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Scott Papa!EXTRA SPIH; ;j’for distance a jArt Direct ion/LayoutA m a n d a M a l l a r d o
Instructional Advisory PanelDave DunipaceM a r k E l l i s
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Chuck KennedyJeff PerryJay “Yeti” ReadingK a r a S l a t e r
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EDITORIALAA LOVE OF THE GAME
Miles to Go
4B BY THE NUMBERSNumber of courses per state
Myou play what you eatHow eating right will improve your game
52 4SEASONS DISC GOLFSurvive this winter without sacrificingy o u r g a m e
76 AVIEW FROM THE OUTSIDE* Just agirl living in adisc golf world
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MMASTERING AGEHow to keep up
MEVENTS CALENDARDisc golf, ultimate, and freestylee v e n t s
97 MARKETPLACEMDOG'S BARKAdisc dogger’s saga
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19 WATCH AND LEARN5Bfl staff video reviews
15 STAY WARMThe importance of layers
Ioyeti road report5Stories from the road
91 ASK APRO■A IYour questions have beena n s w e r e d
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90 RULES OF THE GAMELearn the rules, they might saveyour life
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The year was 1975. Fifty thousand people packed the Rose Bowl in Pasadena for the World FrisbeeChampionship. The world’s best players were there competing in aseries of overall disc events
including accuracy, distance, freestyle, and, for the first time at the WFC, disc golf. The atmospherewas electric. TV cameras beamed live coverage to anationwide audience on ABC’s Wide World ofSports. The winners wound up with groovy endorsement deals from Wham-0.
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That wasn’t afluke, either. The year before, Dan “Stork” Roddick won acar—yes, acar—for takingfirst place in adisc golf event. 1976 brought the “disc pole holecourse in La Canada, California, witnessed around 5000 rounds of play each week. The disc golfchampionships at the WFC in 1982 drew agallery that was more than ten thousand strong. Peoplewere packed several deep around the tees, up the fairways, and around the greens. Excitement washigh and times were good.
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/shortly thereafter. The void was filled by ways. My^ personal favorite was agladiatorial various player organizations. With no strong, contest Icalled Ffisbee Facebusters. Odds areunifying king, each group concentrated on you’ve thought up agame or two of your own.it’s own particular discipline. We wound up Disc golf, ultimate, freestyle, guts—they’re allwith some organized and highly specialized natural extensions of that same impulse,disc act iv i t ies, each wi th arabid, hardcore
following. But we also lost sight of our I’ve never spun a-d^sc on my teetbi^-^had ainterconnectedness, and our relevance to Ritalin-deficient schjnauzer flip off my back, or 'the outside world suffered. Marketing aniche laid out for awicked snitch (or whatever the .
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activity is tricky enough. Marketing abunch ultimate term is). I’ve spent twenty-five yearsof fractured microniche activities is-another more or less, dedicated to disc golf and. allthing entirely. of it’s elegant complexities. But I, enjoy other
-games, too, and am glad to participate when .Ask atypical younger generation disc golfer if given the opportunity. I’d certainly wat'ch anyhe plays catch very often. Odds are he doesn’t, competition that involved aflying disc. Judging !and if he does it’s with asoft Aviar. Try out by the early WFC days, I’m not alone,the acronym test. Ask what MTA, TRC, DDC, orIFA stand for. Flow about WFDF? No, none of Maybe disc golfers should think of those others
disc tribes like the girl who lives across'thehall, the one you see most mornings
It’s no indictment of the pups-it’s just ayou’re in arush to get out and away .tosymptom of the disconnect in the flying- office prison. Don’t brush her off. Take time t4.disc world these days. We all seem to have really notice her. You’ll see she’s got beautiful
eyes, ahea'A of gold, and, unlike that mm lnaccounting, she’ll love you back.
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Iremember playing catch with ahigh schoolbud for hours on end. We’d skip adisc on the Love the lid. Ihope you enjoy our kick-assroad back and forth, back and forth, counting magazine, ftlinhow many times in arow we could do itwithoutadrop. We never grew bored.
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DGA FLEXFIT DIRT HATSome guys work hard to break in agolf cap, it sure sounds cool. Looks cool, too, with itstake pride in showing off the various rips and snappy embroidered basket and approach-stains they’ve picked up on the course. 0th- ing disc, and then the splattered-dirt graphic,ers, who perhaps like the look but don’t much Now you can look like you’ve recovered yourenjoy what it takes to get acap looking that favorite DGA disc from the primordial swamp,funky, prefer to buy their apparel looking worn Beats blood running down your face. Comes inin. Remember prestressed Levis? Now the DGA chocolate brown in sizes S-M and L-XL. Okay, Ioffers acap that looks like the cat’s had his do know what Flexfit is, cause Iasked: seemsway with it. Named the Dirt Hat, the cap fea- there’s an “elastic band on the inside of the hattures what DGA terms Flexfit technology, which that helps the hat fit perfectly to any size head.”means, well, Idon’t know what it means but They brag about it holding its fit too. $25.
FOAM FLYER FOR FRIENDLY FIREDodgebee Rules The court measures
ten yards by twenty yards, with aline dividingthe court through the middle, much like atennis court. Teams are split equally, and atleast one team member must remain in theoutfield (the area outside the opposing team’sinfield square). Players inside or outside theplay area may pass to outfield players who inturn launch aDodgebee attack at an opposingteam’s infield players. Any successful attack—an infield player hit without the disc beingcaught—results in the hit player moving to theoutfield; the successful attacker then returnsto the infield. Throws must hit players beforehitting the ground. Games last four minutes, oruntil an infield team has been eliminated. Formore info visit www.dodgebeeusa.com.
Oh, boy, anew game. Or really an oldgame translated and updated. You’ve seenthe cheesey movie (Dodgeball), relived in yournightmares the bright-red tats adodgeballleft on your face, and plotted revenge in yourfantasies. Well, dude, here’s your chance totreat your friends to afacial of their own, moreor less guilt free.
Innova calls their new game (and thedisc you use to play it) Dodgebee, amarriage ofdodgeball and Frisbee; heck, knowing Just thatpretty much tells you how to play.
T h e d i s c i t s e l f i s a s o f t f o a m - b a s e dCordura-wrapped disc that Innova claims won’thurt even when thrown hard. Dodgebees willbe avilable in three sizes/weights: 27 cm/85 g;23.5 cm/65 g, and 20 cm/45 g.
HUK MICROFLEECE SHIRTrest of it is Just as nice. $39.
Thefleeceshirt is madefrom alightweight255 gram polyester microfleece, which even ifyou have no idea what the heck that means suresounds Just like something you’d want, has thatwarm-and-practical sound to it. Ithink so. $54.
Agreat lid for lid throwers, the classicnewsboy, second in cool only to Samuel L.Jackson’s Kanga; it was close, almost atie. Thehuk newsboy is made from awool blend andcan grace your noggin in brown herringbone ordobby plaid. Got one of those neat satin innerlinings too. $36.
Idon’t know about you but the first word thatcame to my mind when Isaw this picture wassherpa. But, no, that would be incorrect. It is infact one of the huk lab guys modeling some ofhuk’s latest apparel. These guys make very nicestuff. What we have this month is aimed at youcold-weather golfers. 1guess those of you wholive in SoCal or Florida or Australia, other warmclimes, you should go read something else.
The cool long-sleeve dry-mesh shirt (herein burgundy) helps wick moisture, retain heat,awinning combo. Yeah, that’s it, that little bitpeeking out of the bottom of the outershirt. The
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by Bill Flynn
ASaturday morning not unlike Fillmore toss those lids? Gary, it’s theany other, pleasant weather, course twenty-first century!meticulously groomed, and Gary “MagicMan” Morton and 1are paired for the bachelor with ridiculously low IFA and
PDGA numbers (actually PDGA #2017),
This was serious. As an elusive
Superman round—it’s ascramble week.We get to hole 4, aright dogleg, and Gary had been left unchecked way tooGary throws acontrolled anhyzer amanyyears. The question, “Honey, whereshort distance but with high accuracy, did my cool 1983 Disc Worlds BaseballGary’s game Is clean: no flash, no trees, shirt go?” was never asked; he knew,all fairway, all chains (when he’s close Nothing he owned that old went unused.
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p enough).After retrieving my shot from the old discs, his bag the last refuge for out-
molded, out-of-style, brittle plastic.Something had to be done. Ihad
three words for Gary—EXTREME BAG
S> thicket, 1marked Gary’s lie, handed himhis disc, inquiring, “Where’d you get thatplastic?”
a From this great guy, Dan MAKEOVER!S' All Is good. Iconducted anMangone,” he responded. “He sold
U discs out of atrailer. He invited Scott intervention. Gary’s been hooked upZimmerman and me to his mom’s for with ashort stack of Bogeyman custom-
Ilasagna. That was real cool since I’d just stamped Aeros. Yes, Iknow, little more.met him. Iused the disc at the 1983 thanthe modern equivalent of hisousted
World’s-Sylmar, La Mirada, and atemp discs. His throws remain the same, butcourse. The Orbiter’s Odyssey Eagle now the discs that leave Gary’s hand-
slow and steady and straight—look fresh.
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replaced my Moonlighter—’Whoooa , didn’t, like, Millard modern, stylish.
Flying Disc Magazine realizes other Gary Mortons need salvation. Be aV good Sam! Submit an extreme bag-makeover candidate. We will pick the
neediest of the bunch and pimp out their bag with modern plastic thatfits their game and doesn’t smell like old socks or stale Schlitz. Togetherwe can make things right, one retro soul at atime.
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When living in California, Gary appeared in Beverly Hills Cop II, Cheers, and oth-ers. He’s arecently retired high school teacher and football coach who continues
er to perform magic around the country. fdin
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$COTT STOKELY’S DISC GOLFVIDEO SERIES
Breiner Enterprises, Inc.Volumes 1-3; $20/disc and bad jokes—there’s abit with agarbage-can
lid that’s either hilarious or stupid, probablydepending upon your, uh, elevation level—buteven those are winning, in abig, sloppy puppy-dog kind of way. He knows his stuff and does agood Job of translating his knowledge into bothword and image; there’s alot of excellent discgolf advice here.
Briefly, here’s what you’ll get, at twentybucks apop (per disc). Volume One: backhandfor finesse and power; disc selection; distance;pulling off a360-turnaround without fallingon your face; pro tips, strategy, and outtakes.Volume Two: Forehand, the mental game, spe¬cialty shots, pro tips, more outtakes. VolumeThree: putting, approach shots, playing in thewind, specialty putting, updated disc selection,still more pro tips, and still more outtakes.
The only disappointing element wasthat when he talked about discs, he only rec¬ommended Discraft discs. While Iunderstandhe is or was sponsored by Discraft, it seems tome that when he teaches, he needs to acceptthat many of his students often throw plasticmade by other companies. Scott can stick withhis discs but he should at minimum generouslymention that other, non-Discraft discs are goodfor such-and-such too.
For years Scott Stokely toured as both aplay-hg pro and ateaching pro, marketing himself, andqonducting group and private lessons. Starting afew years ago, Scott started releasing aseries of in¬structional videos, appearing originally on VHS butrow on DVD. Those of you who witnessed Scott run¬ning asession already know what to expect, thatvou’ll be treated to aslightly goofy but articulatel son in Just about everything you need to know toijnprove your game.IScott sometimes brushes over things tooquickly, but one of the Joys of aDVD is that if youmiss something you can back up and watch itagain until you get it. Course, that also means youcre exposed to Scott’s slightly sophomoric pratfalls
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DISC GOLF 101HEAVE H.O.E.
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As aperipheral disc sports dilettante, Ican use all the instruction Ican get. (The factthat 1admit that upfront likely gives away mygender, unless you already guessed it frommy name.) Left to my own devices, Iprobablywould not be inclined to seek out an instruc¬tional DVD on flying-disc sports. However, sincethe trailer for this DVD caught my attention onYouTube (and the fact that my husband is theeditor of FDM and he asked me to review it), Ithought, “Sure, I’m game.”
Now, Icouldn’t tell you who the nar¬rator on this DVD was, but he seemed to beknowledgeable enough and certainly passion¬ate about Frisbee. Surprisingly, Ifound myselfdrawn in and actually pining for athaw so 1could try out the new pointers. The demon¬strations appeared so effortless, they left methinking, “Geesh, achild could throw like that.”Umm, wait, there actually were children throw¬ing like that (must have been what made methink of it). Whenever Isee children accom¬plishing something that Ishould be able to do,it either makes me feel old or incompetent. I’lllet you guess.
All in all, Ienjoyed this DVD and feel thatit is not only useful for the novice disc thrower,it might even teach an old dog some new tricks(I’ll have to test out that theory on my husband).It left me curious to learn more about the na¬tional throwing contest for kids, what “folf two”means, and what the heck “H.O.E.” stands for.While I’m left pondering those, Ithink I’ll grab adisc and practice spinning it on my finger.
— D e n a S m i t h G i v e n s
Tom Monroe’s DVD is astraightforward,no-frills disc-golf primer. It teaches the basicswith shot elements as the primary focus. TomMonroe’s experience (PDGA #33) shines, and heprovides clear explanation. Cool camera angleshelp make the presentation interesting, and themusic is snappy, too.
On occasion Monroe is abit casual—hold¬ing discs in his off hand during demos and drop¬ping the F-word: Frisbee.
Additional tips and situational elementscompliment the instruction. Scene organiza¬tion is the DVD’s strength. You can watch andrewatch particular tosses until you get it.
Disc Golf 101 is bestsuited for developingplayers wanting to learn new tosses. The person¬al accounts of others may hit acord and remindyou that you’re not alone. At $19.99 retail, it’sabuy! Ya’II, watch this, and make sure to get adisc or two from Tom’s trunk.
—6/7/ Flynn
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your body, but keep water away from your body.Remember in that movie, AChristmas Story(1983), when the mom stuffs the little kid into asnow-suit, and then he can’t move?
“I can’t put my arms down,” he says. Shepushes his arms down acouple times. They springback up.
L A V E R SIf you’re going to be aspectator, it’s easy to
stay warm. Just put on the biggest, heaviest coat,hat, and mittens, andyou’ll be as toasty as amarshmallow, just likethe kid in the movie. Butif you’re going to be ac¬tive, you’ll roast in thatcoat until you take it off.Then, you’ll be cold be¬cause the cotton T-shirtyou were probably wear¬ing is now drenched insweat. And if it’s rainingor snowing you won’teven be able to take offthe coat without getting
wet. Oh, were you planning on throwing adisc in that
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“ Wa a a a a h ! ” t h e k i d c r i e s .
It’s totally funny, and totally old school. Back inthe day, people beefed up their clothes to stay warmbecause they weren’t thinking about doing things likebucking discs. But don’t be bummin’, because youdon’t have to freeze to be able to hurl adisc when it’sc o l d .
THE SASICSYour body already kicks out heat at 99°F
(37°C) Just sitting still. When you play, your body getseven warmer. All you have to do is prevent your bodyheat from wicking to the cooler surrounding air. Youdo this by creating abarrier of warm air next to yourskin. That barrier of air must be kept still or you’ll loseyour body heat—certainly you’ve noticed how you feelcolder when there’s awind.
When you’re trying to stay warm, air is good,but water is bad. Water drains more heat than air be¬cause it takes more energy to warm up. Have you evernoticed that air at TOT (21°C) feels warmer than wa¬ter at TOT (21°C)? That’s because it takes 1Calorieto heat 1kilogram of water by 1°C, but only takes O.ITCalories to heat 1kilogram of air by 1°C. That’s lessthan afifth of the heat energy! And that heat energyis coming from your body. You’ll lose even more heatwhen water evaporates directly from your skin. So tostay comfy, keep anice barrier of warm, still air around
heavy coat?So what do you wear? All you need are afew
simple layers to keep warm, mobile, and prepared foravariety of weather conditions and levels of activity.
The first layer next to your skin is the base lay¬er, abreathable material that wicks sweat away fromyour body and spreads it out so it dries quickly andaway from your skin. Good base layers are made ofnatural fibers such as wool or silk, or synthetic materi¬als such as nylon and polyester, which are copies ofnatural fibers. Your base layer also holds in athin lay¬er of air that your body heats up. These days it’s easyto find base layers in stores by looking for such keywords as “dry” or “wicking.” Many companies evencall them base layers to help you out.
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The second layer is your insulation layer, which ishicker than the base layer but light and fluffy so it can
l e t a i n a l o t o f w a r m a i r . I n s u l a t o r s a r e m a d e o f m a t e r i a l s
;uch as goose down, synthetic down, or polyester fleece.L’s important that your insulation layer do two things.Irst, and most important, it must retain air next to yourody—that’s why puffy goose down is such agood insula-iC Second, the insulator must “breath.” While your base,
wicking layer is good at pulling moisture away from your)ody, there still must be alayer of air over the base so that
Ihe moisture can evaporate away. Your insulator must letill of those microscopic drops of water vapor move awayrom your body. Some base layers are so thick they can■erve as insulation layers, too. In cool conditions (45-50°F7-10°C)), or if you’re really going to be generating alot
of heat, or if your body naturally runs alittle warmer, youmay not need an insulator at all-your base layer may be(mough to keep you insulated as well.
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11 in the cold, leave your favorite tie-dye or#1 Jl Alice in Chains T-shirt at home. Cotton ab-sorbs water like asnonge and won’t let it
^ents the wind from sweeping away your insulator’s warm Of ce your cotton Tgets w. tfrom sweat, rain, or'snow, it’s going to stay wet un. it gets in the dryer.
All that moisture will rob your I: dy heat. The samegoes for your patched, denim cket.
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Finally, you need an outer covering that both pre¬
air as well as keeps outside moisture from getting in. is"his layer is your shell. Shells are made of fabrics thatare water and/or wind resistant. Some shells claim to be)oth waterproof and breathable. The goal here is to keep
outside moisture from getting in while still allowing yoursweat to get out. (It’s anice goal, but see Quick Tip 3.)
W C K UlEftR THE RIGHT SIZE The baggyrI look may be in, but loose base layers andIffX Iinsulators are inefficient. Your wicking lay-
—' er can’t suck water away from your skin
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unless it’s in contact with your skin. The same istrue for your insulator. You want that barrier of airas close to your body as possible and you want it tostay there. Think tight like awetsuit. You want to bestylin’? No problem. Your shell can be as big andloose as you want, as long as it keeps the wind and
jwet out and the warmth in. And nobody has to see:the bulges underneath.
STOVIHG moe iLENow that you’re familiar with the basic compo- :
nents, let’s think about adding movement to the goal, jIk/lost clothing and accessories made from wool have some !give, but most synthetic fabrics and silk don’t stretch very |well. Manufacturers sometimes compensate for this byproducing fabric blends (such as cotton and polyester) to j;lake advantage of the dryness of one material and the iitretch of another. The best base layer choice for cold :jveather is asynthetic that incorporates stretchy fibers :iuch as spandex (See Quick Tip 2). If you’re looking at a:Potential base layer at the store, grab it and give it apull, j|f it has some give to it, it’s good. :jPolyester fleece is the best for comfort, price, and !ijnobility in your insulator. Fleece is naturally pliable so jProvides alot of room for movement. Goose down and :synthetic down are much better insulators, but are usually jituffed in anylon fabric with no stretch. If you really need jthe warmth of down try avest instead. Flaving your arms jree should give you enough freedom to throw. Your shell Isthe least of your problems (See Quick Tip 2). 3
Read the rest of the Quick Tips and you’ll be amas- rer at regulating your body comfort during Fall and Winter :jctivities in any part of the World. fdlH r
QUICKC UJRTERPROOF eRERTHR8LE. VEPHRIGHT! Some shells can cost you morethan $400, partly because they are madeof hi-tech fabrics that are more breathable
than, say, rubber. Save your money if you’re on a;budget. If you are going to be REALLY active, thererisn’t abreathable fabric on the planet that is going
to keep you from sweating, especially if you naturally:. run hot. Many big, beefy guys start sweating just:: standing still while wearing ahigh-end Jacket made
of the latest and greatest fabric. Rather than payingalot of money for high-end fabric, buy products thatare designed well. Look for zipper vents in the arm
ipits (pit zips) or in the torso that will let you adjustLyour inner heat based on your activity level.
