{"id":57182,"date":"2021-08-18T18:31:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T22:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=57182"},"modified":"2021-08-18T18:31:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T22:31:18","slug":"the-meteoric-rise-of-disc-golf-and-the-people-who-play-in-the-bulkley-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/the-meteoric-rise-of-disc-golf-and-the-people-who-play-in-the-bulkley-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"The meteoric rise of disc golf and the people who play in the Bulkley Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday in Smithers BC and Telkwa, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bvdga\">Bulkley Valley Disc Golf Association<\/a> held their annual \"untournament\" for local and regional disc golf players.<\/p>\n<p>Disc golf, if you haven't heard of it, has been called \"regular golf's younger, laid-back cousin\" by <a href=\"https:\/\/discgolfmentor.com\/\">discgolfmentor.com<\/a>. There is no running involved, players often enjoy a libation while playing, and it's generally a very un-sporty sport. Disc Golf is played using a series of discs (with a varying degree of plastic thickness, flying characteristics, and price range) and throwing them into designated baskets with hanging chains used to \"catch\" the discs.<\/p>\n<p>It's scored much like regular golf, with each basket given a par, and the discs are called drivers, mid-range and putters.<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday, August 15th the BVDGA invited players from Terrace, Hazleton, Telkwa, Smithers (and even Montreal) to play 27 baskets on two courses.<\/p>\n<p>It was a tremendously gusty day which made for some heartbreak on the course, and the next day, two trees had fallen overnight from the wind.<\/p>\n<p>Pam Haasen was on the scene speaking to disc golf players, the event organizer and even shooting a full day of disc golf herself.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the audio below for the full day's events on CICK News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday in Smithers BC and Telkwa, the Bulkley Valley Disc Golf Association held their annual &#8220;untournament&#8221; for local and regional disc golf players. Disc golf, if you haven&#8217;t heard of it, has been called &#8220;regular golf&#8217;s younger, laid-back cousin&#8221; by discgolfmentor.com. There is no running involved, players often enjoy a libation while playing, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":57191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,204],"tags":[3683,8866,8864,8868,8867,8865,8869,8870,6248],"radio":[245],"origine":[280,263,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57182"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=57182"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=57182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}