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Disc golf is filling food shelves

Waterbury Vermont - January 28, 2012

The Ice Bowl is a nationwide disc-golf tournament that raises money for food shelves around the country. The Green Mountain Disc-Golf Club has been participating in the Ice Bowl for six years now. "The slogan is no wimps no whiners" says Murray Junod a disc golfer.

In its first year only the tournament raised 500 dollars. 6 years later they are expecting to raise more than 6,000. All proceeds go to the local food shelf

"This year all money is going to Waterbury area food shelf, we're excited to support them as a member of the community and a community that has supported the course for quite some time" says Peter Hess the tournament organizer.

Disc Golf is essentially golf played with a disc, or small frisbee. The object is to throw the disc into a metal basket several yards away. Just like with golf, a stroke, or point is added to each turn until the disc lands in the basket. The goal is to have the lowest score.

"It originally started back in the early mid seventies but in the past 5,6 years the sport has really boomed and courses have just multiplied all over the place." Adds Murray Junod, a disc golfer.

Saturday players were asked to contribute a twenty dollar donation to the food shelf, last year the club came in tenth of 233 teams in the nation. They're hoping to surpass that number this time around.

"I can tell you from the folks that showed up today are averaging more than 50 per person as far as the donation they've been making" adds Hess.

A golf game that can be played any time of the year. At the ice bowl they say the worse the weather the more proud they are to play.