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erating more heat, not after you already feel hot. Don’twear abase layer you would need for an arctic expeditionif you live at the Equator. The more active you are goingto be and the warmer it is outside, the less insulation youn e e d .
HEAD, HPHDS PHD FEET Treat your extremi-
I-— I ties the same as the rest of your body. The best#5 way to keep your hands warm is with athin glove“ l i ne r and awa te rp roo f g love ove r t ha t . The bes t
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PSK PP EXPERT The best adv ice usual ly comes from experts familiar with your region.
IVisit your local outdoor store. Make friends withJascout. Become abackpacker. Listen to thewind. Hug atree. Okay, you get the idea.
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I—„ I live in an area where the weather can changejtat amoment’s notice, be prepared. Layering isnot only the most efficient way to keep warm and
mobile, it provides quickly changeable options. If the rainstops, take off your shell. If it warms up, take off your insu¬lation and replace your shell. If you have the right combi¬nation of layers, you’ll be ready for anything nature throwsat you. If you only have ajacket, you’re either warm or
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rSoicKi KPOUIVOUR THERmOSTPT Our bodies haveJust as much variety as the weather. Some peo-
I#8 jpie get cold when it’s 60°F (16°C) outside, whileothers sweat when it’s 40°F (4°C). If you’re usedto being outside in the elements, you probably alreadyknow where you stand and can dress accordingly. If you’renot, think about how you sleep. Do you bundle up undertwo comforters at night? Or do you kick off the blankets,even in the winter? Your body heat is determined by yourmetabolism, so food, hydration, even your state of mindwill affect your comfort. Know thyself and to thine own selfb e t r u e .
eUT UJPiT, HOUJ DO iTHROW? If it stoo coldI— I to go barehanded consider your sport. For disc\#9 jgolf, cut the fingers out of aglove liner on your' throwing hand and keep it in apocket or mittenuntil it’s time to throw. Take off the mitt and you’re readyto go. For full-time, disc-in-hand fun, consider receivergloves (the kind football players wear). They aren’t verygood insulators, but they should cut down some of thewind. Some companies make aconvertible mitt (a fold-back cover for the fingertips), but you’ll probably have tocut the thumb off of this glove.
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r IMark A. Metz, Ph.D. is aprofessional scientist living and1working in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. He hasIdegrees in kinesiology, biology, and natural resources andIwas apersonal trainer in southern California for nine years.
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Jay Reading is athree time World Doubles Champion and adventure traveler. He loves music, getting lost in the woods and eating tacos.
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attendance were able to factor in amenities, tourname'ntextras, and venue in evaluating whether we had afairtournament-value experience. Imean, we stayed in acondo with hole I's fairway directly out the back door.Add in dinner, mini golf, putt golf, Jacuzzis, manatees,gators, golf carts, pontoon boats, and free beer—allshared with your friends—and payout starts to look likea b o n u s .
As my breathing pattern adjusts to the chillymorning water, Iquickly paddle my legs and arms to
increase my circulation. Idouble check to see'that my diver-down flag is flying from the freshly
anchored Jon boat. Visibility in the backwatersisn't nearly as clear as the water we'd just left.
Three Sisters Spring, but Ifeel confident.It doesn't take more than five minutesI
Ifeel disc golf has turned acorner in the lastfive years and is entering aperiod of huge growth(with increased sponsorship opportunities) as wecreate alarger fan base. To tour full time at this pointhas to be about more than merely trying to make it fromevent to event. The Unites States is blessed with sixtemperate zones and three times that number culturalhubs. Acurrent touring disc golfer's primary reward isadventurous travel, and the tightfriendshipsthattouringfolks form serve as asupport system as they sharecommon passions, goals, and highways.
Iam stoked to provide aglimpse of the life thatsurrounds the touring lifestyle. So grab your passportand get ready to roll with the Yeti as Iseek out the funny,the strange, and the unusual that life on the road brings.
before Ispot alarge gray mass coming toward me.All Ican do is anticipate our paths crossing andhope for the best. My pulse quickens and my breathshortens as the mass heads directly at me. This oneis abiggie, as most manatees are. These Sea Cows,as they are also known, weigh around 1000 pounds asadults. The fact that these mammals are also on theendangered-species list makes this encounter all themore special.
If you wear glasses, you'd think that snorkelingwithout them would make your vision difficult, but thecombination of glass, water, and light refraction actuallyhelps nearsighted folks see rather well. Good thingbecause this Big Boy was not interested in avoiding me.Instead, this enormous but curious and friendly creatureswam right alongside me as Iran my hand zig-zaggingacross its back. In awe, Ithink Imouthed an underwater.
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This obviously playful manatee was amazing,circling me then squaring up for adeeper eye-to-eyelook before beckoning me to dive deeper with it. As Idived alongside it, Idiscovered right away that Icouldn'thold my breath for the twenty-plus minutes they can.Ihad to surge back up for air, where I'd reposition thesnorkel, and look back underwater and see my new
1. buddy coming back to see why the poor human wasn't■following along.: It's hard to put aprice on life experiences suchIas this, but times like this make atouring-professionalrdisc golfer's vagabond lifestyle come together.
The Players Cup this year provided aprime
S;example of this. It was obvious that Feldberg was about;the only player who left that tournament on the blackIside of the accounting ledger. While several factors ledIto this that will be rectified for next year's tournament,Twe heard alot of grumbling about the payout, oddly/;. more from people not even in attendance. Most of us in
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Headline says it all: Got something you’ve always wantedto ask apro? Picture yourself hanging onto the side ofamountain, trying to haul yourself over the last ledgewhere you can seek wisdom and truth from the wiseman who lives there in his cave. Or Brad Hammock, ourcurrent resident wise man. Submit your questions bygoing to our web site-www.flyingdiscmagazine.com-or
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D I V I S I O N ,.THROWS'. /RIGHTratiNs^^‘~1u1'V^1/ ^Are there any exercises Ican do to
N^lx, increase distance on my drives?
^PA!Disc-golf-specific exercises that in-crease both strength and flexibility
The top Masters player in the game today. BradADDED TITLES AT THE MASTERS CUP, BRENT HAMBRICKMemor ia l , and Moccas in Open to h is resume in2 0 0 7 . B r a d i s a f o u r - t i m e w o r l d c h a m p i o n w i t hcareer earn ings o f more than $100,000.
are great. The Equalizer rubber strap is agood exam¬ple. The key is to work on the actual throwing motion.Something Ilike to do is practice my throw slowly,over and over, to make sure my body doesn’t forgetall the little things that make for agood drive. Don’tforget to stretch, either—it really helps.
1always seem to start off tourna-
^ —.ments badly. And after the first twobogeys It’s hard to recover. Help!
^pA.Try this: practice the hole you’reDlx/vL/ .going to play, your start-off hole.Throw it over and over, lock it in. I’ve thrown morethan fifty practice shots on ahole so Iknow thatwhen it counts. I’m gonna park it. And if you startwith abirdie, good things are going to happen.
What is the most important aspectto practice?SCOTT:
BRAD: Work on the fundamenta ls . Be rock
solid with everything you do. Practiceas if every putt is atournament winner. Focus careful¬ly—don’t reinforce sloppy habits. How many discs do you car-
!ry in your bag? Do you thinkthere should be alimit to how many discs aplayer can carry?
VICKIE““ r i l Ak ,Wha t t echn iques do you r ecom--Irn/ \N. mend to help maintain concentra¬
tion, especially in high-stress situations like those in¬volving spectators at large events? Fourteen is agood number. You
should be able to do anything youwant with that many discs. Iwould support alim¬it. Personally Ithink the worst part of the game islugging around abig bag of discs. But Iguess ifsomeone wants to carry afridge full on their backthey’re just using up more energy and making iteasier for me to take them down.
BRAD:DnA.S'°w down! Take alesson from Tiger^ix/xLy .Woods. When he’s faced with apres¬
sure situation, where he has to make ashot, he takeshis time. While your natural tendency is to speed upor rush, you have to maintain your tempo when thingsare tight. Take adeep breath, make your practice mo¬tions, and visualize your shot.
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You’ve just sunk athirty footer on 18 to finish onagood note with abirdie. That’s arelief as the rest of therc und didn’t exactly reflect your strongest game. Your bud-des finish out the hole and announce their scores. It’sn3 surprise you wound up finishing fourth by acouple ofsrokes, well behind two friends who generally battle it outf( rbest round. Afew laughs are shared and acouple of“fonlys” are muttered before everyone agrees that nextweek things will be different and everyone heads to theircars. As you drive home you find yourself thinking thatwhile you really love playing the game, you’d also like to benore competitive. The question is, how bad do you want tob?good?
in ahalf hour with ease. Alarge number of throws meansrepetition, presenting the opportunity to work on fixing aproblem by repeating the same throw. Up your chances forimprovement by limiting playing rounds on the course.
What Do You PracticePThis question becomes abig honesty-and-reality
check. Can you look at your game and honestly say what itis that’s holding your game back? Once you’ve done thatcan you then force yourself into practicing what you’rew o r s t a t ?
Ibegan disc golf in the Midwest on acourse thatyou could play by throwing sixteen big hyzers, atomahawk,and aslight turnover but mostly straight 260 foot shot.Thatstraight shot killed me every time, and there was nothing Icould do to turn the hole into ahyzer shot.
Ithen moved to the Northwest and found that theremost courses were basically collections of alley shots withmaybe one hyzer shot per course. This didn’t look goodfor my game. After eight years of torturing myself practic¬ing shot after shot on what Ioriginally thought were surelyimpassable fairways, nobody even remembers that Icanthrow big spike hyzers. In fact, everyone now accuses meof having an unfair advantage on tight, wooded courses.
Take the time to discover your limiting factors andgive them the most attention. It may be drives, upshots,forehands, or putting (yeah, it’s probably putting) that isyour own personal demon. Just remember, you can’t beatan unnamed foe, so find your weakness and give it hell.
Disc golf is quite different from many other sports.F)rthe most part, disc golf is aself-promoting sport, and aIc rge number of people who join our throngs are turned ont( it by afriend or by accidentally bumping into one of thosed5er-feeder/barbecue-thingy (baskets) at apark. With veryfe wexceptions, schools don’t include disc golf instruction,aid you won’t be able to refine your skills by watching yourfcvorite pro on your 60-inch plasma. In other words, youpetty much have to learn this game, in all its intricacies,01 your own. So, the quest for knowledge that you wouldgmerally receive from acoach, parent, or other advisorn)w rests squarely on your shoulders. To get the most out0your self-education there are afew issues you’ll need toaJdressto propel yourself forward.
HOW Do You PracticePActually, this isn’t even the right question. You
stould begin by asking yourself if you practice at all. Ama¬jority of players spend most of their time playing rounds ofg)lf. While this probably produces the most fun, it doesn’tknd itself to rapid advancement of any part of your game,if you’ve played other sports you can equate around ofg)lf to agame, meet, or match of that sport. When you’repjrt of ateam you don’t practice every day by playing agime but rather by executing drills that help you to play thegime better. In around of golf you basically get eighteendives over the course of two hours. In apractice sessionir afield (or on aspecific hole) you could throw fifty drives
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Who Do You Plav and Practice With?Almost everyone has acore of people that they grav¬
itate towards when they play. Whether they’re your friendsor people who just happen to be at the park when you showup, the tendency is to always hang out with people you’recomfortable with and who generally play around your skilllevel. While this is what having fun is truly all about, it maybe holding you back. Playing with the same people all ofthe time never allows you to see any game other than theone you’ve already witnessed many times. Also, if these
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The tough part is figuring out how much of your time doyou want to spend learning and improving your game. Itwill come down to how much you have to learn, how quicklyyou learn, and how good do you really want to be. As asemitouring pro, Ihave to give up many things to stay inpractice, let alone learn new things. Remember, you willget much more of abang for your buck by practicing ratherthan playing around. Limited amounts of time can oftenbe used for some quick upshot practice or maybe ahalfhour of putting. This is the most critical decision you willhave to make so once you decide on apath, stick to it aswell as you can and use your time wisely.
There it is in anutshell. This is by no means anintricate regimen of how to practice and what it will getyou. This is much more an introduction to the world of discgolf as asport and how you can treat it as such to improveyour game. Remember, time and practice are the keys toimprovement but nothing happens overnight. If you juststarted playing nine months ago, you shouldn’t expect towin supertour events next month. Give yourself attainablegoals and work towards them in adiligent manner. Don’tbe upset by times when your improvement is hard to seeas we all hit plateaus. Simply keep working on your gameand keep striving for the level that you want to reach. Themost important thing is to keep it fun, whether practice orcompetition. fdin
folks are all around the same skill level then it is difficult toprogress as there isn’t actually aplayer in the group whocan teach the others what they’re doing improperly.
This may be tough but one of the best things youcan do to improve your game is to play and practice withplayers above your skill level. This may not always be theeasiest thing as the person who is the better player maybe looking at the situation the same way that you are. Youwant something from the pro but what do you have to of¬fer in return? While many pros enjoy acasual round withanyone and love to teach, many others are out there won¬dering why they should take the time with you. This is notan easy task but scope out your area to see who the bet¬ter players are who may enjoy acausal teaching round orpractice session. Once that is accomplished, be brave andmake contact; you may be surprised by the answer. Youmay even try sweetening the pot with an offer of lunch orabeverage after the round to get amore favorable reply.It will almost certainly be worth your while, if for nothingelse, getting to see aplayer of superior skill managing thecourse in adifferent fashion. Watch, ask questions, andlisten with an open mind—this is areal chance to work witha c o a c h .
HOW Much Time Win You Spend?It all comes down to this. Anything that takes prac¬
tice to learn takes time. With the exception of millionairesand thirty-five-year-old Star Trek nerds living in their par¬ents’ basement, we all have other things in life going on. Flying Disc magazine Iissue 1 2 3
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Executing alevel shot is also dependent onthe direction of your arm pull. Ahyzer shot alwaysresults when you wind back with your arm low andfollowthrough with your arm swinging upwards.
Throwing alevel shot is arequired skill tomaster disc golf, yet many players find it difficultto achieve. Most new golfers throw adisc withhyzer, meaning the disc curves or fades left. (Tokeep things relatively simple, assume all disc-flight comments are the result of aright-handedplayer throwing backhand, i.e., spinning the discclockwise.) This happens because anew playercommonly holds and releases the disc at aslightangle. In calm conditions, throwing with somehyzer angle at release is typically not an issue, asrighty throwers can compensate for their indirectflight by aiming to the right of the obstacle (or tothe left for lefties). When it’s windy, however, thisstrategy is likely to backfire. Depending upon thewind direction relative to the disc’s angle of hyzer,hyzer throws give the wind alarge surface to play
ELAINE’S QUICK TIPSWhen an errant throw lands you in an ugly spot, make sure you take your full thirty seconds Ibefore executing your next shot. The first shot that comes to mind may not be the best possible ichoice. Step to the left, to the right, and backwards. Look up. Get down on your knees and look !for alow gap. Pick out three possible routes, then spend afew seconds evaluating the pros and Icons of each. Your best choice will usually be the shot that guarantees your landing back on !the fairway, or will result in the greatest distance. The smartest choice might even be throwing tbackwards to agood placement. Trying to make up for your bad throw by attempting to execute :aheroic shot will most often result in hacking through the rough for several more shots. !
This upward swing is taught to us in many sports,including ball golf, hockey, and baseball. Adiscgolf throw starts with your arm at shoulder heightwhen you reach or wind back, and then the disc ispulled across your body at the same level in orderto e f f ec t a l eve l t h row.
It will probably take some time to perfectthe level shot if you have been adie-hard hyzerthrower. Take abunch of discs to afield and prac¬tice throwing straight shots by focusing on the gripand then the arm pull. Ask amore experiencedplayer to critique your technique. Persist in yourpractice and in time, you’ll shave strokes off yours c o r e !
with, driving the disc downward or sailing it away.Another good reason for wanting your discs to flyand land level or flat is that even in calm condi¬tions, aflat landing is probably your best choiceto avoid skipping or rolling, such as when the bas¬ket is perched on aslope or surrounded by hard-packed dirt.
Throwing alevel shot begins with the prop¬er grip, which includes the correct posture/align¬m e n t o f t h e h a n d a n d w r i s t . A c o m m o n r e a s o n
for apersistent hyzer throw is that the wrist isinadvertently rotated inward, allowing the thumbto point downward rather than horizontal to theground. It feels natural to allow this inward rota¬tion due to the pull of the disc’s weight but it re¬ plying Disc magazine |issue 1 2 5
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! Being probably the shortest-throwing 1000-rat-led player alive I’ve had to learn atrick or two aboutrollers for my arsenal of smoke and mirrors. Isee alot of new players trying rollers for the first time byrunning down the tee pad at their normal approachliangle. They then sling their arm up 45 degreesjabove their normal throwing motion and are flum¬moxed by the errant and weak result. They also findthat it leads to the shot going in the wrong direction.(Figure A)
helps lean you back and the resultant throw comesthrough in just about your normal throwing register.This helps your consistency and power since this iswhere your throw is already grooved and strong.
The other trick is to keep the disc’s nosedown when throwing aroller Just as you would areg¬ular drive. For those of you who primarily throw airshots this will feel at first like you’re turning the discover too much and throwing it right into the ground.This is called success as you are trying to throw aroller after all. Keeping the nose down helps keepthe drive rolling forward at ground transition and notprecess up and fall to the topside before its distancepotential is reached.
So the next time you’re getting ready to hitthe ground rolling keep these tips in mind. The rolleris agreat shot to have in your arsenal when the timecomes and these shortcuts should help you get itunder control. flim
If you want to roll with more power and con¬sistency, instead of approaching the tee dead on,like you would for anormal drive, approach the teeat a45 degree angle (to the right if right handed),and when you reach back (your backswing), main¬tain your approach angle—do not reach back inlinewith the basket (as you would for an air shot) butcontinue your approach angle. This helps correct theline for the throw. (Figure B) Also, at the point whenyou’re reaching back, if you flex your knees slightly, it
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'better. Does this mean your chance toimprove, to score better, is gone?H e l l N o !
There is aIways time to and ways to ^improve your game without throwing bet¬ter than you do today. There are thingsthat you’ve heard athousand times andalready know but just haven’t had thetime or inclination to make them apartof your strategy. That time has arrived.What you do now will not only help you
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First, make sure your body is ready for ibility will increase your confidence, helparound of golf. Eat asubstantial meal with prevent injuries, and speed up your recov-proteins and carbohydrates before you play, ery time. It’s always agood time to stretch—and you’ll be supplied with most of the nec- don’t wait until you get tight—stay loose,essary energy you’ll need to get through theround. Consume alot of water before you the pregame ritual. Awarm-up routine isleave for the course; it’ll help digest your very personal—you must pay attention tomeal and hydrate your muscles for peak what your body needs to get fully warmed tperformance. It is important to drink con- up so that when you step to the first tee you ,stantly throughout the round, and remem- are 100 percent ready to play. Some play-ber to snack. Eating and drinking (water) ers warm up playing catch with afriend; oth-has become more important with the ap- ers practice putting; still others play nearbypearance of longer courses and the result- holes at half-power, heating muscles,ing longer playing times. Gone are the daysof ninety-minute rounds, so make sure you control, your putter is ready, and you’re loosecarry sufficient water and asnack to cover aand confident that you can make the shot—
you feel prepared. Be careful not to overdueNext, you need to stretch. All day. it in the warm-up department. Remember
Stretching should not only be part of your that even the best-conditioned baseballpregame warm up, but you should also con- pitchers are monitored by apitch count,tinue to stretch during the round, followed Even if you can’t feel it, your arm does tire,by—yes—more stretching, acool-down so find your pitch count so that you don’tstretch when you’ve finished. Improved flex- leave your game on the practice field.
