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One of the things I really appreciate about disc golf is the low barrier to entry. My local club does events where we give discs away to kids to get them starte

One of the things I really appreciate about disc golf is the low barrier to entry. My local club does events where we give discs away to kids to get them started. We’ll give hundreds of putters away this year and it will cost about $1700. For $15 we can outfit a kid with a three disc set once they’ve decided they like the sport enough to learn about the differences in discs. The kids we give these away to are unlikely to get that money from family but a small org can raise the donations with out having to do big donor drives or the like.

elijaht 5y ago
Yup- no longer playing (moved to an area where there is no scene/courses), but I was a casual player for a few years. The cost inspires a lot of generosity. When I started I probably was tossed 10-20 discs over the first few months, precisely because it is such a low cost sport. Really helped get it's hooks in me and made some great friends
- kasey_junk 5y ago
  There is no public course in Chicago (where my club is located). Fixing that is a major long term goal of our club but we’ve had a lot of success working with the parks putting up temporary baskets. Our club only exists because a buddy and me took a cheap basket down to the park to goof around and lots of like minded folks saw us. Now we have a pretty big Wed putting league in one park and temporary baskets we leave in others for putting & field work. You might try just putting in a park with friends and see what happens.
  - losvedir 5y ago
    There's tons just across the border here in Indiana! I live in Whiting and they just put up a great disc golf course in Forsythe Park here. Come out sometime and play! (And send me an email so I can join :)).
    - kasey_junk 5y ago
      We play northern Indiana/Joliet/the suburbs a lot. Which is great for people with cars. Lots of great options. We are trying to make the sport more accessible to kids on the south (east) side who can’t get out to anywhere else. IIT has a small course but it’s private and their security is known to hassle kids on campus who aren’t students. So having park sanctioned baskets is our focus. https://hydeparkdiscgolf.com/ https://hydeparkdiscgolf.com/

elijaht 5y ago

Yup- no longer playing (moved to an area where there is no scene/courses), but I was a casual player for a few years. The cost inspires a lot of generosity. When I started I probably was tossed 10-20 discs over the first few months, precisely because it is such a low cost sport. Really helped get it's hooks in me and made some great friends

kasey_junk 5y ago
There is no public course in Chicago (where my club is located). Fixing that is a major long term goal of our club but we’ve had a lot of success working with the parks putting up temporary baskets. Our club only exists because a buddy and me took a cheap basket down to the park to goof around and lots of like minded folks saw us. Now we have a pretty big Wed putting league in one park and temporary baskets we leave in others for putting & field work. You might try just putting in a park with friends and see what happens.
- losvedir 5y ago
  There's tons just across the border here in Indiana! I live in Whiting and they just put up a great disc golf course in Forsythe Park here. Come out sometime and play! (And send me an email so I can join :)).
  - kasey_junk 5y ago
    We play northern Indiana/Joliet/the suburbs a lot. Which is great for people with cars. Lots of great options. We are trying to make the sport more accessible to kids on the south (east) side who can’t get out to anywhere else. IIT has a small course but it’s private and their security is known to hassle kids on campus who aren’t students. So having park sanctioned baskets is our focus. https://hydeparkdiscgolf.com/ https://hydeparkdiscgolf.com/