Jake Grove prepares to fling a disc at a tree during a recent game of disc golf at Darwin Wright Park in Anderson.

Promises were made and promises must be kept.

For the past few weeks, fellow writer Michael Staton and I have been reminding and showing you just how easy it is to get outside for a few hours whenever possible and playing a game from your youth. Whether bocce ball or basketball, there is always time for a game you might not even remember playing as a kid.

This week, we promised to play a little disc golf to show that getting in tune with your inner child doesn’t always have to involve your own backyard.

For the past year or so, Anderson has had its own 9-hole disc golf course at Darwin Wright Park off Liberty Highway. The course is rarely filled, but it’s open to anyone and everyone willing to buy the equipment and play.

Play it Again Sports in Anderson carries a large selection of discs to get you started and at about eight bucks a piece, you can get a driver and a putter and get out on the course in no time.

That’s just what Michael and I did one very warm afternoon. Our discs in hand, Michael played for the first time while I took my second stab at something I was awful at the first time around.

We opened with a few practice throws and nearly hit little old ladies walking the park and a ranger who was just trying to enjoy lunch. After deciding not to endanger the pedestrians there any longer, we started.

Each hole on the Darwin course is a par three and each hole seems to have an awful lot of trees in it. Neither of us had any kind of control over our discs as we hit tree after tree and searched through underbrush after underbrush for our neon-colored flying objects.

Michael started strong with a par, but faltered with double bogey, triple bogey, double bogey and bogey going into hole 5. I went bogey, bogey, triple and bogey before finally getting a par on No. 5.

Sadly, it ended up being the person who did the least worst (rather than best) in this matchup as I defeated Michael by three strokes and won two games in a row for the first time this season.

And things heat up even more on the competition front as Michael and I brave the heat wave of 2008 with a game of Baggo next week. It’s already in the books, but you will have to wait to see what kind of terrible athletic ability we display.