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Learning smart course management up for the lost stroke by pushing too hard,is step two in improving your rounds. This in- throwing Hail Mary tee shots or going for longvolves creating apregame strategy, includ- putts when your odds for success are next toing setting realistic goals, playing imaginary none. Trying to make afifty-foot downhill puttrounds and breaking down each hole throw with afast green will usually leave you look-by throw, knowing your limits. Smart course ing back up the hill from thirty feet and madmanagement will help you avoid big scores, at yourself for not laying up. It is at times like
It will serve you well to set arealistic this when all ofyour planning must come intogoal before you start and focus on that rath- play. Decline the urge to attempt the impos-er than your competition with the other play- sible (or the near-impossible) and stick withers. If par is your best score on the course the game plan. Abad decision here can ruinthen ten down is not realistic—one or two all your hard work. Wait for abetter, more re¬strokes on either side is more realistic. It’s alistic opportunity to get back that stroke,important that your goals be honestly re¬alistic, because that will help you play in anow it’s time to stretch your most impor¬
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positive frame of mind.Agreat way to prepare is to play the that can guide you to apersonal best or a
course either in your mind or on paper. This personal worst. Becoming athinking playerhelps you visualize each shot you’re likely to will help you stay positive and let you deal jthrow in that imagined, perfect round, and with the negatives with less disruption to jshould help you decide what you’re going to your round. All big blowups on the course jdo at the tee. Good players almost always begin and end between the ears. Golf is ahave agood idea what discs they’ll need for game of skill and luck, and all players willeach hole and have filled their bags accord- experience bad luck—it is how we deal withingly before the round ever starts. Trythis: In bad luck that often dictates the outcomeyour-mind, break down each hole stroke by of the round.
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Staying with the game plan can be the positive thought that you also plannedtough, if things aren’t going as well as you’d on acouple of birdies; there are great shotsplanned. Ther^ is atendency to try to make ’still in front of you.
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Four good things happen when you concentrate on putting more spin on your drives: 1) you improveycur rhythm; 2) you improve your grip and rip; 3) you improve your timing; and 4) you improve your powerposture. Add all these up and you gain big distance.
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RHYTHM- You create additional disc spin bymagnifying the disc’s acceleration—fast to faster—with all of your concentrated acceleration on the endof the whip, as Iliken it. Keep your elbow bent untilyour hips have opened so that you are pulling withmaximum power when you accelerate through the re¬l e a s e .
sition, the more potential for power you can apply asyou pull through the snap. The power posture is il¬lustrated well in this series of photographs of AveryJenkins: in photo one, Avery reaches back for maxi¬mum power; in photo two, note that Avery’s hips arestarting to open with his elbow bent. In photo three,Avery’s hips are fully opened as his elbow starts todrive open through the release. For maximum powerhis hips and shoulders continue to follow-through wellpast the release, as shown in the last photo.GRIP AND RIP- M o r e a c c e l e r a t i o n n e c e s s i ¬
tates astronger grip. Your grip determines how muchpower you can transfer and how efficiently it getstransferred. The disc needs to rip—not slip—from yourgrip so that power isn’t lost.
Practice smoothing out the four steps and you’ll findyou’ve added significant spin to your drives, whichshould result in increased distance and accuracy, thetwo things you really wanted for Christmas. fdmTIMING- Timing is about the when, where, and
where-to of the rip. The result of focusing on yourgrip-and-rip and trying to add more spin is that you’ll timeyour hit better. Timing is basically applying maximumpower at the snap, which is exactly when you want it.
POWER POSTURE- Power posture is yourbody’s position and movement at the moment youbegin the actual snap/hit. The more powerful the po-
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When we talk about what makes agreat disc golfhole, the first two things Ilook for are strategy andscenery. The best holes almost always require agolf¬er to think, and they’re almost always visually appeal¬ing—that way you’ll want to come back even after they
H O L E Sfi t beat you up.
For ahole to reach the next stage of stardom,i t needs to be somehow sensa t i ona l . These ra re
holes might be clearly unique, having striking physi¬cal features or innovative design concepts. In somecases they have ahistoric significance, and just beingthere you can feel aconnection to major momentsor important people in disc golf. And sometimes theyjust have an indescribable “somethingspecial” aboutt h e m .H O C K H I L L . S C
Finally, the very best holes also have an im¬portant element that Icall “subtlety.” This rare qualityrefers to real craftsmanship in hole design. Supposeyou have a600-foot two-shot hole that uses asimpleformula: if you throw 400 feet down the fairway, you’llhave a200 foot approach shot; if you throw 350 feetdown the fairway, you’ll have a250 foot approach.
Subtle holes aren’t quite so black and white,and this issue’s great hole is aperfect example. It’sHole 5at the famous Winthrop Gold course, home ofthe United States Disc Golf Championships in RockHill, South Carolina.
Subtlety On this fairway, being on the leftside will always mean being closer to the basket. Un¬less, that is, you go too far left, at which point you’llbe in the lake. So you might want to play safe, andstay on the right side of the fairway, keeping the wa¬ter out of play. But if you go too far right, you’ll be out-of-bounds again. Most of the right side is lined withtrees, so any OB shot may have immediate obstaclesto negotiate.
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At its narrowest, the fairway is about 100 feetwide, and that happens at about 470 feet from thetee. So there’s another aspect of subtlety on thedrive: the longer you go, the tighter it gets. And, oh-by-the-way, the fairway slopes right-to-left down to thewater; it’s about a5foot drop. Righties throwing abackhand will have that slope encouraging the endof their flight to ease right down to the water. That’sone reason some righties like the roller option. To topit off, the fairway eventually slopes away from the tee.
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ng landing area entices with continuous and progressive risk-and-re-so that the majority of that naisn’t even visible from the tee. For many players, that ward throughout the hole. And unlike many holes, thehidden area—so critical to success on the hole—Is the progressively risky shot that Is well executed provides
progressive rewards every time.”Scenery The lake on the Winthrop
course is one of the biggest in play for,any PDGA major. The tee looks down
on the entire lake, the clubhouse
source of substantial trepidation.Strategy The safe way to play for a
birdie four is to put two 350-foot shotsstraight down the middle of the fair¬way, which will leave you about 350feet across the water to the pin.If you have that kind of accuracy,you’ll be just fine. Of course, therea r e i n n u m e r a b l e v a r i a t i o n s o n
that three-shot strategy, depend¬ing on your strengths and your will¬ingness to take risks. If you’re waryofthe water and happy with apar, youcan throw your third shot around the bigtrees on the corner of the lake, which will
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well-maintained, so this hole Is al¬ways avisual delight: there’s somuch water between you and the
p m .Sensational Hole 5is prob¬
ably the best-known par five In thesport, and it’s hard to make the case for
one that’s much better. If It has aweakness.It’s that there isn’t any realistic opportunity for an
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leave you less than 250 feet to the pin. Easy. (Ofcourse, Winthrop Gold tends to be very open, espe- eagle—two perfect 500-foot-plus shots is just too
much to ask for. But you always know you’re onaclassic hole, one that can make or break
dally around the lake, so wind might just be afactor every now and then.)
One of the great things aboutthis hole is that the strategy fre¬quently changes during the courseof the hole. All you have to do ismake one mistake (not an uncom¬mon occurrence), and suddenlyyou’re forced to reevaluate. Withone OB already on your card (andyou’re already out of position), doyou want to stick to the original plan,or do you now work extra hard to avoidanother penalty? Or do you take extra riskto try to get your lost stroke back? This need toregroup and rethink is what course designer HaroldDuvall calls “dynamic strategy.”
Harold says, “There are anumber of ways toplay the hole. And these can change on the tee andin the backswing depending on wind and confidencelevel. And once the journey begins, the dynamic strat¬egy kicks in big time. How close does the executionof my first shot match my plan? Do Ihave to make upground on the second shot because Ihedged alittleon the first? Or, even worse, do Ihave to play super ag¬gressive after going OB? This is the mental birthplaceof big scores. But dynamic strategy does not simplyrelate to mistakes. Better-than-anticipated resultscan also change the second and third shots. Hole 5
your round, one that separates the goodfrom the great. And in an environment
rich with “added” OB, hole 5does itsjob without an inch of yellow rope.
So how do the world’s best play¬ers fare on this hole? At this year’sUSDGC, there were 259 pars and176 bogeys. That’s tough. There
were only 123 birdies (about 19percent), 55 double bogeys, 18 triple
bogeys, and 8heartbreaking “others.”There were no eagles, and for the week
the hole averaged just about 5.4. Ken Climo, whoplayed some of the most amazing disc golf in thesport’s history this year, had apair of pars and acou¬ple birdies.
Should you have the good fortune to play thishole someday, remember that the key to success ismostly in your head. According to Duvall, “Mentally,with all the options, discipline is the key. Most playerswho commit to their shots find success on hole 5.”Words to live by. fdm
John Houck has designed more than 80 courses, including12 for PDGA National and World Championships. He has writ-
ten extensively about course design, and many of his articlescan be found at www.houckdesign.com.
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Y8U'R€ STAR4NS «tlERV£-RACKtNGTHIRTY-F98TER The basket rests on theedge of asteep slope and the wind is startingto howl. Your drive was sensational, and you’vegot arare chance at adeuce on this hole. Growapair, you’ve got to cash in.
You arch your back and toss your hands upto the sky in frustration. Unfortunately for you,this sudden change in weight unsettles thescree and you find yourself surfing backwardsdown the hill, arms flailing, hair flopping, and,as you approach the rocks, bladder emptying.The darkness takes you as you lose the battleof mass and inertia with the stone and youbounce helplessly into the water and drown.Too bad you didn’t know the rules.
You focus on your link, say acouple of HailMarys, and let it go. It’s on line, but too high.Your disc clanks off the plate, and you watch inhorror as it hits the ground, teeters mockinglyfor afew seconds, then grabs an edge androlls down and away. Peering over the edge youwatch your putter pick up speed, hop over someriprap, and land with asplash in an OB lake. 803.11B of the PDGA’s Offical Rules of Disc
Golf states, “A player whose disc is consideredMuttering (“lay up, lay up!”) to yourself, you out-of-bounds shall receive one penalty throw,grab your bag and rappel down to rescue your The player may elect to play the next shotdisc. You dutifully mark your lie one meter in from:from the water’s edge, then get ready to tossagain. Yes, you’re still out. (1) The previous lie as evidenced by the marker
disc or, if the marker disc has been moved.It’s along way back up the hill and the slope from an approximate lie..."is steep. You break out your gummy and squibit impressively, within about twenty feet. Your Don’t make the mistake of adding asecondawkward stance and frazzled nerves are just penalty (distance) to the stroke. You could havetoo much, though, and your weak effort clangs just tried that thirty-footer again. No gummyinto the side of the cage. Your eyes bulge gquib. No awkward stance. No death. MiH
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Moving to the United States has had its is among the top-twenty players in the world.?advantages for Sweden native Markus Kallstrom. K a l l s t r o m s a y s t h a t m a k i n g s u r e h e ’s
The number one advantage? Warmer, sunnier comfortable with the course is the key to performingweather makes for alonger disc golf season—giving well.
. h i m m o r e c h a n c e s t o s h o w o f f h i s s k i l l s o n t h e “As aplayer, it’s important to be prepared forevery shot,” Kallstrom said. “I don’t just show up at
Markus, who’s been playing disc golf since atournament never having played the course. By!1993, was first introduced to the sport by his older the time the tournament starts Iwill have practiced
lj)rother Fredrik. Together with their other brother, every shot, and Iknow that Ihave each one.”In fact, before atournament Kallstrom says
l|)egan playing regularly. No doubt the friendly sibling he tries to play the course from beginning to end atijivalry paid off for Markus, who is the only one of the least once, if not more, depending upon the course’sthree to turn their hobby into aprofessional career, difficulty,
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Iusually show up at atournament one orgolf and showed us so that we could all play—that’s two days ahead of time to play the course through,”
jhow Igot started,” Markus said. “After we started Kallstrom said. “If it’s an easier course Imight playtplayifig, Ialso met some local pros in Sweden, which it twice and have the shots down. If it’s aharder
Ijielped mfe get even more into the game.Today, Kallstrom is astandout player who the ones 1don’t feel comfortable with right'^%
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Since moving to the United States, Kallstrom’''^’3007, finishing in the top ten at all but three. With ahas obviously had the opportunity to experiencecurrent rating of 1021 (November 2007), Kallstrom new courses, with Blue Valley Park in Kansas City,
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attheUSDGC,” Kallstrom said. “I’d like to see fewer
D i s t a n c e o r a c c u r a c y ? . :Distance. You do need accuracy, too, but for me it’sd i s t a n c e .i
but bigger tournaments.”As for breaking into the sport, Kallstrom
recommends that new players take their time tolearn good throwing technique before investing toomuch money in equipment. “Don’t run out and buyevery disc you see,” he said. “Learn how to play withthe ones you have before buying too many more. Agood game isn’t in the disc-it’s in your hand.”
Kallstrom certainly isn’t short on talent in hishands, and according to him, his game’s strengthlies simply in his distance. And what gives him fits?B i r d i e s .
‘ n ’ p u t t o r p a r c o u r s e s ?P a r c o u r s e s .
I F ree o r pay - f o r -p l ay? IIn Sweden, I’d say pay-for-play, but in the UnitedStates, I’d pick free.
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Tw o - m e t e r , p e n a l t y o r n o p e n a l t y ?“It’s always challenging to do the birdies,” i
Kallstrom said. “Eagle opportunities is another one. IThere aren’t too many of them, but Iusually try to gofor them when Isee them. Idon’t go for them everysingle time, though-you have to play smart!”
Playing smart is something Kallstrom hascertainly seemed to master, and it showed in hisperformance at the Players Cup Tournament thisyear. After two rounds this three-round tournamentwas very tight. Eight players were within one strokeof each other; it was anyone’s game,steady play enabled him to take second place, afinish he was pleased with.
While happy, with his performance at the [Players Cup, Kallstrom said his most memorable Ktournament was nearly five years ago at the 2003 j*iworlds where he f/nished second. . | !
“That was/my first really good finish.-1 had |’-one bad rurf-'m , irst round. But then Iplayed better ‘*ing up t TOish second.’;/' \
How does he do i#wat enables aplayer .Itbe agood playe -natural dbijnty or learned skills?According to Kal strpm, it depends'upon the player.“This is ahard qiiestiP'n, but Ithink it’s alittlp bit-of' y.both. Of course. It heltDS to have the naturaltaJ j ,and sometitnes that can be better,-bgS35lw '61skills can be learried.”,.
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?Missouri one of his latest favorites.I “Most of the courses in Sweden are pay-Ifor-play, while U.S. courses are often located inIpublic parks and are free. Even though they’re free,kthe courses in the United States are still nice. In
Sweden, the free courses aren’t as nice.”The re a re o the r d i f f e rences Ka l l s t r om has
‘had to get used to since relocating. For starters,the game is not as old in Sweden as it is in theUnited States, so there aren’t that many masters or
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register avictory, or for that matter even played around of disc golf. Yet, in Wooster, Ohio, there is adisc golf course with his name on it: Miles SpechtDisc Golf Course in Freelander Park.
Miles was aphilanthropist throughout hislife, reaching out and helping his community inmany ways, but perhaps the person his caring:touched the most was Dan Kilgore, his grandson.[)an was raised by asingle parent, his mother,cind he recognizes his grandfather as being theprimary male influence in his life.
That’s where disc golf enters the story.;Dan “Hyzer”—as many know him—is afounding
member of Ohio’s Stark County Disc Golf Cluband averitable ambassador for disc golf. He isbest known as the Canton/Wooster Ice Bowl
fourteen years.Anyone in that part of Ohio will tell you
that Dan has astrong personality, and whilehe doesn’t hesitate to express his opinion, hespeaks honestly-often brutally so-from theheart. He won’t lie to you if he finds somethingabout your course he thinks can be done better.For some he’s arefreshing voice who doesn’ttolerate baloney; for others he cuts alittle closeto the bone.
He’s easily spotted on the course becausehe’s also known for his colorful, even eccentricwardrobe. Look for the guy sporting atie-dyeshirt, probably over mismatched pants.
Dan’s life was heading in the wrongdirection many years ago, when he discovereddisc golf. The game helped him refocus and move
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society. Miles was afriendly and personable manwho was humorous. He cared about his work forour department and he was passionate aboutthe astronomical society.”
Due in part to Miles’s lasting influence inthe park system and the irresistible attraction ofdonated baskets, the parks department agreedto install the course and name it in honor ofDan’s grandfather.
Although Miles has passed on, Miles’sname continues to serve the community. “Wehave visitors from faraway places who comejust to play disc golf,” explains Chuck. “Thesevisitors bring dollars to Wooster. Also, 1believe itsdevelopment has been an eye-opener for locals.
his life in apositive direction. Dan’s grandfatherencouraged his positive choices and it becameDan’s desire to honor his grandfather in return.
While Dan may not have inherited anydisc golf talent from Jack Specht, he carries onSpecht’s altruistic spirit. Dan donated aset ofbaskets to the city for the installation of acourseto be named after his grandfather.
Dan’s giving spirit manifests itselfin smaller ways too. Dan’s event winningsalways end up in the hands of hungry disc-golfnewcomers. For instance, as part of his payoutDan once received asubscription to the now-defunct Disc Golf Journal, which he donated onthe spot to the event-host's city library.
F o r s o m e h e ’ s a r e f r e s h i n g v o i c e w h od o e s n ’ t t o l e r a t e b a l o n e y ; f o r o t h e r s
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many who have started to enjoy the sport.”Yet it was Dan who Chuck acknowledges,
to whom the real credit is due. “Our reason forproceeding was the sincerity and persistenceof Dan to complete the project in honor of hisgrandfather. It has been apleasure working withDan Kilgore. His dedication and love of the sporthas been infectious.”
Appropriately, the first event held at MilesSpecht Disc Golf Course was an Ice Bowl, withprizes donated by Dan “Hyzer” Kilgore. Miles’scontagious spirit lives on. %
An article in the local newspaper solicitingideas for the enhancement of the Wooster parksystem got Dan thinking; he knew what hewanted the city to put in the park.
Dan pitched the idea to park directorChuck Malta and his staff, and together theydeveloped aplan for the course.
“Miles Specht has ahistory with the parkssystem,” said Chuck. “I knew him. Miles was afrequent visitor to our office in the early days. Hewould repair some of our PA systems. We have atelescope and observatory in Freedlander Parkand Miles was involved with our astronomical
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be the topic I’d cover for Flying Disc Maga- article.line? For those new to disc golf, I’ve been Veteran players won’t be surprised by my
ihvolved with developing, tracking, and reporting the choice for the game’s first number 1of note, PDGArjumbers side of our game almost since Ifirst played 001, belonging to, “Steady" Ed Headrick founder ofip April 1989; amonth later Iproduced amap of the the PDGA and often credited as our sport’s father. EdUnited States showing the 1988 stats on the number founded the PDGA in 1975, later turning it over to thecf courses and holes, including their relation to popu¬lation. It was published in the PDGA publication DiscGo/fer before Iwas even amember. Check out the up¬rated version of that same map using all of the new fornia. The first world champion was Harold Duvall-tjschnology available eighteen years later. no other divisions were offered that year, so Harold
Almost every sport has since become more is part of another 1: champ in only worlds to have 1rumber centric with stats of all kind, especially for champion; other divisions were added the followingans who are into the fantasy versions of their sports, year when the championship was played In Huntsville,
The Internet has something to do with this whether it’s Alabama,cctually driving the action or merely supporting thoseefforts. Just as numbers are used to solve crimes in
players to run in 1983.The first disc golf world championship tourney
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^rs solve some of their problems, which I’ll cover in hamongna Watershed Park, and the course current¬ly stretches to 3886 feet for nineteen holes. For its
As much as I’ll be able to provide readers with time, that was challenging, but now the course fallssome interesting numbers, charts, graphs, and com- into the recreational class-even beginners, using thenpentary about the disc golf world in each issue, I’d latest high-tech plastic, can dominate the old course.s|;ill rather play, and Ihope you do, too. The great thing (It should be noted that for various complicated politi-a bout disc golf is that it allows most of us to play al- cal reasons the course is currently in danger of beingnjiost to the end of our lives, or at least until we get to pulled.)where all we can do is reminisce about past numbers.
the hit TV show by that name, numbers can help play-future co lumns.
