When initially asked how he first started playing the game, Steve Wisecup replied, “To make a long story short and sweet, I thought we had invented it - but then around 1975 my friends and I discovered that other people were playing Disc Golf. When we bought our World Class Frisbees we found the IFA [...]
BY DANA VICICH: I learned a long time ago that if you set goals and work hard, good things happen. When I started to have this mentality, athletics came easy for me. In soccer I started scoring goals, in baseball the ball started popping off my bat, in basketball the shots started to fall and [...]
Many of you may not know that Nathan Doss has a very valid reason to support public television. At age 7, he and his dad Mark Karleskind tuned into a program on disc golf about DeLaveaga DGC (10 minutes from their house) on the local public access channel. During the program his dad chimed in [...]
If you have no idea who David Wiggins Jr. is, then you probably have not been paying attention to disc golf related news for the last few years. A 13 year old prodigy, David is already a 5 time Junior World Champion, and recently won his first tournament in an Open division. Let’s say that [...]
BY CARLA GOMEZ: This year, I took the long 10 hour or so drive from Kenosha, Wisconsin to Huntsville, Alabama for the 10th Annual USWDGC. This just happens to be the 3rd trip for me to this top notch event. This year, this one of a kind tournament, was run by Tournament Director, [...]
1000 RATED: The United States Disc Golf Championship is widely described as the most exciting and well run tournament in the sport. Originally TD’d by Harold Duvall, you’ve held the reigns of this tourney since 2002. What makes the USDGC so special, how did the tourney come to take place in the first place and [...]
A member of the Greater Cincinnati Flying Disc Association, Matthew Blakely has 26 disc golf courses to choose from within 30 miles. Having so many types of shots to practice on so many courses can really help your game, and Matt has most likely seasoned his consistent play on many of these fairways.
Born in Dayton, [...]
Donnie Brooks is a passionate guy. The driving force behind the Mini Disc Golf Federation (MDGF), Donnie has seen his baby grow from just an idea and a game with friends in the backyard, to a full-fledged international reaching organization that has only just begun to blossom. With a permanent public Mini Disc Golf Course [...]
September 2008
PDGA #29879
Ziggy, already a Discraft sponsored Pro and almost 16 years of age, has obviously been turning heads for the past few years. One might ask whether players like him are the future of the sport - time will tell.
As a kid he played soccer and basketball, but something special happened the day before [...]
September 2008
PDGA #27171
Paul came somewhat quietly into the Professional Disc Golf world with his PDGA Amateur Disc Golf World Championship win in 2006. If you were paying any attention, he took 4th in the under 16 boys PDGA Amateur Disc Golf World Championships in 2005. Since then, his rating has jumped from 941 to 995. [...]
