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  2. History of disc golf - Wikipedia

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    "Steady Ed" Headrick [7] and Dave Dunipace are two inventors and players who greatly impacted how disc golf is played. In 1976 Headrick formalized the rules of the sport, founded the Disc Golf Association (DGA), the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA), [8] the Recreational Disc Golf Association (RDGA) and invented the first formal disc golf target [9] with chains and a basket. [10]

  3. Ed Headrick - Wikipedia

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    Established the first Disc Golf tournaments and a $50,000 landmark Frisbee Disc Golf Tournament in 1979. Donated his trademark “Disc Golf” to the public domain and his life to the sport he loved Photo of some of Ed Headrick's Business Cards showing a snapshot of some of his work history up until his time working at Wham-O.

  4. Disc golf - Wikipedia

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    Disc golf, also known as frisbee golf, [2] [a] is a flying disc sport in which players throw a disc at a target, using rules similar to golf. [ 4 ] The sport is usually played on a course with 9 or 18 holes, each consisting of a teeing area and target (basket).

  5. Walter Frederick Morrison, inventor of the Frisbee, dies at ...

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    Walter Frederick Morrison, the inventor of the plastic flying discs that eventually became known as the Frisbee, died at his Utah home on Tuesday. He was 90 and is survived by three children. For ...

  6. Flying disc sports - Wikipedia

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    In 1976, the game of disc golf was standardized with targets called "pole holes" invented and developed by Wham-O's Ed Headrick and the Professional Disc Golf Association. [ 8 ] Beginning in 1974, the International Frisbee Association (IFA), under the direction of Dan Roddick, became the regulatory organization for all of these sports.

  7. Walter Frederick Morrison - Wikipedia

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    Initially Wham-O continued to market the toy solely as the "Pluto Platter", but by June 1957 they also began using the name Frisbee after learning that college students in the Northeast were calling the Pluto Platter by that name. Morrison also invented several other products for Wham-O, but none were as successful as the Pluto Platter.

  8. Ultimate frisbee - Wikipedia

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    Ultimate frisbee (officially simply called ultimate) is a non-contact team sport played with a disc flung by hand.Ultimate was developed in 1968 by Joel Silver in Maplewood, New Jersey. [5]

  9. Ken Westerfield - Wikipedia

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    As of 2017, there are over 7000 disc golf courses. Before 1975 and the invention of the disc golf target called the Disc Pole Hole, there were only a few mapped disc golf "object" courses in the U.S. and Canada. In 1970, you could count the number of designed courses, using the Frisbee to play golf and designated objects as holes, on one hand ...