Those first baskets were called the Mach 1,remembering glory days filled with great scores and credited as the first official target and which helpeds.ellar performances, perhaps enhanced abit through redefine what had previously been seen as more of
agame than asport. Competitions prior to the use ofbaskets employed avariety of interesting objects as
watching adisc soar through the sky over awell-man- targets without much consistency regarding how theiqured fairway through spectacular natural terrain. As hole was completed. The basket made it simple; In orthe disc skips to astop in lush grass, it now becomes out, 1throw (or 1plus another 1). f(||nanumber, and that number is 1(throw). The number
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WHAT YOU EATby Dr. Douglas N. Graham
Q€ uman beings are amazing. We can hitabull’s-eye with aFrisbee from eightyyards, and if the conditions and the
throw are just right, we can even throw, run like heck,and be at the other end to catch the darn thing. Ofcourse, we are talking about extremely well-developedphysical fitness and highly trained neurological skills.Every sport requires them, but in some sports it ismore obvious than in others. Disc sports require thecombination of fitness and finesse to the highestdegree.
of the playing field has been leveled, and everyonecan play in high-quality gear. When today’s athleteslook for one more trick up their sleeve, they Invariablygo to the world of chemistry. Unfortunately, all toooften athletes are led astray from nature’s modelfor what is best for us—a diet of whole, fresh, ripe,raw, organic fruits and vegetables. Instead, they arelured by fantastic but empty promises from pushers—legitimate and otherwise—for pharmaceutical andnutriceutical versions of so-called magic in abottle.
Let me pass along acautionary tale fromanother sport. When Utah Jazz star power forwardKarl Malone finally got his chance to win the NBAchampionship he blew it. Why did it happen, andwhy to aman who was usually so reliable in clutchsituations? He was, after all, selected by the NBA asone of the top-fifty players in league history.
The answer is relatively easy. Karl Maloneusually drank acup of coffee before games. He wasused to that much caffeine and played well, eventhough caffeine is astimulant that predictably andnegatively interferes with fine motor control. (Ever hearof someone getting the jitters from too much coffee?)Before game six in the finals one year, however, withthe Jazz upth ree games to two, Ka rl wa nted to be rea Ilyup for the game, so he downed triple his usual dose of
Athletes have always looked for an edge overtheir competition. Hercules had his hair, David hadhis special slingshot, and Achilles had everythinggoing for him except for aweak tendon. Pheidippidesenabled the Athenians to beat the Persians by beingable to run faster than the Persians imagined waspossible.
Today’s competitors are still looking for asecret weapon, an advantage over the other players.Electronic communications have made it possiblefor all athletes to have access to the same top-levelcoaching guidance and state-of-the-art tools. No onereally has an advantage there. It wasn’t that long agothat advances in equipment could substantially helpone player succeed over another. Today, that aspect
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The second reason that fruits and vegetablesare the ultimate performance foods is best illustratedby the child’s fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears.Goldilocks didn’t want porridge that was too hot or toocold but “just right." In the world of nutrition, we’vebeen fed amyth so often that we repeat it withoutthinking, even though if we did think about it, we’dknow it couldn’t be true. We’ve been taught that moreis better, and most is best. We know this is not thefact. Too much vitamin Aand you die.
The highest sources of vitamin A(polar bearliver and polar bear meat) will kill you if you eat themfrequently, as has happened to several arctic explorers.Too much vitamin Cand you get the runs. Vitamin Dismanufactured as aresponse to exposure to sunlight,but we all know that we shouldn’t overexpose ourselvessince it results in sunburn. Consistently eat thehighest sources of iron and you become constipated.What we respond to best are foods whose nutrientcontent most closely mimics human nutritional needs.
In every category of nutrition,fruits come in first in this regard,and vegetables come in second.Essentially, understanding thatfruitsandvegetablesarethemostnutritional is like understandingt h a t w e w a n t s h o e s t h a t fi t ,because the biggest shoes aresimply not the best for us. Moreis not necessarily better. Still,however, when asked forthe bestsource of this orthat nutrient, weinvariably respond by mentioningthe food that is highest in thatnutrient, mindlessly associating
coffee. He then went out and played one of the worstgames of his professional career. His ball handling,shooting, and rebounding all suffered, probably as aresult of the overdose of caffeine. The Jazz lost thegame, and with it, their momentum; they then lostgame seven, and Karl Malone never got another realchance to win an NBA championship.
Another story. Walter Payton was one of thegreatest running backs in pro football history. In orderto achieve that status, however, he resorted to the useof anabolic steroids. Those drugs aided his training,and he ended up stronger than most of the people whotried to tackle him. He set many records in his illustriouscareer, but shortly after his career ended, he died fromliver failure. Could being afamous superstar for afewyears possibly be worth dying forty years early? Sportshistory is virtually littered with such stories. The list ofcareers ruined by drugs is huge, and growing rapidly.Hundreds of track and field athletes were recentlybanned from the sport due to their use of an illegalsubstance. No one reallyknows how many liveshave been affected, howmanyfamilies broken, howmany careers shortened.
W h a t ’ s a n a t h l e t e
to do? Healthful l iv inginvar iably offers thebest results, in the shortterm and in the long. Thed i r e c t o r o f n u t r i t i o n f o rthe United States Olympic
fthje, highest sommstwsof viioMnm ^(fuUa/rbeaur tweir €mmuI [uoia/rbeasr nweai) wUl hUlg€M if goMM^ eat themfregu/eniigy €ms has
hafgwen/etl ta aeifesr€Mlasrctie eoifiianre/rs.teams was quoted some
years back as saying,“Fruit is like magic foodfor athletes.” That is one strong endorsement for suchacommon food as fruit. Yet it turns out that she isright: fruits and vegetables are the ultimate health andperformance foods, and there are two major reasonswhy.
best with highest.If you want to perform at your best, eat more
fruit, lots more fruit. The Olympics were started by theancient Greeks. They ate profound quantities of freshorganic fruit. Make eating fruit your secret weapon foroptimum physical and neurological performance andyou will be happily surprised by the results. fdm
First, there is the Golden Rule of Nutrition; ThouShalt Not Poison Thyself. Poison of any kind burdensthe liver and kidneys, our two main organs dedicated todetoxification. Sports performance relies upon the liverand kidneys to be on top of their game in order for us tobe on top of ours. The presence of any outside poisonsinvariably results in compromised performance. Fruitsand vegetables-in their whole, fresh, ripe, raw, organicform—contain the lowest quantities of toxins of any foodthat can be consumed. Fitness activities produce enoughtoxins without us intentionally consuming more.
Dr. Doug Graham coaches top athletes from aroundthe world. Aformer international competitor intrampoline, he is recognized as one of the topfitness coaches in the world. Dr. Graham is authorof Grain Damage, Nutrition and Performance, andThe 80/10/10 Diet, as well as the soon-to-be-released, Prevention and Care of Athletic Injuries.To learn more go to www.FoodnSport.com.
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w inter,thetimeofyearwhenaprerounci some feeling in your hands and feet,warm-up primarily consists of flipping Spending time on the disc golf course in
your car’s heater switch from Off to High. If you frigid weather doesn’t sound like much fun, butare lucky enough to have disc baskets installed up north many players participate in and evenall year and the park is open, winter (especially anticipate winter events. Love of winter discin the snow states) proves to be aunique and golf is evidenced by the numerous Ice Bowlschallenging time of year for disc golf. scheduled throughoutthe country duringJanuary
Cold weather-l’m talking sub-teens and February.Fahrenheit—is aformidable opponent, typicallybringing intense winds that render aroutine Noticeable differences from warmsummer putt into an unlikely hole out. Discsfly like stunt planes, apparent misses dive into
wea ther p layBeautiful slide tracks and spirals in the
baskets, and easy put-ins soar away, landing snow left by the discs often resemble the fossilfurther away from the pin than they started. of anautilus. This almost makes amissed putt'The goal of northern-clime winter golf is or upshot athing of beauty. I’m serious,tto outlast your opponent. Don’t expect to set any The disc’s snowy slide needs to be takencourse records; at best, just hope to maintain into account, especially on ice. Ihave aspecial
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shot for the winter that Icall the Norelco slide: Ithrow the disc upside down so that it slides onits flight plate. It glides across the snow like BurlIves’s snowman riding arazor in an old Norelcoc o m m e r c i a l .
In deep snow conditions, at¬tach abright ribbon or stringto your disc.
Don’t count on good footwork. The tee boxeswill invariably have patches of ice or snow, whichmeans that run-ups are affected. Run-ups arealmost impossible from the fairways. They can beequated, for those in the eternal temperate regions,to running in boots on asand volleyball court.
The key to winter play is preparation. Here arethe essentials: hand warmers, boots, nonthrowing-hand gloves. Wear the glove on your nonthrowinghand and use it to pick up your discs and wipe awaythe snow. Never pick up adisc with your throwinghand. This will keep your hand dry and warm.Keep your hands warm, tucked into your hoodyor pants pocket as much apossible (gripping theaforementioned hand warmer).
It is also courteous to follow trails alreadycarved in the snow in order to minimize disturbingthe snow. The disc skids and knife slices cut intothe snow are often the only clues to where discslie. Heavily disturbed snow makes locating discsalmost impossible, and deep snow, forget it. Soundsexaggerated, but discs disappear right in the middleof the fairway. Guaranteed.
It is also wise to have an outdoorsman in
your group. Someone with tracking skills who hasmastered the skill of tracking the local game andcan lend his skills to tracking an elusive disc.
Ihave aspecial bag for winter. It’s actuallyspecial in that it is not special. Iload up one of myolder bags with awinter set of discs. Itend to includemore overstable discs since more often than not
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of those truly silly grins because there is nothing ball golf, the course has three pin positions on eachthat compares to letting loose on ahuge downhill hole clustered around agreen center. The coursehole and then being gifted with one of those amazing designers believed strongly in the concept of agreendrives that flies with so much speed it can’t help but center that preserves scoring variation and does notturnover, but then, because you’ve done this before, change the par on agiven hole (something that oftenyou knew to throw overstable plastic and let the disc results from alternate pin positions at other courses),save its own butt. The gravity-aided speed will keep it The three sets of tees (gold, blue, white) correspondfrom fading, if you remember to throw down and flat to the appropriate PDGA skill levels indicated byand not expose the nose. player ratings of 1000, 950, and 900 rated golfers.
Are you kidding me, you think, this is 852 Tournament statistics have born out that the tees arefeet of sheer joy, your lime Star Destroyer looking set appropriately on the two par five holes, eight par-like aphoton burst as it disappears in ablink, last four hole, and the remaining par threes,seen gliding out to anice place on the fairway, in the COURSE HIGHLIGHTS Many of the holeslanding zone. Any luck, you’ll have asweet view of the at Moraine would be signature holes at other courses,lake and an open shot at a400 foot deuce. Oh boy.
TECHNICAL STUFF Keith Clark, Chris Deitzel,J. Gary Dropcho, and Leo Liller designed the course in2004, From the gold tees, it’s a8500-foot world-class lines of people willing to pay money Just to stare at formonster, with one of the highest Scratch Scoring ten minutes, seriously come-to-church gorgeous holesAverages (SSA) of all permanent disc golf courses.Along the way, you’ll be treated to acourse that Hole 2plays up apipeline cut in the woods with a
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; Hyperlong pro-par-five hole 6stretches to morethan 900 feet from the longest tee. There are two sep¬arate routes down the fairway but heavy foliage waitsin pmbush off to the sides if your disc strays. Get onein pere and often your only recourse is to pitch backtope fairway and take an extra stroke. In one of thefirit tournaments at Moraine, Barry Schuitz threw skyanjhyzers over the trees, which proved to be quite aneffective strategy. This is ahole that you don’t feelbad taking afive. Well, mostly not.
Hole 8is adelightful pro-par four hourglasshole. The pinched-waist fairway effectively eliminatesanj/ advantage big arms have, forcing them to con¬centrate, instead, on placement. It takes aperfectlyplaced drive combined with askillful approach throughth^ narrow part to nab abirdie three, especially if thebasket is tucked right (C position).
The pro-par-four hole 10 plays from an elevat¬ed tee and cuts sharply left and uphill. Any error onthe drive gets punished if it finds the bad bushes andtrees, however, big arms are rewarded with ashortapproach if they pull off cutting the corner.
;Hole 12 generates astrong reaction: it’s ei-thp loved or hated. From an elevated tee pad, the
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hole shoots some 350 feet before entering anarrowpassage to the basket. The landing area is mostlyblind, and the tightly wooded entrance doesn’t allowmuch of an angle for drives that miss the sweet spotin the landing area. If you’re fortunate enough to hitit Just right, your approach will then need to carry thelength of the corridor and end without trickling downthe drop-off that lies to the right.
Hole 13 is the gauntlet hole, one of those clas¬sic holes that passes through arow of evenly spacedtrees that you see at many disc golf courses. If youcan throw astraight shot, you’ll give yourself achancefor birdie, but the corridor narrows as it approachesthe green area. Hitting the early foliage here is deadly,and great scoring swings often occur on this hole.
Once you come out of the woods, you’re attrue signature hole 15, where you stood and imag¬ined the gods flinging discs like lightning bolts. About850 feet sharply downhill to the basket posed infront of manmade Lake Arthur. In warm weather, sail¬boats dot the sparkling lake and it’s as beauteous asight as you’ll see on any disc golf course. After be¬ing somewhat restrained for most of the course, thishole encourages the big arm in you to bomb away.Crush adrive of about 450 feet to the landing zone,and f rom there i t ’s ano ther 400 fee t down to thebasket. Can the putt and be totally stoked to walkaway with abirdie three.
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Moraine State Park is'a great example of the growingtrend toward courses with more par four and par five holes.While there are stiff those who believe that disc golf shouldstick close to its roots (where every hole is areachable parthree), many designers and players feel strongly that two andthree fairway-shot holes add alot more to the game than justextra throws.
After “The Beauty” comes “The Beast,” an evilpar five hole 16 that off the tee drives severely uphill,through anarrow pine grove, and then across apla¬t e a u t o t h e b a s k e t . T h i s i s o n e o f t h e m o s t u n u s u a l
holes I’ve played. For most players, the second shotusually needs to be alittle creative—such as afore¬hand roller—to get past the top of the hill and carryas far as possible. From the top of the hill, the ap¬proach is about 300 feet through scattered trees withheavy rough on either side to the polehole, which hasasharp drop-off behind it, so there’s about thirty dif¬ferent ways this hole beats you up. It hurts so good.
Saving the best for last, hole 18 plays throughmature hardwoods with some punishing water haz¬ards cutting through the fairway. The basket is easilyspotted from the tee and lies in an open, picturesquearea before the parking lot, but getting there is hardwork. About halfway down is awater hazard with ahigh bank that must be cleared; shots that end up inthe roped-off OB area play from adrop zone. There’smore: behind the polehole is another water hazardwith an OB area marked off that really comes intoplay on aggressive upshots and putts, which is to sayit’s abusy place.Yo u ’ v e d o n e s o m e t h i n g . Yo u ’ v e p l a y e dMora ine , fd in
The debate over higher pars kicked into high gear inthe early 1990s. One of the prominent examples of the newschool was the PDGA National Doubles course at Old SettlersPark in Round Rock, Texas. That course, featuring five par foursand two par fives, broke the 8000-foot mark in 1991, and sooncourses for world championships (and several other permanentcourses) followed suit. As disc golf grows in popularity, we'llhave greater access to larger pieces of land. Northwest Penn-sylmia, for example, now has several courses with par above60, including Moraine State Park. ■
It's not just about length or throwing numerousshots to get to the pin. Over the last two decades, top design¬ers around the disc golf world have continued to refine whatmakes agreat multiple-shot hole. Whereas old-style coursesoften required nothing more than learning how to memorizeand execute eighteen specific shots, the best new courses re¬quire course-management skills, including strategic thinking,good decision-making, and mental discipline. And multiple-shot holes make the playing experience alot more varied; mostgood holes will play differently every time, if only because yourdrive will land in adifferent spot, requiring adifferent approachshot. On top of that, well-designed par fours and fives allowplayers the chance to make great recovery shots after poordrives. That's something our sport lacked for many years.
Great par three holes will always be an important partof every disc golf course, but expect to see more great par foursand par fives, as we learn to maintain our unique identity whileborrowing the best of the ball-golf world.- J o h n H o u c k
Jeff LaGrassa is adisc golf course aficionado and PDGA discussion board regu¬lar. Besides disc golf, he enjoys skiing, playing electric bass, winemaking, andfantasy footbal l .
Y)u flex your hands in nervous anticipation. Fifty feet away, amaniac holds adisc high in warning. Hebjrrels forward, whirls around like some hippie Tasmanian devil, and then launches the thing towardsyou at an air-rending 70 mph. Stand your ground. Catch it. Deflect it (intentionally or not) to one of yourli ie mates. Or take it in the stones.
Welcome to guts.Guts bills itself as the original extreme the speeding disc (one handed) before it hits the
s)ort. In fact, it is the original disc sport, far more ground; if the disc hits the ground uncaught (or#venerable than disc golf, ultimate, or any other unsupported), the throwing team gets apoint.
0^ today’s popular disc games. It’s certainly the The teams alternate throwing and catching-thenost radical, something guts players have always first team to 21points wins,tc ken pride in.
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Defenders may catch the throw or deflectThe sport is played with aspecial high- it in the air for someone else to deflect or catch,
tc pped 119 gram Frisbee-brand disc. Don’t ever If it’s caught, no point is awarded and the catcheruse agolf disc unless you’ve got aserious axe to throws next. If it isn’t caught, the person who wasgrind. Weenies may wear gloves, but no padding hit (or was closest to it) throws next. The thingis a l lowed. to do, naturally, is figure out who the weak link
Here’s the idea. Two teams of three or five is on the other team. Then bomb away at himguys each line up, facing each other about forty- mercilessly.fi\'e feet (fourteen meters) apart. Aplayer fromone team fires the disc towards the other team’s tomahawks, thumbers—whatever they can aimlipe. It is the job of the receiving team to catch the best and throw the hardest. Acouple of rules
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circuit. Last year-2007-marked thefiftieth anniversary of the sport, andthe international championships (IFT)commemorating the half century drewtwenty-five teams, all competing forthe title of Most Foreheads Smashed(the exact title may have been alittledifferent). The reigning world champs,an Asian team called Katon, have been
i unbeaten since 2000, taking som^,^jserious names.IIs guts alittle crazy? Damn straight.Here’s some revealing lingo: “Taco,” first
"coined in guts, refers to ashot so hardthat it bends up on itself when slamminginto someone. And the Holy Grail of thesport appears to be an ominously titled
“Full Facial.” Still, if you’re looking for anew wayto have fun with discs and you don’t mind theoccasional contusion, you ought to give it atry.Just make sure to keep your eye on the disc. Andw e a r a c u p .
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to remember are that the disc has to be right-sideup when it gets to the defender line, and that thedisc has to be within reach of at least one of the
defenders. For their part, defenders have to makeclean one-handed catches—no trapping, at leastnot against your own body. Apparently it’s just fineto trap the disc against ateammate. Especially ifyou trap it against his face.
Sounds simple, but there is more strategythan you’d think; it takes alot of skill andcoordination to play competitively. Guts is ateamgame and to achieve success players have to worktogether.
The history.At afamily picnic in Michigan’s upper penin¬
sula, with iittle else to do and the potato salad longago devoured, someone thought. Hey, let me throwthis lid at you—really, really hard—and you standthere and try to catch it. Turned out to be surpris¬ingly enjoyable and after fiddling with the basics abit they exported the concept. Guts was born.
Should you want to test your mettle againstother hardcore guts players, there is atournament
You want to try this out? Go to www.usgpa.com for rules and information about guts. Then get some friendstogether and convince them to try something new, preferably after they’ve had afew beers. “Hey, let me throwmy disc at you as hard as Ican! No seriously...wait...” If you’re near Detroit, Albuquerque, or one of the otherguts hotspots, check out some of the regulars and work your way into agame. They’ll smell blood and welcomeyou. Then they’ll tattoo you all night.
