As the PDGA moves into the 2026 membership season, we wanted to offer an extra incentive to signing up early for your 2026 PDGA Membership.
Reminder: Joining or renewing your membership after October 1 automatically makes your membership valid until the end of the following year. So, those that signed up on or after October 1, 2025 are automatically active through December 31, 2026.
Here are the details for our 2026 Early Sign-Up Membership Promotion:
We're a couple of months from celebrating 50 years of the PDGA, but you can get a head start beginning today.
If you need to join the PDGA for the first time or are looking to return, there's no better time than now to get your lifetime PDGA number or renew your membership for 2026. Joining or renewing your PDGA membership after October 1 locks in your active status through December 31 of the following year.
To kick off the celebration, the 2026 PDGA Member Disc, Birdie Club and Ace Club disc add-on options are now available.
With vibes from the 1970s — 1976 in particular — the new artwork and disc selections from MVP Disc Sports celebrate all things PDGA 50.
Inspired by the artistry of flight and the science of sport, the artwork for the 2025 PDGA Member Disc lineup combines each of the defining elements that make disc golf the sport that it is — a beautiful and technical challenge.
Disc golf has come a long way since its early days of target golf with traditional Frisbees, to the now modern era of highly engineered discs, chain baskets, and courses that challenge players on captivating terrains all over the world.
You can do that by updating the picture on your PDGA player profile, which will show on the leaderboards and scorecard graphics on PDGA Live, in just a few steps:
From thousands of PDGA-sanctioned tournaments all around the world already on the schedule and the beginning of Elite Series action on the Disc Golf Pro Tour and the Disc Golf Network, there’s never been a better time to renew your PDGA membership.
To thank the countless members who have already renewed their membership for 2024, the PDGA has teamed up with several companies throughout the disc golf industry for a giveaway promotion for renewing PDGA members.
Disc golf has continually been on the rise and the numbers have shown that ascent year after year. 2020, despite all of the challenges of a global pandemic, simply blew those growth numbers out of the water.
Recently, the Professional Disc Golf Association released its 2020 year-end demographics and the figures from top to bottom in every area are staggering. The year ended with a 33% growth to an all-time high 71,016 active members spread across 63 countries and six continents, including 11,000 beyond North America. In comparison, there was a 15% growth in active members from 2018 to 2019.
Improve your first PDGA tournament exprience by avoiding these five common mistakes. Photo: PDGA Tour
Everyone makes mistakes, especially as they are learning a new craft. But for those who want shorten the learning curve when making the transition to sanctioned tournament play, it will be useful to understand some of the most common mistakes made by beginners entering their first PDGA event.
PDGA members were instrumental in the sport's continued growth to close the 2010s. Photo: Alyssa Van Lanen
2019 marked another big year of growth in disc golf, and the Professional Disc Golf Association is out with some impressive new numbers to prove it.
Following recent trends, active PDGA memberships continued to grow at a 15% clip, bringing the total number of active members above 50,000 for the first time. Other measures took even greater leaps, such as the number of PDGA-affiliated clubs, which saw a 35% bump.
