Fan District Hub visits Bryan Park disc golf course
F.T. Rea of the Fan District Hub had kind words for the Bryan Park disc golf course in a lengthy piece on the Greater Richmond Frizbee-Golf Association: Just got home from a particularly pleasant round of Frisbee-golf, or disc golf, if you prefer. Played at Bryan Park, easily the nicest local “basket course” I’ve played. Usually, baskets […]
F.T. Rea of the Fan District Hub had kind words for the Bryan Park disc golf course in a lengthy piece on the Greater Richmond Frizbee-Golf Association:
Just got home from a particularly pleasant round of Frisbee-golf, or disc golf, if you prefer. Played at Bryan Park, easily the nicest local “basket course” I’ve played.
Usually, baskets aren’t my style. Most of the time I play on unmarked object courses — we throw AT objects like trees or poles, rather than INTO baskets — in the Maymont and Byrd Park area. It’s the original form of the game. Been at it for over 32 years. Several of the players in the group I’m part of have been playing for 20 or 30 years on a half dozen such courses we’ve designed along the way.
Back in the 1970s, Ed Headrick, the inventor of Frisbee-golf quit his job at Wham-O and began tramping across the country, evangelist-like, to spread his game and to sell special golf discs he was designing (the Midnight Flyer depicted above is one of Steady Ed’s models). In this time the game took root in Virginia.
In the summer of ‘76 the first course for what would later be called the Greater Richmond Frizbee-Golf Association was laid out by Larry Rohr, Stew Whitham and your narrator. There were others already playing the game then, too, but not many. That name, the GRFGA, came later, mostly as a goof, but it stuck.
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