January 10th, 2025Ballarat hosts major disc golf tournament

Ballarat is hosting the Disc Golf – Golden City Classic this weekend, January 11-12.

The two-day event is one of the biggest disc golf tournaments hosted throughout Australia.

The Golden City Classic will see about 160 competitors take to the two disc golf courses in Ballarat.

Day one will be hosted at the Victoria Park Disc Golf Course, with day two to be held at the new Mt Xavier Disc Golf Course.

Disc golf is played much like traditional golf. Instead of a ball and clubs, however, players use a flying disc.

The sport was formalized in the 1970’s, and shares with “ball golf” the object of completing each hole in the fewest number of strokes (or, in the case of disc golf, fewest number of throws).

A golf disc is thrown from a tee area to a target which is the ‘hole’ which can be one of a number of disc golf targets, the most common is an elevated metal basket (as pictured below).

As a player progresses down the fairway, he or she must make each consecutive shot from the spot where the previous throw has landed.