Disc golf coming to Buckner Park

Local Frisbee flingers will no longer have to leave Dickson for a quick round on the Back 9.

The Dickson city parks department soon will offer another outdoor recreational opportunity with a disc golf course at Buckner Park.

City Park Supervisor Cherie Wilson reported a 9-hole disc golf course at Buckner Park should be ready by mid-summer. More holes, or T-baskets, can be added based on “need and interest,” she added.

Several smaller cities in Middle Tennessee offer disc golf courses outside of Nashville, Clarksville and Murfreesboro, including Brentwood, Franklin, Mount Juliet, Hendersonville, Gallatin and Smyrna.

City personnel presently are “pricing” the course’s expenses.

Wilson noted the T-baskets, which serve as “holes” for the discs (similar to the sport of golf), constitute the majority of the cost for the course.

Disc golfers try to land various sized discs, aka Frisbees, in the T-baskets in the fewest number of throws. Local disc golfers will have to bring their own discs.

Wilson and Karrie Williams, with the Dickson County Health Department, explained the disc golf course was the result of a partnership to promote healthy activities, like exercise.

“I just want to thank the Health Department for giving us the opportunity,” Wilson said.

Williams, a local public health educator, said her organization was “excited” to partner with the city’s Parks and Recreation department to encourage physical activity.

Williams noted persons of all ages can use the disc golf course, “so it’s something the community could enjoy.”

Wilson explained assembling the course will be “really simple,” once a site is determined. The area near the tennis courts would be a good spot, she noted.

Wilson also reported “struggling” to find a designer for the course.

Park users “definitely will see changes” in the area by the tennis courts, Wilson added. She “hoped” to place a pavilion and volleyball net there too.