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What is Disc Golf?
In the beginning, there was the Frisbee.
And the Frisbee begat Frisbee golf, as Frisbee aficionados looked for new and improved ways to play with their discs and began throwing them at "holes" like garbage cans, light posts, trees and whatever else struck their fancy. And Frisbee golf begat disc golf, as said Frisbee aficionados discovered that those traditional Frisbees took a real beating when you threw them at the ground repeatedly. They then figured out it worked better to throw at a permanent "hole."
The Father of Disc Golf, "Steady" Ed Headrick, who also helped bring the Frisbee to life, created the first disc-golf course in 1975 in Oak Grove Park in Pasadena, California. It's still in use
today. That park featured the first-ever permanent disc "hole," a chain basket mounted to a pole, now standard equipment for disc-golf courses everywhere.
So, are caddies next?
While it may
not require a full, 50-pound bag of clubs, disc golf has its drivers, its putters and its mid-range clubs - oops, discs - as well.
Really, thanks to the wonders of modern sports engineering, dreivers are designed to perform with an arc or a right- or left-return action, almost like slicing or hooking a ball on purpose, and can fly accurately up to 800 feet. With most courses in varied ;terrain, an angled action helps get your disc closer to the basket. Mid-range discs, like their club counterparts, are designed to strike a balance between distance and up-close accuracy, while putter which wigh the least, yield liittle arc and work best at short distances.
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