Holmes Park gets an upgrade

It’s a little known fact that when Pete Seeger wrote “If I Had a Hammer,” he initially penned the lyrics, “If I had a router, I’d rout’er in the mornin’.” Widespread public confusion and a boycott by the Construction Workers Union led to the change with which we are all so familiar today. Thus, we’ve been deprived of routing all over this land.

Fortunately, someone decided to rout all over Holmes Park and it’s given us a pretty great upgrade.

During a break in the rain Saturday, we decided to fit in a quick round at Holmes Park. When we arrived, we found new signs on every tee pad. The new signs are wooden and routed and all nine holes are now labeled with their hole number, length, and par designation. It’s yet another sign that disc golf is not on the wane in the Upstate. The more parks that get upgrades and regular maintenance, the more we’ll see new players coming to the game.

That’s a look at one of the new signs, a photo taken both in appreciation and with a suggestion in mind.

You might recall, the Tree Doctor is a lefty and a big one. Hole #6′s sign is placed on the right side of the front of the Number 6 tee pad. It happens to fall right in a big lefty’s throw path. As Doc said, “I’m going to hit that sign one of these days.”

When he does, I’ll laugh.

If it’s not too late to change, we think it might be helpful to move the signs a little farther off the tee-pads to give more room for the disc golfers to move.

In the meantime, kudos to whoever was behind getting the new hole signs at Holmes. May we all rout all over this land.