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Ford, Butler Awarded 2018 PDGA Rookie of the Year Honors

2018 PDGA Rookies of the Year: Mason Ford (left) and Lauren Butler (right). Photos: Joni Floyd Smith, Alyssa Van Lanen

While many are content with competing as an amateur for their entire disc golf career, there are those with the desire to not only play as a professional but to thrive as one. That path can sometimes be a rocky one -- especially during the first year -- but there are always a handful of rookies that traverse the trail better than anyone else, with the most successful earning the title of PDGA Rookie of the Year.

Shue, Hendel Earn Rookie of the Year Honors

From left: Ricky Wysocki, Paige Pierce, Sandi Hendel, and Grady Shue. Photos: Alyssa Van Lanen

Ron Russell. Des Reading. Paul McBeth. Catrina Allen.

Before they became some of disc golf’s greatest champions, they started as PDGA Rookies of the Year. Now, it’s time to add two more names to the list.

Introducing the 2017 Disc Golf Hall of Fame Inductees

Left to right: Des Reading, Brian Graham, and John Bird.

Disc Golf Hall of Fame and PDGA Award Winners Announced

Disc Golf Hall of Fame Class of 2016

PDGA Awards

2015 PDGA Points Awards

Division Player PDGA #
Open Paul Ulibarri 27171
Open Women Paige Pierce 29190
Masters Patrick Brown 25713
Masters Women Nina Kiminky 47923
Grandmasters

PDGA Award Winners

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PDGA Award Winners and World Champions

Introduction

The Professional Disc Golf Association, founded in 1976, held the first PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships in Los Angeles in 1982. The title of World Champion is still the most coveted in the sport today, with hundreds of the best male and female competitors on the planet attempting to add their name to the list of PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Champions each and every year.

2014 Hall of Fame Inductees & PDGA Award Winners

Each year during the PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships a very special awards banquet is held. It's a ceremony filled with some of the most important and influential names and faces in the history of our beloved sport. The event is put on by the PDGA with the purpose of inducting the newest members to the Disc Golf Hall of Fame, as well as to give out the annual PDGA Awards.