I am a senior at the university of Arkansas and the tournament director for our disc golf club at Arkansas. We are apart of the southern disc golf association, and we are in desperate needs of teams. Schools in our conference for whatever reason are lacking in teams so I wanted to come here and see if there were any college students in the southern states who have a group of guys they play with? All you need is 4 players to create a team. If not any college students on here, if you’re a disc golfer, and you know of college students who are really into the game please let them know about it! It is very easy to get a club going at a university. We’re trying to get enough schools in time for our fall season so we can run formal events for our schools. To do this, we would need about 8 teams and were currently sitting on 4. Thanks!
I just moved here and am looking to go out and play. I know COVID is going to make that difficult (understandably), but I figured if there are any courses open still it would be a good socially-distanced activity to do.
Can this truly be called a Haters Guide? Well, ask yourself. Are there haters? I see haters. Is this a guide? I see a guide. So shut up and enjoy the shitposting, because it's not like there's much better going on unless you're in a hockey town or REALLY into baseball and even then, things might still be looking shit (looking at you Detroit.)
What is Disc Golf?
Disc Golf is the XFL to regular golf's NFL. Most of the stuff you like about the original, minus lot of the stuff you hate, and traditionalists need not apply.
The players? Forget all the stuffy St. Andrews shit, t-shirts khakis and sneakers are fine.
The gear? Forget bulky bags and exploited caddies, grab a backpack and you're all set.
The pricetag? How does top of the line discs at $25 and greens fees of nothing strike you?
The broadcast? Half an hour for the front 9, half an hour for the back, only watching the players at the top that you give a shit about.
The commentators? Active touring pros who don't just know the course, they're PLAYING in the tournament they do commentary for. (Example: Round 1 on Friday, comms for round 1 on Saturday morning, then an afternoon tee time for round 2, and so on)
The viewing experience? We've got all the tech - hole layout drone footage, slow mo shots, shot tracers, live scoring, you name it.
The courses? A beautiful mix of lush open fairways, treacherous rough where the grass goes up to your waist, looming water hazards, and stalwart trees all standing between you and the basket. Sure these guys make it LOOK easy, slinging discs a mile with a casual flick of the wrist and curling them around trees like a goddamned Wanted sequel, but it's nowhere as easy as they make it look - that's why they're pros.
The Schedule
Every week there are dozens of Disc Golf tournaments around the world. But like regular golf, we don't give a shit about most of them because they're at amateur courses for amateur players. (I say this not as a jab against the Ams, they're still shitloads better than me. But B-tier and C-tier events aren't what this Hater's Guide is about.)
In terms of tournaments we DO give a shit about, there's 20 of them: eleven Disc Golf Pro Tour events, (marked with the [DGPT] tag below) six PDGA National Tour Events, and four Major Championships.
| Tier | Event | Dates | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| DGPT | The Memorial Open | February 27-March 1 | Fountain Hills, AZ |
| DGPT | Waco Charity Open | March 13-15 | Waco, TX |
| National Tour | Texas State Dis |
I'm building a disc golf website with a core goal of removing steps required for players to join, donate to, and volunteer for the non profit disc golf organizations who maintain most of our courses. That's really over-simplified but I don't want to go talking up a website that's barely functional yet so well leave it at that for now. Today I have a question for people who are in charge of disc golf associations, provided some of you are around here on reddit.
How do you manage memberships? I know of 4disc but it's mostly for tournaments, it's not a super modern or user-friendly site, and all of four orgs are registered there. When someone pays membership fees online, how do you keep your records? Do you take mail-in applications? Do you keep them in a spreadsheet? A file cabinet? Under a mattress? If it's in a spreadsheet, what kind of column names are we looking at? Member IDs and name?
I'm interested in any and all feedback on the logistics of this in the context of running a disc golf org. If you have any other input on what kind of tools would make running a disc golf org easier, I'm open to that as well. Please and thanks.
I saw a recent tweet from Ricky commenting on how they are the TMZ of disc golf. Is this a popular opinion? I've always found them way more informative than Entertaining, unlike TMZ.
I just moved to Durham a few months ago and was looking to find an active league or weekly disc golf meetup to get involved with. Thanks for the help!
For me its when every time I pass a local park or field, I think “yeah you could totally put a course in there” curious to hear others!
