Nine more holes opened for Disc Golf

By Richard Shaw

Disc Golf.
Not your average sport.
The reason? There are many.
First of all in most places it costs nothing to play other than to buy equipment (a good starter kit costs about $40).
Second, it uses many of the same rules as regular golf, but with some small tweaks. The terminology is slightly different too with words like anhyzer, roller, mini-marker, hyzer, the circle and tomahawk.
Third. While the sport is only starting to become widely known, it has been around over 50 years. And there are national tournaments and even national championships.
But can you name one person who plays it?
The sport has been in Price for some time, on the USU Eastern Campus. Nine holes traverse the campus (with one recently moved because of the construction of the new building). And the students love it.
So do some locals. Randy Gold has been playing for some time and spoke to the crowd that gathered to do the ribbon cutting at Pioneer Park on Friday.
He pointed out that while there are basically three types of discs used in the sport (a driver, and mid-range and a putter) there are many variations.
That was brought to point by just peering into the bag of one of those that play all the time, a place where a dozen discs dwell.
Some people call the sport frizbee golf but its technical name is Disc Golf.
Much like regular golf, people from across the state like to play on various courses. There are 59 that are noted on the internet in Utah, and they are located all over the state.
Now make that 60.