Amador County – Volunteers and staff of the Amador County Recreation Agency were working this week to prepare the grounds of the Kennedy Mine for a Saturday flying disc golf tournament, at the temporary course located on the hills around the former hard rock gold mine in Jackson. Adam Lindsey and Pete Staple of ACRA were joined by Brandon Wedge of Play It Again Sports on Monday as they carted around baskets used in the game, to find concrete post anchors buried in 18 holes around the golf course. ACRA program specialists Lindsey, and Matt Nestor, will host the tournament, which will be a fund-raiser to help build a flying disc golf course at Mollie Joyce Park in Pine Grove. ACRA acquired the Mollie Joyce Park from Fred Joyce in 2008, with the aim to keep the park open for public recreation. ACRA will create interpretive trails and other recreation opportunities at the park, and already, a work crew reclaimed the 2 Little League Baseball fields, under park director Pete Staple, cutting overgrown weeds, building infields and trimming outfields. ACRA started work on the Mollie Joyce Park disc golf course in April, with the help of volunteers, including local and regional players. The course has been designed and laid out on the 76-acre park, with volunteer designers include long-time disc golf professional Charlie Callahan of El Dorado County, and local players Wedge of Sutter Creek, Paul Dalmau of Pine Grove, and first-season professional Ray Birch of Ione. Paul Watkins also helped map out Mollie Joyce Park with a GPS unit, and Staple and a Pine Grove CYA work crew cut fire breaks in the scrub brush early last year. The course has received an in-kind donation of concrete and metal flashing from Lowe’s, and the Jackson Rancheria has sponsored one of the baskets for the course. Callahan told ACRA Executive Director Tracey Towner-Yep that the property identified at Mollie Joyce Park for disc golf could potentially house a 27-hole course. Towner-Yep said sponsors are being sought, and the course would cost about $10,000 to install. The tournament Saturday will be held at the temporary ACRA disc golf course, built by the agency and volunteers in 2007 at the Kennedy Mine, and used for 2 tournaments. The tournament starts at 10 a.m. Saturday and includes a singles round and a doubles round. The Kennedy Mine will give good opportunities for spectators to attend and watch the field of players, expected to include professional, amateur and beginning division players. For information and details about the tournament, call ACRA at 223-6349. Story by Jim Reece This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.