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The DGA was established by Ed Headrick in order to focus his attention on building and inventing equipment for the sport he founded. Ed Headrick coined and trademarked the term "Disc Golf" when formalizing the sport and invented the Disc Pole Hole (The Mach 1), [1] the first disc golf target to incorporate chains and a basket on a pole.
Climo has claimed twelve PDGA World Championship titles, including nine in as many years from 1990 to 1998. [1] The only other golfers to achieve multiple World titles are Harold Duvall (1982, 1985), Barry Schultz (2003–2004), Nate Doss (2005, 2007, 2011), Paul McBeth (2012–2015, 2019, 2022), Richard Wysocki (2016, 2017) and Isaac Robinson ...
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 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 ...
PDGA: 2000 October 13–15 Rock Hill, SC Lesli Todd 13 $560 Nadine Larkin Susan Stephens PDGA: 2001 October 12–14 Rock Hill, SC Lesli Todd (2) 3 $600 Angela Martin Susan Stephens PDGA: 2002 September 27–29 Peoria, IL Des Reading 8 $1,040 Juliana Korver Elaine King PDGA: 2003 September 26–28 Peoria, IL Des Reading (2) 2 $1,145 Juliana Korver
PDGA: 2013 October 2–5 Steve Brinster: Warwick, New York: 1 $7,500 Barry Schultz: Steve Rico PDGA: 2014 October 1–4 Will Schusterick (3) Knoxville, Tennessee: 0 (2 Hole Sudden-Death Playoff) $8,000 Paul McBeth: John McCray PDGA: 2015 October 7–10 Paul McBeth: Huntington Beach, California: 5 $8,000 Richard Wysocki: Nathan Doss: PDGA: 2016 ...
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.
In 2022 she became the female disc golf world champion [9] for the first time. Lätt is the only female disc golfer in history to achieve a PDGA rating of 1000 or better (which happened in 2024), [10] and is widely considered one of the greatest disc golfers in the history of the sport.