The President of the Maritime Disc Golf Association is touting the benefits of playing the sport after the opening of a brand new course in Dieppe this month.
Ben Smith says one of the big benefits is it can be played by yourself at any time, and even at night with glow in the dark discs and lights on the baskets.
“It’s something you can whip out around in a half hour, 45 minutes if you’re cruisin’ along,” says Smith. “Or something you can take your grandparents, your wife, your kids, your uncle, your aunt out and play around over two hours and casually enjoy.”
He adds the game lends itself to professionalism as well.
“If you choose to want to take the game very seriously, we have a Pro Tour, a World Tour, a North American Tour, and national tours and players make routinely six figures in the United States,” says Smith.
He believes in many ways it’s an absolutely universal and fantastic game that still needs to be exploited in the best possible sense here in the Maritimes.
Smith continues, saying “it’s cheap, as in $20 to buy one disc that could last you conceivably the next 15 or 20 years, you can play it, again, around the world for free and it’s just available in so many places, in so many forms.”
This is the 11th disc golf course Smith has built, and it is the second 18 hole golf course in New Brunswick.
It is located in the Lakeburn area of Dieppe.
