The Coal Creek Disc Golf Course in Cumberland, Comox Valley is well worth visiting

By Keith and Heather Nicol

    To say that we are newbies to disc golf is a understatement.  We bought a couple of discs from The Blue Toque (https://bluetoquesports.com/) on Sunday, tried the Lake Trail course in Courtenay on Monday and the Coal Creek course in Cumberland on Tuesday, Sept 29.  The Cumberland course is located near the Chinatown walking trail and there is ample parking at either the parking lot below Comox Lake Road or in front of Jumbo’s log cabin. The Cumberland course is nicely laid out with good signage and although it is likely the hardest course in the Comox Valley even new comers like us really enjoyed it.  There is a nice variety of open shots where you can really let fly to tight woods where accuracy is paramount.  At the start we ran into a group of 4 that were obviously knew the course well and we asked them if there were any problems finding the “holes”.  They told us that the only one to watch for was #16 where you need to walk down the hill to the tee off pad. 

 

                                                  The back nine has traditional baskets to aim at   

 The first nine the targets are tonals (basically a pole in the ground) that you try to hit to finish the hole and the back nine has the traditional baskets that most courses use.  The distances range from 138 feet to a whooping 387 feet on hole 17. The upside of that one is that you are now back into the open area at the finish so trees are not much of an issue. The 17 th hole is the place to uncork that long shot if you have it. Needless to say we don’t have the long shot down yet and I struggled to get a 5 on that one.  But we got lots of pars on the other holes which makes this a much easier sport than real golf where after 2 days you are not likely to be getting many pars. We will definitely be back to this course since it is especially nice this time of year with the leaves changing colour. 

 

                                       Heather getting ready to try to thread the needle down the alley of trees    

 With Covid 19 not showing any signs of slowing down, any activities that get us outside and having fun are worth investigating.  Like regular golf which has shown a real resurgence during the pandemic , disc golf is undergoing the same surge of interest.  Our next course we plan to try is the one in Comox. For information on these courses see: www.cvdiscgolf.com

 

                                Each hole has a map to where the hole is located at the tee off pad