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The Disc Golf Pro Tour was founded in 2016 by Steve Dodge and Nate Heinold. [1] The DGPT is the highest level of competition in professional disc golf.The tour currently operates two tours, the Elite Series and the Q-Series (formerly the Silver Series), both featuring men's and women's professional divisions.
The PDGA Disc Golf World Championships is one of four major championships in the sport of disc golf, along with the United States Disc Golf Championship, the European Open, and the PDGA Champions Cup. Held annually since 1982, the event crowns world champions in several divisions in the professional disc golf fields.
The United States Disc Golf Championship is a disc golf tournament held at the Winthrop Gold Course, [1] on the campus of Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina.The professional event has been held annually as a PDGA sanctioned Major since 1999. [2]
For the first three years, the tournament was played alongside the USDGC at Winthrop University. [1] The tournament was known as the "Women's National Championship" for the first two years of its existence before switching to "United States Women's Disc Golf Championships" for the 2001 tournament. [2]
UDisc Live is the official scoring app for real-time statistics at various tournaments, [12] including all PDGA National Tour and Disc Golf Pro Tour events. [13] [14] Data collected using the app plays an important role in the development of the sport's key statistics for comparing players.
The PDGA also has a professional staff [12] that handles tactical planning and day-to-day operations, led by the Executive Director. The staff perform the critical functions of the PDGA, including organizational operations, membership services, quality control and operations at large events, support for tournament directors and events of all sizes, marketing and media, and technological ...
McMahon began playing disc golf in 2007, when he was nine years old, when he looked for a summer activity and soon started competing in smaller tournaments. [3] His first victory in a PDGA-sanctioned event came in 2009 when he won the Johnny Roberts Memorial competing in the Junior II Boys class, later going on to win tournaments in both the intermediate and advanced classes.
Paul McBeth (born July 9, 1990) [2] is an American professional disc golfer from Huntington Beach, California.He won the PDGA World Championships four times in a row (2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015) and again in 2019 and 2022, making him a six-time champion.