The Funk

In 2020, I decided I wanted to put together a disc golf tournament for my local community that catered towards being fun, non-competitive, and to raise money for improving our local course. It was an outlet for me to do some custom course design on top of the existing courses. I put together an easy but tricky 24 hole "Safari" layout at one of our most difficult courses. The outcome was a bunch of fun "carnival" golf and 94 happy community members!

We ran a raffle and were able to raise about $900 dollars for updating and replacing the tee signs at the course we held the event at. This was a very fulfilling event to run as the community had expressed interest in a cheap and fun event, rather than the usual highly competitive and expensive events that our community was known for.

If you are wondering, I made the map in excel by overlaying a google earth birds eye view of the area and manually! There are also custom tee signs for each hole that I made. I got a lot of level design experience from iterating on and presenting custom disc golf holes to my friends and other community members over the years.

https://www.pdga.com/tour/event/45171

https://www.discgolfscene.com/tournament/The_Funk_2020

The Funk 2

In 2021, I wanted to continue in the style of of course design we did the year prior, but instead make a more competitive experience for those who want it. The Funk 2 was a multi course, multi day event featuring a players party at the one of the local private courses with camping onsite overnight. 

Trinity Links was used as day 1 Safari course and then used that evening for the player party. Day 2 featured some of the tougher holes from The Funk at the original Funk course, with additional changes to provide more challenge and less gimmick. The player party was a lot of fun and this had much larger payouts than the year prior.

https://www.pdga.com/tour/event/51576

https://www.discgolfscene.com/tournament/The_Funk_2_Electric_Boogaloo_2021