Yeah, I was checking out Innovas Website and looking at the Team Profiles. One thing I found interesting is that Barry Schultz started playing in 79' at about 9 years old.
And he turned Pro in 92'............

Whereas Climo started Disc Golf in 87' at about age 19 years old. 9 years later than Schultz. But he turned Pro within one year whereas Schultz turned Pro 13 years after starting.
I know he was young back in 79' but Schultz didn't start winning until late 90's.And Climo was winning big from the gitgo practically more than a decade before Schultz starting winning big time.

Iam just wondering why Climo excelled so much more quickly?
They are both comprable players today . Did Schultz not really concentrate on it as much when he first started out in DG ? Or were the learning Curves just different between these two players??

Maybe Climo had more natural ability at Disc Golf from the beginning ?? And Schultz just worked his tail off to get to Climos level in the past few years ??

I don't know !! But I thought it was interesting to see the chronology of these two players' careers in DG .


P.S. OK does anyone know the story of when KC went out for the first time and was introduced to DG. You know there is a guy out there (maybe a college buddy or childood friend) who can say that he was there when he put a Disc in Climos hand and saw him throw for the first time back in 87'.
Interested to know if any of you guys here know the actual story when he first touched a Disc ?? The time, place, group of players with him, results of that first round , and did those in his group that day see the potential making of the best player in history ??? etc..etc...

i think Kenny pretty much just had it. This guy dominated from the start.

Barry, while he was always a great player, never really broke onto the national scene till about 1999, when he was in finals at worlds, and especially in 2001 when he won USDGC.

Kenny was an avid ball golfer. Its a sad fact, and most won't admit its true, but Kenny started playing disc golf because he liked to smoke weed.

I don't know Ken personally, and can't comment on his motivations to take up the sport of disc golf. I have heard that when he started playing he would play LOTS of golf, up to 9 rounds per day at Cliff Stephens park. This represents to me someone who loves to throw golf discs and is extremely competitive.

I would suggest that a more plausible explanation is that he had the dream to be a professional golfer (like thousands and thousands of others) and struggled with the realization that that dream might not come true. Then he discovered disc golf and quickly realized that he could compete with the best and become the best.

To suggest that he started disc golfing "because he liked to smoke weed" is ignorant in its assumption that traditional golf and pot smoking are mutually exclusive.

Many traditional golfers smoke pot, as well as bowlers, basketball players, snowboarders, fishermen, tennis players, soccer players, hunters, gatherers, doctors, lawyers, Christians, Jews, Democrats, Republicans, and independents.

The extent to which one group of these people partakes in the use of illegal substances relative to another can never be completely known.

The truth of the matter is that disc golf has an opportunity to improve its public perception in several areas, one of which is marijuana. There are two main ways in which we can do that:
1) Action: keep your park family friendly in regards to drugs and violence. if your park is not currently family friendly, MAKE IT FAMILY FRIENDLY, and
2) For lack of a better word, Spin: don't make ignorant comments that help spread stereotypes

I've probably averaged 30 rounds of ball golf a year over the last 15 years. I've never once seen a player smoking dope on a ball golf course (not saying it doesn't happen, or that there aren't ball golfers who smoke out).

The very first time I played disc golf nearly 10 years ago, nearly every one I saw on the course was openly lighting up and passing it around (Moffitt Park in Houston).

Since then, I have yet to play a round of disc golf where I did not witness people smoking dope.

Uh, I think Kenny developed faster 'cause he lives in FL and got to play year round, and Berry---growing up in WI---could only play the 2 months out of the year that the snow and ice melted away and the sun made a brief appearance. It's just a theory, though.