Disc golf tourney draws rave reviews
The Winfield Daily Courier
Sixty-two disc golfers from Kansas and Oklahoma gathered in Winfield, Kan., for the First Annual Cherry Street Disc Golf Championships. The Walnut Valley Disc Golf Association (WVDGA) took the normal disc golf course at Cherry Street Park and converted it into a course like nothing many had ever played. The course featured two elevated baskets, an island green and hundreds of feet of string that signified what was inbounds and what was out of bounds.More

Hating the chain and helping to raise money
The Battle Creek Enquirer
With the clank of a plastic disc hitting a chain, another hole is complete and the next stands ready to be conquered. As they walked across Begg Park in Battle Creek, Mich., from the sixth hole to the seventh on a humid, a disc golf team of four men were only one group of about 32 people in the Battle Creek Metropolitan Area Moustache Society's third annual tournament.More

Outdoor adventures Dalton disc golf course takes flight
The Dalton Daily Citizen
Scott Homberg enjoyed his first round of disc golf so much when his son turned him on to the sport eight years ago, he played in four different states over the next week and gave up traditional ball golf. At the time that included a disc golf course at Cloudland Canyon State Park located in Rising Fawn, Ga., where he played his first round, and later, The Sinks in Hixson, Tenn. These days, he’s happy to have other options even closer to home, including one at Jack Mattox Recreation Park in Ringgold, Ga. and one of the area’s newest courses at Dalton’s Heritage Point Park in Dalton, Ga. More

Playing disc golf during Badger State Games at Plamann Park, Wis., fun for old, young
Appleton Post-Crescent
With a flick of his wrist, Tom Jenkins sent a plastic disc sailing through the air for what seemed like miles before it landed close to its intended target about 390 feet away. "Not bad for an old man," said Jenkins, 51, with a laugh. As a competitor in the pro master's division, Jenkins was one of the more skilled participants disc golf competition at the annual Badger State Games. But what made his 27-hole experience at Plamann Park, Wis., especially enjoyable was the self-proclaimed "old man" was competing in a foursome that included the youngest of the 41 players who participated in the singles competition.More

Scouting project to bring city second disc golf course
The Telegraph
A boy's Eagle Scout project will mean fun and exercise for disc golf aficionados and casual players at Gordon F. Moore Community Park in Alton, Ill., later this summer. "I thought it would be nice to do a bigger project, because it is the 100th year of Boy Scouting (Boy Scouts of America)," Stephen Turner of Alton said about the "Eagles Flight" course he plans to begin installing in late July. In the meantime, Turner is trying to raise the remaining $1,800 to cover the cost of the $4,000 project.More

Singles play begins in tournament
The Advertiser-Tribune
The PDGA Amateur World Disc Golf Championships got off to a flying start, at Tiffin and five other courses. "Razor" Ray Misser of Virginia Beach, Va., aced the ninth hole at Hedges-Boyer Park located in Tiffin, Ohio in the 8 a.m. round on his way to a 46 (12-under par) from the front tees, and tied for the lowest round recorded at any course. Misser leads the advanced grandmaster division (age 50-older), which played the course at Upper Sandusky's Reservoir Park in Appling, Ga. He is at 17-under, one stroke better than John Schenger. Every division in the tournament will play six rounds through Friday afternoon, with the semifinals and finals slated for Saturday.More

Disc golf flying high
The Post and Courier
Having grown up in Myrtle Beach in a golfing family that had him swinging a club at age 6, Mount Pleasant's Craig Wrenn all but snickered five years ago when he saw a friend holding a magazine for disc golfers. "I said, 'I can't believe you read that silly magazine,' " Wrenn recalled. But the friend lured Wrenn into playing a round of disc golf, and now there's no getting him off the course. More

Disc golf course opens at Lincoln Park in Port Angeles, Wash.
Peninsula Daily News
Disc golfers threw a party to celebrate the opening of the first nine holes of a course at Lincoln Park, Wash. They also taught a few people how to play the game. "We're letting them know about disc golf, letting them try it for free," with discs available without charge, said Ryan Klock of the Port Angeles Disc Golf Association. The course always is available for free. It is open from dawn to dusk, open all hours that the park in the 1500 block of West Lauridsen Boulevard is open.More

Disc golf course opens
Tyler Star News
Area resident Tom Ash loved to bowl and golf in his spare time. And when he picked up and moved to California, he was introduced to a promising new sport called Disc Golf. Disc golf is a game in which individual players throw a flying disc into a basket or at a target. The object of the game is to traverse a course from beginning to end in the fewest number of throws of the disc.More

Disc golf competition kicks off with skills test
The Marion Star
Final results were not going to be posted until this morning, but a few outstanding efforts were the talk buzzing around the PDGA Amateur Disc Golf World Championships. It was the first day of the weeklong event. Registrations topped the 500 mark as disc golfers from around the country and a few other parts of the world came to Marion. There are 17 divisions, juniors younger than 10 to advanced legends 70 and older. Contests will take place during the next five days, with special activities and contests at The Ohio State University-Marion campus, headquarters for the event.More

Disc golf competition in full throw
The Marion Star
They do it for the fun, rolling across the country and chasing after chains to rattle, some playing every weekend somewhere. This week's disc golf tour stop - the the 2010 Professional Disc Golf Association Amateur and Junior World Championships - means a little more. All six area courses were in play, the first day of singles competition in 17 divisions involving golfers 6 to 70-plus.More