Disc Golf

Location

Lincoln Drive Park
120 Euclid Avenue
(13th Avenue South and Lincoln Drive)

Becoming a very popular sport in Grand Forks and across nationally, the Grand Forks Park District developed one of the first disc golf courses in the state of North Dakota. Our 18-hole course is located in Lincoln Drive Park and is free to use. Discs can be purchased at local sporting good stores. Playing disc golf is a great way to spend an afternoon with friends or family.

There is now a league that you can be a part of and compete regularly and in tournaments throughout the season.

Contact: Grand Forks Park District, 746-2750

History of Disc Golf in North Dakota

In the early 1980s, the Grand Forks Park District added a popular, but untried recreational activity known as disc golf.  Little did they know that they tapped into an international sport that is played by all ages and skill levels.  But why?  How?  By bringing to Grand Forks the inventor of the modern day Frisbee and disc golf, steady Ed Hedrick.  Ed’s Mach II’s was installed under his guidance in 1979 at Central Park.  By the late 1980s, Grand Forks, Bismarck, and New Town all had 18-Hole Disc Golf Courses.  Soon local players saw the need for a new course.  After the devastating flood of 1997, disc golf was swept to a new park.  Hedrick, now deceased, recommended names to the Grand Forks Park District of regional designers who would assist in a championship disc golf layout.  Tim Macky, a Senior Designer, World Master Champion and World Recorder Holder, was brought to Grand Forks to help create the newest 18-hole course at Riverside Park.  As years past after the Flood of 1997, the City’s Corps of Engineers upgraded the dike in Riverside Park and it interfered with the disc golf course.  Lincoln Drive Park was then chosen to home a new 18-hole disc golf course.