ESPN.com has published a nice article on the sport of disc golf titled, "A look at the PDGA National Tour", written by Jack McCluskey. Jack interviewed PDGA executive Director Brian Graham by telephone and visited the Vibram Open National Tour event to talk with some of our sports movers and shakers and top touring professionals.
The article is well written and presents the sport of disc golf in a positive and factual manner. You can read the article by following the link below:
Since its inception in 2006, the European Open - a PDGA Major event - has become a highlight of the tour season for the leading Europeans and the world's top players.
In 2002 a decision was made to add Jacksonville as a stop on the Florida Tour. This decision that set in motion a chain of events which inspired future Tournament Directors in Jacksonville.
The National Collegiate Disc Golf Union (NCDGU) is pleased to announce that the 3rd annual National Collegiate Disc Golf Championships will be held on April 17-19, 2009 at the Hippodrome Disc Golf Course in North Augusta, SC.
The World Championships will be held this year in Kansas City on July 27th to August 1st. This will only be the fourth time in history that the Pro and Am Worlds have been combined and there is a good chance we will see the first disc golf tournament with 1000 players. We hope that you can join us in Kansas City and this article will tell what you need to do to become a part of the event.
The list of players that have been invited to compete have been calculated and a complete list is available below.
One of the longest running events in the DGA/PDGA history is the Bowling Green Open, starting in April of 1978 and continuing each year in what has become a favorite destination for disc golf players each spring.
The 5th annual Texas Women's Championship will be held April 18 and 19 in Round Rock Texas. The event is second only to the United States Women's Disc Golf Championship (USWDGC) in attendance, averaging just over 50 ladies each year.
Locastro Launches NT with Win at Memorial. The first stop of the 2009 PDGA National Tour concluded today in Scottsdale, Arizona at The Memorial. Nikko Locastro continued his early season success by capturing his first NT title, besting world-class golfer Avery Jenkins, 3-time Memorial champion Barry Schultz, and Arizona's own Paul Ulibarri.
Greetings from the staff of DiscGolfer, the new PDGA-published magazine that will debut in April. As befitting a magazine that is financed by the player-driven PDGA, we’re asking PDGA members (as well as all interested disc golfers) for your best stories, photos, and ideas and suggestions.
Your PDGA Player Rating is a number that shows how close your average round scores are compared to the course rating, called the Scratch Scoring Averages (SSA), of the courses you’ve played in competition. Players who average the SSA on courses played will have a rating of 1000 and are considered “scratch players”. A player who averages scores lower than SSAs on course they’ve played will have a rating over 1000.
Reminder: A FREE subscription to Disc Golf U is included with your PDGA membership for 2009. Have you had a chance to check it out? The season is starting!
The PDGA is pleased to announce that it's newest marketing tool was launched on Wednesday, February 11th at 1:35 EST (10:35 PST) on the front page of PDGA.com.
Staff Sergeant Ryan Shovlain (PDGA #26931) presents the PDGA with a flag from Operation Iraqi Freedom.
In 2007, Staff Sergeant Ryan Shovlain (PDGA #26931) was sent to Iraq for his second tour of duty. Prior to his leaving, Ryan was presented with some disc golf equipment by the PDGA and Epicenter Disc Golf Services, to take with him to promote the sport in that war torn country. The PDGA and the Augusta Disc Golf Association were very happy to see that Ryan had returned safely, when he showed up on Jan. 17th to play in the Ice Bowl at the International Disc Golf Center.
Day 2 of Disc Golf Network's coverage of the 2008 Tupelo Bay Open in Myrtle Beach, SC brought to you by Innova Discs and Revolution Bags.
The 2008 Tupelo Bay Open was contested on Dec. 13-14, 2008 in scenic Myrtle Beach, SC and the Disc Golf Network was there to capture all of the action for PDGA TV. Will Avery Jenkins conquer the famed Tupelo Bay course with his patented power game to capture his first Tupelo Bay title, or will one of the host of other top level players from the PDGA Tour prevail? (Part 2/2, 60 min.)
Disc Golf and the PDGA International Disc Golf Center was highlighted on the Fox Sports Network on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2008 at 11:00am EST.
On Sunday, December 21 at 11:00 a.m. EST, the Walmart FLW Fishing Series was televised on the Fox Sports Network. The event was held at Columbia County's Wildwood Park on October 22-25 and was featured on the FLW Outdoors program. As part of the programming, professional angler Wesley Strader was featured in the Around the Town segment which included a visit to three Columbia County attractions, including the PDGA International Disc Golf Center.
Disc Golf in Support of Scouting: Boy Scout Training Module - By Steve West, PDGA Youth Committee Chairman
The Boy Scouts now have a training module called "Disc Golf in Support of Scouting". If you want to teach disc golf to Scouting volunteers, this module will show you how to do it the Boy Scout way.
Don't wait until spring. Scouts plan things months in advance. If you volunteer now, you might be scheduled to actually do the training in three to nine months. That will give you plenty of time to rehearse.
So, why do the Boy Scouts have training for disc golf? Here's how it came about.
The Professional Disc Golf Association is pleased to announce that it will return to publishing its own in-house publication beginning in 2009 through the new PDGA Media Group.
Well the day finally arrived and no one felt the excitement more than Ben Calhoun and Gregg Hosfeld as they readied themselves to complete their 1,000th course together. The weather could not be prettier. Without a cloud in sight, one can only assume the air was forecasting the flight of the discs.
A disc golf course is a disc golf course, right? No - not really - there are thick ones and open ones, long ones and short ones, flat ones and hilly ones, easy ones and tough. Apologies to Dr. Suess (I am a parent, obviously) - but, my what a lot of kinds of disc golf courses there are. As the editor of the PDGA Course Directory, I see many of these differences in the text that I edit every day. This summer I came up with the idea of listing an exciting subset of courses - The Disc Golf Adventure ones. The notion came to me during a lucky trip to the Pacific Northwest.
