(Posted: Wednesday, May 16 2012)
Registration is open for the third annual Red Feather Open, presented by Team Darkside and the Northern Colorado Disc Golf Club. This PDGA sanctioned, "C" Tier tournament takes place on July 7-8th on the beautiful Beaver Meadows and Sundance Trail disc golf courses. On-course lodging and camping options are available, and there will be a players party at Beaver Meadows on Saturday night. More details and online registration are available on the Red Feather Open event page:
(Posted: Monday, May 7 2012 by Chad)
Come & compete in one of the longest running disc golf singles’ leagues in the state! The Tuesday Night Summer League at Edora Park will begin on May 22nd.
Several different divisions to compete in: Open, Advanced, Intermediate, Master's, Women's, & Junior's.
The league runs 13 weeks total. Best 8 scores of 11 weeks of competition are factored into season standings. Stats are recorded and top 3 finishers in each division are recognized with awards and prizes at the end of the season. We play by standard PDGA rules/regulations. Come out for as many nights as you can: whether it be 1,2, or all 13 weeks!
$5 to play each week {PAPER MONEY ONLY-please bring small bills}. 60% of nightly pay-in gets paid out. $1 retained to an ace pool which carries over week to week. $1 retained to contribute to end of season prizes/awards. Cash $ paid to Open field and Wright Life Gift Certificates awarded to amateur players.
- Where: Edora Park, Fort Collins. Horseshoe Pavilion.
- When: Tuesdays starting May 22nd through August 7th with awards/players party on August 14th
- Registration OPENS at 5:30 and CLOSES at 5:50
- NO REGISTRATION AFTER 5:50
- Tee-off at 6 PM ****RAIN or SHINE****
Join the Summer League Facebook event here
(Posted: Sunday, May 6 2012)
On Saturday May 19 at the Dry Creek course in Cheyenne, Dale Ryden is running a glow-golf tournament to raise funds for the Shoot the Breeze event. The entry fee is $10.00, and the top 3 finishers get a sweet dyed-disc by Dale! Sign up between 7:30 and 8:00, with tee off shortly thereafter.
(Posted: Monday, Apr 16 2012)
Last week, the CSU Disc Golf Team travelled to North Augusta, SC to take part in the Collegiate Disc Golf Championships. And we're pleased to report that they've brought home the title! The CSU team took first place in the team competition, and had some great finishes in the singles format as well. Jarrod Roan beat out 162 other players to take first. Austin Montgomery had a stellar finish, coming in tied for 4th, and locals Lugo Delatorre and Ryan Knuth took 20th and 50th, respectively. Well done gentleman!
(Posted: Wednesday, Mar 28 2012)
The Disc Gust Disc Golf Club in Wyoming will again be hosting their series of traveling events around Northern Colorado. There will be a total of five one-day events, with entry for each event being $10. Each event will have individual payouts, and points will be accumulated throughout the tour to determine an overall payout for the whole series.
The Tour
- May 5 - Event 1
- Loomiller in Longmont - Sign in at 10:00am
- Centennial Park in Longmont - Approx 2:00pm
- June 16 - Event 2
- Beaver Meadows in Red Feather Lakes - Sign in at 10:00am
- Sundance Trail in Red Feather Lakes - Approx 2:00pm
- July 14 - Event 3
- Jellystone near Castle Rock - Sign in at 10:00am
- Jellystone near Castle Rock - Approx 2:00pm
- Aug 18 - Event 4
- YMCA Course in Estes Park - Sign in at 10:00am
- YMCA Course in Estes Park - Approx 2:00pm
- Sep 1 - Event 5
- Outback Course in Greeley - Sign in at 10:00am
- Oxbow Course in Windsor - Approx 2:00pm
For more information, contact the Disc Gust Disc Golf Club on Disc Golf Scene, or call the Tournament Director Troy at 631-3170.
(Posted: Thursday, Mar 8 2012 by Josh)
Board members from NOCO, Grateful Flyers, and local business owners met with Parks Planning and Natural Areas Planning this week for a brainstorming conversation about Disc Golf. The discussion went very well, with talk about future sites and needs of the disc golf community and the need to accommodate the large number of players in the Fort Collins Area. The City was willing to explore options on the limited amount of land owned by the city of Fort Collins that is available for disc golf. This meeting of the minds will occur every 8 weeks or so, and we are hopeful that another site will be allocated as a result.
