Back in late 2012, when I visited the site for the first time after 10,000 earthquakes had destroyed much of Christchurch city, and wrecked the Par-3 golf course at Ascot by way of liquefaction volcanoes and ruptured water pipelines, I was convinced it would only take a few months to get a DGC installed there. How wrong I was. But 7 years later, I was very happy to launch the Ascot Disc Golf Course. The area which had sadly been essentially dead for 9 years is once again aliv

At the crack of dawn two parties set forth from Christchurch and Wanaka to install the new course’s basket receivers, in anticipation of the RPM Helix baskets arriving by truck on Thursday morning, on a large pallet weighing just over half a ton. It’s amazing what you can fit into an old 911: a full-length permanent basket pole to align the receivers with, a post hole borer, a Slammer – an NZ invention, basically a very heavy slide hammer with a hexagonal cutting blade, plus

An article expounding the societal benefits of installing a community disc golf course.