Golf—but free, public, and requiring only $20 or so of equipment.
Game? Sport? Pastime? Doesn’t matter what you call it: disc golf is the perfect excuse to get outside, even in the middle of winter.
Miscellanea
- This sequence was filmed in Slater Park, Rhode Island.
- The basic concept of disc golf allegedly dates back to the 1960s. In the 1970s, a toymaker named Ed Headrick apparently pioneered the official rules and infrastructure. While disc golfers get prickly about calling it “frolf”—a portmanteau of “Frisbee” and “golf”—Headrick invented and patented the Frisbee as well.
- Incredibly, a shelf full of books has been written about the game, from tutorials to humor collections. Not surprisingly, you gravitate towards Zen and the Art of Disc Golf, by one Patrick McCormick.
- In a remarkable twist, Headrick had himself turned into a number of Frisbees after he died, as Andrew Martin chronicles in his jaw-dropping Medium brief.
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