NEWS RELEASE
CITY OF BARRIE
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Disc golf is a rapidly growing, affordable, and accessible recreation activity. The City of Barrie's Sandy Hollow disc golf site on Ferndale Drive is the most-played course of its kind in Ontario, and Barrie wants to hear from residents and visitors on the possibility of adding another disc golf course.
Disc golf is a flying disc game in which individual players throw a flying disc at a target called a basket. The game is played like traditional golf, with nine or 18 baskets on narrow “fairways.” When the “putt” lands in the basket, the “hole” is completed. The object of the game is to complete a course from beginning to end in the fewest number of throws of the disc.
Earlier this year, Barrie city council approved a motion to undertake a study to investigate the feasibility, needs, and costs of developing a new nine-hole disc golf course on city-owned land near Park Place, in the Bayview Drive area.
The city is asking for community input on a proposed concept for a new disc golf course in the Park Place area. Feedback is needed to determine the level of interest in adding a course at this location.
Visit buildingbarrie.ca/DiscGolf to learn more and to take the survey. The feedback deadline is Aug. 30, 2024.
Once the public consultation is complete, a staff report with the results of the investigation will be presented to the infrastructure and community investment committee in October of this year.
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