Glen Todd, who designed the new disc golf (Frisbee-golf) course in Bryan Park and also serves as Course Manager, tells us the new back nine has opened and is being played. When the course first opened in June it featured just nine holes.
Frisbee-golf began in Southern California in the late-’60s, when a designer/marketer at Wham-O, Ed Headrick (1924-02), created/codified the pastime. Headrick eventually became totally devoted to disc golf, as he tramped around the country selling the equipment he was designing for the sport he invented.
Frisbee-golf began to be played regularly, before the days of the metal baskets and long-distance plastic, in other Richmond’s parks as far back as the mid-1970s. Now, without a doubt, this set of links in Bryan Park is the best public course in the Richmond area.
To read more about the Bryan Park course and this sport, as it’s played in Richmond, click here.
– words and art by F.T. Rea
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