Disc golfers brave cold for Sudbury charity

Terms associated with the sport of golf will be tossed around the wintery fields in Sudbury this weekend but there won't be any golf clubs at the event.

A round of golf doesn't usually involve traipsing through snow above your ankles. But in the sport of disc golf it's played snow or shine. Players carry a series of Frisbee-like discs, rather than a bag of clubs. And instead of holes there are baskets which hang well above the snow.

"It is played on a regular basis throughout the world in snowy areas in the winter too," said Dean Aelick, president of the Sudbury Disc Golf Club. "We play all year round basically."

Tomorrow, Aelick will be back out on this disc golf course with a small, but dedicated, group for the first-ever "Sud-BRRR!!-y Ice Bowl."

He said similar tournaments are held in cities all over the world all with the challenges of winter in common.

"When you are disk golfing in the summer, you've got a nice cement base or a nice hard base, either grass or rock," Aelick said. "But here, with the slip-sliding it is a little iffy."

The entry fee for tomorrows Ice Bowl is a donation to the Sudbury Food Bank.

For more information phone 705-626-6243.