I've begun a petition for cement tee pads at Ellison Park in Rochester. Tee pads are not mearly a problem raising funds but fighting against a group called The friends of Ellison that think tee pads would be a risk to sledders in the winter. Of course we would sink the tee pads in but they don't even come into play where kids sled. Please visit http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ellisonteepads to sign the petition and make a world class course safe to play.

I will sign. I came up a few weeks ago to play Ellison and Chili again. It had been 10 years since I had played either course. Chili looked amazing, but Ellison looked exactly the same as I remembered it 10 years ago. Appeared as though the course had been frozen in time. And the tee pads were as bad as I remembered. Some of the worst that I have ever played.