Who? Where? When?

[gotcha]

Who turned you on to disc golf?
When and where was your first round?
What was your first disc(s)?

A friend from college, Gary Bennett, and his roommate, Kenny Glaze, turned me on to disc golf in July of '91. My first round was at Veterans Park in Arlington, TX and I shot a score of 91 using a Stingray and a Super Puppy! I was instantly hooked! I believe it was the very next day I dragged Brian Mace (MaceMan Disc Golf Gear) out to Veterans to which he also developed a passion for the game after only one round.
Good memories......

[MTL21676]

Who - A neighbor up the street - Dustin "Tree" Lynch ( I was 9, he was 12). His older brother got into it with some high school buddies and showed his brother who in turn showed me.
When - Feb 1993
Where - Cedar Hills Rotary Park - Raleigh, NC. I don't remember what I shot, but I do remember taking a 13.
First Disc - I played my first round with a lid. The first disc I bought was a shark.

[cgkdisc]

Brochure for the 1989 Star of the North State Games
Moir Park, Bloomington, MN 9 holes of saucer cone baskets. Shot 27 using a Master Frisbee and thought that shooting "par" was pro level right away. Little did I know.
Bought a 195g Phenix since the Innova literature at the store said that was the World Record driver at the time. Finally could throw a golf disc when my second disc was a 168 Eclipse.

[dgdave]

Who-My budd Caleb Brown. Oddly enough, my dad and uncle played, but never seriousy. my dad got back into it after i did

When- Sometime around 1995

Where- Riverview park in Miami, Oklahoma

Discs- A sanny or ontario roc and a metalhead viper Caleb's dad let me borrow

[johnbiscoe]

who- various friends, chris hysell and will lewis later got me into tournament golf

when- late 1994, early 1995

where- gillies creek park, richmond (got installed right down the hill from my house)

discs- 1st was a 179 gram marauder, 1st one i could throw was a 174 panther.

[crotts]

Who-My Dad, he played Ultimate in the 70's and Lewis Hoffmann introduced him to the game.

When- My dad used to take me out in a stroller before I could walk so around '85-'86

Where- East Carolina University DGC

Discs- No idea

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[rollinghedge]

WHo - Ben Gill
When - 95 or 96
Where - Wellsprings course @ Cedarock Park
Disc - ultimate disc

[Pogis]

Who: A buddy from church.
When: Dec. of 2004.
Where: ZBoaz in Ft. Worth Tx. With a 149 Shark!

[my_hero]

Who turned you on to disc golf? a summer camp counselor
When and where was your first round? 1984 - Pine Cove christian camp, Lake Palestine TX
What was your first disc(s)? 1st disc used - 40 mold Midnight Flyer. 1st disc owned(1992) - san marino Roc (still have it)

[tyson99duke]

Who turned you on to disc golf? Took it in College as an elective. Ultimate/Disc Golf Class at High Point University
When and where was your first round? 2000, Johnson Street Park
What was your first disc(s)? Went out and bought Lighting Disc #1, #2 and Putter for the class.

[bschweberger]

Who turned you on to disc golf? Jerry Baker, friend from old job.
When and where was your first round? 1997 Kentwood
What was your first disc(s)? 180 gram white Shark.... that was a great disc

[OSTERTIP]

Who turned you on to disc golf? Camp Counselor 1985, but did not play again until Summer of 2004 when friends took me out for a round. In 2004 I was hooked after the first round.

When and where was your first round? 2004 Pendleton King Park, Augusta, GA

What was your first disc(s) First disc was a DX Valk, first Champion plastic disc was a 161g Valk (still have it)

When and where was your first hole in one? Fore Palms disc golf course. 2 days before the yearly event in June 2006. 180 foot blind uphill shot with a Z Wasp. giggity!

[MTL21676]

What was your first disc(s)? 1st disc used - 40 mold Midnight Flyer. 1st disc owned - san marino Roc (still have it)

I'm on the phone with discraft as we speak

[ninafofitre]

Who turned you on to disc golf? my golfing buddy Rodney that attented Okie State University and played Boomer Lake
When and where was your first round? June 1993 McClure Park, Tulsa, OK, first tourney OKIE States Aug. 93
What was your first disc(s)? Yellow Scorpion & Pink Shark, followed the next day by a glow F15 and grey Stealth (Lightning Discs weren't so bad back then)

[my_hero]

The first driver that i was able to throw over 300' was Lightning's F-15 Eagle. I still have it too.

[veganray]

Who turned you on to disc golf? Steve Dodge, whom I randomly drew as a college roommate in 1988.

