Nina Guerrero tees off for Team USA during the 2023 WFDF Pan American Team Disc Golf Championships.
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The fifth edition World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) World Team Disc Golf Championship is coming up later this year in Mundaring, Perth, Australia. For four days, November 6-9, 2024, disc golfers representing countries from around the world will compete in doubles and single match play formats on two 18-hole courses located in the bush and throughout the Mandaring Sporting Club Golf course.
Thomas Gilbert is representing Team Canada at the 2023 WFDF PATDGC this weekend. Photo: DGPT
Three countries are kicking off the inaugural World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) Pan American Team Disc Golf Championship this weekend at Langley Pond Disc Golf Park in Warrenville, South Carolina, United States.
After four days of play, 254 athletes and 456 rounds of match play, the WFDF 2022 World Team Disc Golf Championships were settled in the gold medal match between Estonia and Czech Republic.
In the end, it was Estonia taking the top spot and the title of World Team Disc Golf Champions.
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We will use a slightly modified design of the 2015 Canadian Nationals course. At 8300 ft the course is mentally challenging as it weaves through a beautiful arboretum of large trees. It uses a portion of the Little Mountain course at Queen Elizabeth Park and extends in to the arboretum across the road.
The course requires a special permit form the City of Vancouver and will only be set up for the event.
Best Shot is by far the most popular doubles format. Both players throw from each lie (starting with the tee shot), then the team chooses which of the resulting lies to continue play from, until the hole is completed. The only modification being the same player can not tee off three holes in a row.
In early 2014, the PDGA and the World Flying Disc Federation signed a memorandum of understanding to renew cooperation between the organizations in managing and promoting the development of disc golf activities internationally. As a part of the arrangement, both parties agreed to the development of an International Disc Golf Committee. One of the tasks of this committee was to develop a new jointly-sanctioned World Championship Disc Golf event, the format of which will be a national team competition. A “World Cup” for disc golf, so to speak.
The World Flying Disc Federation is pleased to present its 2014 Report of its Development Grants Program and put out the call for new grants applications for 2015. In 2014 a total of US$ 26,739 was committed and the WFDF board has budgeted up to US$24,000 for 2015, with individual grants limited to no more than US$1,500 each. WFDF also plans to expand this year its disc missionary program, providing discs to travelers to areas with limited disc activity.
On Saturday October 25th, 2014, Germany’s rising star of disc golf, Simon Lizotte #8332, set a new world record for the longest outdoor throw of a flying disc. With a 17mph wind at his back, he crushed a 157g Innova Blizzard Boss, a gift from 2009 PDGA World Champion Avery Jenkins #7495, on a huge anyhyzer line across the flat desert land of Primm, NV. The distance that was reported back to him by radio from the spotter using an approved distance finder was an incredible 263.20 meters (863.5 feet)!
The Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA) and the World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) are pleased to announce that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to renew cooperation between the organizations in organizing and promoting the development of Disc Golf activities internationally. The agreement was signed earlier this week by PDGA Executive Director Brian J. Graham and WFDF President Robert L. “Nob” Rauch following approval by their respective Boards of Directors. As part of the agreement, the PDGA will rejoin the WFDF as a Disc Sport Organizational member, regaining its status as a charter member of the WFDF going back to its formation in 1985.