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Tension was high as the final round began. Athree on hole 8was the first of six consecutive birdies$10,000 payday awaited the winner. Dave Feldberg, through the middle of the course. Flawless executionGarrett Gurthie, and Markus Kallstrom were all tied and great putting over that stretch propelled him tofor the lead, with five other players within asingle aseemingly insurmountable four-shot lead with onlys t r o k e . five holes remaining to play. Kallstrom concedes.-'W- .;
The mood was stiff,” recalls Feldberg. “We all ter hole 13 Iknew Iwas probably not going to win, butmissed easy shots on hole 1. On hole 2each of us had Iwanted to keep playing well and see what would hap-chances,-but only Garrett took advantage. By hole 3pen,we all had great drives, we started to loosen up."
Things remained close as Feldberg and Gurth-How quickly things can change. .With the tournament seemingly in hand, Feld-
ie traded the lead for the next few holes. Bennett berg’s confident drive on hole 14 was the best of theblinked on his drive on 6, abackhand that went OB. bunch, perfectly placed in the middle of the fairway.The difficult drop location and atouchy putt resulted His approach, though, was rushed and off target, leav-in adouble bogey six, pushing him four strokes off the ing him with aterrible lie and ascramble to save par.pace. Kallstrom, playing mistake free, birdied 7and His two-finger roller went awry, finding more rough,forged back into athree-way tie.
Then things started to turn Feld berg’s way. His amove, took achance and crushed ahyzer shot upMeanwhile, Gurthie, four back and. needing to make
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and over the trees that surround the approach to thebasket, in hopes of afavorable crash through and achance at par. The home-state mojo kicked in andGirthie’s approach not only made it through cleanly,but very nearly splashed in for an eagle.
Feld berg took an overly aggressive run at hisremaining long putt, then compounded things bymissing the comeback twenty-footer. Gurthie droppedin lis birdie and suddenly Feldberg’s lead was downt o u s t o n e s t r o k e .
and his approach was good, but apoor putt resultedin abogey that dropped him two strokes back.Bennett was the only one to miss the birdie on thenext hole, leaving Gurthie and Kallstrom tied for sec¬ond, two back with two holes to play. Still, Feldbergstruggled to finish things out.
Thanks to excellent second shots on 17, bothhe and Gurthie had short fifteen-foot birdie chances.
With atree forcing him into aone-knee putt, Feldbergdoinked the rim and had to settle for apar four. Gurth-
One of my personal-favorite highlights of the final round was Geoff Bennett’s second shot on hole 8, a615-foot, gradually increasing uphill, tight fairway with the basket tucked into acutout inside the treeiine.
;His first shot hit the big pine near the red tee and dropped straight down, leaving a340-foot tight, slight-fly left-to-right beeline shot, with little room for error (OB to the left and shule to the right). He blasted aside-7arm cannon that screamed about four or five feet off the ground, sinking alittle as it maneuvered the uphill
terrain and clanged like achurch bell off the front side of the basket! Iwas heading up agroup of spotterswho were pacing the lead card, and Iwas about eighty-feet out when the disc hit. To top it off, DGTV ‘s AlanHansen-Begg was standing behind the basket filming the whole thing.—Mike Barnett, tournament director
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Hole 15 requires an Sshot over thick palmetto ie seized the opportunity and cashed in, pulling backtrejes to reach the basket. Last year, in the hunt late, within one stroke heading to the final hole.Gurthie got into trouble here and fell out of conten- Aquick check of the scoreboard confirmed how tighttioji. That may have affected him, and his errant drive things had become. Reigning world champ Nate Dosswound up stuck in atree about seventy-five feet away was in the clubhouse with a58, also just one shotfrom the basket. The two-meter rule wasn’t in effect back. Kal lstrom and Ken Cl imo—who’d finished with
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berg’s safe shot was forty-feet away, but Gurthie hadabit longer putt than expected, around twenty-eightfeet. Playing first, Feldberg made amodest attempt,leaving adrop-in comeback for par. Bennet and Kall-strom nailed their birdies. The stage was set for thekid from nearby Gainesville.
Gurthie’s putt was just off, to the dismay ofthe mostly partisan onlookers. Feldberg said his shortputt, which he calmly dropped in for the win, felt anti-climactic, like the energy had been sucked away. Butminutes later, surrounded by friends and supporters,and with the reality of aPlayer’s Cup championshipand ahefty payday to celebrate, the champ was allsmiles. fd!H
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The pressure was intense. “I was flustered,”admits Feldberg. “I was thinking Ishould have alreadyput this away.”
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features aleft side that’s nearly all OB. Feldberg’slead was precarious. “With abogey Iwouldn’t win,plus Garrett had achance to catch me,” he said.
The gallery was poised for aheart-stoppingfinish. Gurthie threw first. As his long drive soaredaround the corner towards the basket, the crowderupted. Kallstrom and Bennett would follow with ex¬cellent drives of their own. As Feldberg approachedthe tee, he focused on throwing safe with, he said,“no chance for OB and hopefully ashot at adeuce. Ithought Garrett must have been close the way every¬o n e c h e e r e d . ”
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Vou’ll typically find me at most of disc golfs biggest where you can even grab ashower,events, but the Players Cup championship is one thatI ’ l l never miss .
If you’ve ever taken grief from your significantother over plans to play yet another tournament, Play-
Granted, any excuse to be in sunny Florida ers Cup is aproblem solver: for you it’s atournament,ri |ht before Thanksgiving is agood one. Still, there for your spouse, it’s avacation. The Plantation Inn willis awholeness to Players Cup that makes this final serve your every whim with asmile. Agorgeous out¬
door pool and tiki bar await, and you can rent singlerooms or group condos. You’re within minutes of ei-
V|hile the Worlds can feel like an endurance mara- ther fresh or saltwater beaches, and some families
throw-down of the year something to anticipate.At USDGC, it’s all about beating the course.
tfion, Players Cup is juuuuuust right.Start with the weather and time of year: check, than two hours away.
will make aday trip to Disney World in Orlando, less
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the year something to ant ic ipate.Now let’s look at the course. Red Hawk is aperma¬nent disc golf course that sits alongside and amidst apampered ball golf course at Florida’s luxurious Plan¬tation Inn on the state’s Gulf Coast. Think manicuredfairways, palm trees, water hazards, and punishingshule. Denny Ritner and Mike Barnett have beentweaking this 9880 feet, par sixty-five baby for afewy^ars now, and it plays like adream. Great course:check .
Wise players block off at least one afternoonto rent snorkeling gear, hop onto aboat, and go swim¬ming with the manatees, also known as sea cows.These huge but docile creatures are more prevalenthere than anywhere else on the planet, and are wayc o o l .
Where you won’t see players swimming is inthe ponds and creeks that make up Red Hawk’s wa¬ter hazards. Venturing in after abad shot not onlyrisks disqualification from the tournament, but alsolife and limb: this is Florida, and alligators are moreoften lurking in these waters than not. Best to watchfrom water’s edge, where you can occasionally seethe larger gators snacking on unwary ducks.
If you’re unfortunate enough to splash yourplastic into awater hazard, you can take solace in the
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does adisc golfer get to throw practice rounds usingagolf cart? Players feel so cool that more than afewO' them fire up acigar to add to the privileged atmo¬sphere. Need breakfast and an OJ? How about lunchand abeer? The clubhouse right off the course in¬cludes arestaurant/bar, pro shop, and locker rooms
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discs wind up in awatery grave on these two courses thanany other NT event. Even the best players need to bring aset of backup discs to ensure they’ve got what they needto complete these watery challenges. The good news isthat TD Dan Ginnelly traditionally sets up these coursesfor maximum fun with interesting challenges.
Fountain Hills is one of the nicest-looking parksyou'll find, with gentle rolling terrain and the awe-inspiringfountain surrounded by alake that provides for some coolholes. Certain holes are set up to tempt players who thinkthey have the arm, the accuracy, or the bravado to shortenthe distance to the pin by crossing water.
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tricked out to provide achallenge not unlike the WinthropGold course with lots of OB challenges. The mostly flatterrain provides several (RHBH) roller opportunities if youcan avoid OB. You will be amazed at how well the top prosplay some of these shots, flirting with potential disaster atevery skip or slide. For all of these reasons, the Memorialis one of those don’t-miss tournaments.
March 6-8. If you check your calendar, you’ll notice thosedates are for Thursday through Saturday—one of thechanges for 2008. Keith Murray, one of the tournamentpromoters, said, “We wanted to give people atravel dayon Sunday. Many an awards ceremony has been poorlyattended because of people rushing to the airport rightafter their round.” It’s true, by the time David Feldbergand Des Reading accepted their 2007 victory awards notmany players were still there to see it.
Having played afew Memorials, Ican tell you thefinal round lasts late into the day. Due to travel obligations,many players have to skip the awards ceremony and wrap-up party regardless of whether they cash, or they’re forcedto take Monday as avacation day. Since Phoenix is agreatgetaway area that time of year regardless whether youplay disc golf, the organizers hope players would rathertake that extra vacation day during the days leading intothe event and use Sunday as atravel day. Playing inthe Gentleman’s Club Challenge event in Las Vegas theweekend before has become atradition for many playerswho wish to enjoy asolid ten days of disc golf where the
'weather is usually better than wherever you’re readingthis magazine right now.
Another key change for 2008 is the way thea m a t e u r d i v i s i o n fi n a n c e s w i l l b e h a n d l e d . M o s t o f a namateur’s entry fee will go to cover aplayer package thatsounds like it could be worth double the entry fee by thetime the tournament starts. This means no payouts otherthan trophies for the am divisions. So, all ams “cash”before they even start, and can play purely for the joy ofcompetition with the possibility of winning some hardwareif they do well. Only Advanced divisions will be offered.
The Memorial will be played at both the FountainHills and Scottsdale courses. Some scary news. More
BOWLING GREEN OPENThe second NT is the Bowling Green Open, April
12-13, in Bowling Green, Kentucky. If only this event coulddraw as many pros as the behemoth BG Am event twoweeks earlier. Go to the sponsor-club website and you seethis: “limited to the first 720 registered players.” That’samazing. Is it the weather, the location, the courses, orwhat that draws am players Bowling Green? Whateverit is, BG has become the happening place to be in earlyApril. The tourney had agreat turnout last year with 162competing pros, which only looks small in comparison tothe record am turnout of 724.
None of the four courses are particularly long.
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course circling the historical i|iiverviewat Hobson Grove house. ||■here are several technical shots pi1and around wooded areas, but '|5w bombs despite the history of
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Inost. These cedars will stop shots that are slightly off line,t’s possible the two-meter penalty for suspended discsccill be invoked on that course. White is apretty wide open
crusher course with some marked OB areas for addit ional
I:hallenges. The real test for players to win the BG Open isto learn four courses and stay focused all the way throughto the end. Climo had to average fewer than 47 throwse a c h r o u n d t o w i n .
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events May 17-18, but TD Wayne Forest and Team Tulsaare not strangers to hosting big events. The 2006 AmWorlds was ahuge success and boosted the number ofquality courses in the area. The thirty-six-hole Redhawkand Blackhawk course complex is right next to the zoo nearthe airport, according to legend, Blackhawk hole 18 is nearan elephant burial ground, which makes one wonder aboutthe source of the hump where the long pin is located.
B l a c k h a w k ’ s e i g h t e e n h o l e s a r e a d a u n t i n gchallengetoany player’sabilities. With dual hazardsformedby dense woods and water, you’ll need your completegame to conquer this course. With atotal length of 7073feet, Blackhawk is exactly what top pro and designer KevinMcCoy intended it to be: “a pure stroke-eater.”
The Redhawk course is qu i te d i f ferent f romBlackhawk even though the two courses border each other.Redhawk’s slightly shorter layout features more wide-openspaces to fly. There are some nice birdie opportunitiesalong this run. The hazards are predominantly OB withcement or water boundaries. The twenty-seven-hole finalround combines the best of both courses and measures11 ,806 f ee t .
STEADY ED MEMORIAL MASTERS CUP
Next up is the perennial favorite on May 2-4 inGanta Cruz, California, where the Steady Ed MemorialMasters Cup is played on the legendary twenty-seven-hole)e LaVeaga course. The course is just down the road from)GA headquarters where our founder “Steady” Ed Headrick
continued producing baskets until his death in 2002.TD Dave Thomas says, “Join us in celebrating
wenty-one years of challenging and competitive disc golfat De LaVeaga Disc Golf Course in Santa Cruz, California-home course of two-time world champ Nate Doss. This DGA-<;ponsored event features fast and tricky greens, dramaticelevation changes, disc-catching oak trees, and amix of^wenty-seven holes requiring accuracy, concentration, and(wery shot in your bag.”
The De LaVeaga course has agreat combinationof elevation and great views of Monterey Bay and thesurrounding countryside. The Top of the World signaturehole is amust-play even if you’re merely passing through■own on acoastal trek. With multiple pin placements,players are tested over the course of playing three twenty-seven-hole rounds. Wear and tear over the years has mademany landing areas around the pins even slipperier than1heir already precarious positions make them.
This year only two of the courses employed in lastyear’s Oklahoma Open will be used for the new NT,
TWENTY-FIRST MINNESOTA MAJESTICThe Majestic returns to the NT circuit May 30-June
1after athree year absence, offering some new courses,anew format, and anew tournament director. TD TimmyGill has been preparing this Minneapolis-St. Paul event forits NT encore, which will feature play at two pay-for-play
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Graham, and I’ve yet to see anyone dishing outmuch grief when he is standing by.
The tournament payout is another draw, atleast to those who are skilled enough to have ashot at it. In its first three years, Players Cup of¬fered aguaranteed $10,000 to the winner, en¬joyed in 2007 by Oregon’s David Feldberg, whoearned it by one shot in atrue, old-fashioned dog¬fight. Going into the final round, afull eight playersw e r e w i t h i n o n e t h r o w o f t h e l e a d . Ta l k a b o u t a
nail-biter! It was less competitive on the women’sside, where Des Reading ran away from the fieldto win by eleven throws.
Despite the high drama of the competition,folks at Players Cup tend to be alot more relaxedthan at any other major tournament. Aperfectexample occurred one day this past year, whenDiscraft founder and president Jim Kenner wasenjoying the company of his sponsored pros inthe team lounge. For those of you who don’t knowhim, Jim Kenner is asubdued dude. Smart as awhip, but still avery quiet guy, doesn’t say much.So here’s Kenner sitting around with abunch ofhis open players when they start to hear astrange,intermittent sound coming from the second floor.When someone asked what the noise was, he wasinformed that it was one of the female team prosusing ablow dryer.
The noise stopped, and all was briefly si¬l e n t u n t i l K e n n e r s h o u t e d t o h i s f r i e n d “ D o n ’ t f o r ¬
get to dry the other armpit too!” There was amo¬ment of silence before adozen wide-eyed guys all
burst out hysterically and began rolling on the floor infits of laughter, the female victim of the joke poking herhead down to survey the adolescent scene. The sly grinon her face promised retaliation before the weekendw a s o v e r .
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Michigan’s Brian 'Suily' Sullivan is alongtime disc golf promoter. The formerpublisher of DiscLife.com has served as host of Fox television's DiscTV, hostand creator of PDGA Radio News, and as Publicity Director on the PDGABoard of Directors. He currently serves as Director of Marketing for Discraft.
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challenges that lay ahead.The 2008 Nat ional Tour wi l l feature e leven event
starting with The Memorial in March and finishing with th*USWDGC for women and USDGC for men in October. Fouevents for men and five for women will be at new venue:
this year, showcasingourtop players in some new locationsThe PDGA will provide a$1200 stipend to each event an:send aPDGA pro to host aclinic in advance of each event
The PDGA website is being overhauled in 2006The National Tour information pages will become part cthe regular PDGA website instead of aseparate web arerT h i s s h o u l d m a k e i t e a s i e r t o fi n d t o u r i n f o r m a t i o n a n
interconnect scoring and player stats.
Will it be Nate in twenty-oh-eight? Nate Doss returnsto defend his 2007 Open Men National Tour win. Hefinishedjust high enough in the USDGC to hold off Ken Climo by 2.5points. In fact, if either Steve Brinster or Dean Tannock hadthrown one shot better to join Nate in the four-way tie forthird at the USDGC, Climo would have won the NT Series,
avid Feldberg finished third overall.Des Reading returns to defend her 2007 Open
Women National Tour title having edged past 2007 worldchamp Valarie Jenkins by ten points, followed by Angela
[Tschiggfrie in third. Reading beat Jenkins by two, three, andftwo throws in the last three regular NT events (excludingWorlds and USWDGC). If Jenkins had won any one of thosethree, she would have garnered the 2007 NT series title.
With close races in 2007, all of the top playersreturning for 2008, and several up-and-comers closeto cracking the top echelon of our sport, it should be anexciting year ahead. We’ll take alook at handicapping theraces alittle bit later after first taking alook at the event
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TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY MEMORIALPRESENTED RY DISCRAFT
Kicking off the National Tour as it has foithe past five years will be the Twentieth AnniversaryMemorial Presented by Discraft near Phoenix, Arizona
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facilities (out of the three courses to be played).Many pros are familiar with several incarnations of Payouts have been steadily rising with financial support
the highly regarded, wooded and hilly Kaposia Park, one of from local leagues, the Mighty MFA, and Timmy’s effortsthe four courses played in the 2001 Pro Worlds. Kaposia with local sponsors. DGTV—cofounded by Timmy Gill—willis getting amoderate upgrade this spring with some new produce its second Majestic DVD. So come to play or watchtees and holes. Temp holes will boost it to twenty-seven for and maybe get your mug online in one of their daily clips,the Majestic. ,
KANSAS CITY WIDE OPENB l u e R i b b o n P i n e s i s t h e n e w e s t a d d i t i o n t o
the Majestic course lineup. It’s owned by sod farmerRay Jordan, who with the help of many volunteers hastransformed wooded areas surrounding his sod farm intoapopular twenty-seven-hole disc golf haven. This is sayingalot considering the Twin Cities is the top metro disc golfarea with more than thirty-five courses within an hour ofthe interstate loop around the cities. Blue Ribbon startedas acircuitof mostly wooded, technical par-three holes, butit has recently been extended to more of achampionshiplayout in preparation for big events such as the Majestic.
The Hyland Ski and Snowboard Area is home to thefinal course, which is laid out on mostly open-fairway hillsused for skiing in winter. With agreat year-round chalethousing apro shop, food service, and aplace to chill, it’sperfect as asetting for the final rounds. Spectators won’te v e n n e e d t o c l i m b t h e h i l l s t o s e e m o s t o f t h e a c t i o n
though binoculars would help on afew holes.
The Kansas City Wide Open June 7-8 is just down1-35 from the Majestic; these two are the only back-to-backNT events on tap this year. The KCWO has consistentlybeen one of our biggest events and not simply becauseit’s located in the middle of the country. The KC FlyingDisc Club has been one of the consistently best-organizedclubs, hosting multiple championships including severalAm Worlds. The club will host the first back-to-back pro-amW o r l d s 2 0 0 9 .
For along time the Kansas City area has beenhome to great courses with enough length to challenge thebest players. And with the new Blue Valley course—morethan 11,000 feet with aSSA of more than 65-the tourneyprovides the longest, most grueling test of any NT course.The word valley in the course name should be asufficienthint that there is indeed elevation to contend with on that
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Waterworks Park is rated by many as one of theb3st courses in the Midwest, not limited to just KansasCty. With acombination of elevation changes that runthrough grassy wooded areas, the course provides bothfun and technical challenges. It’s one of the few coursesyjpu’ll even find elevation changes posted on the signs. The
is slightly less than 54 but you better play well or thetlurnament can be lost here with its potential for producingwide scoring swings.
