys are going to DGLO in Michigan this September. Awesome course and experience.
@benjamincollins9465 I have never! I went to a pro private skins match but that's it! DGLO could be fun!
Is your next course going to be TBC or Begg?
@@zaco_disc find out next week!
Mosquitoes for sure and also GNATS
Just happened to me..
A huge group..100% humidity and beating ☀️ sun .
I kost my keys i walked back 4 hokes and decided to just hit the car dripping 💦 sweat
Like it was meant to be haha
Worth playing this course as a stop on way from OH to Traverse City? Better courses in area?
I would go to territorial Brewing company! It's 10 min from those one!
Biggest advantage to Kiwanis is it is right off 94, maybe 2 minutes from the exit.
TBC is really nice though, and you can do lunch at the brewery!
I got chased out of my local course by some young punks with air pistols. Nothing makes you quit a game faster than being shot at.
@@Dennie21 woah, that's wild! What the heck
Hey Hunter! If Craig is out of state, are you hanging out with Mitch again?
I'm not sure who mitch is!
@@tossingplastic You know: Mitch-Again, Where Adventure Begins! 🥁
Ticks or losing a cherished disc. Once, I got bit by a dog at Fallasburg dgc on hole 2. Great Dane too. Kept playing though 😄
Oh wow a dog, that's wild! Crazy situation
@@tossingplastic Yeah, a group was letting me play through. I went to get a disc outta my bag on the ground & their dog came up bit my arm. It let go shortly after. They apologized. I was like wtf?! Bled a lil. I went to docs in case of rabies. Still finished the round out lol.
@@TAStormChasing holy crap haha thats hardcore !
If the bugs were so bad that Deep Wood couldn't hold them at bay, if probably abandon the round.
If I got a call from my wife needing me for something. Something important. Urgently. Well maybe not.
A significant injury.
Heavy rain or snow or very close by lightning.
Haha great comment! It was one to remember, for better or worse !
I played a couple courses out in Michigan that were really sweet cant remember the name but it was a park that had 2 courses and 1 of them was on an old ball golf course and it was sweet .they used the golf course layout really nicely. The other course was woods and really fun.
Humm well I can't help you to much there haha! Territorial Brewing has a course on an old ball golf course. Maybe that rings a bell?
Could that be Burchfield Park in Holt near Lansing? I'm not sure if Renegade's Trail used to be a ball golf course but it's one of the highest rated in the state and the other course is mostly wooded.
I just saw your other reply! Nailed it!
@kevinkevinholt renegades trail was sweet, not sure if it's the one I'm thinking of. Lol I travel for work so I play all over and after awhile they blend together. The course I was thinking of was like a old 9 hole ball course. And they used the old sand traps for a few basket locations and they were sunken into the ground perfect so a skip shot. But would be cool to see a video from renegade trails
@@brandongreen9381 yeah that would be the one, I think. Coincidentally I just played it yesterday! Unfortunately the mosquitoes are absolutely horrendous right now, even after they sprayed a few weeks ago. Hopefully that clears up soon.
Horse flies, or lightning. Either one I’m out.
Horse flies are terrible !
Deer flies. Losing discs.
Ohhh yesss deer flies are horrendous
@@tossingplastic I found on a site called "Farmer's Defense" a sleeve that resists thorns and insects, and is made of that wicking material.
i leave because to many drunks playing
That's definitely a factor in some cities I've noticed!
Sorry dude, i gave you a chance.
I'm done.
Can't please everyone
Just picked uped a champion 🦏 😎♠️
Oh nice! That's what you need
@@tossingplastic 🤟😅