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Contributed by: Brendan Leonard/YourHub.com on 7/12/2006

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Community Journalist Eric Lubbers and I are attempting to play every disc golf course in the YourHub.com circulation area, from Boulder to Castle Rock, by the end of summer 2006. This blog marks our eighth and ninth courses on a list of 16 courses.

I'll say one thing for the city of Lafayette's Pioneer Disc Golf Course: It tried. Kind of. It's a disc golf course, all right, but you can tell that Lafayette's priorities are elsewhere -- maybe on sports that more than five people actually play, I guess.

The course, kind of by Bob L. Burger City Park and kind of by Pioneer Elementary, I guess, really makes you realize how little the sport of disc golf actually is appreciated in the grand scheme of things. It's a bit disorganized, with no tee boxes, and no real directions on how to play it. Actually, here it is, plain and simple: There are disc golf holes there, 8 of them. That's it. Choose your own adventure.

We decided that the first tee box was next to a soccer goal sitting on the north side of Baseline Road. Then we decided the No. 2 tee box was on the other side of the block, on the south side of Oak Street. Hole No. 3, is, and I'm not joking, a "Mystery Hole," marked with a big question mark on the map. We decided to aim for the entry point for a slide on the playground. I gave myself an "X" and Eric scored a "?!"

Not knowing where hole No. 3 is causes a slight problem when you're trying to figure out where hole No. 4 starts, since, if there are no tee boxes, you just start where the last hole finished. Well, the hell with it, we said, and we started kind of off to the side of the playground.

The rest of the course is okay. The terrain is pretty much dirt and weeds, and hole No. 9 is hidden by a grove of trees. To tell the truth, we were just going to skip No. 9 because of our total lack of enthusiasm for the course. But then we found it.

Final score: Eric 22?!, Brendan 28X

Louisville's disc golf course, on the other hand, is almost just as simple (it's only five holes and skirts around the edges of a city park), but deserves a little more credit. Apparently, the course was built in 2004 when an 11-year-old kid named Brandon Lin talked the city of Louisville into putting in a disc golf course in his neighborhood.

Which is cool.

There are no tee boxes, but each tee is clearly marked, either painted on the sidewalk or noted on large stones dropped in the grass. Plus, it's a loop, which means you can play two rounds of it if you'd like.

Final score: Eric 19, Brendan 14

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Click here to read our first course review, Globeville Landing.

Click here to read our second course review, Schaefer Park.

Click here to read our third course review, Colorado School of Mines Park.

Click here to read our fourth course review, Westminster City Park's front nine.

Click here to read our fifth course review, Westminster City Park's back nine.

Click here to read our sixth course review, Ken Caryl.

Click here to read our seventh course review, Arvada's Bird's Nest.

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