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Poimena Disc Golf Course | Austin’s Ferry | Hobart | Tasmania

Saturday the 26th and Sunday the 27th of November

Poimena Reserve, Austins Ferry, Tasmania. [Approx 20 mins drive north of Hobart], is where you’ll find Australia’s oldest Disc Golf Course, it’s beautiful, challenging and characterised by its elevation changes, bush terrain, sloping greens and stunning vistas over the River Derwent and Mount Wellington. This permanent 18-basket course is open to the public all year round. Disc golfers share the reserve with walkers, twitchers, beetle enthusiasts, kite flyers, BBQers and wildlife. The course has double chain baskets with two tees on each hole – red and blue. The surface of the tees is compacted fine gravel and works well.

Innova Disc Golf team members and husband and wife Des and Jay Reading run the EDGE program [Educational Disc Golf Experience] and had arrived in Tasmania early to take the game to the local schools and by the sound of things their reception was amazing.
Jussi Meresmaa and Juho Rantalaiho are a couple of world ranked players from Finland who had made the trip to promote Jussi’s brand of Innova discs for his ‘Discmania’ Company, and of course to have a crack at the Australian Title.

Derek Robins is a Disc Golf Hall of Famer and an English DG Legend and he too had made the trip down under for a crack at the title .. not to mention escape the English winter for a few weeks. [Derek has a bro who lives on Waiheke Island in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf so has been in the region numerous times before.

New Zealand was represented by the GM Bob Gentil playing Masters and expat Josh Smith who now-a-days resides in Melbourne. The rest of the 42 strong field was made up of players from Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, ACT and of course Tasmania.

The weekend started with a putting clinic on the Friday morning run by multi time World Putting Champion Jay Reading and wife and world champ Des, followed by a lucky dip doubles competition in the afternoon, to which the Victorians arrived in fancy dress. Saturday and things got serious with two rounds of Australian Championship Disc Golf. The first off the long red Tees and the second off the slightly shorter Blue Tees. Sunday saw one more full round off the Red Tees in the morning followed by a monster ‘Safari 9’ for the 4 top Open Players. [Which was increased to 5 on the day so the locals could support an Aussie.]

It was an excellent well run weekend of Disc Golf, hats off to Richard and Harvey the joint TD’s who had worked hard on this event for a couple of years.

And the winners were; Open Jussi Meresmaa Finland [on the second hole of a sudden death play off with Jay Reading], Women’s Open Des Reading USA, Masters Bob GM Gentil NZ, Grand Masters Bruce McNaughton QLD, Men’s Advanced Greg Bowers VIC, Men’s Rec Mark Hardy VIC [in a play off over Gareth Gray TAS]  Woman’s Advanced Heidi Richardson TAS and Juniors William Richardson TAS.

Congratulations to everyone who made this another Great Disc Golf weekend.

See you next time!