Eleven community businesses have donated to sponsor Grace College’s new pads and signs for its nine-hole disc golf course. Photos Provided.
WINONA LAKE — Eleven community businesses have donated to sponsor Grace College’s new pads and signs for its nine-hole disc golf course.
Wildman, Tecomet, Silveus Insurance, ScoutIQ, Sacred Heart, H & D Insulation, Maumee Paint & Supply, DreamOn Studio, Kosciusko Chamber of Commerce, Circle Disc Golf and Integrity Roofing are all sponsors of the course, which is free for the community to enjoy, according to a news release from Grace College.
“In the past, disc golfers would show up and have no idea where the holes were,” said Matt Metzger, director of marketing at Grace College. “It was one of those things where you had to be introduced to the course prior to playing to know where to go. Having these new course pads and signs, which are aerial shots custom designed by the Grace marketing team, will increase our legitimacy as a course and hopefully bring new visitors onto our campus.”
According to Metzger, community member Jonathan Vida was instrumental in making these sponsorships a reality.
“I love the Grace disc golf course,” said Vida. “I play all the time there with my family, and I noticed that the dirt patches were not very good. I got to thinking, Grace is such a big part of our community, it would be awesome to get local businesses to sponsor the costs of updating the course.”
So Vida approached Metzger with the idea, who was already planning to make some updates to the course. He offered to help get the sponsorships through Business Networking International (BNI), a business referral group of which he is a…
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