Welcome back to another trip in the time machine to 1999. This is Flip City Disc Golf Park when owner Bill McKenzie hadn’t had baskets for a full year yet. No cement tees, no alternate holes, and you’ll notice several basket placements different than where they are now on that original 18.
That huge maple tree guarding the basket on #15 today? Here you get to see it when it was relatively tiny. Same for the evergreen near #1’s basket. It was barely a shrubbery here, probably not good enough for the Knights Who Say “Ni!”
Bill and I play a complete round on this video. Back then I was playing my first year of Am-1 barely scraping past 900 in the new ratings system the PDGA just started. My Mom is in charge of the video camera, doing the best she can. Some of the action was lost when she accidentally hit some of the wrong buttons. So happy she was able and willing to do this!
My parents met just 7 or 8 miles away at Campbell Lake cottages about 50 years ago and frequently go back. It’s a good excuse for me to visit them AND get some sweet rounds of Flip City in, and I’ve been doing this ever since he first put in baskets over 20 years ago. The cottages are still there, called Escape to the Lake Cabins, and their owners occasionally play Disc Golf too, even have a skill shot basket for practice!
Hope you enjoy this glimpse of Flip City in its early basket days when not very many people knew about it yet.
