GRAND FORKS-- After four years of being closed, Ray Richards Golf Course reopens this weekend. While transforming this 18 hole course back to what it once was, it’s also becoming one of the top ...

The Chillicothe and Ross County Public Library is teaming up with the local nonprofit First Capital Flight Club to offer Disc Golf 101.

Riley Allen's Disc Golf Course is now open for players to check out at no charge. How the course may revitalize a small Allegany County town.

Gazette / Scott HarmsenSteve Vincent, left, and John Mick play the Air Zoo's disc golf course shortly after it first opened in January.

For the disc golfer, the right throw into the chains can produce a sound as satisfying as a basketball swishing through the net. Lucas Wright has that experience here.

Disc golf, which has been around since the '70s, still flies under the radar of mainstream sports. It also lacks the expensive equipment, steep fees, dress codes and scheduled tee-times of ball golf.

Lenawee County is home to a handful of disc golf courses that are gaining attention from disc golf clubs and avid fans of the popularly growing sport.

Avid disc golfer Albert Valverde, originally of Corpus Christi, Texas, says the exceptional opportunities for disc golf, or "frolfing" as many refer to it, influenced his decision to live in ...