Geoff Hungerford Appointed to PDGA Board of Directors

The PDGA Board of Directors has appointed Geoff Hungerford #688 of Louisville, Colorado, to fill the remaining term of Will Schusterick who resigned on December 31, 2020. Hungerford, who has served for four years on the PDGA Seniors Committee, finished third in the 2020 board elections during which he ran on a platform of growing the women’s game, increasing media coverage, and creating a PDGA Seniors Tour.

A career engineer with a Ph.D. in Materials Science, Hungerford has pursued disc golf as a full-time profession since retiring in 2016. He is a two-time PDGA Senior Player of the Year (2017-2018) and recently won his 100th pro event at the 2020 Samui Swine Classic.

“Now that disc golf is a full-time pursuit for me, I have the time to contribute to the PDGA Board,” Hungerford wrote in his 2020 candidate statement. “With my travel schedule taking me to a new city almost every week, I can see firsthand how the sport is developing at major events. I’m active on social media and love to interact with disc golfers.”

Hungerford designed the first Frisbee golf course in Colorado (1974), which was permanently installed in 1976 by the Univ. of Colorado. He started the Chinook Frisbee Group in Boulder, CO in 1975, and ran the Boulder Flying Disc Festival in 1977. He competed in the World Frisbee Championships at the Rose Bowl in 1975, 76 and 77, invited by Wham-O Mfg. Co, and served as one of two International Frisbee Association (IFA) Regional Directors for region 9 from 1976-78. In 1992 he founded the Colorado Disc Sports Association, a 501(c)(4) that managed the Colorado disc golf tour.