BRATS Disc Golf Course and Throw Shop West, Ann Arbor

We had quite a nice group of players visit BRATS today. I hope they come back. 

We are thrilled to read such an amazing article about our 25 years of sustainability work, including planting thousands of trees at BRATS. Plan to come and visit us this summer.

Disc Golfer DiscGolfer Spring 2025: PLANTING TREES FOR A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE Planting Trees For a Greener Future: The Calhouns Show Us How Sheila and Terry Calhoun are living proof that disc golf is truly a lifetime sport; Terry was …

It’s a glorious evening!

Our friend Paul Whitmore, is teaching a weekly Disc Golf class to about a half a dozen students at our BRATS courses on Wednesday evenings. He’s operating through a recreational sports program at the University of Michigan.

Looking for a friend who wants to be near my Disc Golf courses and is going to move into the area. Who can tell me about something under $1500/month that’s within 10 miles of our house in any of southwest Ann Arbor, Saline, or Lodi Township? Should be 2 to 3 bedrooms and no outdoor maintenance needed. Thanks for thinking about this. 👍🏾

The world is an amazing place. I’ve somehow been elected to the World Disc Golf Hall of Fame: “The highest honor in disc golf.” I feel both honored and, frankly, humbled because I have revered the members of our hall of fame as I have learned of them or met them and I know how hard so many other people have also worked along with me at growing this community.

I’ve been a member of the disc golf community for 25 wonderful years of fun & fitness and competition & camaraderie, joined by many of my close family members and literally thousands of friends. And now, in return for having a good time, I receive disc golf’s highest honor? Wow! Thank you WDGHoF members.

There are five of us inductees in 2024 and I am further honored by being included with the other four names on this list, each of whom has made significant contributions to disc golf, There are five of us this year: Terry Calhoun, Mike ‘Hubee’ Hughes, Chris O’Cleary, Leonard Muise and Scott Stokely.

Come and play! Hope you are having a great weekend. Sheila and I have been working very hard! 27 of our BRATS courses' holes, the White 9 and the Red 18 are available for play at Bratsholme Farm, 5171 Waters Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48103; the Blue 9 is being “rested” right now but you can play it at your own risk of lost discs in the rough rough :)

Donations welcomed but no required fee to play or park, ever. All you need to do is contact me and get a tee time. That can be nearly immediate or a day or two ahead. Call or text (734) 883-4407 or message me in the Book of Faces.

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All disc golfers have experienced trees that just jump out in front of our discs. There appears to be a new, more aggressive species here in Michigan.

We have decided to do No Mow May on our BRATS Blue Course this year. It will remain open during May but we are not mowing it.

Soon, we hope to be putting onto the market a single-family home that was once a 6-bedroom, 3 bath duplex. It is only one house away from ours at 5133 Waters Road, Ann Arbor 48103.

It is just inside the Ann Arbor school district but politically in Lodi Township. The property is 2.2 acres, has a new septic system and is on a quiet, rural dirt road. Nice neighbors all around. Lots of open space and woods nearby. Only five miles - as the crows do fly - from main campus; a nice bike ride. Lots of wildlife, including mink, fox and 40+ species of birds in May on bird count day.

The home has two basements, two kitchens, and could be very interestingly configured for a large family or for workshop, lab, or office space in-home. Lots of great south-facing space for gardens and orchards. It was built in 1950 by Milton Pool and Clair Griffin (RIP) and served as a home on one side plus a small apartment and a tv/radio repair studio on the other.

When we first put it on the market two years ago our township was shocked to learn that it was a duplex and has been weirdly offensive to us about it - like it was our fault even though we bought it that way 10 years ago - which is why we are not yet back on the market! We are jumping through hoops. (It had been identified for 70 years as two addresses, 5133 and 5141 Waters Road, but the township says 5141 doesn't and didn't. Okay.)

Basements are a little damp seasonally and the home needs exterior painting, but it is prepped for painting. We don’t want to decide colors for the new owners. Most windows have been replaced during the last 6 years. Oil heat on one side was recently replaced by propane. Upstairs bathrooms are functional but small and need upgrading IMO, basement one is a Pittsburgh/farmer’s bathroom.

We will be looking for something like $320k but that is not finalized. Just wanted to let friends and friends of friends know this is something to think about and for the location and size is remarkably low priced. Not going to make anyone happy who needs a s**c and span “finished” everything, though, but there are two 18-hole disc golf courses a couple hundred feet away. 😁