Swope Park lies in atraditional, nicely groomed citypark with rolling hills. Scott Stokely once commented thatthe tree-lined fairways play alittle easier than expectedbacause if you shank your drive you can usually playanother fairway to recover. The NT Gold Lite layout, as itvyas called in 2007, has been adjusted to provide abetterclallenge for top players.
pool, tennis courts, and ballfields bordering the disc golfarea. The championship setup comes in at 63 SSA and haselements of the Winthrop course with some tricky OB and al i t t l e m o r e e l e v a t i o n .
TD Tim Selinske and volunteers put on quite ashowwith additional backing from Innova located nearby. Younever know what hot new release might be in the playerpacks.
BRENT HAMBRIGK MEMORIAL OPENThe Brent Hambrick Memorial Open July 12-13
has been amainstay on the tour for along time beforethe NT series started. This is acharity event benefiting theLeukemia and Lymphoma Society of Ohio. Brent Hambrickwas alongtime promoter and TD of big events in Columbuswho died about ten years ago. The PDGA TournamentDirector of the Year award is named for him.
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Columbus, Ohio, next to the Hoover Dam Reservoir—yes,the offic ia l Hoover Dam isn’ t in Ar izona—where there’s a
twenty-seven-hole permanent course and atemporaryeighteen-hole course set up for the tournament. Thecourses have some moderate elevation changes thatpresent interesting challenges, plus there’s agood mix ofopen holes and tighter holes with fairways through standsof pine trees that have been getting bigger every year,tightening some routes.
JAPAN OPENIWhile it’s not part of the NT series, it’s hoped that
payers will enter the Japan Open. It’s aPDGA-sanctionedclampionship event and counts toward aplayer’s worldr inking. The course is laid out on an immaculate ball golfcburse with all kinds of devious OB traps and drop-offs toprovide challenges; another challenge for visitors is thatthe event requires the use of 150-class discs.
GOLDEN STATE CLASSICThe Golden State Classic June 20-22 appears to
bfe moving progressively later each year and now bracketstt efirst day of summer. This is the granddaddy location forbgdisc events of all kinds. Golden State provides aspecialclampionship eighteen-hole layout roaming over theS' oried twenty-seven-hole La Mirada course in Los Angeles.l|j Mirada is asprawling sports complex with aswimming
THE SCANDINAVIAN OPEN
SKELLEFTEA, SWEDENThis event is also not an official part of the NT
Series but counts as achampionship toward PDGA worldsrankings. It’s located at latitude 64, which not surprisingly
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Huntsville, Alabama. For the past several years Mom andOld Man Wallis from Peoria, Illinois, have shepherdedthis event to become the star at t ract ion for both amateurand pro women disc golfers. This year TD Chris Jaskolka,whose wi fe Karen has won wor ld amateur and U.S. mid¬nationals titles, has his work cut out taking over the reinsand maintaining the event’s momentum. Hunstville has astrong history hosting top events including apro Worlds.
is where the manufac turer o f the same name is loca ted
along with many top world-ranked players. In reviewingtheir online course description, it looks like you’d better beready for some golf on the first hole: a354 meter par six.This is agreat disc-golfing town with wonderful hospitality.
THE OPEN AT MAPLE HILLThe Open at Maple Hill July 25-27 in Leicester,
Massachusetts, is the last of the regular NT events and itmakes its first appearance in the NT series. Top playershave heard of and maybe even played in the big MarshallStreet Disc Golf Championship tournaments the pastfew years and know that the Marshall Street guys hostexcellent events with great payouts and lots of fun sideshowa c t i v i t i e s .
UNITED STATES DISC GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPThis championship pays out the most money to
asingle division in disc golf; last year’s win was worth$15,000. Of course, it’s the United States Disc GolfChampionship (USDGC), or just The Championship, as TDJonathon Poole calls it. Winthrop University campus. Rock
This tourney might produce the highest payout of Hill, South Carolina, continues to host, drawing top playersthe regular NT events based on the organizers’ financial from around the world. Play will be from Wednesday throughforecast, which shows aminimum of $16,000 added to the Saturday October 1-4, with spectators allowed to play thepayout for open-division men and women. The organizers special course layout on Sunday,intend adding cash to the open-women’s payout that totalsmore than their entry fees. Anew twist will be acut beforethe final round to seventy-two men and twelve women, buteveryone who makes that cut will receive apayout morethan their entry fee.
The Maple Hill Open course is being developed toproduce a64 SSA. This challenging course includes fourholes over water, multiple natural OB, significant elevation,and agood mix of wooded and open holes. This three-daythree-round event promises to provide plenty of challengesto test all aspects of aplayer’s game.
Pas t t ou rnamen ts have been cap tu red by -several volunteer videographers for the annual Marshall jStreet Championship DVD. Many have seen these fun, :comprehensive DVDs and enjoyed their irreverent humor. ;PDGA board member Steve Dodge, who directed and i|edited the DVDs the last several years, will serve as TD :for this year’s event.
PLAYERS GUPThe NT ser ies finishes with the Players Cup
November 21-23. The Players Cup started afew years agoand has developed into many players’ tournament of choicethis time of year. The Red Hawk championship course islocated at abeautiful setting on the Plantation Inn ball-golf course in Crystal River, Florida. TD Mike Barnett, withassistance from Denny Ritner, set up the course with OBchallenges similar to Winthrop but with the advantage of
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HANDICAP THE FIELD more natural obstacles. In addition, the organizersare using new types of hazards called buncrs, whichare iess punitive than OB and work more iike sandtraps in ball golf.
Here’s abrief overview of the players most likely to win the NT Series,handicapped. We consulted acomputer whiz, the horoscope readingsfrom aMidwestern daily, and an Eight Ball. If you take our odds seri¬ously, we recommend you use Monopoly money.
WHO WILL WIN IN 2008?It’s been apparent for awhile that several
players are approaching the standard that Ken Climohas maintained for many years, but he still holds thehighest rating and player ranking. Nate Doss has shownthat he can maintain ahigh level of play for more thanfour rounds, which is what it takes to win Worlds, andhe’ll be defending his NT title in 2008. David Feldberghas been winning afew big ones, but will 2008 be theyear he does it often enough to win the NT Series orWorlds? The West Coast crew of Josh Anthon, SteveRico, atransplanted Avery Jenkins, and Kyle Crabtreehas shown they can defend their turf and hang withthe best anywhere. Will they play enough events on theeast side of the Rockies at ahigh enough level to makea r u n a t t h e t i t l e ?
What about rising star Gale Leiviska with a2007 DGLO NT win and aWorlds final? In 2008 he’llhave an NT at Maple Hill where he won in 2007 and onein Minnesota on courses he knows well. Or, how aboutMarkus Kallstrom, who now has ayear of U.S. tourexperience and who crushed atSugarbush in 2007?
It’s tough to make aprediction for 2008 sincewe can’t foresee the main contenders’ travel plans,none of whom played every NT event in 2007. Based onwhat we know, my call would be even odds on Climo orD o s s f o r 2 0 0 8 .
Josh An thon—Anothe r p laye rpoised to build upon ayear of top-ten top-tier events, though his stum¬b l e a t t h e U S D G C s h o w e d h e ’ s s t i l l
awork-in-progress, but aren’t we all.O d d s t o w i n : 1 0 : 1
Ken Climo-The Champ apparentlyowns the USDGC and i s s t i l l t he fa¬
vorite anywhere he goes. Anywhere.Bet against KC at your own risk.O d d s t o w i n : 3 : 2
K y l e C r a b t r e e - H e s t a r t e d s l o wlast year before exploding at the KCWide Open, but then he faded into aseries of doubie-digit finishes beforeending eighth in NT Series. Odds tow i n : 1 5 : 1
Na te Doss -Winner o f two o f thelast three PDGA worlds titles, Dossis also the reigning NT series cham¬pion. He can lose concentration butgiven enough holes he’s nearly un¬b e a t a b l e . O d d s t o w i n : 3 : 2
Cale Leiviska-Played alot of golfand put together asolid record inregional/state events; play fell offin NT, Players, and USDGC. Odds tow i n : 1 7 : 1
Dave Feldberg-Can Mr. Late Nightrepeat his huge year? National TV,eight solid wins and the PlayersCup. Does he settle in this year for along run, al la Climo, or is he one ofseve ra l who ro ta te i n and ou t o f t hetop half-dozen? Odds to win: 2:1
Avery Jenkins—He’s shown he canwin on the world stage, but he's alsoshown his inconsistency: he cans o a r a s h e d i d a t t h e U S D G C a n dthe Dogwood Crosstown Classic; orhe can finish tenth in Players Cup.O d d s t o w i n : 5 : 2
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step behind the top tier, the Super-Scandinavian is primed to elevatehis game. If the man who coppeds e c o n d a t w o r l d s b e s t s t h e m a nwho came in forty-first at the US-DGG, this could be the year he as¬c e n d s . O d d s t o w i n : 3 : 1
Steve Rico-Once ashooting star,Steve glided out into asolid upper-bchelon player but, lately, unable tojtreak into the top tier; his solid thirdpt the USDGC teased us with his tal¬e n t O d d s t o w i n : 5 : 1
Barry Schuitz—Last year ,wasn’tkind to Barry, his best big-event fin¬ish was ninth at the USDGC; he wasamiserable twenty-third in Play¬ers Cup, twelfth at worlds, and anastounding sixty-eighth at KC WideDpen. The tools remain, only thed e t e r m i n a t i o n r e m a i n s u n k n o w n .O d d s t o w i n : 5 : 1
Mike Randolph-Our official long-shot, our homie, the guy with thegame poised to surprise the world.O d d s t o w i n : 2 0 : 1
For the women, Des Reading and ValarieJenkins are the oniy ones to win an NT among thosewho played most of the events. In fact, Elaine King wasthe only other winner with her title at the USWDGC.Another potential indicator is that Jenkins won the oniythree events that Reading didn’t play. Jenkins’s oniyvictory over Reading was at the Woodland Bear course(pro Worlds) and no NTs are contested on that coursethis year.
Des Read ing -Maybe t he ha rdes tworking player on the tour, Des’sgame racked up sweet top-tier wins,but couldn’t put her rival away atw o r l d s . W e c o u l d b e i n f o r a s e r i e s
of matches for the ages. Odds tow i n : 3 : 2
Valarie Jenkins-Worlds champ,second in NT and Player’s Cup, nicewin in KC. Needs tad more season-
but then again maybe she hasenough and this Is her year. Oddst o w i n : 2 : 1
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If Reading plays asimilar schedule this year asin 2007, you have to give her the edge until Jenkinsshows she can top Reading at some regular NT events.Angela Tschiggfrie and Carrie Beriogar travel almost asmuch and have lead on occasion. It will be interestingto see if they can raise their game alittle higher andchallenge Reading and Jenkins this year.
With more tournament directors making effortsto keep up with live scoring on the PDGA website,it should be agood year to watch the action on yourmonitor if you can’t make an event. DGTV will be outthere covering many events for your daily video fix. TheUSDGC organizers’ use of onsite Internet radio andother electronic technology were great innovations in2007, helping keep the worldwide disc golf communityup to date with the latest news and results. fdin
C a r r i e B u r l B e r i o g a r — H a s b e e nplaying lately right behind Des andValarie but in the past has shownshe can kick anyone’s butt. Oddst o w i n : 3 : 1
Elaine King—Beat the field at thewomen’s championship, grabbedsecond a t P layer ’s Cup, showedthat cunning trumps youth. Oddst o w i n : 5 : 1
A n g e l a T s c h i g g f r i e - l s t h e r esomething in Iowa’s water? (Throwin Juliana and it gets really scary.)Still plays alot close to home buth a s e s t a b l i s h e d h e r s e l f a s o n e o fthe best women players in the world.O d d s t o w i n : 8 : 1
Steve Brinster-His strong third at■he KC Wide Open was undercut byawave of sixth and seventh placefi n i s h e s . O d d s t o w i n : 7 : 1
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quite ajourney for me.As Iprepared to write my first column (and
convey my uneducated opinions) Ifelt it was onlyfair that Ido my best to learn alittle about thegame. Immerse myself in your world. Think like atrue player. Maybe even play around or two. ThenIreigned myself back in. Ilive in Ohio-it’s winter;it’s icy; it’s cold. This time of year field research canwait- l ’ l l use the Internet.
So Itook astroll on the World Wide Weband found adisc golf wonderland full of how-toinstructions, online retailers, and player information.Idiscovered overviews of the basics, from lingo toc o u r s e i n f o r m a t i o n t o s t a t s .
One of the things Iread was an obscure factoidposted on Wikipedia that said the game, in additionto being referred to as disc golf or Frisbee golf, issometimes called “folf” or “frolf.” Quite honestly.these terms sound like names of characters fromthe Muppets. If Iwere you, I’d feel ridiculousevery time Ieven thought about calling the gamefrolf. (I’ll pause for aminute while everyone who’sactually used either version of the word to feel abitfoolish.)
Next up, Ivisited some more-official-lookingsites, each tryingto reel me into the game, persuademe to become adevout participant like you. Phraseslike “fun for all ages,” “greatest lifetime sport,” andelcome to the world of disc golf—welcome improved health” were thrown around. Improvedme to the world of disc golf, that is. You’re health? From throwing adisc? That’s right. It seemsclearly already apart of it. But who am I? Iam
ji'ist agirl who’s been put up to learning alittle aboutt|ie game, making some observations, and most likelynjiakingfun of you abitalongthe way. Sounds like goodtijimes, right?
some fo l ks t ou t t he i nc red ib l e fi t ness benefi t s o fthrowing aplastic disc. Apparently I’ll experienceupper- and lower-body conditioning and the benefitsof aerobic exercise, all with very little risk of physicalinjury. As Iam no fitness guru, Iwon’t try to counter
IYou see, I’m here as an outsider, someone with these claims with my knowledge of exercise. Iwill say,liinited-Okay, zero-knowledge of disc golf. Ihaven’t however, that these amazing physical benefits seemtljirown aFrisbee in years, let alone tried to land one in abit fanciful to me.any kind of target. Ihave no precision when it comes togames of skill. And my athletic ability doesn’t stretch so perhaps along the way my initial impressions ofmuch past running, which pretty much only requires some of these things will change. Ihave much to learnthat Iavoid bumping into things, or programming my about the game, not to mention much to experiencettjeadmill and powering up my iPod.
Let me put this into perspective for you: Ito becoming adisc-golf expert—I hope you’ll find myr ad Cosmo; Ihave ashameless interest in celebrity experiences entertaining. There is aworld of disc golfgpssip; Iconsider shopping one of my hobbies; and outtherejust waiting for me to take it on. Who knows,rr|y favorite color is pink. I’m no Barbie, but I’m quite maybe I’ll try my hand at it and get hooked. Maybe I’llsjre I’d much rather spend two hours at aspa than even see you at an upcoming tournament, fresh fromthrowing discs at metal baskets, so this should be the spa, of course. f(jjn
Atany rate, mydisc-golfjourneyisjust beginning.
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PAY TOPLAY?P R I M E R S
Pro/con, yes/no, for/against, your way/my way-but not right/wrong (it’s adiscussion,not an election). Each issue we’ll run acontroversial subject up the flagpole, see whosalutes, who gives it the bird.
This month we take on the pros and consof pay-for-play disc golf courses. These existin acouple of iterations: some park districtscharge an access or users fee to enter thepark in general; some charge specifically foruse of the course, our version of agreens fee.In some parts of the country, privately ownedski resorts are home to disc golf courses inthe off-season, and they charge ausers fee foruse of the course in spring/summer/fall. And,of course, there are agrowing number of Fly18 courses and other private disc golf coursesmore or less open to the public that also chargeagreens fee. (For those of you who live in anarea without aFly 18, it’s aball-golf course thathas installed adisc-golf course parallel to theball course so that, theoretically, you can playgolf simultaneously with your ball-golf buddies;or Just play disc golf.) So there are quite afewways in which golfers might run into fees whenlooking to play around of golf.
We hope to generate alively discussionand want to hear your opinions. Contact us viaemail or snailmail and tell us what you think.We’ll post followup arguments on our web site,and if the discussion has legs, hey, we’ll returnto it later. We want to hear from players of allages and skill levels. Give us an earful.
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my introduction to disc golf in 1994 Ihave dedicated myselfto spreading the word regarding this terrific recreationalactivity. Iwas aheavy-duty baseball/softball player formore than fifty years when my old legs gave out. No longerable to run, Ineeded an activity to fuel my competitiveness,and disc golf fit the bill.
Iwas part of the group that brought the 1999 ProWorlds to Rochester, New York, and since then Ihaveinitiated six more courses in the Rochester area for atotal of eight. I've taught disc golf to more than 4000adults and children. Parents were awed by their children'senthusiasm, and friends became addicts to the game. Asmy young students grew into adulthood they picked up thegame because they liked it, it provided challenges, and it'srelaxing. The learning curve isn't steep, and it is inexpensiveto play, both from an equipment point of view and becauseuntil recently there have largely been no added costs suchas greens fees.
recreational players, who comprise the majority of thosewho play. I, for one, would not play at apay-for-play coursewhen Icould just as easily go to one of the many freecourses in our area and have just as much fun. Pay-for-play courses would virtually eliminate this family activity.How many families do you see on aball golf course? Thesport will lose more potential players than those it hopes togain.
Disc golf is auser-friendly activity whose majorparticipants are recreational players, not elite athletes.Iam not dissing professional disc golfers, just making thepoint that grassroots players far outnumber the pros.
As Istated. I've had the opportunity to be involvedwith the installation of several courses in avariety ofsettings ranging from small townships to larger, open areasin the county to acollege campus. Ishudder to think whatwould happen if suddenly these municipalities decidedto convert their courses to pay-for-play. Iam certain thatthese courses would sit empty, or that the only players onthe course would be afew diehards who'd look around,asking themsieves. Where are all the other people?
Pay for play? Go away!
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Ican see where some may feel that pay-for-playcourses legitimize the sport, however, once we get intowholesale pay-for-play the sport will lose the average
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FORglass were notonthe list of challenges faced bythe player.Neither were the tees. Water hazards were clean anddiscs could be retrieved to fly again; gone were the fetidswamps and drainage ditches that cost aplayer afavoritedisc.
Ihad adream the other night. It was one ofthose dreams that puts abounce in your step that lastsall next day. Or at least until you head to alocal course. Idreamt that disc golf had moved to the next level, becomemainstream, and top-notch courses were the norm. Pay-for-play courses abounded and were peaceful refuges fromlowlifes and litter. Aserious player could pay areasonablefee bythe round, day, or season. Courses posed challengesotherthan merely requiring aplayerto throw adisc really,really far. They weren't necessarily courses bolted onto aball golf course. They weren't just Wonder Bread courses,but were stone-ground, seven-grain courses.
Failing to navigate the fairway correctly boreapenalty. The cost of an errant shot was measured instrokes, not in injury. Thorn bushes, poison ivy, and broken
Newcomers could spend moretime golfing and lesstime searching for baskets or tees as signs were plentifuland were free of the usual vandalism. The fees collectedto allow entry into this Utopia provided athreefold return.They provided the benches, picnic tables, and wastereceptacales that were never far away; they instilledahigher level of respect for the course and facilities bythose who wished to realize areturn on their investment inthe sport; and they helped to keep lowlifes and checkersoff the course!
S t e v e O l s o n A d v a n c e d G r a n d m a s t e r Lockport, Illinois
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FORusers. This revenue stream ensures that the course willbe better appointed with such things as benches at everytee. It means someone can be hired to properly maintainthe course. It means the course can afford afull-timecourse pro, who can provide information about equipment,conduct lessons, rent discs, and organize regular leagues,monthlies, youth events, and senior events, as well as runthe traditional annual events that occur at most courses.
Money-making potential lends credibility to thesport. Money is power. It is human nature for people tovalue more something that costs money than somethingthat's free. If adisc golf course contributes to aparkagency's bottom line, the agency will give greater attentionto disc golf and its needs. The disc golf community and thecommunity at large benefits from having adisc golf coursein town.
One of the challenges you'll run into getting acourse installed is that there's no available funding to payfor equipment and installation. One solution is to chargeauser fee or greens fee that generates asteady, reliablesource of revenue to ensure acourse's viability.
