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The Children’s Home/Chambliss Shelter off North Germantown Road is the happy recipient of Chattanooga Flying Disc Club’s newest disc golf course.
CHCS President and CEO Phil Acord challenged a few daycare students to a game at the nine-basket course’s grand opening celebration.
“Who knows,” Acord said, “I might just come over and let the kids beat me on a regular basis. It’s all about having fun.”
Acord said he had installed a “handmade, primitive” course at CHCS about 15 years ago using old basketball goals after becoming a fan of the sport.
Children’s Home/Chambliss Shelter students and officials break in the new disc golf course installed by Chattanooga Flying Disc Club. From left are CFDC member and former CHCS daycare student Chris Boone, CHCS President and CEO Phil Acord, Rosalia Bowman, 10, Karina Long, 8, and CFDC disc golf director Scott Homberg.
CFDC disc golf director Scott Homberg noticed that course by chance while driving in the area.
“When I found out what it was, that was even more reason to put this in, to kind of revitalize it for them,” said Homberg. “(Acord) has a passion for this.”
The course meanders through a wooded corner of the Chambliss center’s 17-acre sloping campus. The launching pads and baskets are all less than 200 feet apart.
“It’s really a children’s disc golf course,” Homberg said.
CHCS director of development Katie Harbison said eight kids older than 6 live in the shelter portion, while another 100 kids attend the daycare. Daycare numbers are even higher in the summer.
The facility already has a basketball court, tennis court, softball field, soccer field, pool and about 10 playgrounds, but something new to do outside is always a good thing, Harbison said.
“It’s not just a new activity but it’s a new experience for them,” Harbison said. “I think it’s just going to be something else where they can learn and experience new things.”
The project was started with a $3,000 grant from Lyndhurst Foundation. Matching contributions in money and materials from the community make the project’s total value $7,000, Homberg said.
“We’ve got some great people that have been backing us for years,” he said.
Home Depot and Volvo Rents in particular, he said, have been faithful donors, tending to details like bridges and flower beds, too.
Local youth groups can make reservations to use the course at this private facility, though it will not be open to the public.
“We do want other groups to be able to use it,” Harbison said.
Other nearest courses, Homberg said, are at Carver Recreation Center downtown, Jack Mattox Recreation Park in Ringgold, Ga., and Shepherd Recreation Center in East Brainerd.
For more information about CFDC, visit www.nakedpretzel.com. For more information about the Children’s Home/Chambliss Shelter, visit www.ch-cs.org.
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