Phill Diloné has been named the PDGA Director of Competition. Photo: Kevin Huver / DGPT
Phill Diloné may not have realized it at the time, but his professional career and disc golf journey began overlapping quickly.
Diloné, PDGA No. 70955, was jet-setting around the world coordinating high-level events and, like so many, was hooked on disc golf from his first few trips to the course.
He dove in.
“I found community, just meeting people on the course,” Diloné said. “I needed something to do outside of work after college. It blew my mind, and I was hooked.”
When Rebecca Duffy – PDGA #33115 – won the PDGA’s Bob West Memorial Sportsmanship Award in 2009, it placed her squarely on the radar of disc golf’s global governing body. Within a year, former Executive Director Brian Graham recruited Duffy as a PDGA marshal – a volunteer role, but one that would further increase Duffy’s many relationships within the rapidly broadening disc golf community.
In 2011, Duffy was elected to the PDGA Board of Directors – also a volunteer role – and in 2012 she began a term as board president that would last until 2018.
