Where disc golf and ultimate frisbee enthusiasts play!
The Professional Disc Golf Association, or PDGA, was founded in 1976. It is a not-for-profit organization based in Georgia. It is run by members/players, and serves as the governing body for the sport of disc golf.
The PDGA sponsors several tournaments through the year, and does a lot of good promoting the great sport of Disc Golf. The growth of the PDGA membership has been exponential, especially as the PDGA has had an international influence with members from all over the world.
The PDGA is currently ran by a 5 person staff, and headed by an executive director.
There are several benefits of PDGA membership, including:
1. Membership card, Tour information, PDGA logo bag tag and sticker
2. New member disc and mini, and a rule book
3. Members of the PDGA are eligible to compete in tour events
4. Members track their tournament season and career results of personal stat pages at www.pdga.com
5. PDGA members receive their own player ratings
6. Participation in the members only Discussion Board
7. Merchandise discounts
8. Discounts are businesses, such as hotels, restaurants, and car rentals
My friends and I are in the habit of getting together once a week during our lunch break to through the discs around. We grew up playing Ultimate Frisbee, which was really popular at my highschool, and even went on to win back to back tournaments at Utah Valley University. Anyway, I am a little embarrassed to say that we have been playing disc golf with our 175 gram ultimate frissbees up until now. None of us have made the plunge to buy an innova disc. Lucky for me, I have a new co-worker who owns about 200 discs, and he gave me 5 old discs so that I could get familiar with the real discs. I was pretty excited to use them! So, last week we heard about a new course near us and we decided to go and check in out. It turned out to be a nightmare. The course, which had wonderful potential, ended up being the worst course that we have played. None of the holes had tee boxes, so we had to just guess as to where we should throw from. Half of the baskets were missing numbers, so we had no idea which basket we should be throwing at next. There were no maps, or even arrows to help guise a person to know where to go. Long story short, I would not reccomend the course in American Fork, UT located just North of American Fork High School.
