Following discussions in Tuesday night’s Cadiz City Council meeting, the Cadiz Park Disc Golf Course could be one step closer to becoming an 18-hole facility.
Already a popular nine-hole course that’s had between 150-to-200 unique visitors since its construction, Wildcat Disc Golf Club members Lewis Sumner and Norman Cotton each noted its expansion would only help the county and city continue to grow.
Sumner said the idea of having an 18-hole course in downtown Cadiz, coupled with the up-and-coming 18-hole course at the Trigg County Recreation Complex, will draw families looking for a full day in the area.
Cotton, pastor of Ponderosa Baptist Church, added the largest-growing group of individuals taking up disc golf are those 50 and older because of its low-impact, low-resistance nature — and that the game is extremely family friendly and inexpensive.
Sumner and Cotton sought understanding regarding the possible liability of adding nine holes — in which the extension would require throwers to cross Main Street and resume activity in the open expanse.
Cotton wanted to clarify that none of the proposed holes would actually cross the road, keeping throwers from potentially hurling discs into oncoming traffic, and that the only real question was who actually governed the grassland that resides below the floodplain.
According to Cadiz Mayor Todd King, that property — which recently played host to back-to-back concert evenings for the Trigg County Country Ham Festival — was owned and operated by the Army Corps of Engineers, just like the West Cadiz Park.
Because the City of Cadiz doesn’t officially own the land, King added any new holes don’t need the city’s official approval — only approval from the Corps of Engineers, which Sumner and Cotton say they’ve already obtained.
Councilwoman Susan Bryant posited that mowing any such addition could bring its own difficulties, but Sumner assuaged those concerns — adding that the installed-baskets can easily be removed or have Round Up sprayed consistently around the base, and that the player launch pads are so low to the ground that industrial lawn mowers would skim over them easily.
A $9,000 grant has also been applied for to help improve the already-existing nine holes, which only brings expanding the facility more into focus.
The course, as it is: Par 30, 3,000+ yards.
Cotton, on the liability:
