Disc Golf, also known as “Frisbee golf,” is a sport that many people don’t know about, but it may soon be coming to Southeast.
The object is throwing a disc at a target, where it gets caught in chains hanging down on top of a metal basket. This is sport that is played all around the United States, even professionally. Administrator Boyd Teemant has been able to secure some donated baskets from a local elementary school who put in their own course but didn’t have room for a full 18 holes.
“I have a friend who has a disc golf course. He’s a principal at Earhart Elementary. And he said he had some extra baskets that weren’t being used,” Teemant said. “And so he suggested I could keep them if we put them to good use. So, we’re trying to put them to good use.”
Journalism teacher Nathan Christner and his father, Rex, are helping to design the course after previously designing a course at a park in Hutchinson.
“There’s not a lot of tricks to it if we find some good land and try to set up interesting shots,” Rex Christner said.
Teemant hopes that PE classes will be able to use the course and possibly even host tournaments here later on.
“I could see maybe we could do a club or something where we have a group of people that get interested and maybe we use it as a way to meet other people with similar interests,” Teemant said.
Teemant is still waiting on final approval of the hole locations before they can be installed. He’s hopeful that the new course will be ready to play before the end of the school year.
