CHURCHBRIDGE / BREDENBURY – One of the best things about Yorkton, at least if you are a disc golfer, is that the city is now the hub of an area with a lot of really nice courses.

Now no one would suggest these courses would challenge pros such as Simon Lizotte, or Kristin Tattar, but for local players we are so fortunate a number of communities and parks have seen their way to creating courses.

Within an easy hour’s drive of Yorkton there are 10 or so courses, and venture out another 30-minutes and you can add several more. Even with gas at $2/litre that is reasonable access to a lot of variety in courses for a sport that is by its nature low cost.

So when the opportunity to playtest a few discs from Latitude 64/Discmania came up, it was only natural to call disc buddy Trevor Lyons and head out to play a couple of the area courses much as we did visiting the fine course at Sandy Beach on Good Spirit Lake when tossing some new Clash Discs early this year.

This time we headed east to play the neat 12-basket course at the Churchbridge campground. The course really offers a bit of everything from hidden baskets, to mandatories to maneuvre around to tunnel shots – and full disclosure Trevor and I did have a bit of a hand in helping design the course.

On the way back we played the 12-tonal course at Bredenbury, another challenging course which is always well maintained. It is truly an under-appreciated gem within easy distance of Yorkton. In this case Trevor and I did much of the design work.

But, I digressed from the discs, so here we go.

To start there was the easy throwing Sapphire driver from Latitude 64. This is a speed 10 driver, so sort of in my sweet spot, but at only 161 grams it was about a dozen grams lighter than I usually throw that took a bit of getting used too.

If I try to throw it too hard it has tendency to go up rather than forward.

Being lighter it hasn’t worked for me in wind either – an issue in Saskatchewan where wind seems a constant.

On our day trip though it was calm and the Sapphire worked admirably. In particular, it performed well when I threw it forehand, which has always been my weakest shot. That the Sapphire performed in that capacity is enough…