Lines drawn in debate over disc golf at Robin Hill Farm Park

Published 4:16 am Tuesday, August 12, 2008

AGNEW — Robin Hill Farm, the county park that became a battleground this summer over a planned disc golf course, has sparked a duel between two new groups.

Well, perhaps not quite a duel. It’s unlikely that pistols or swords will be drawn.

But the Friends of Robin Hill, a group formed last week, wants to stop disc golf from being played in the park’s southwestern corner.

The Clallam County Parks Department has spent months designing an 18-hole disc golf course for that part of Robin Hill.

The course’s fairways and “holes” — baskets into which golfers toss a Frisbee-like disc — would take up about 20 of Robin Hill’s 195 acres between Dryke and Vautier roads.

But the Friends have begun a campaign of “letters, e-mails, petitions and personal contact,” with the parks department, according to a written statement issued by member George Mansfield of Sequim.

“The group believes that, while there may be room in the park for a disc golf course, the location presently proposed by the county would negatively impact the beauty of the park’s large, eastern sloping meadow,” the statement said.