A loss that stings a bit

Hello friends,

I expected to buy a piece of land last week.

I'd gone up to see it last month, I'd been pre-approved (again) for financing, the property had sat on the market for a month or so, and I made an offer ready to negotiate.

Then on the same day, they got another offer. It quickly went to a "highest and best", and I lost.

I try not to get attached before I own properties but it is hard when I step on the land and draw out my first take at a course design, which I had here.

It reminds me of one of my daughter's books called, "A Thousand No's". {{Spoiler alert coming}}

A girl has a dream but keeps being told no. Everyone says no, and her idea shifts until eventually she steps back and sees that all the no's have created one big, "YES".

I think of that book often on my pursuit for a course. At first, when I dreamed of my own disc golf course it was a pro-style 18 that regularly wins top 100 course on Udisc.

But that much land and equipment is more expensive and harder to maintain.

I thought it'd be closer to my house - but land near the Twin Cities isn't cheap.

Now I picture a 9-hole course, potentially a smaller par 3 - but my dream is not diminished in the least.

I've become smarter with each attempt, more creative with what it could be, and more sure that it is something I will do.

This post is really a non-update but I hope someday when someone visits this page while looking at how I built a course as they research how to do it themselves they read this and find renewed focus on what they want and the process that is sometimes necessary to achieve it.

Wheels Up in T-minus however long it takes!