When and where was your first round? Mary Washington College, fall 1988.

What was your first disc(s)? I didn't actually own discs then (used Steve's lids) & dropped the game from summer 1989 until fall 2002, at which point I bought a DX Leopard, DX Stingray, & DX Polecat.

When and where was your first hole in one? Many object aces in 1988 & two at Pratt Park in fall 2002, but first basket ace was Loriella Park #10 in December 2002.

[ninafofitre]

The first driver that i was able to throw over 300' was Lightning's F-15 Eagle. I still have it too.

It was actually the longest disc out when I got it...FAST and Stable (for about 5 rounds)

1st ace was on Hole 4 at McClure Park in 1994...funny thing is that I won a stuffed purple #4 billiard ball out of a crane game earlier that day and thought it was a sign and attached it to my Wall City, round golf bag and sure enough aced hole 4 that night with a Orange Whippet

[zzgolfer]

Who: Dave Clauter and Kevin O’conner. I think they got into disc golf from don wilchek.
Where: Gilson park, just north of Chicago right on the lake.
When: 1977
What: Midnight flyer.
Played the first tournament at west park in 1979, i came in fourth. Dave Clauter was first, Keven O'conner was second.

[tafe]

Who?: Kyle Maute, owner of Phenix Disc Sports.
Where?: My first round was at my home course, Knoch Knolls in Naperville, IL with a promotional fastback I found on campus (yes, I still have it).
When?: Sometime in the summer of 2000, then Kyle let me know what DISC golf was, not the F-word golf I had played.

[Furthur]

Who: Me. I was an ultimate player on the Arkansas club team at the time, but also smoked at the time, so disc golf was a slower paced game perfect for me .
Where: Gulley Park in Fayetteville, AR. No longer there because of the pedestrian traffic. I lived 2 blocks from the course, so it seemed like a natural fit.
When: Spring of 2003.

[tiltedhalo]

When: I grew up playing object golf with my Dad -- so probably from when I was old enough to walk around the block -- 1982 or so, with old Frisbee 109g discs hitting mailboxes.

I didn't know disc golf was a "real sport" until college. In early 1997, a friend with one disc took me to Greenbelt park in Carrollton, TX. I had an Ultimate lid (I was an Ultimate player), and thought I Would trash him. He was using some old beat up lightning driver and I was shocked how far it went. His bad throws were as far as my good throws with a lid. Not long after, my family bought me three discs for my 19th birthday in June 1997 -- a DX Shark, a DX Gazelle and a supersoft Piranha (I still have the Piranha). That summer, my best friend and I tore it up just about every day, playing mostly Bear Creek in Grapevine, TX. At that time, I could only put a 167g Gazelle ~220', and that was by launching a forehand on a high anhzyer and letting it fade back.

First ace was two years later with a different DX Gazelle on one of the later holes at Research Park in College Station, TX. Blind 230' flick around a corner. I was shouting to wake the dead and doing handsprings across the ground I was so excited. That course has changed layouts so many times that I have no idea what the hole number would be now.

My best friend's first ace was a couple of years later with a 10X KC Roc at Bear Creek, hole 15 (the one that is straight towards the creek). The creek was high and muddy, so I threw first and went to wait behind the basket to try to stop any discs from our group that might be heading towards the water. He launches his drive off the box and I got to watch it fly the whole way in and hit dead center in the chains. It was awesome to get to watch his first ace from a vantage behind the basket. It's the only ace I've ever watched come flying towards me.

Played casually for a couple of years then played PDGA for about a year in 2003, then took four years off and picked it up again -- seriously for the first time -- last summer I've played way more tourneys and traveled way more for disc golf in the last year than I did in my first decade of playing.

Ah, so many good memories over the years.

[Pizza God]

Who turned you on to disc golf?
Not any one person, but playing Ultimate and loving frisbee's my whole life helped. My mom actually told me about "Frisbee Golf" before I started to play.

When and where was your first round?1st round at a disc golf course would have been in 1986/87 with a Whammo 185g ultimate disc. I played at least one round in Plano after that course was put in and one at Skyline Park in Dallas around that same time.

But it was not until someone showed me an actual golf disc that I got hooked on the sport. The day after he showed me those discs, I drove from Denton to Carrollton and purchased my first 2 discs on April 20th 1988. I then drove by the disc golf course and looked at it. I was unable to play because it was pooring down rain and the course was under water. I played my first round with real golf discs later that week.