The recreation landscape has changed since1976 when the first permanent course went in the groundat Oak Grove Park in Pasadena. Over the last thirty-plusyears, parks departments have had their annual budgetscut by as much as 75 percent, and parks directors do nothave the discretionary funds they once did. Huge growthin youth soccer and activities such as skateboarding hascreated more competition for limited space and dollars. Inaddition, few people will question spending hundreds ofthousands of dollars to install akids' playground but they'llmost certainly question afew thousand dollars spent on adisc golf course. Today's park director looks for activitiesthat are self-supporting and that reach out to the family-recreation and youth-recreation markets.
Which brings me back to the concept of—and 1would arguethe necessity for—charging auserfeeto playdisc golf. First and foremost, as beneficiaries of adisc golfcourse we need to support our facilities. This means weneed funding. Even with anominal fee—$1 to $5 to playall day—disc golf is still acheap recreational activity. Oneround of miniature golf can cost as much as $10, bowlingcosts about $2 per game, and if you're into ball golf orskiing, you're lucky if you can get away with spending lessthan$20forthe day, and probably alot more. Five bucks foraday of golf is agreat value.
Agreens fee opens up possibilities. Aparksdepartment can partner with entrepreneurs towardsproviding services, disc-golf-related concessions, as wellas food-and-drink options for disc golfers and other park
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With resources being so limited for all park andrecreation activities, it is desirable that apermanent parkactivity or facility be self-funding. It is even more excitingfor an activity to be aprofit center, which helps fund otherpark activities. By having adisc-golf concessions partner,aparks department realizes many peripheral benefits. Thecourse pro can offer recreation programs and thus free uprecreation staff to focus on other activities. Educationalprograms can be offered within the local school district,and the concessionaire can assist the RE. teachers at the Pja
I T lpermanent course. The concession can generate ongoingrevenue for the parks department with little or no cashoutlay from the department. Without these benefits to theparks department, some disc golf courses would not bepossible.
*The disc golf community needs to pull its ownfinancial weight if we want our sport to continue to grow.
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AGAINST- ^there was less access to lawn space to set up apracticebasket or warm up, as Ilike to, before the match. Also, theadded cost kept some people from attending.
You might think the compensation for theinconvenience of apay-for-play course would be in theform of an improved course. In fact, because the firstuse of the land was ball golf, the disc golf course had asqueezed-in feel. In wet weather, the close-cut grass wasmuddier than what we encounter in our wilder, longerstands of grass or woodlands.
Finally, Iworrythatthis extra layer of costs—addedto the increasingly higher charges for tournaments—willkeep potential disc golfers away from this lifelong sport.
Irecently learned that we would play our winterone-day series at apay-for-play course in Eugene. Theusual fee for the event was fifteen dollars, enough toprovide some payout to pros and some in-kind prizes forthe ams. But to this fifteen dollars was added ten more toplay the course, making the total fee abit high for me foraone-day event. The site was aball golf course (OakwayGolf Course) stuck in an upscale real-estate development.The original course top nine had been retrofitted as aneighteen-hole disc golf course.
Our event's organizers weren'tfree to set up thingsas usual (as per apublic park), but had to work throughanother level of bureaucracy. This may seem minor, but
Corval l is, OregonA d v a n c e d S e n i o r G r a n d m a s t e rBob Burton, AA.D
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As Satchel Page said, something’s gainingon you, and what it is is old age, one lousy ache atatime. Live long enough and your reward is thatyou hurt where you didn’t used to hurt. Pain—and/or injury-robs you of mobility, strength,flexibility, and confidence, the latter perhaps themost serious damage done to your game.
What can you do? Your options are many.You can try to fix the problem, either with physicaltherapy or possibly surgery, or you can changesomething about your game that reduces thestress on the afflicted part—one Master, whodeveloped bad pain in his right shoulder, taughthimsel f to throw le f t -handed and wi th in afew
After awhile, who isn’t? Ifwe don’t manage to kill ourselves with one thingor another, abuse or misadventure, our rewardis old age and you don’t get there without firstpassing through all the middle stages; it has tos t a r t s o m e w h e r e .
Probably it was asharp stab of pain in aknee. Sure, it went away aday later but whenyou played the following weekend, there it wasagain. Advils helped. Rest helped. Not playinghelped, but that isn’t really an option, or at leastyou hope not.
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Executive Director’s Report by Brian Graham, pdga#586itying and fixing problems and developing newprograms to improve our association, grow oursport and help move us forward. Please look forme or other PDGA representatives at events nearyou this year and do not hesitate to come overand introduce yourself and give us suggestions orfeedback. We are also very accessible via e-mailor telephone. We work for you and we cannotserve you properly unless we have your valuableinput. Ido respectfully ask that you extend to usthe same level of courtesy that we extend to you.Asarcastic remark or mean spirited post on themessage board is not nearly effective as courte¬ous dialog and mutual respect.
provide you with additional information or clarifi¬cat ion on amat ter.
Wow, what is thisyou just receivedi n t h e m a i l ? Ik n o w t h a t i t i s
very unlikely thatany of you rusheddirectly to the Ex¬ecutive Director'sreport when your e c e i v e d t h i s c o o l
new publication,so hopefully bynow you are al¬ready pleasantlypleased with this
first issue of Flying Disc Magazine. As you prob¬ably know, FDM is now the new official publica¬tion of the Professional Disc Golf Association. Youcan expect to receive six issues per year (pro¬vided you join or renew early enough in the year)jam packed with any and everything disc golf, aswell as an occasional article or two on other disc
sports. As in the past, the PDGA pages will con¬tinue to be an important part of the magazine andthey will help keep you up to date on news andhappenings with your association. Please takethe time to look over them each issue and don't
hesitate to give us acall at the office if we can
Along with the new magazine, the PDGA has sev¬eral new developments in store for its membersin 2008. Anew PDGA website is currently in theworks to replace the old one which has served uswell for so many years. We all owe ahuge debtof gratitude to Marty Hapner, who created theoriginal site, as well as the many volunteers whohave helped maintain it over the years. The newwebsite is expected to debut this spring at PDGA.com, and it will give us greater flexibility in com¬municating with our members and promoting thesport. Other developments of note include onlinetournament registration, acompetition endow¬ment program, amore efficient and timely fulfill¬ment process and adevelopment grant programto name just afew.
2008 is promising to be another stellar year for thegrowth of disc golf. The PDGA sanctioned over850 events last year and we now have well over2,500 courses listed in our course directory. Thegrowth of disc golf in the last five years has beenphenomenal and Ido not see any end in sight.Lets fuel this growth with acommitment to worktogetherto give oursportthe prominence that weall know that it deserves.
With 9months of on-the-job training and experi¬ence behind me, Ilook forward to serving as yourexecutive director in 2008 with vigor and anewlevel of confidence. Iam very blessed to have adevoted staff to support me, along with knowl¬edgeable consultants, loyal volunteers and avery dedicated Board of Directors. You can nowexpect to see me become more active in identi-
EstOmnes de Ludo-About the Game
New Website Planned for 2008 by David Gentry, pdga#17153This will allow us to provide for apersonalizedexperience and allow for access to additionalfeatures and areas of the site.The big question most of you are probably ask¬ing is when will this be available? The process ofmigration is tedious and designing the site prop¬erly can be atricky task. To help speed up thisprocess we are working with two consultantsand hope to have the first phase completed byearly April.
adding such features such as RSS feeds, photogalleries, and search utilities was going to becumbersome given our existing framework. Withthat in mind we did an in depth review of exist¬ing content management systems and choosean open source product called Drupal. Drupal isarobust and powerful platform that has numerousmodules that can expand the functionality of anywebsite. If you would like more information aboutDrupal please visit their website at http://drupal.org.
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e l e d t o o l t h a t h a sr e a c h e d t h e e n d o f
i ts l i fecycle. Iamproud to announcet h a t w e a r e c u r r e n t ¬
ly busy designingand implementing anew and improvedpdga.com that willserve the disc golf Please keep checking the front page of our ex¬
isting website for updates. If you have any ques¬tions or experience with Drupal and are willingto volunteer please email me [email protected].
In my opinion one of the most important fea¬tures that Drupal provides is arole based per¬mission system which will allow us to defineif users are non-members, PDGA members.State Coordinators, and Tournament Directors.
community for years to come.
While looking at our wish list of improvementsand additions to the site it became apparent that
Attention PDGA State and Provincial Coordinators! byKaroiynGariock,pdga#15994have them contact me for details. As areminder, all Certi¬fied Officials must maintain current membership with thePDGA. All Officials must renew by March 31, 2008 to re¬m a i n c e r t i fi e d .
Iamthe new Liaison for all ofthe PDGA State and ProvincialCoordinators. Iam here to answer your questions, addressyour concerns, and share your comments and ideas. Com¬munication will be the key to success in 2008. Currently the2008 Tour is off to agreat start with over 250 sanctionedevents already scheduled. In 2007 we had 784 sanctionedevents throughout the US and Canada. This was almost a12% increase over 2006.
Together, along with the feedback from our tournament di¬rectors and players, we can make 2008 another successfulyear. Iam honored to be able to work with you. You are allimportant to the growth of the PDGA and the sport of discgolf.Ineed to know what you need from the PDGA. Do you
have all the resources you need? If not, what resourcescan Imake available to you? Do you have tournamentdirectors that need to become certified officials? If so.
Until next time -keep disc'n!
Flying Disc magazine Iissue 1 8 3
LIS; [PROFESSIONALD I S C G O L F[ a s s o c i a t i o n
IDGC R0pOrt by Jason Allind, PDGA #21568Disc golf is alive andflourishing here at theInternational Disc Golf
Center. The Steady Eda n d W . R . J a c k s o n
courses are begin¬ning to mature andhave improved quiteabit since the grandopening in April. De¬sign of the Jim War¬
ner Memorial course is now complete and courseclearing will have begun by the time you read thisreport. We hope to have this third course open forplay by mid summer.
at 10:00am and will feature different course layoutseach month to keep things fresh. This year long se¬ries will provide you with agreat opportunity to playthe courses as well as visit the headquarters build¬ing to see the Headrick Museum and Disc Golf Hallof Fame. If you have been thinking about making atrip to the IDGC, gather up your buddies and plan aroad trip soon. The IDGC headquarters building of¬fers some nice amenities to enjoy during your visit.You can hang out on one of the comfortable sofas inthe clubhouse while enjoying one of the hundredsof videos from the PDGA video archives. The IDGCpro shop is undergoing renovations and should befully stocked with merchandise from disc golf com¬panies from around the world by early 2008. Whenthe weather is nice, and it usually is, there are pic¬nic tables and grills available to enjoy acookoutat the Dan "Stork" Roddick tournament pavilion.There is also great camping (RV and tent), fishing.
and boat launches here at Wildwood Parkforthosewho want to make avacation out of it.
As the new superintendent of the IDGC, Iwould liketo personally thank everyone who has contributedto the development of the facility thus far. Withoutyour support, whether it be acash contribution orphysical labor, we would not be where we are to¬day. We plan to continue moving forward by com¬pleting the third course, installing a"putting park",further developing our training area, offering moreevents, and supporting area schools but we needyour help. The IDGC Endowment Fund is agreatway for you, your club or business to help us con¬tinue development of creating the world's premierdestination for the sport of disc golf. Please makeadonation todayl
Beginning in 2008, the IDGC will host amonthlyC-tier tournament on the first Saturday of eachmonth. These two round sanctioned events begin
From the Memberships Manager by Addle Isbell, PDGA #16975Welcome to FlyingDisc Magazine, thePDGA’s official publi¬ca t i on ! We l ook f o r¬
ward to providing alldisc enthusiasts withthe la tes t in fo rmat ion
regarding disc golf,the PDGA, the 2008Tour, updates fromthe Board/Headquar¬ters and much, muchmore. Thank you for
choosing to purchase the magazine. We knowyou will enjoy it.
you all for your support and dedication. YOU arethe PDGA. You will see anew look to the mem¬
bership page atwww.pdga.com. Iam acquiringmember discounts that will help cover travelexpenses so you may attend as many events aspossible. With over 800 events ayear we suredon't want you to miss out on competition! I'mfocusing first on lodging and car rentals. Thisproject will be ongoing so please check back of¬ten for updates. Also visit www.pdgastore.comto check out the latest merchandise. Is there
anyone you know that is difficult to buy for andLOVES disc golf? We extend adiscount in ourpro shop for PDGA members so start shopping!New for 2008, we have personalized bag tags forour Ace and Birdie Club members. In additionto the new tags, Ace Club members receive apersonalized embroidered shirt and an Ace Club
logo disc. Birdie Club members receive aBirdieClub logo disc. Eagle Club memberships are life¬time memberships and these members receive apersonalized jacket and two personalized EagleClub logo discs. All "upgrade" memberships arerecognized in Flying Disc Magazine as well asat our website. Thank you for contributing to theassociation and our sport. Enjoy your gifts!
As always, Iwant to hearfrom you. Suggestions,comments, concerns, ideas -please don't hesi¬tate to contact me; [email protected]. Iwantto make sure you are satisfied with your mem¬bership and feedback is such an important tool.Thanks in advance.
We exceeded 34,100 members in 2007 which re¬sulted in an 6% increase in memberships. Thank
’!■Thoughts from the President by Robert Decker, CPA; PDGA #17745
If you are reading thisarticle, you have inhand the first issue of
.SI Flying Disc Magazine.
%menjoyed it so far. Iwish||fl to thank Rich and his
staff for their efforts in
making this afine pub-lU lication.
disc golfers in general. We need to thank the TSCfor their efforts in this thankless task. We also
need to thank all of you that provided your inputin this challenging process.It should be late January or early February whenyou receive this magazine. Ihope you have at¬tended (or plan on attending) at least one IceBowl. Ice Bowl's generate avast amount of goodpublicity for disc golf by generating funds for vari¬ous charitable causes. Building on the idea thatdisc golf benefits our communities by holdingevents that benefit charities, we are developingthe Competition Endowment Program. The pro¬gram is being developed to encourage sanction¬ing these (and other) charitable events and toencourage the sanctioning of tournaments thathave not previously been sanctioned. We hopethat this program will generate increased interestin and development of disc golf within acommu¬nity. Please refer to the PDGA website for detailsof this program.
vides many valuable services to its members; anycombination of which are well worth the price ofmembership. The PDGA also provides much tothe sport of disc golf in general. Dne might saythat, as President, Iam required to say this. Thatmayvery well be the case but that in no way less¬ens the fact that Ifirmly believe that the PDGA isthe best avenue to grow the sport of disc golf. Iput my money where my mouth is on this by join¬ing as an Ace Club member each year. Therefore,Iagain encourage each any every one of you tojoin the PDGA today.As Iam writing this
article, the board is getting ready to review thenew technical standards as recommended bythe Technical Standards Committee (TSC). Ofcourse, the board will considerthese recommen¬dations seriously and question any recommen¬dation that we find confusing or unreasonable.With that said, we should have anew set of tech¬nical standards to follow by the time this article ispublished. If not, please be assured that we areworking diligently at finalizing this process. Dur¬ing the process of formulating the new technicalstandards, the TSC has went to great efforts toobtain input from members, manufacturers and
IFlyill0 Disc magazine |issue 1
It will soon be warming up and the number ofPDGA sanctioned events will be steadily increas¬ing towards the summer. As Isaid in my last arti¬cle, be apositive effectfor disc golf. Think big, beresponsible in your actions and most of all havefun (even when that excellent throw somehowdoesn't go where it should have).
Ihope to see many of you at the PDGA Pro/AmWorlds later this summer. It will be agreat op¬portunity to compete with and enjoy the companyof your fellow disc golfers.
Finally, if you haven't already done so, now is thetime for you to renew your PDGA membership orjoin the PDGA for the first time. The PDGA pro-
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PDGA Tech S tandards Rev isedSo Who’s the Decider on Something?By Dan "Stork" Roddick; PDGA #003
State and Provincial coordinators.publ icat ions, inc luding books andmonographs, refereed journal articles,encyc loped ia ar t i c les , book chapters ,and technical reports. His work has takenhim to every state between Florida andCalifornia, as well as to northwest Mexicoand East Africa. Jeff’s specialty is in thearea of geoarchaeology, adisciplineinvolv ing the appl icat ion of ear thsc ience techn iques to a rchaeo log ica lr e s e a r c h . H i s r e s e a r c h f o c u s e s o n :
( 1 ) s t r a t i g r a p h i c a n a l y s i s a n d s o i lmicromorphology; (2) paleoenvironmentaland landscape reconstruction in coastaland desert regions; and (3) modeling theanthropogenic effects, soil quality, andsustainabil ity of ancient and traditionalagricultural systems. In short, Jeff bringsawealth of experience and training to thischallenging task.
Beginning in October of 2007,the PDGA Techn i ca l S tanda rds Oommi t tee
(TSC) was conducting areview of the tech¬nical standards and procedures. The TSCis made up of Jeff Homburg, the long-timechairperson, Dan “Stork” Roddick, ChuckKennedy, Conrad Damon and Jim Garnett.
J e f f H o m b u r g ’ s l o n g s e r v i c eto the committee is worthy of specialm e n t i o n . J e f f h a s c h a i r e d t h e Te c h n i c a lS t a n d a r d s C o m m i t t e e s i n c e 1 9 8 9 . H i si n t e r e s t i n t e c h n i c a l s t a n d a r d s d e r i v e s
from his academic background in scienceand archaeological classification theoryand his long participation in disc sports,i n c l u d i n g e x p e r i e n c e i n c o m p e t i t i o n ,TD’ing, and course design (for courses inOklahoma, Louisiana, Iowa, and Arizona).He ’s a l so been a teacher o f co l l ege -accredited courses in disc sports. He isan archaeologist who holds two degreesin anthropology and doctorate in so i lscience. Jeff has competed in disc golf andotherdiscsportssincethe 1970sand he’splayed hundreds of courses throughoutthe U.S. He works as an adjunct professorat the University of Arizona and for alarge archaeological consulting company.H e h a s w r i t t e n o r e d i t e d o v e r 1 0 0
Some Thoughts on The ReviewP r o c e s s f r o m t h e C o m m i t t e e
Most of the PDGA tech standards
were initially put into place by the PDGAb e t w e e n 1 9 8 3 a n d 1 9 9 4 . T h e p r i m eintention of the standards was to provideguidelines for disc golf equipment thatwould ensure fair competi t ion. Beyondthis specific goal, the standards also hadtwo secondary intentions;
1. To establish disc design limitations thatwould provide protection for course di¬mensions and layout. This was done withthe knowledge that the standards woulddisallow certain designs that would pos¬sibly be more effective.
The current review was requestedby the PDGA Board as part of ageneral de¬velopment of organizational procedures. Aspart of the process, the Technical StandardsCommittee has gathered feedback from awide range of stakeholders who are affect¬ed by these rules, including members, discmanufacturers, the PDGA Rules Committee,the Course Designers Group and the PDGA
2. To establish standards that would pro¬vide apredictable set of guidelines form a n u f a c t u r e r s .
Selection of the specific standards in¬vo l ved seve ra l add i t i ona l cons ide ra t i ons :
1. The testing procedures were specifi-
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cilly selected In order to make It relativelyeisy and Inexpensive for manufacturerst( perform the required procedures. Al-tt ough there were more sophisticatedr r e a s u r e s a v a i l a b l e f o r s o m e o f t h e d i -
rr ensions, the cost of the more conven-t i ) na l measu remen t p rocedu res wasd;emed an unnecessary financial burden0 1 m a n u f a c t u r e r s a n d t h e P D G A .
include, they also realized that manypeople have made large investments int h e c u r r e n t s t a n d a r d s a n d t h a t s o m e
changes could be extremely disruptive.For instance, there’s nothing magic about21 cm, but achange to 20 cm as the newm i n i m u m r a d i u s w o u l d h a v e a r a d i c a l
impactondiscandtargetproduction. Someother changes obviously could be madewith l i t t le or no negative impact. Thatimpact was part of our consideration onall changes to the standards, and theycarefully weighed the intended benefitsagainst the possible disruption for alls t a k e h o l d e r s .
too skillful and had made the pace of playunacceptably fast. That debate continues,but the larger, slower ball is now in place.
