Students find disc golf a relaxing outdoor activity. Part of the appeal comes from needing no experience to play. Participants play the game by throwing a golf disc into the target, typically a steel basket over which chains hang, in the fewest amount of throws possible. The player starts by driving from a designated tee area and continues toward the basket beginning each shot from the spot where the previous throw landed. A successful putt places the disc inside the basket.
Disc golf is considered by some to be a very competitive sport.
The Professional Disc Golf Association, founded in 1976, has over 14,000 members and frequently holds competitions around the United States for both professional and amateur players. The game is often inaccurately referred to as Frisbee golf but Frisbee, a popular disc making company, does not manufacture the vast majority of discs used by disc golfers. There are no disc courses on campus but students need not travel further than the South Boulder Recreation Center to find one. But it would be nice to have a disc golf course on campus. Although the Rec Center does not presently sponsor an intramural disc golf team, interested students have the option of playing Ultimate Frisbee instead.