Affordable, social and outdoorsy: Why disc golf is thriving on P.E.I. [Video]

Evan Nobles positions his driver as best as he can, steps forward, and tees off. An object glides through the air toward the hole, and lands with grace about 200 feet away.

This may sound like your average golf game, but it’s not. It’s disc golf.

“It’s just like ball golf,” Nobles said, as he walked to collect his neon-green disc in the tall grass.

Just like it — except that drivers and putters are different types of flying discs rather than clubs used to hit a small dimpled ball in different situations.

The grass is calf-length right now on this nearly finished course on the Belfast Mini Mills property in eastern Prince Edward Island. But this time next year, it will likely be well-trodden by other golfers, all aiming for the double-chain-lined basket sitting behind some birch trees another 200 feet away.

“It’s not ball golf. It’s not this …