FLINT, MI - Flint-area disc golfers will soon be able to throw flip shots, Hyzers and aces at the newly renovated Mott Park Recreation Area Disc Golf Course.

Scheduled for completion by the end of this fall, the free, 18-hole course on the land near Kettering University between Nolen and Sunset is part of the three-phase plan to revamp the old Mott Park Golf Course, which closed in 2009.

Residents opted to renovate a portion of the area into a disc golf course after brainstorming at multiple Mott Park Recreation Area committee visioning meetings to decide the fate of the shuttered golf course.

Funded by a grant to Kettering from the Michigan Youth Violence Prevention Center, over 60 university students have worked alongside the University Corridor Coalition to renovate the course, according to a release.

"I think it's really cool to help with this project," said Katherine Cheyne, a freshman at Kettering who volunteered to help create the course. "Everyone wants to make that sort of an impact. Just walking around, seeing the disc golf course coming together was really cool. Being able to see something change was important. And it was a great way to bring something fun to the community."

The course layout is designed with input from the city's local disc golf association, the Flint Town Flyerz, and intends to minimize disc golfer interference with walkers, bicyclers, paddlers, fishers, and park wildlife - including the site's monarch butterfly sanctuary.