Professional Disc Golf Association

• Disc Golf Players Back State Park Improvements

The 30-year-old summer disc golfing league at Joseph Davis State Park takes Frisbee tossing to a high level. It regularly holds competitions on the park's historic 27-hole course, and the original baskets built there by state parks workers are on display at the National Professional Disc Golf Association center in Augusta, Ga.

• Buffalo News
• April 12, 2011

• Metro Approves Disc Golf Course in Fairview

Disc golf is coming to the city of Fairview and Metro's Blue Lake Regional Park. The Metro Council, with support from the city of Fairview, has conditionally approved turning 70 unused acres of land at the eastern end of the park into a gold-level certified disc golf course. The gold-level designation, the highest ranking awarded to disc golf courses by the Professional Disc Golf Association, would make the course available for local, national and international disc golf tournaments.

• Daily Journal of Commerce
• January 06, 2011

• Teen has Bright Future

At only 16 years of age, standout disc golfer Garrett Gurthie has already experienced nearly everything involved with the sport's highest level. In his sixth year of top-level competition, Gurthie is no stranger to the spotlight of competing in the Professional Disc Golf Association World Championships. This is his third trip to the premier event.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• August 15, 2006

• Disc Golfers Will Play Through in Summer; County Will Be Site of 1 of 2 World Tournaments in State

The eyes of the disc golf world this summer will be on Wisconsin. Two world championship tournaments, sponsored by the Professional Disc Golf Association near Augusta, Ga., will be played in Milwaukee and Ashland counties. The association has more than 11,500 members.

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• January 08, 2007

• Doe's Competition Attracts Pros, Locals

Several local players came out for the 2007 Doe's Challenge women- only disc golf tournament in Vadito and Sipapu. Nine women from New Mexico and Colorado, including Albuquerque pro Sheila Kirkham and Vadito's Olive Bolander -- the oldest member of the Professional Disc Golf Association -- came out to compete at the Sipapu Disc Golf Course and Two Gray Hares course Saturday, July 14.

• Taos News, The
• April 02, 2009

• International Headquarters Opens Disc Golf Loves Flying High

A ribbon cutting marked its opening, but the toss of a disc onto its roof made things official. On Friday, a new International Disc Golf Center, managed by the Professional Disc Golf Association, was dedicated atColumbia County's Wildwood Park with the traditional toss of a disc onto the building's roof.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• April 24, 2007

• College Disc Golf Finals Hit the Mark

At the conclusion of last summer's Professional Disc Golf Association World Championships, local enthusiasts wanted an annual disc golf event in town. Getting the world championships back anytime soon would be impossible since they're bid out every year. So Pete May investigated whether there were any official college championships.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• April 17, 2007

• Spin Doctors ; the Surging Sport of Disc Golf - `Frolf' - Is Catching On Big in Maine. It's Fun, It's Cheap and If You Get Good You Might Have a Shot at Going Pro.

Josh Connell had barely thrown a Frisbee before 1998. Then his father took him to play his first game called frolf, and in no time Connell was sinking a smaller, heavier version of the Frisbee into a metal cage like it was his job. And then it was. Today, Connell is one of 2,599 professionals who play the young sport with the funny name. A frolf pro makes $72,000 on average, according to the Professional Disc Golf Association - though Connell's winnings fall short of that amount.

• Portland Press Herald
• July 31, 2006

• Rabbit Run Kicks Off Disc Golf Season

Local disc golfers opened up the competition season last weekend at the Two Gray Hares course in Vadito. Several Taos and Penasco-area players turned out for the annual Rabbit Run, the state's first Professional Disc Golf Association tournament of the year.

• Taos News, The
• April 01, 2009

• Parks Board to Consider Disc Golf

Final plans for developing a course in Mesker Park for a new kind of golf will be up for approval by the Parks Board on Wednesday. The sport known as disc golf is played, not with clubs and little white balls, but with Frisbees. It has the same basic rules and objectives as conventional golf -- completing each hole while taking the fewest strokes possible. But the hole in disc golf is a raised basket; tees are concrete pads. The Professional Disc Golf Association claimed more than 10,000 members as of July 20, and growth at the rate of 10.5 percent a year. It is a sport that has become popular at the University of Southern Indiana.

• Evansville Courier & Press
• August 02, 2006