The Bucs Blade Run will be an invitational in-line skate from Buc Stadium to the Coliseum. Following that, skateboarders will perform in the Ramp Jam, and proceeds from that will benefit the city's planned skate park. The Texas Jazz Invitational, planned for May 7 in partnership with the Texas Jazz Festival. Ochoa said the expansion, including the Texas Treasure disc golf tournament, is an effort to bring the Buc Days celebration, which runs April 19 through May 17, to more people. Buc Days is more than fireworks, the parade and the carnival.
Disc golf is an up and coming sport.
This may be the sport of the family in the future. Nelson said he hopes the tournament will help the popularity of disc golf soar in Corpus Christi. The Coastal Bend Flyers organized five months ago and are the second disc golf club in the city. Almost 30 golfers, including a number of novices, played in the first of a series of tournaments organized by the Flyers. The sport is played like ball golf, but participants try to fly a disc, similar to a Frisbee, into baskets made of chain.