In other cases, technologicalchange forces sports to carefully. Con¬sider what constitutes “improvement.” Inthe 1950’s and 60’s, pole vaulting wentthrough some very rapid changes as poleswent from bamboo to metal and then to fi¬
berglass. All at once, high school vaulterswere exceeding the records set only afewyears earlier by Olympic champions. Thesport went through avery difficult deci¬sion process as masters of the sport suchas Bob Mathias declared the new technol¬
ogy to be the demise of pole vaulting. Itwas even suggested to have two differentevents; one with the traditional equipmentand the new event in which the springynew poles could be used to launch vault¬ers to previously-unimagined heights.After agreat deal of soul searching, thedeciders went with the newfangled poles.Did they make the right decision? That, ofcourse, is an unanswerable question. It isclear however that the decision changedpole vaulting completely.
S o m e t i m e s s u c h d e c i s i o n s d o
turn out to be pretty clearly misguided. Dur¬ing Lew Alcindor’s glory years at UCLA theNCAA ru les commi t t ee became conv inced
2When the initial standards were putir to place, consideration was given to theelisting equipment. The standards weredjs igned to include al l of the popularno lds t ha t we re i n use a t t he t ime . Tha t
\A as done to minimize any disruption totf eexisting manufacturers.
This process of review is actu¬ally somewhat unusual in that such basicquestions were opened for questioningand that such awide range of interestswere asked to provide feedback. The de¬sign of the review process was intended toreflect the open nature of the inquiry. ThePDGA Board and its designated agent,the Technical Standards Committee, areentrusted with some significant respon¬sib i l i t ies that come wi th th is sor t o f dec i¬
sion making. Perhaps the most central ofthese is to protect and promote the integ¬rity of the game of disc golf. That soundslike an admirable goal, but of course, it’snot that simple. There are many different
3Although the design guidelines haven;ver been presented as “safety” guide-II les, it is obviously important that thegime not be dangerous for players or oth-es, and the equipment guidelines shouldcintribute to that goal.
Now that over twenty yearsh a v e p a s s e d s i n c e t h e i n t r o d u c t i o n0’these standards, it seemed reasonablet( review how the system has functionedaid how well we have been meeting ourir itial goals. It also seems that we shouldc ins i de r whe the r o r no t some
0’these goals have changed.Fom aprac t i ca l s tandpo in t .
that the dunk was beginning todistort the grand old game andALTHOUGH THE DESIGN GUIDELINES HAVE
NEVER BEEN PRESENTED AS ‘SAFETY’i worthy to note that about GUIDELINES, IT IS OBVIOUSLY IMPORTANT THAT to make it illegal. The restriction3DO discs have been approvedf(r PDGA (and WFDF) play
they made the amazing decision
lasted from 1967 through 1976.So, in shor t , these ru le and
THE GAME NOT BE DANGEROUS FOR PLAYERSOR OTHERS, AND THE EQUIPMENT GUIDELINES
SHOULD CONTRIBUTE TO THAT GOAL.uider this system. Obviously,tl is process could not haveworked at any level withouttl ecooperation of disc manufacturers. Itis for that reason that we so highly valuetl eir input at this time. Flowever, therecearly can be differences of opinion onthese matters and it is the obligation ofthe TSC to evaluate the full range of inputafe part of its recommendation to the
equipment decisions are alwaysdifficult and are especially sig¬nificant because they can have
substantial and long-lasting impact on themost essential aspects of play.
One goal of this review is to help
views of what disc golf should be. Oneplayer’s exciting innovation for the rulesis another’s abomination. Most sportsorganizations solve this dilemma by hav¬ing asmall and supposedly expert groupof management people decide how theirgame will be played. As an example, aftermany years of using a38 mm diameterball, in 2000, the International Table Ten¬n i s Fede ra t i on moved t o a40 mm ba l l t o
slow down the play. Very few players werein favor of the change. Regardless of that,the change was made. In this case, thefederation was attempting to protect whatthey viewed as the integrity of the gamebecause they felt that players had become
us be in the best possible position to an¬ticipate and meet similar challenges thatwill certainly arise in the future of discgolf. Frankly, our hope is to do abetterjob at this than some or most other sportshave done. By “better,” we mean to have amore collaborative, ongoing process thatinvolves all of those who have asignificantstake in the game. Of course, this is achallenge because there are diverse opin¬ions, but our intention is to have thoseopinions factor heavily into our decision¬making process. In essence, the commit-
lard. The TSC approached the review
wjith the following key consideration innind. Because there is now such alargenjmber of stakeholders in the disc golfcimmunity, we are approaching thisr i v i e w w i t h a r e l a t i v e l y c o n s e r v a t i v esance. That is , whi le they wanted totiike this opportunity to fix any problemsO'difficulties that the system may now
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again geared toward collaboration,primarily between the PDGA and itsmost significant partner, the manu¬facturers who develop and producethe equipment for the game. Withouttheir cooperation, this process would,of course be impossible. In someother sports and industries, the gov¬ernance body and the manufacturersplay an endless game in which eacht r i e s t o o u t m a n e u v e r t h e o t h e r. T h a t
is not our intention here. Our goal isto assist manufacturers to effectivelymake equipment that will meet theneeds of disc golfers and disc golf.In order to best do that in away thatis e ffic ient for manufacturers we want
to foster aprocess that allows thesebusinesses to explore possible in¬novations with as little risk as pos¬sible. Thus, we encourage the earliestpossible contact with the TechnicalS t a n d a r d s C o m m i t t e e w h e n e v e r m a n -tee is guided by two main factors, which
are not necessarily in opposition:responded, which is an unprecedentednumber for PDGA opinion polling. The pollfor State (and Provincial) Coordinatorswent to 59 SC’s and 23 responded. Themanufacturer poll went to 25 companieswith 17 providing feedback.
That’s not to say that the deci¬sions regarding the sport can or shouldalways be driven by player opinion, butwe think that it should be avery rele¬vant fac tor. We a lso be l ieve tha t the fac t
that something has been in place for quiteawhi le doesn ’ t mean that i t ’s beyondquestion. That’s why we posed some ofthe most basic questions in our survey. Ifthe results had come back strongly ques¬tioning the need for weight or flexibilityrestrictions, we would have had to revisitthe rationale for having them. Bottom lineis that we want to facilitate the game thatwe collectively want to play. Again, opinionw i l l b e v a r i e d . T h e r e a r e t h o s e w h o f e e l
that we should be able to tee off with fly¬ing rings. And, there are others who thinkthat we strayed into Hell when we left be¬hind the game of folf and hitting trees astargets. Cur job, as we see it, is to assessall of that opinion and sort it out, based onour primary goal to preserve the game forthe enjoyment of all.
Updates such as this one are im¬portant in reaching these goals, but wea l s o s e e k t o r e fl e c t t h a t m i s s i o n i n o u r
ongoing process of equipment review andapproval. Cur intention in that process is
ufacturers have questions about poten¬tial innovations that may present problemswith the existing standards. By working to¬gether early in the process, we hope thatnew designs can be brought to market withas little risk as possible. Language encour¬aging this sort of communication is pro¬posed for the new guidelines.
In short, the work of maintainingthe rules and equipment standards for anysport is an ongoing challenge that rarelyhas many certainties to rely on. Changesin technology, player skill and strategy andother unpredictable factors make theses o r t s o f d e c i s i o n s m u c h m o r e a r t t h a n
science. That is mainly because the bal¬a n c e b e t w e e n t r a d i t i o n a n d i n n o v a t i o n i s
always shifting. Fortunately, through mod¬ern communication techniques, the PDGAis able to get an unprecedented level offeedback from those involved in the game.In amember-driven organization such asPDGA, that communication will be an ev¬er-increasing part of plotting the future ofthe game.
-Protection of the integrity of the game.In its guidelines, the United States Golf As¬s o c i a t i o n d e t a i l s t h e i r c o m m i t m e n t t o t h a t
same goal.
F r o m t h e U S G A G u i d e l i n e s :
The main objective of Rules 4and5and Appendices II and 111 is to ensurethat technological advances in the designand manufacture of golf equipment arein the best interests of the game of golf.While not wishing to stifle innovation, thepurpose of the equipment Rules is to pro¬tect the traditions of the game, to preventan over-reliance on technological advanc¬es rather than on practice and skill, andto preserve skill differentials throughoutthe game.
However, to that very significantfactor, we also add another, which wehope makes the PDGA process moredemocratic and responsive. It’s our inten¬tion, as demonstrated by the breadth ofour opinion survey, to continually assessthe input provided by the players of thegame. That factor is missing in many othersports organizations.
The polls used to gather opin¬ion for this review provided agratifyingamount of participation. The member pollwent out to 9398 recipients and 1343
The Technica l Standards Commit¬
tee delivered its findings and proposals tothe PDGA Board of Directors on December
1, 2007. They made the final decisions onthe new standards, which should be avail¬able at pdga.com by the time you readthis. Go check it out!
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43 Open Women Open75 $277 $955Erika LagasseFlorence BonyFlorence Dumont
325 Ken ClimoDave FeldbergKyle Crabtree
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2 291M a s t e r s Grandmasters
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Recreat ional2 2 91 Nicolas Benhaj
Remain Thomas
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1 2 2 6Tournament Result Summary2322
Fanny Gilles 3 4 42 3 73 OpenBrian Schweberger 185Justin JerniganCraig Gangloff
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312 Advanced Masters
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2 21902 1 92 0 9 21
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Mike DempseyLogan TurnerJoey Scarlett
192 A d v a n c e d1 31 5 22 195 Eric Norbut
Derek HopkinsGuillermo Avalos
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Zilla Sports Greater Louisville Open The Players Cup
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1 98 $5101 134Jinior <16 Boys 2 2 $3051 3 81 Kevin Ascheri
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Tournament Result Summary Advanced Masters1 Mike Dammes
Mark MillsStuart Krall
114Ipen 2 115
Jason Maka rov i ch 201B r e t t R o u s s e a u 2 0 2Matt Dollar
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Denis DgleWoodrow Blackwel l 223Rob Kelley
$2052 1 9 3 127Tournament Result Summary$77 In termedia te2 Open2 2 3 $77 1 Daniel DooleyJ.d. PartainRoger Crooks
1 0 0Geoff BennettBrent KoontzDan Treece
1 131 $400randmasters 2 1 0 02 131 $280Michael Burton
Ed JacobCarleton Candis
2 2 2 $265 3 3 0 23 1 3 2 $1802 3 2Open Women2 3 5 So Cal Championships -Pro1 Lisa Warner
Barrett WhiteErin Oakley
1 5 5 $115Advanced2 1 6 0 $50Craig Dye
Jeff P. BonneyBj Hancock
2 2 0 Sat-Sun, Nov 17-18,2007Suzette Discette SimonsLa Mirada, CA United StatesT i e r : B
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Dan PastoreBob PerryPat Brown
1 $115Advanced Women 1 4 4■i 2 151 $50Kathy Thomason
Stephanie MisiakElizabeth Shimkus
2 6 9 8 53! 1 5 2281 8 5Advanced3 4 6 0
Grant LonieJeff CollinsBen Singer
Advanced Masters
Idvanced Masters 1 1 4 02 143Kevin Mealer
Kevin MisiakDana Lanahan
2 1 8 Tournament Result Summary3 1 4 42 2 92 2 9 Open
1 Pat McfarlandBill Lambert
155ntermediate 1 Mike RaleyCary TrotterCarlo Peig
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Emily HardyTracey Thorpe
$9001 5 32 158Jon Plotky
Greg FlowersZac SimpsonCatie Henson
2 3 5 2 1 5 4 $500Advanced Grandmasters
John JordanFred EstrupJohn Mick166
237 2 1 5 4 $5001237 1 5 2 Open Women21 8 9 155 1 1 8 7 $2003lunior<19Boys 2 201
Tom GreerMichael Houchin jr. 270Brandon Peek
I n t e r m e d i a t e257 M a s t e r sJohn JonesJason AndersonJamie Hartman
150 Steve WisecupHarold HamptonMark Coil icott
1 1 5 3 $50022 7 5 154 2 1 5 5 $3253 155 3 161 $230
Masters Women1 Dustin Fults
Kenneth ParksDoug Krugh
172 1 Suzette SimonsEmina WeaverAllison Wylot
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PDGAiJP R O F E S S I O N A L
D I S C G O L FA S S O C I A T I O N
LegendsZach NewhouseDavid Wheeler
2 2 2 2Ronald Byrd 178 S793 2 2 3Grandmasters
A d v a n c e dSnapper PiersonTom ClicknerMark Horn
Grandmasters WomenSuzie Horn
$2601 1 6 6 A d v a n c e d W o m e nAnthony PughMark NolanJustin Jones
2 1 6$ 1 7 5 : 1$ 1 2 0 : 2
Christine WrightKit Bassett
3112 1 7 021923893 1 7 32213Advanced Masters
Advanced WomenMike NewmanJames StevensonDavid Heywood
Advanced GrandmastersTim Coghill
Advanced Senior GrandmastersLee MinehartHoward Mcintyre
Connor Chappell
2 2 91 1 3 0 1Sherri LoganDeidre StruchenSusan Macaluso
2 7 912 3 42Senior GrandmastersPhilip GanshertRay Carr
2 9 32$150 : 3 2 3 71 8 013 3 0 22 2 0 3Advanced Masters1 2 5 6Legends
J a c k Ta b o rDon QuattlebaumMike Strout
2 1 51Pat Shea $752 3 02 1 822 6 712 2 532 7 72
9th Nihon Open Advanced GrandmastersPaul WrightAlan ByrdWayne Carmichael
3 2 4 61691In termedia teSat-Sun, Nov 17-18,2007
Kozo ShimboWest Japan, JapanTier. BTotal Players:P r o s :A m s :
1772Trevor KruseJason Hamil
Intermediate WomenLauren LandMissy Hutto
1 2 4 82 0 433 2 5 0
IntermediateMark LudwigBobby MarshalKevin Wiemann
21111 3 0 465 2112999236 2 1 4329 Recreat ional
Tennesee State Finals Tom MorrisonMichael PenaEric Lowe
Recreational WomenCarrie TestaNatalie Myers
2 2 21231Tournament Result Summary 2
Sat-Sun, Dec 1-2,2007Thomas LairdMurfreesboro, TN United StatesTier: BTotal Players:Pros:Ams:
2 3 23Open1 Manabu Kajiyama 170
Tetsuya Kikuchi 1 7 1Yoshiyasu Kajiyama 177
$903 0 21$542
2 3193 $36 67Open Women 18
Yuki FukuharaRika TsukamotoMayu Nonaka
2 2 6 $45 4912 2 2 7
Tournament Result Summary3 261Mas te rs Open
$2751 Hidekatsu SakaiKenji ImabayashiKoji Takayama
198 $90 1 Jacky LoganDan SiskNathan Clapp
159$1902 208 2 160
161 $1303 2 1 2 3Advanced Masters
Hiroyuki SatoShoichi ChibaShuichi Takano
Greg ClementMichael CrawfordMichael Burnham
164 $1951 1$1251 2 173
$483 91 3 174A d v a n c e d W o m e n A d v a n c e d
Kuniko YoshiokaRieko NakayamaKeiko Ito
Matt HollinsJoshua Dutch Napier 164Bj Hancock
1641 9 722 111
116 3 1653Advanced Masters Advanced Women
Koichi HayakawaYasush iTakakuraHiroki HirailOl
8 3 1 Ketley Johnson 2 2 82 Advanced Masters3 1 Dana Lanahan
Billy DrakeBrett Neal
177Advanced Grandmasters
Sadayoshi ItoHiroyuki FujimotoSeiki Matsui
2 1801841 9 5 3
2 9 9 Advanced GrandmastersSteve Sager3 107 2101
Advanced Senior GrandmastersNobuo HayashiSeize HikitaMasayoshi Shibata
Intermediate1 107 1 Randy Crawford
Jake GoodmanChuck Doumitt
1762 115 2 1862 115 1883
Junior <16 Boys Junior <13 BoysTakeak iTakakuraNorihito NishiiDai Takakura
9 01 Bailey ChappellDylan King
2 0 712 9 4 2 2113 109
Piney Woods Pro-Am IVCharleston Classic
Sat-Sun, Dec 8-9,2007Jerry PowerTyler, TX United StatesT i e r : BTotal Players:Pros:A m s :
Sat-Sun, Dec 1-2,2007Jonas CardCharleston, SC United StatesT i e r : BTotal Players:Pros:A m s :
1352993
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Tournament Result SummaryOpenTournament Result Summary
Coda HatfieldJ.d. RamirezMiles Seaborn
196 $46012 196 $322Open
$475 i3 2 0 4 $200Michael JohansenBrian McreeBrian Schweberger
2 0 01Open Women2 201 $320
Emily LawrenceDe'atra Hunter
2 5 5 $1753 2 0 8 $235 : 12 2 8 2 $50Open Women
1 Sarah StanhopeMandi Hofmann
251 $200 M a s t e r sM a r c u s R o b e r t s
W. kyle PowerJames Mccaine
2 1 22 2 5 4 $ 6 5 i 1 $2732 2 1 2 $173M a s t e r s
2 1 7$200 : 3 $1291 Mel ShumanKirk YooAlan Beaver
2 1 8Grandmasters2 2 2 2 $135
3 $95 Glenn HaleMark ThomasRobby Beach
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Disc doggers think disc golfers are crazy. They’veWatched golfers throw razor-sharp discs as heavy as bowlingballs and then scramble through brush and poison ivylooking for them. They’ve seen golfers trundle through thewoods in the heat of summer and the cold of winter, rainand wind be damned. Disc doggers have observed that discgolfers’ strange, cultlike behavior goes largely unnoticed bythe general population.
Disc doggers have seen these lost souls straggle offcourses relegated to the hinterlands of the rattiest parks(rearing the stigmata from their encounters with briars,brush, and barbed wire. They’ve surmised that the “waterbottles” carried by golfers must contain some kind of home¬brewed hooch, because there was certainly nothing elseintoxicating about disc golf,
jOf course, it’s easy for disc doggers to pass judgmenton disc golfers when they don’t really understand the sport.Disc doggers, like most normal people, are not wise to the
Imany enchanting aspects of disc golf.
can partake of disc dog glory while still finding time forbonding with their brethren (or sistren) in the briars. Thesecrossover geniuses have discovered that by obtaining a
canine, they too can experience some of the delights sowell known to disc doggers. Now, I'm not suggesting thatyou should get adog if you are an irresponsible loser;enough dogs have been abandoned to shelters by thosetypes. But, if you are capable of holding down aJob as well
as giving and receiving love (this should be confirmed byat least three independent sources), and are somewhatresponsible, then you might consider headingto your localanimal shelter and exploring the idea of sharing your lifewith acanine companion. You can already throw adisc,
and that’s half the battle. With practice, patience, andpositive reinforcement, you can enrich your life and thelife of adog that might otherwise meet adifferent fate.You can find out more information about disc doggingonline. You can, of course, approach disc doggers directly
but you might confuse them if you start asking questionsabout hyzer and other such nonsense.
Oh, and the best benefit of dog ownership is thatwhen you want to regale someone with stories of the forty-yard, hammer-throw putt that you holed from behind atree,
your dog will listen patiently with wagging tail and will notJudge you, divorce you, or have you committed. What couldb e b e t t e r t h a n t h a t ?
Jeff Perry is a1989 Canine Disc Champion aiid^casional DiscGolfer (with special water bottle) and Co-founjl^ Q^^Jvperflight,
Disc doggers, like most normalpeople, are not wise to the manyenchanting aspects of disc golf.
While it is true that disc doggers get the girls, theapplause, and the big gigs, there’s more to life than that.To be fair, the sound of 70,000 people cheering for you andRover at an NFL halftime Just isn’t as exciting after you’vedone it twenty times. And, contrary to the rumors, very fewNFL cheerleader/disc dogger relationships have actuallyresulted in marriage.
So, even though the disc dog experience is arguablyoverrated, afew clever disc golfers have learned that they
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