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Disc golfers have been playing the Pease Park course for more than 20 years. The news that it’ll be closing isn’t going over very well.

"There are some very good courses. This is one of the old ones - the grandfather course. It should stay," Don Weckler, a disc golfer, said.

Cesar Arguellos showed up Thursday to support keeping the course.

He said he loves taking 4-year-old Zoe to Pease Park and hoped she would learn to play there.

"She wants to throw. She wants to play. It's something that really gets them outside. Gets them wanting to go to the park and not just swing in a swing. Not just sit in the water, but actually walking around," he said.

He's not alone in his love for Pease Park.

City officials say the popularity of this course is the problem.

Heavy foot traffic is wearing down the vegetation and compacting the soil, and that causes creek erosion.

“We have a serious issue with the environment. We have a serious conflict of maintaining an environment and a park and the things that happen in a park," Kelly Snook, the assistant director of the Parks and Recreation department said.

While disc golfers showed up with suggestions for moving holes, putting down wood chips and other fixes, the city said it's too little too late.

"We've reached a conclusion where we really need to take a drastic step at this point," Snook said.

That step is permanently closing the course, and that’s not the answer disc golfers are looking for.