Edora
As for now there will be no changes to the 18 hole Course at Edora. There will most likely be redesign of some sort in the future to accommodate the other users of the park, but at this time NOCO anticipates that Edora will remain as an 18 hole course in some fashion for the long term. This does not give Disc Golfers the right to treat this park as their own. Be respectful of other users of the park (even if they are walking down a fairway) and the environment while using Edora. Please help teach rec players about the etiquette if you see anybody getting out of line.
Hughes Stadium
The course will have Natural tee pads installed in the near future until the course layout is finalized, at which point (probably Spring of 2013), concrete tees will be installed. Installation of the pond will be delayed until a final layout is determined. There is a grand opening tourney the weekend of May 12th, the 35th annual Grateful Disc. This course is a great asset to disc golf in Fort Collins. In contrast to the technicality of Edora, Hughes will help to improve your distance and accuracy. With its unrestricted fairways you have options to try shots that you wouldn't be able to at a lot of other courses out there.
(Posted: Sunday, Jan 15 2012)
The new disc golf course at Hughes stadium is in the ground, and has so far been met with good reviews from local players. For those who are unfamiliar with the area, here are directions to the course from I-25. Having another 18 hole course in Fort Collins is long overdue and we applaud the City of Fort Collins, Colorado State University, and Bill Wright from the Wright Life for partnering to make this course a reality.
The city has also made it clear they intend to downgrade the Edora Park course from 18 holes to 9 holes, now that this new course is open. Due to overwhelming disapproval from local players, we are circulating a petition to encourage the city to preserve this historic course, an important asset of our city for 22 years. There is an online petition which we encourage you to sign, but knowing that physical signatures are most important, we encourage you to seek out the paper version we are circulating at events. If you are interested in circulating a copy of the petition, contact Luc at skywalker-noco@hotmail.com
Recent articles related to Hughes and the Edora downgrade:
- Yahoo News: Disc Golf in the News: Fort Collins, Colorado and Anderson, Indiana
- Coloradoan: Disc golf debuts at Hughes Stadium amid questions
- Coloradoan: Petitioners amass more than 900 online signatures to save Fort Collins disc golf course
- Coloradoan: Disc golfers flock to Hughes course
(Posted: Tuesday July 12, 2011 by Bruce)
We made a request to the city to get some help with Edora and the new hole that is going in over off of Riverside. The idea was to have an island hole. Something to make a wide open hole more challenging. There will be two tees. One Am and one Pro. There will be a drop zone if you don't land on the island. All the people that have tested it have enjoyed the hole and I hope you all will too. With our request we received help from the people in the orange vests. With special thanks to the A-team. Disc golf thanks to Ray and Patrick for volunteering to stain and screw the timbers together. If you need any work done Ray is a great guy and a disc golfer. You can contact Ray at Encore Handyman Services 970-412-0289. It was a great day and lots of work got done. Here are just a few pictures.
Also thanks to Shawn and Javier with the city of Ft Collins for doing 8 mulch drops and providing tools.. I will be out on Tuesday league to give you an update and talk about the up coming elections.
(Posted: Saturday Oct 23, 2010)
Local player Austin Montgomery has organized a disc golf team at CSU, with practice starting early next year. Players of all skill levels are encouraged to participate. Check out the flyer here.
For more info contact Austin at austmont@rams.colostate.edu or 720-938-7008.
(Posted: Friday, Apr 02, 2010)
As some may already know, we have a new disc golf course in Northern Colorado, located in the Oxbow Natural Area of Eastman Park, in Windsor, CO. This 12 hole course is a collaborative project between the Town of Windsor and the dedicated volunteers in the local disc golf scene, made possible by many generous donations from the surrounding communities.
The course is open for play, and baskets are in place, but many features are still in the works. Currently, the tee sign posts are installed and numbered, and soon the signs themselves will be finished. Plans are in the works for a welcome board to house the course map, announcements, etc.
Being in a natural area, it is very important that visitors respect the land and the natural features of the course. Tread lightly, and please avoid, as best you can, causing any damage to your surroundings. Intentional breakage of vegetation is not allowed, and should be actively discouraged if encountered.
We'd like to give a big "thank you" to all those who contributed in their own way to making this great new course a reality! A special thanks goes out to Shawn Aschliman, who was not only the original inspiration for the project, but the primary motivator and organizer of the effort. Thanks Shawn!