Disc golf for Armstrong Park

Thanks to a City of Newcastle Community Grant the semicircular parkland area behind Lambton Public School at Armstrong Street is now home to Newcastle’s newest disc golf course.

Disc golf is played much like traditional golf but instead of a ball and clubs players use a flying disc, or Frisbee. The sport was formalised in the 1970s, and shares with “ball golf” the object of completing each hole in the fewest number of strokes, or in the case of disc golf, fewest number of throws.

Stalwarts of Newcastle Disc Golf, Jonathan Jonas and Chris Hill, better known as Chilly, were on hand at Armstrong Park recently to show The Local how disc golf is played. The Armstrong Park course includes six holes over a total of 343m with a par score of 18. Unlike ball golf, disc golf is free to play and everyone is always welcome.

To learn more about disk golf and maybe get involved check out NewcastleDiscGolf on Facebook.

At right: Chilly and Jonathan from Newcastle Disc Golf

At left: the layout of the new disc golf course at Armstrong Park, behind Lambton Public School