{"id":816831,"date":"2026-10-28T20:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816831\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T20:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:12:09","slug":"amesbury-among-englands-busiest-disc-golf-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816831\/","title":{"rendered":"Amesbury among England&#8217;s busiest disc golf courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Figures from the English Disc Golf Association (EDGA) and UDisc cover permanent courses between January 1 and October 12. Amesbury also attracted 318 distinct UDisc accounts during that period.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The figures form part of a national report on the sport\u2019s growth across England. Players logged 50,924 rounds by October 12, while annual participation rose by 241 per cent between 2019 and 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Stonehenge Disc Golf Club (Image: Ben Ward)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The report estimates players walked 175.4 million steps and spent 75,553 hours taking part between January and October this year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  England now has 121 permanent disc golf courses, compared with 41 in 2018. More than a third of new players surveyed in 2026 said they had never played before.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Nearly 57 per cent of rounds took place within 10km of a player\u2019s home area, suggesting many participants use courses close to where they live.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Frank Knutton, digital officer at the EDGA, said the findings showed the sport was growing and helping people spend time outdoors and stay active.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The figures also record participation through UDisc accounts, allowing courses and rounds to be compared across England during the reporting period this year overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Figures from the English Disc Golf Association (EDGA) and UDisc cover permanent courses between January 1 and October&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-816831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}