Heinola DiscGolfPark World visitors brought over one million euros to the town of Heinola in 2024

Sports facilities are not just expenses, they have significant benefits for municipalities. Sports facilities are increasingly recognized for promoting well-being, but they also have substantial economic impacts. Heinola DiscGolfPark World, more familiarly known as Kippis, is a DiscGolfPark located in Finland that has been named one of the world’s top 5 courses and has grown […]

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Building Ezero DiscGolfPark: Bulgaria’s first disc golf course

According to Bozhidar “Bobby” Georgiev, founding member of the club Disc Golf Bulgaria, the seeds for his country’s first disc golf course were planted far, far away from the seaside town of Burgas where it now stands. “My friends and I went to Juneau, Alaska, on a student exchange program,” Georgiev said. “We were introduced […]

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DiscGolfPark: Representing Disc Golf for the First Time at GaLaBau 2024 in Nuremberg

For the first time, the sport of Disc Golf will be represented at the prestigious GaLaBau trade fair in Nuremberg (September 11-14. Room 1, Stand 112), and DiscGolfPark is proud to be the one making it happen! This unique event offers municipalities, cities, clubs, and organizations the opportunity to discover how this rapidly growing sport […]

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What makes turf tees the best for disc golf?

To protect players and the environment as well as to keep visitors coming back, disc golf courses need tee pads. While any well-constructed teeing surface is better than none, we at DiscGolfPark recommend using high quality artificial turf in the vast majority of cases. What makes turf the best teeing surface for most disc golf […]

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A university for the Deaf builds D.C.’s first permanent disc golf course

Established in 1864, Gallaudet University is the world’s only liberal arts university dedicated entirely to education for the Deaf, the hard of hearing, and others who use ASL (American Sign Language). It’s located in the heart of Washington, D.C., under three miles from the White House. Established in 2023, Gallaudet University DiscGolfPark is the U.S. […]

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Three ingredients for cooking up a winter disc golf destination course

We’ve talked before about what makes a place ideal for disc golf tourism, but here we focus on a special niche: Destinations that can be havens for players hoping to escape cold and snow. Though there are plenty of disc golfers willing to brave icy conditions, almost no one would trade in t-shirt weather for […]

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Frisbee Meets Golf: DiscGolfPark at FSB Trade Fair 2023 in Cologne, Germany

In the rapidly growing world of leisure and sports, there is an emerging sport that is capturing the attention of cities, municipalities, communities, leisure facilities, and private organizations. Disc Golf, one of the rising sports of our time, is winning the hearts of people worldwide, and DiscGolfPark is right in the midst of it! DiscGolfPark, […]

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Why Your Disc Golf Course Needs Tee Pads

The simplicity of building disc golf courses is a big part of their appeal. For instance, when experienced disc golf course designers work in fairly open areas of city parks, it’s easy to design courses that require virtually no new landscaping. Still, constructing a fun, safe disc golf course can’t be done effortlessly, and there […]

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Central Europeans want more disc golf – DiscGolfPark commits to helping them get it

Across Northern Europe, access to disc golf is a given almost anywhere you live. All of the top five countries in disc golf courses per capita are in that part of the world. Thanks to the wide availability of courses there, the region has seen a recent boom in people of all ages getting outdoors […]

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Why Toronto golf courses welcome winter disc golf

It was late in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was at its height, and winter was quickly descending on Toronto, Canada, and its nearly three million residents. To keep spirits up and infection rates down in the months ahead, city leaders were planning an initiative to get people outdoors where transmission was least likely. But Toronto’s […]

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Paul McBeth Foundation & DiscGolfPark unite to create Montenegro’s first course

Find the heel of Italy’s boot shape and draw a line northeast across the Adriatic. There you’ll find the small country of Montenegro, which has just over 620,000 residents – a total a little under the population of Memphis, Tennessee. In 2022, this former part of Yugoslavia became the site of the first European project […]

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How to build a disc golf course: 3 important don’ts

Welcome to the counterpart to our article “How to build a disc golf course: 3 important dos.” Here we continue our look at guidelines for planning great disc golf courses. This time, though, we focus on some of the things inexperienced course designers may overlook that they definitely shouldn’t. Like in our post on the […]

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How to build a disc golf course: 3 important dos

When a disc golf course is done right, everything seems straightforward. The lines from each tee to each basket make sense, transitioning from hole to hole is easy, and you never feel lost even if it’s the first time you’ve ever stepped foot on a property. But creating a simple, enjoyable experience for players is […]

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