There's always going to be a spot for you to come and play this sport.

That's what's amazing about Disc Golf, is that it's built for everybody Hi, I'm Stephen Williams, and I am the president of the Spoken Disc Golf Club.

Disc golf is exactly what it sounds like.

It's golf.

The difference is that instead of hitting a ball with clubs, you're throwing a disc that's about 175g through the air and shaping it through the forest.

Each hole has a tee pad that you throw from, and you're trying just to throw to that target in the least amount of throws as possible.

That's really kind of short and sweet of it.

Oh my!

Wow!

Splits ‘em perfectly.

Oh, what a beautiful line.

Ricky to tie!

That is almost a perfect line.

Unbelievable.

Oh!

Off the flag.

This is unbelievable!

Unbelievable!

Spectacular shot from Sai Ananda!

When I moved over here to Spokane in 2012, I was just looking for ways to get outside and, like, get some recreation and get some fresh air and some exercise.

I bought a couple of discs and went up by myself for the first time.

And after that first round, I think I threw a disc correctly maybe one time the entire round, and all I had to do was like, see it fly well once and then it was kind of like, this instant hook for me.

It was really fun.

So you're trying to kind of figure out what flight characteristics you want.

So every disc golfer has a bunch of different molds in their bag that all do something a little bit different.

And so between kind of like what your disc flies like and how you throw the shot will determine how it gets to the pin.

That's the idea in theory.

And then oftentimes you calculate all of it and just throw into a tree anyway.

That's part of the fun.

How you know you're a real disc golfer.

Hitting the tree once in a while.

It was really low barrier to get into it.

That was the most striking thing to me with disc golf.

Literally all it takes is one disc, and then you can get outside and go play, and that's pretty special.

It really provides a platform for people just to come together from like really different walks of life, just sharing time over this, this mutual love that they have for the sport.

And that's one of the coolest things about it.

When we talk about the growth of disc golf, the boom really happened during the pandemic.

When we went to a course, we knew who was here, when we saw someone, we knew them.

And then after the pandemic, it just exploded to the point where we saw new people every time we came to the courses.

2018 we just began a league just for fun, to, like, grow a little bit of competitive nature in the community here at High Bridge.

Really what we saw was that the course needed support and in lot of ways, like a lot of the facilities were kind of like, not in the best condition.

The amount of money that we raised from our league is significant enough to make an impact on the course.

So things like maintaining tee pads, installing new tee pads, things that weren't really something we could do just because of cost in the past was suddenly possible because people are coming and spending their money at the league.

I'm Ryan Griffith, the assistant recreation director for the city of Spokane, and I oversee and, work with the various user groups for our disc golf courses.

So the City of Spokane Parks and Rec department, supports the disc golf clubs by, trying to lend support with projects where we can.

Limited funding for that the city has to support disc golf, working together and pooling our resources can, you know, really benefit the courses in the long run.

And the other thing that's like, really great about the city of Spokane and how they see us as an organization too, is that I feel like we share a lot of the same vision.

As far as seeing how popular the sport is becoming.

Building this out has surprised all of us, because when I think about our club, I remember the shock of 60 people being here our first night of league this year.

That was an “aha moment ” for us to realize, how many more people are out there that want to do this?

We're building out a platform where that community is naturally coming together, and that's like a pretty cool thing.

I love disc golf because it's instant community.

No matter your background with the sport, how athletic you've been in the past.

Like this sports here for you and you can come and be a part of it.

And that's something that I think we all love about it.

So if you want to be involved in this, there's always a spot for you.

So come down to High Bridge.

Come play a round.

Come ask a disc golfer how to get involved in the sport and you will always be welcome.