What was your first disc(s)?
I had purchased an F-15 Eagle and a P-?? Lightning. I threw both on hole one. The Lighting went 300 ft to the right of the hole and the Eagle went 300 ft to the left of the hole. (this was old #1 at Greenbelt in Carrollton) by the end of the round I was getting them to go pretty straight.

I met some guys playing a Mini on the weekends and joined in. I was familiar with Ultimate tournaments and loved playing organized play. I played my first tournament in June of that year, only 2 months after purchasing my 1st two discs.

[michellewade]

Who turned you on to disc golf?
When and where was your first round?
What was your first disc(s)?

Alain Cannon - a friend from high school took me tubing down the Salt River in AZ. He had an F-15 flyer - blue in color. I still have it to this day. We started tossing it across the river and kept getting further and further apart. I had no idea I could throw that far cuz before that all I ever tossed was Whamo Apples.

2 weeks later I entered my first tournament which had no divisions for the women it was just "women's division." I was tossed to the wolves and in with the big guns from day one. Back then it was Amy Bekken and Elaine King who ruled the courses and there was 16 women total at the Shelly Sharpe Memorial (now called just The Memorial.) It was October 2 and 3 of 1987. I finished 11th out of 16 women and was very happy "I had no 6's!"

After that I bought a 174 Scorpian and that was my main driver up until the 150 class came out.

BTW, our 30th year high school reunion is upcoming in October in AZ and I haven't seen Alain Cannon around in years. If anyone sees him, please have him contact me at FRISBEEGIRL@aol.com. I heard he now has a kid which is cool. I remember we were all playing a monthly one time and news spread that his dad had a heart attack and had passed away. I found Alain on the course and broke the news to him and drove him back home. We hung out a lot in high schoool, playing ping-pong at the rec center and doing our homework. He and his family are all very nice sweet people and I'd love to see him again some day... hopefully in October.

Thanks for the memories! Year 21 is now underway and it's been a sweeeeeeet ride!

[warwickdan]

None other than Dan "Stork" Roddick introduced me to the game on the Douglass College (New Brunswick, NJ) object course in September of 1974. My first "golf disc" was a black Master Frisbee disc.

I played my first tourney in 1974 at the Jersey Jam in New Brunswick, NJ. My two playing partners in my first ever tourney round of golf were Victor Malafronte and John Kirkland, two icons in the sport.

I was definitely in the right place at the right time.

[cgkdisc]

They may be the icons but undoubtedly there are more players today that probably know you and your outstanding efforts for our sport (including your begging and cajoling )

[davei]

Who-Janice (A woman I worked with)
Where-La Mirada
When-1977 A couple months after the pole hole course was installed.

First disc for disc golf was a Super Pro, then a 50 mold, then an 80 mold etc.

First disc ever was in 1958 with a mars/pluto platter.

[circle_2]

Originally played object disc golf on our made-up course on the West-campus of KU ~ '82-'84

My first round of dg on a DG course: '83 Swope in KC - thought throwing lids at these chain/basket-things was ridiculous

Fast forward to '97 - got hooked in Lawrence, KS, Centennial Park - by AJ Boyle, who now resides in Austin, TX...not sure if he still plays anymore.

Cheetah, Typhoon, Hawk, Piranha

[westxchef]

Who? don't even know his name. a friend of a friend was having a birthday party at Zilker Park and asked if someone would be his doubles partner at the mini on the other side of the park. I had thrown alot of frisbee and played some ultimate before, so I said yes. I was hooked from throw 1.

When? sometime around late '91 I think because my first tournament T-shirt was from "Earth Day" 1992 at Zilker. I think I played at least one round 700 days over the next 2 years, before real life responsibility kicked-in.

First discs were a Shadow and an Aviar I bought from Armadillo Sport right down the street from Zilker.

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[discette]

Who turned you on to disc golf?
Barry Cullinan said I should try Disc Golf since I enjoyed playing catch. Sadly he can no longer play due to MS.
When and where was your first round?
September, 1996 at Sugarbottom DGC in North Liberty, IA
I played my first tournament there a few weeks later and was hooked for life.
What was your first disc(s)?
First discs were a black Shark and a yellow Rubber Putter.

[Lyle O Ross]

Andy Salinger - his doctor told him he needed to walk more and so he started throwing discs while he walked. I came along for the conversation.

1996 or thereafter.

I'm hazy on first discs - The first ones I know I had were a Gazelle, a Cheetah and a Magnet putter. Remember the Raven? Somewhere in there I bought an MRV...

First Rounds - 9 holer at Rice University across from Baylor College of Medicine.