Tip Category Course & Rules

Disc golf is one of the cheapest outdoor sports in Canada, and one of the reasons for that is how much of the game happens on public land. Municipal parks, recreation areas, provincial campgrounds, and Crown land host courses across…

Canada doesn’t have one disc golf season. It has four or five, depending on where you live, and they look completely different from each other. A player in Victoria can reasonably expect to throw discs year-round. Someone in Winnipeg is…

Rain is not a reason to stay home. Most dedicated disc golfers figure this out eventually, usually after getting caught mid-round in a downpour and discovering the game is still playable. The courses empty out, the pace of play drops,…

Canada doesn’t really do mild. You get a few weeks of ideal shoulder-season weather in spring and fall, and then it’s either shorts weather or you’re playing in a toque. Plenty of Canadian players pack it in for the winter.…

The first time on an unfamiliar course is genuinely one of the best things about disc golf. No muscle memory telling you to go left on hole 7. No bad round from three weeks ago haunting you. Just a tee…

Bad holes happen. Every round, to every player, at every skill level. The difference between a good round and a train wreck usually isn’t the bad hole itself. It’s what you do on the next three. Disc golf rewards patience…

There’s an official rulebook for disc golf. The Professional Disc Golf Association publishes it, it runs to dozens of pages, and it covers everything from how to mark your lie to what happens when your disc lands in a lake.…

First time out on a disc golf course, the scoring feels obvious enough. You throw the disc until it lands in the basket, you count your throws, you write the number down. Simple. But then someone in your group says…

Every hole starts with one of these signs and honestly most new players walk right past without really seeing what it’s telling them. Big mistake. Take hole seven, “The Widowmaker.” Pro par three, rec par four. Already you know the…