This page is for the people who are not players yet — a school looking for something the whole class can do, a town with a field it does not know what to do with, a business deciding where its sponsorship goes, or a reporter who needs somebody to talk to.
What the club is
A not-for-profit that builds things
Fredericton Disc Golf is a volunteer club. Membership dues and sponsorship pay for baskets, tee signs, course work days and the prizes at events, and nobody here draws a wage. Six courses sit in and around this city and the club has a hand in keeping most of them playable.
The formats are built for newcomers on purpose. Wednesday league is random doubles, so a first-timer gets paired with somebody experienced instead of being left to work it out alone. The Thursday league runs on handicap, so a player three months in can win a week outright — and does. None of that is an accident; it is the club deciding that growing the sport matters more than crowning the best arm in the province.
Schools, parks and community groups
Disc golf fits on ground you already have
A course does not need fairways, irrigation or a clubhouse. It needs open ground, a few trees to make it interesting, and baskets. That is why they turn up behind schools, in campgrounds and on the edges of municipal parks — the land is usually already there and already mown.
If your organisation is weighing one up, the club has people who have laid out holes, argued about basket placement and dealt with the parks-department side of it. Ask us before you order anything. It is a short conversation and it will save you putting a basket somewhere people walk dogs.
Media
Somebody will talk to you
The club runs public events through the year, including a round at Odell in the middle of winter as part of the city’s FROSTival. If you are covering one, or want the background on how a sport this cheap has grown this fast in one river valley, get in touch and we will put you with somebody who can speak for the club.
Sponsorship
Your name on hole one
Sponsors pay for the baskets and the tee signs, and their names are on the signs at the courses and on the prize table at every event. Without them the whole cost sits on members.