Did you know, that McLaren Falls Park hosts a world-class Disc Golf Course? It has developed a reputation as being one of the toughest courses in New Zealand and hosts New Zealand Disc Golf Tour's toughest 2-day tournaments, called the Tauranga Extreme.
I thought that it could make a fun field puzzle.
Get together with your geocaching buddies, gather a disc/frisbee (or two) each and challenge each other to your own personal competition, while gathering data for this field puzzle.
The listed coordinates bring you to the start of the course. Please study the map thoroughly so you don’t get lost (take a photo of it) or download a JPG copy of it >>HERE<< .
The aim of the game of Disc Golf is to fly your disc starting from the Tee-off area, into the baskets at the end of each fairway. The number of shots you take is your score. You can post your score with your log if you are the competitive sort! My first attempt was 84 (with a dodgy shoulder).
You will need to visit each of the 18 holes and take note of the Length and Par of each of the holes. The post at the Tee-off area holds this information. As a checksum, this is a Par 60 course and a course length of 1842m.
Once you have the information, you will need to combine your numbers (as shown below) and using those numbers complete the crossword to extract the final coordinates of the cache.
Hole No 1
Length 85
Par 3
Combined 1853 Use this number in the crossword
The final coordinates can be extracted using this combination:
B10 E12 C9 G14 D3 I7 G6 H3 B7 A9 J4 F4 D1 D16 D13
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You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.